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Philip Armand ruins a cup of hot cocoa and realizes his mad, sweaty, sloppy rushing is no longer working.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:02
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
In the summer of 1901, San Francisco’s mayor, James D. Phelan, hiked up to an oak tree near the north bank of the Tuolumne River in Yosemite’s Hetc...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 14:02
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
At a full-service restaurant you know the drill. You eat your food, you get your bill, and then you calculate the tip. But not at Sous Beurre Kitch...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 09:06
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
- Added: Jan 17, 2015
- Length: 03:39
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 11:19
In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 10:13
- Purchases: 10
Audio essay bringing the current summer-long Market Basket situation back to the basics.
- Added: Aug 28, 2014
- Length: 04:34
Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 2
Angelica, a local artist, talks about her life after growing up in a migrant camp, her father, being an educator, as an activist as well as reading...
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 28:12
Two and one half minute commentary on paying for restoring unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed by cutting corporate welfare.
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 02:30
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
The first thing you should know about ironworkers is that they don’t make things out of iron, like horseshoes. They’re builders. Ironworkers from L...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:30
- 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
We all know how sweet it is when our appetites are satisfied, but what's it like to be a satiator?
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 02:53
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
KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:07
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 03:36
