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StoryCorps: Nick Bennett and Dan Miller
From: StoryCorps
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Marine Staff Sergeant Nick Bennett and Sergeant Major Dan Miller remember a deployment during the Iraq War that changed their lives.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 03:16
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
From: Jennifer March
Series: Not Your Mother's Storytime
Caption: The Open Boat, Credit: Robert Quakenbush
Based on Crane's real-life experience while serving as a journalist corresponding from the Cuban War of Independence. The steamship on which he was...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 57:01
Charisse Arrington: He Was Going to Kill Somebody That Evening
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Charisse Arrington, Credit: Shefik
Hope - Charisse Arrington is a R&B singer who was signed to MCA Records in the 1990s. Her biggest success was with the single "Down With This" whic...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2022
  • Length: 04:21
The Apple Seed - Fire! Fire! Pants on Liar!
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Bought by KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, and WVPE


  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 4
CBC S 1 E 1: Survivor Stories
From: WNIN
Series: COVID Between the Coasts
Caption: Mahliya Sophia Balkowitsch- Coronavirus Tea Time, Credit: WET PLATE COLLODION PHOTOGRAPHS BY SHANE BALKOWITSCH OF NOSTALGIC GLASS WET PLATE STUDIO, BISMARCK, ND (Used by permission)
We're all survivors of COVID. Here are a few select stories.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 21, 2020
  • Length: 16:38
  • Purchases: 1
Doreen Bazile: Rodents With Wings
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Doreen Bazile, Credit: Shefik
Birds - Doreen Bazile is a social worker. She sees many different patients with distinct needs and issues, regarding spirituality and religion, fam...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 01:25
Monster By My Side
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Fall 2019
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My name is Aline Guadalupe Aguilar. This is my first audio fiction piece. It’s about the struggle a person has when it comes to their inner demons.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Dec 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1
The White Whale
From: Matt Frassica
Caption: Michael Gorman and Alan Barnes Netherton in "Chasing the New White Whale", Credit: Carlos Cardona
Opiate addiction has become increasingly common in the commercial fishing industry. For one Massachusetts-born playwright, a brother’s death from a...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2018
  • Length: 09:30
Wanting North by Tanya Barfield
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: April Matthis
The 1840s South. In the thick plantation air, two enslaved sisters spin a poetry of escape. Today’s the day: Field Girl is making her run for freed...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 20:56
Cell by Cassandra Medley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Condola Rashad
Starring Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins and Condola Rashad (“Billions”), CELL tells the riveting story of three African-American women working at ...

Bought by WCPN, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WHRV


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 17: Final Exit
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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No one disputes that it’s against the law to take another person’s life, but is it against the law to sit with someone and watch while they commit ...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2015
  • Length: 23:46
Episode 16: Poster Boy
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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On July 17th, 1889, the residents of Clayton County, Iowa woke up to news of the worst crime in their history. A Civil War veteran and his young wi...

Bought by KALH and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 17:25
  • Purchases: 2
EPISODE II - WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS
From: Annex Radio: The Modern Radio Playhouse
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The primaries are over and Governor Hoffman is in Chicago for the Democratic Convention. Everyone is where they should be except for Senator Craig ...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 23:01
Politics on the Spot: The Houston Ship Channel
From: Michael May
Caption: The Texas Petrochemicals flare., Credit: Bryan Parras
We've heard a lot about the economy this general election season. Not so much about the other big E-word: the environment. Unless you count the man...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
EPISODE I: PREAMBLE
From: Annex Radio: The Modern Radio Playhouse
Series: Convention
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We introduce Matthew Hoffman, the candidate. The tall, charming man of Massachusetts who is only now reflecting on the man he has become.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 18:27
StoryCorps: Mytokia Fair and Thomas Fair
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Former Baltimore police officer Mytokia Fair remembers the day she shot and killed her abusive...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 3
Poet and Painter Hadara Bar-Nadav
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Hadara Bar-Nadav refers to many works of art in her 2012 collection THE FRAME CALLED RUIN, while in her 2013 collection, LULLABY (WITH EXIT SI...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • 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
Missing Kim
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 3
Changing on the Inside
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The US has the highest per capita incarceration rate of any country. At the Maine State Prison, inmates are being taught skills to care for their ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 2
Carjacked in Guatamala.
From: Walker Mettling
Series: The Telephone Story Chain
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David and Brendan describe the transcontinental roadtrip of a lifetime and the terror that befell it.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2009
  • Length: 13:12
Virtuoso Voices - Eugene Drucker (Reads from THE SAVIOR)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Violinist Eugene Drucker reads an excerpt from his debut novel, THE SAVIOR (reissued in Paperback on July 8, 2008).

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 1
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
From: Sam A. Mowry
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Award winning adaptation of Mary Shelley's Classic, Faithfull and exciting.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KRPS, KRPS, KUNM, KZYX and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2007
  • Length: 01:01:01
  • Purchases: 12
Soul Savers in The Big Easy
From: Stephen Grant
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, three men remained behind to rescue those stranded in New Orleans's Seventh Ward.

Bought by KVMR and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2006
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 2
Outside the Dying
From: Conrad Bishop
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Dramatization of a journal of a woman whose husband is dying of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), and the aftermath.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 22, 2004
  • Length: 21:23
  • Purchases: 1