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Someone has to hold their hands very carefully underneath, to catch a tear inside a message in a bottle. Plus, a look at the sound triangles make.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 10:28
Caption: A heavy sea crossing the deck of the Parma (1902) , Credit: Alan John Villiers, 1933 © National Maritime Museum Collections
This week on World Ocean Radio we have a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 1883. Steven...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 24, 2019
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Immigration is a pressing topic in our political landscape right now, with concerns about ICE raids and immigration bans. In this episode, we liste...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 21:11
Caption: Natalie Bader with her first flute., Credit: Laurie Bader
Natalie Bader’s passion for music has been around for as long as she can remember. Unfortunately, so have her debilitating panic attacks. For most ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2019
  • Length: 08:42
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This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill highlights the dark side of what happens at sea in the context of a forthcoming book by Pulitzer Pr...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:34
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Julian struggles to read a piece about a woman visiting her sister who was admitted into a mental health hospital for being a danger to herself. Ho...

  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 22:26
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Julian chooses his first official essay to read from the submissions choosing an essay that focuses on family. More specifically, mothers and their...

  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 10:29
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This episode, we ask that you put yourself in the shoes of another. What would you do if your city was not safe? Where would you go?

  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:19

  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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As humans migrate toward the coastal zone in the next 30 to 50 years, less seaside space will be available for us to enjoy, to entice our senses, a...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Chasing Love profanity edited version. A poetic exploration of the notion of romantic love, and the way it drives lives and societies.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 59:42
  • Purchases: 1
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This edition of Stay Human is about remembering and honoring our parents, helping us to see more connections between their lives and ours.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:05
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Don't tell me what to do!!  Tales of strong-willed kids whose need for independence was unstoppable.  With special guests Alex Kapranos and Paul Th...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2018
  • Length: 27:31
Caption: Samantha, a youth participant at OutCasting's bureau at Michigan State University
In this piece, OutCasting youth participant Samantha, a participant in our bureau at Michigan State University, ponders on what it means to be bise...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Dec 27, 2017
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
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In this mostly musical piece, we settle down into the audience of nearly 200 supportive students and staff at the University Program Board's Fall 2...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:16
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Artipoeus visits Francoise Shein and Barbara Reiter's project "Inscrire", an installation at the Berlin subway station U Bahnhof Westhafen, near Pl...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2017
  • Length: 24:56
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In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack presents Part 2 of the Untold Sto...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:58
Caption: Funeral service in front of Barrett's Market 1942
A community garden project at Barrett Brothers Park in north St. Louis prompts memories of the Barrett family, who came to Missouri as Irish famine...

  • Added: May 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:23
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At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite poem was chosen not o...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 04:51
Caption: Dave Ripka with two of his favorite stuffed animals, Credit: Deanna Kay
EVEN WITH THE RISE OF ONLINE DATING WEBSITES AND WAYS TO CONNECT, THERE IS STILL A LARGE DEMOGRAPHIC THAT THEY HAVE YET TO HELP. FROM GLEN BURNIE,...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2016
  • Length: 05:16
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Giovanni knows that others consider him and many youth in his neighborhood to be criminals. In Urban Warriors, he learns about himself and begins t...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 04:28
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Steven knew from a young age that he wanted to join the military. In Afghanistan, the expectation of violence impacts the rest of his life experien...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 07:50
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The Je Suis slogan, once a stirring call for a moment of coming together in protest and solidarity, is well-meaning but has a long lost its meaning.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
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A Piano stands on a frozen lake in Northern Ontario. Steel wire connects its soundboard to an old camper two hundred feet away. Aeolian tones (.....

  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 14:13