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True story, it happened to me in Goa, while living in a fisher's hut in Calangute. A micro narration in a minute or so.
- Added: Mar 26, 2022
- Length: 01:00
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many hero...
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 28:00
As we come out of our holes and return to our beloved American Desert, it's time to remember a dozen simple rules to keep your day hike from becomi...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 28:00
A young American travels to Ghana, West Africa with friends, and talks about how a search for a bird lead to someone’s search for a wife.
- Added: Aug 06, 2020
- Length: 03:40
It's springtime and Earth Day! Animals are on the move, and sometimes their paths cross with people. Here are five stories to help you get outside ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 27:30
- Purchases: 1
After over three million airline travel miles I have thoughts on readying yourself for holiday travel.
- Added: Nov 11, 2019
- Length: 03:33
A strange and relaxing Happy Birthday phone message from an Eastern European woman.
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: :21
Josh Patterson loved taking photographs of rare finds in the Mojave Desert. But on one trip, things didn’t go as planned.
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 16:28
- Purchases: 2
Each city's tallest building reflects the character of that city, or so an old college professor once said.
Bought by KXCR
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 1
Mackinac Island has hosted the world championships of stone-skipping for the past 50 years. The 2018 contest was one of excitement and laughter.
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Jul 06, 2018
- Length: 09:03
- Purchases: 1
"Airport Safety" is a short, humorous satire of TSA regulations—and popular culture. This is a sound-rich protest piece, perfect for a comedy progr...
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 02:19
"Up A River, Without… A Pigeon?" and "Bigfoot"
A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Charlie Thomas worked as a whitewater rafting gu...
Bought by KSTK and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 08, 2018
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 2
People have faked death to escape criminal convictions, debts, and their spouses. In 2007, a man named Amir Vehabovic faked his death just to see w...
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 24:30
- Purchases: 2
This installment features the works of Bob Newhart; Jerry Lewis; Nipsey Russell; Phyllis Diller; Weird Al Yankovic; Ellen DeGeneres; Pat McCormick;...
- Added: Sep 30, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
We interview the only person from Alaska to make the first cut for the Mars ONE program and also speak to a scientist who thinks sending humans to ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 29:01
Merrill Garbus hears the world differently than I do. Regular everyday sounds become rhythm to her and she excels in incorporating it all into the ...
Bought by KSUT, KHNS, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 06:57
- Purchases: 3
A sound rich narrative interview with former Washington state park ranger and storyteller Jody Maberry
- Added: Aug 07, 2015
- Length: 17:53
Bobby and #FLORIDIOT pals - Ben Coletti, Bob Noxious, Tobia Spinelli and Mateo Gash - sail along the waterways of Madeira Beach, FL, sharing storie...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 01:19:38
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
When consoling friends about their relationship endings, I often say: "Sweetheart, breakups are never an event. Breakups are a process."
And as i...
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 08:26
Knower of all things, Lloyd Breckenridge (Gene Shay) answers all questions about Camels, in his normal voice :)
- Added: Oct 19, 2014
- Length: 02:22
The TSA: keeping Americans safe by repeatedly violating them.
- Added: Aug 09, 2014
- Length: 01:34
This is a remembrance of Peter Matthiessen. He invited us to his house in Sagaponack, to hear a story. He gave his characters' accents, fun for him...
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 28:33
- Purchases: 2
