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What the Truth Costs: An Advanced Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
When we see the tools of discrediting the truth happily taken on, now or in history- we might say this. The cost of the truth is, it turns out, th...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:09
Why Ebola Should Be Treated As Though It Is Airborne
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
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Several reasons are presented which individually and collectively demonstrate why Ebola should be treated as though it is airborne.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
Ebola's Exponential Rate of Contagion
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
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The World Health Organization this week announced a horrendous fact: the number of Ebola cases in West Africa is doubling every 20 days. If this t...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 04:41
LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION: Live from Bass Performance Hall
From: Amy Rapp
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LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION: Live from Bass Performance Hall is an autobiographical dark comedy, written and performed by "This American Life" co...

Bought by KHEN-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dead Conversations
From: Brian Garcia
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Episode four of Aural Regions

  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 11:11
Dead at 30
From: Devin Katayama
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Since I was 12-years-old, I always thought I would die by the age of 30. Here's the story of how I didn't, and how I spent my 'last few days' prepa...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
Not Worth 1000 Words
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Photos of the rape and murder of two Dalit girls in Badaun were shocking, but the pictures shocking as they are are not worth a 1000 words because ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Winter - "Despair Is My Only Friend Now."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Radio essays recorded in the writer's own voice about topics related to northern Minnesota art, culture and history. Made possible in part by the ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 1
The Imaginary Albino
From: Garth Mullins
Caption: Garth Mullins & Lisa Hale, Credit: Don Sawatzky
From the 19th century freak show to the East African black market in body parts to the modern cinema, the image of the albino has seized the popula...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
PPW - New York: Voices UnBroken
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop
Caption: Voices UnBroken, Credit: Voices UnBroken
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:52
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Robert Jevne On Jobs: "Not Living For A Living."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Robert Jevne lives, works, and talks about himself in the third person in the greater Jacobson area. This manner of speaking is most likely an outg...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
Project One Day
From: Poetic Violence
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A brief program synopsis : This is an audio piece describing the life of a typical male in the western world. From womb to tomb. This is my first...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 24:40
Joe Frank 3: Old Man
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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A new program created for UnFictional by radio storyteller Joe Frank.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio Catskill, and KFCF FM


  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Joe Frank 2: Thief
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Another new story from broadcasting legend Joe Frank.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFCF FM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KVNF and more


  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 10
October 11
From: Tree Mabry
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A search for peace through October 11

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 07:03
Nose
From: Helena de Groot
Series: We're All Strangers
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You're surrounded by strangers on the subway. Can you hide?

  • Added: Oct 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:34
Apocalypse Then
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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The Big Ending That Never Was...Yet

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 14, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
Aubry Edwards Versus Jay Thunderbolt
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
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Professional photographer, Aubry Edwards goes on the photo shoot from hell when Jay Thunderbolt locks her into the "private strip club" in his Detr...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 06:22
Rescuing Brothers
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Guido on rescue.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 03:33
Up with Armageddon
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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Irrational Exuberance, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Arsenio Hall Effect

  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 07:10
Sounds Familiar #5: Sex, Death and Morals in Horror.
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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In 1980, during a “very special episode” of Siskel & Ebert, Roger Ebert made a provocative claim about the emerging genre of “slasher” horror films...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 17:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pro-Slavery Constitution
From: Zach Miller
Series: BeyondtheBlackLetter
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The greatest re-write in American constitutional history, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 20:25
  • Purchases: 3
Last Meals Not to Die For
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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On Unneeded Business Meetings and Death Penalty Catering

  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 07:07
Heat Is Murder
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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On Sunscreen and Serial Killings

  • Added: Aug 26, 2011
  • Length: 07:41
Last Word on Time
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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It's Crunch Time this week; sharing stories of the times you were late or just barely made it as we get through the Crunch Time of our summer fundr...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 03:53