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The common tradition when visiting the holy Western Wall in Jerusalem is to write a small note to God and push it between the cracks of the sacred ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 18:17
From: James Szkobel-Wolff
Sangar General Store, in Windsor, MA, is owned by Prem Sangar. Prem wasn't born in Windsor and doesn't quite fit the mold of the town, but the comm...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 29, 2018
- Length: 04:55
- Purchases: 1
In 1962, two men managed to escape the one prison in America that was supposed to be inescapable. They were never found. More than 50 years later, ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 25:43
- Purchases: 1
Jose Serebrier is an internationally respected conductor and composer. We'll speak to him about his artistry and some new recordings.
Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 8
An audio essay that combines science, personal moments, and the wit and wisdom of four 100-year-old (and up) women.
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 10:26
Love em or hate em, they’re an ever present part of American culture. And they’re not going away anytime soon. On this edition, we talk guns…from...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The story of William Cimillo, a New York City bus driver who snapped one day in 1947, left his regular route in the Bronx, and drove his municipal ...
Bought by American Voices, KPIK-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 17:37
- Purchases: 4
This piece by Eric Millman is about moving to New Orleans from California hoping to join a baseball community, and drowning in the unavoidable Sain...
- Added: Apr 17, 2014
- Length: 05:31
On September 11, 1970, Jimi Hendrix gave an interview to Keith Altham. A week later Hendrix was dead. This was his final interview. It's Hendrix on...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBGA 89.9 FM and more
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 7
The story of how the River East area of Chicago has changed from the land of greasy spoons and parking lots, into one of the most fashionable areas...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 05:50
Gail describes her adventures shopping for clothes. It starts out fun, and then...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 13:58
Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 01:14
One summer, through the help of a tenement neighbor, Richard's mother sends him to live with the McCreery family on a farm outside of Stroudsburg, ...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 13:42
Joseph and John Gindele are twin brothers that grew up on the unforgiving streets of Yorkville on Manhattan’s ethnic Upper East Side over 60 years ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 2
Two men and a boy were taking a load of wheat to a mill and while they stopped to rest for the night one of them played the fiddle. On the other si...
- Added: Oct 29, 2012
- Length: 07:27
Benny Golson's life is a who's who in jazz! [40:38]
- Added: Apr 16, 2012
- Length: 40:39
- Purchases: 2
“Their music affects your consciousness, it changes your DNA if you really, really let it settle into your soul; Odetta’s voice, Miriam’s energy an...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 23, 2012
- Length: 12:33
- Purchases: 3
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with award winning filmmaker Billy Luther.
- Added: Feb 20, 2012
- Length: 21:06
Three well-known Southern writers tell stories of tragedy and comedy in their own personal lives, and see Shakespeare in themselves, others, and ev...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.
- Added: Nov 11, 2008
- Length: 04:00
A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.
- Added: Nov 11, 2008
- Length: 04:00
A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.
- Added: Nov 11, 2008
- Length: 04:00
A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.
- Added: Nov 11, 2008
- Length: 04:00
A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.
- Added: Nov 11, 2008
- Length: 04:00
- Added: Nov 05, 2008
- Length: 05:47
