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On this episode of the Apple Seed we explore tales of different types of labor.
Bought by WVPE, RadioStPete Florida, WJCT, Morehead State Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more
- Added: Aug 10, 2021
- Length: 55:01
- Purchases: 8
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Students at Highland Park Elementary School in Austin, Texas talk to their PE teacher about his life.
- Added: Dec 17, 2018
- Length: 04:40
When bee season in New York City begins in early spring, that means retired police detective (and unofficial NYPD beekeeper) Anthony “Tony Bees” Pl...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 1
Despite strict rules that you can't illicitly sell things outside of Jazz Fest, there is a whole economy that exists just beyond the festival gates...
- Added: Apr 28, 2017
- Length: 04:40
Ok so Host Marc Cuniberti is on a run of off the wall news pieces. Another "not so normal" news piece. Once again its not about the stock markets b...
- Added: Apr 08, 2017
- Length: 08:20
Fred Taylor talks to his wife Julie about his 15 years writing letters to frustrated airplane passengers as Southwest Airlines’ apologizer-in-chief.
Bought by WVBI-LP, WGUC/ WVXU, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 3
A father and son talk about working together in an air conditioner repair business that has been in their family for more than half a century.
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 2
This week we take you to Nashville for BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS: stories about the blues, jazz, songwriting and a cabin in the woods.
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 59:00
Willie Harris and Alex Brown remember the prejudice they faced as African American stuntmen while breaking into the film industry in the 1960s.
- Added: Mar 18, 2016
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Marjorie Klindera and Carol Miller have spent the past 30 Thanksgivings answering phone calls about turkey troubles from panicked home cooks.
Bought by WTIP, WUTC, WHYY, and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 02:03
- Purchases: 4
Len Berk talks to his friend, Joshua Gubitz, about becoming a salmon slicer after retiring from a 40 year career in accounting.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 1
With Akeisha Johnson, your host, on this episode of Making it Work, Sandor will share his experiences of being a working musician within The Bay.
- Added: Jun 22, 2015
- Length: 20:11
Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 17:03
Audio essay bringing the current summer-long Market Basket situation back to the basics.
- Added: Aug 28, 2014
- Length: 04:34
Dean Smith, who spent 40 years as a stunt double for Hollywood Westerns, talks with his wife, Debby, and son, Finis.
- Added: Feb 28, 2014
- Length: 01:51
- Purchases: 2
New York City Firefighters Sophy Medina and Thomas Olsen remember their first Valentine's Day together.
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 2
Clayton Sherrod looks back to 1964, when at 19 years old he became executive chef at an all--white country club in Birmingham, Alabama.
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 02:13
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Aug 26, 2013
- Length: 10:18
- Purchases: 1
Golf carts are the primary vehicles for residents in Avalon, CA. This is about the guys that make them go.
Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 05:21
- Purchases: 2
At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 28:06
Neurosurgeon Lee Buono and his eighth grade science teacher, Al Siedlecki, remember reconnecting after more than 15 years.
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 01:52
- Purchases: 2
Gloria Del Bianco and her nephew, Lou, remember her father, Luigi Del Bianco, one of the chief stone carvers of Mt. Rushmore.
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 01:55
- Purchases: 2
Mort Segal and his sister, Joan Feldman, remember their father, Jack Segal, a booking agent for novelty acts in the Catskills.
- Added: Aug 01, 2011
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 3
Jessica Partnow takes us through a night in the life of Ali Jaffri, a professional telemarketer in Lahore, Pakistan.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KCRW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 3
A family business named Sarah's Hat Boxes is surviving the Great Recession, despite selling a product more befitting an era defined by the Great De...
- Added: Dec 06, 2009
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 2
