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Vermont Private Eye
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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Remember how much real estate Serial took up in your brain? Now imagine having 75 crime stories in your mind all the time, and the cases are active...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2015
  • Length: 26:44
StoryCorps: Tina Vasquez and Sonia Vasquez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Tina Vasquez tells her mother, Sonia Vasquez, about what it was like to grow up...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Barbara Moore and Olivia Fite
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Olivia Fite (left) and her mother Barbara Moore.
Barbara Moore (R) tells her daughter, Olivia Fite (L), about becoming a bricklayer in the...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WXPR, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KERA and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 6
Eric Jones, Custodian
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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As dawn breaks, birds serenade Eric Jones, who crosses a church parking lot in his baggy jeans, jangling an oversized key ring. The plastic wheels ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
Rich Sutton, Night Guard
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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Rich Sutton is an overnight security guard at a car impound lot in Los Angeles.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:53
24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
Caption: Eric Jones works as a custodian at LA's New Hope Baptist Church., Credit: Jerome Campbell
In this special report, twelve workers who might otherwise go unnoticed – including a stripper, deli waitress, bus driver, metal scrapper and bathr...

Bought by KQED, KFAI Minneapolis, KSFR, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 24
Unemployment in SF? Numbers are down, but so are spirits
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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San Francisco currently has the third lowest unemployment rate of all California's counties. But while that’s good news, it doesn't mean that much ...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 06:47
StoryCorps MVI: Veterans Crisis Line
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Elizabeth Olson and her colleagues at the Veterans Crisis Line, the only national suicide prevention hotline for service members, talk about helpin...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 3
Off to a New Start
From: American Student Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Rachel comes full-circle. She goes from being a college student to be a stripper and then back to starting all over again.

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 18:57
The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "H"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's reigning Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites a poem about her favorite model of farm tractor. The Beat is a dai...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
Marcel Donaj
From: You're U.S.
Series: You're U.S.
Caption: Detain from Marcel's Portrait, Credit: Painting by Emile B Klein
With over 50 professions in his life Marcel, now homeless, lives with a camera, a dog and a passion for cars.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 06:31
Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2012 Year in Review
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As 2013 approaches, we look at some of the important issues we've covered in 2012: from domestic workers struggling for respect, to the consequence...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Labor Pains
From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial
Caption: Laphonza Butler
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Princeton economist Henry Farber and Laphonza Butler, the president of the SEIU's United Long Term Care Workers' Union.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
StoryCorps: Mark and Jessie Edens
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Mark Edens tells his daughter, Jessie, about his career with the Michigan State Police.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 2
Commuter rail engineer talks about coping with track deaths
From: KALW
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In the past six weeks, five people have died on Caltrain tracks, hit by trains that could not stop in time to avoid them. Every year, an average of...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 06:17
Riding the 1 bus: An unguided tour to East Oakland
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The most popular buses in Oakland are the 1 and the 1R. The 1, which is the local route, makes 105 stops in three different East Bay cities. It’s a...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 08:20
The Joy of Management
From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial
Caption: Tony Hsieh, Credit: Jake Chessum
Host Phalana Tiller talks with hotelier Chip Conley and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh about the notion that work and happiness should be inextricably linke...

  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Harold Wright: Five generations on once-tobacco land
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Harold Wright is the third generation farming on land his grandfather bought in the 1900's. His children and grandchildren farm with him. It was on...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
Young Farmers Sustainable Agriculture Tool Lending Library
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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This is the story of the incredible project: sustainable agriculture tool lending library. Led by farmer couple George (self-declared rap listening...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 2
Horse Collar Farm: many generations on one farm & new project of free-range poultry
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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This story is about Shannon Roberts. He lives in Western North Carolina and runs Horse Collar Farm. His family has farmed the same land for five ge...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1
Purple Sweet Potatoes in North Carolina
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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A story of the two men who run Stokes County's Saura Pride Purple Sweet Potato LLC and how these sweet potatoes are saving tobacco farmers in the c...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 1
Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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The Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative is based out of Moore County. The mission is to meet local food needs with local food and that happens, in ...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1
New Town Farms, Poultry-processing facility
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Sammy Koenigsberg lives in Waxhaw, North Carolina and runs New Town Farms with the help of his family. Sammy built a poultry processing facility on...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 1
Piedmont Local Foods: love & success between farmers, consumers, and the internet
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Piedmont Local Food is a regional food/farmer project involving multiple counties, connecting farmers directly to consumers with the internet. A st...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
OakMoon Farm & Creamery, Agritourism
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Cynthia Sharpe and Dwain Swing run OakMoon Farm & Creamery in Bakersville, North Carolina. They've increased the agri-tourism aspect of their farm,...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 1