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Dorothy Salmon-Lindsay speaks with Rowan Allen, the EMT who saved her son’s life and inspired her to become a nurse.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 01:59
Caption: Carlos Di Sarli
The life and times of paramount Tango musician Carlos Di Sarli.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Sep 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: U.S. Military service members are represented by white headstones for the men that lost their lives during World War II at the American Cemetery, Normandy, France; June 2, 2015. This is the 71st Anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy remembering th, Credit: (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Austin Berner/Released)
A paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, one of the most highly decorated divisions in the U.S. Army, didn’t understand what it meant to be air...

Bought by Raven Radio, WTIP, KRZA, KYUK, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 08:01
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Emily Skillings, poet
Emily Skillings writes a tribute to poet John Ashbery who died in September of 2017.

Bought by KALW and KENW


  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Joanne Nucho tells her husband, Jeff Ono, about her grandmother, Isabel, who was born in a refugee camp after her parents fled the Armenian Genocide.

Bought by Public Radio for All, WGUC/ WVXU, WEZU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Immigrants and supporters march down Poydras Street in New Orleans on July 10., Credit: Jasmin Mara Lopez
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Southern Gulf Coast. Reconstruction after Katrina drew thousands of people from India, Bra...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Robert Green, Lower 9th ward resident, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
We visit the Lower 9th Ward Living Museum, to learn how some are trying to preserve the lessons and legacies of the past. And we talk to a residen...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2015
  • Length: 13:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Yuri Kochiyama, Credit: Bob Hsiang
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...

Bought by WNJR and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
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Storyville is a new collaboration between of the University of New Orleans and WWNO. These are true stories about New Orleans written by the studen...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
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My Uncle Harry died in World War II, before I was born. What I didn’t know was where he died, in a secret battle in the Aleutian Islands.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 05:51
Caption: Artistic director Rene Yung (right) gives instructions to the proxy storytellers during a rehearsal of the theater and oral history project “Chinese Whispers." Photo courtesy of Chinese Whispers
In the mid-1800s, the Gold Rush brought enthusiastic settlers westward, from across the United States. At the same time, another migration was flow...

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ian Williams
Songwriter Ian Williams discusses his approach to writing songs for the Seattle Rock Orchestra, inspired by Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Buffalo native Jillian Mertz talks about how the songs of Jackson C. Frank, a little known folk musician from her hometown, helped her understand t...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 07:30
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A short story about my romance with a young German actress back in 1986, based on my journal entries and her letters. Thanks to Noel Dinneen and E...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 23, 2010
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
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The youngest kid in kindergarten, Deja stood up for herself one day by bringing up death... a lesson she had learned too young and was struggling t...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:19
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Catholic nun, Sister Dorothy Stang tirelessly defended the rights of peasant farmers and fought to preserve the integrity of the Amazon. Sister Do...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KVNF


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2