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From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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An inspired delivery for Mother's Day.

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, KMUN and more


  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 18
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 5
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sammy Marques tells stories, one-man-shows that last an hour and more. The stories within the bigger stories are chapters of his life. Because they...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 25:28
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 27:56
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 4
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sammy Marques is a raconteur. He frequently draws on personal experience to flesh out stories that seem always to embrace some humorous element. Th...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 27:30
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
For three generations, Sammy Marques’ family was stuck in a sort of revolving door of emigration from Europe to the United States and back again. I...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:24
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Sammy Marques
Sammy Marques has been a lot of things over the years. He was never a butcher, but he was certainly a baker. Twice. And armed with a wood lathe he ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 26:21
StoryCorps Griot: Sydia Bell and Danny Bell
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Sydia, Danny, and Maritza Bell with their dog (not Roxanna) in 2016
Danny Bell tells his daughter Sydia about trying to teach her mother to drive.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep. 5 2019 Was Not A Good Year For Me
From: Haley Taylor
Series: Tales For Other Times
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Although 2019 was not a good year for Haley, this episode actually features one of her strongest allies throughout bad years and good ones. A frien...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:01
Ep. 4 My S-town
From: Haley Taylor
Series: Tales For Other Times
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All of these episodes, the past 8 years, are set behind the backdrop of the town Haley has been working in: a midsize, rustbelt community that brin...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:01
The Year of the Rabbit: A Joyful Celebration
From: Wanda Yang Temko
Series: A Public Radio Chinese New Year Special
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Celebrate Chinese New Year in 2023 with Music and Words.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, Spokane Public Radio, WUOT 91.9 FM, WGTE Public Media, and WVTF


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
2252: The Polar Express & Big Fish, 12/29/2022
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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On this week’s episode of On Story, we bring you The Polar Express & Big Fish two classic films adapted from popular books which were seemingly una...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
Portrait of US Ep. 03 Jennifer and Reed - Birch Bay, WA
From: Adam Scher
Series: Portrait of US
Caption: Jennifer and Reed in Birch Bay, WA, Credit: Monica Jane Frisell
Portrait of US is a living, transforming and growing collection of stories from throughout the United States: Jennifer and Reed tell us their about...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2022
  • Length: 12:06
Lost in Yonkers
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A Pulitzer Prize-winner from Neil Simon

Bought by KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN, KALW and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:04
  • Purchases: 36
Closing the TaB
From: WFIU
Caption: John Bailey with a cart full of TaB, Credit: John Bailey
After years of languishing at the far end of the soda aisle, TaB has at last fallen victim to a decision by its parent company, Coca-Cola, to end p...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: “Dumb Dumb Dumb: My Mother's Book Reviews” a memoir by Mary Jo Pehl
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Mary Jo Pehl talks about her 2022 memoir “Dumb Dumb Dumb: My Mother's Book Reviews”

  • Added: Oct 06, 2022
  • Length: 09:38
The Apple Seed - Bill Harley + Original Musical Audio Drama in the Old West
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories about music and friendship.

Bought by KKRN, WVPE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KTXK, KSJE and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
The Apple Seed - Kim Weitkamp + Scenes from 'Peter Pan'
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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A childhood story from Kim Weitkamp, and a reader's theater telling of Peter Pan.

Bought by KSJE, KKRN, WVPE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WYAP and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
Jason, the Veterinarian & the Book-eating Jaguar
From: Page Flippers
Series: Page Flippers Take on the World
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Meet Jason, a seven-year-old kid who loves reading and playing with his dogs. When a jaguar enters the library after the Page Flipper meeting and s...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 21:23
The Big Ponder #40: The Farm
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Ira Karp lives on a farm in northern Vermont, surrounded by music, puppets, and a family of incredible storytellers. Over his brief lifetime, he ha...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
It Is Definitely Summer
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune into the next “Sounds Jewish” for summer songs and shtick from around the Jewish world.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Melina, the Spy, and the Secret Code
From: Page Flippers
Series: Page Flippers Take on the World
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Meet Melina, a nine-year-old kid who loves reading, writing, playing with her little siblings, and learning how to be a spy. When Melina joins the ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 22:24
StoryCorps Griot: Monica Jordan and LaTonya Walker
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Monica Jordan and LaTonya Walker at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta, Georgia on May 30th, 2021 for StoryCorps.
Cousins Monica Jordan and LaTonya Walker reflect on their strict upbringing and remember one afternoon when they decided to break the rules.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Apple Seed - Bil Lepp, Mark Twain & Pranks
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories about Pranks, Hoaxes, and General Mischief

Bought by KTXK, KSJE, WVPE, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 4
The Apple Seed - Tim Lowry's Jacket and the World Series Mystery
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Road trips can give rise to stories that last a lot longer than the actual road trip did. Tim Lowry will share one of these stories with us in whic...

Bought by KKRN, KTXK, WVPE, and KSJE


  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 53:01
  • Purchases: 4
The Apple Seed - Bill Harley and Pencil Neck
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, a generation gap story about students and their teachers. Bill Harley with "Happy Birthday Mrs. Nottingham" on the...

Bought by KTXK, WVPE, KKRN, KSJE, KNCT FM and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 53:02
  • Purchases: 6

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