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What's Wrong With Work?
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: What's Wrong With Work?
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It's not easy in America today to find work that matters, that’s meaningful, and that pays enough to live on. Which is the one thing we don’t talk ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Spokane Public Radio, WFHB, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Episode 109: Homewrecker
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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It’s one thing to get into an argument with a stranger on Facebook. It’s another thing to try to ruin that stranger’s life. In 2015, Re/Max realtor...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 23:08
Episode 108: The Numbers
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When Fannie Davis and her family moved to Detroit in the mid-1950s, they hadn’t prepared themselves for how hard it would be. They had trouble find...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 31:50
  • Purchases: 1
Meet Your Maker! (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-During the holiday season, it feels like more and more consumers are skipping the department stores and opting for handcrafted goods instead. Ben ...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KUHF, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WLPR and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 12
Meet Your Maker! (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-During the holiday season, it feels like more and more consumers are skipping the department stores and opting for handcrafted goods instead. Ben ...

Bought by WJCU, Harford Community Radio, KMUN, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Brand Survival in the Trump Era (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-With the country deeply divided, brands whose livelihoods depend on appealing to the entire population companies can't afford to take sides and mo...

Bought by WJCT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WFHB, KRDP and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Something Fishy, part 1
From: Matt Frassica
Series: The Briny
Caption: Tim Rider and crew aboard the Finlander I, Credit: Tim Rider
Why regulations designed to protect the ocean are making it harder to fish sustainably.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2018
  • Length: 12:46
170914 The New Orleans to Los Angeles Music Connections of 1950s and 60s
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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After Fats Domino and Little Richard records completely changed the recording industry. New Orleans music was "gold" and the equivalent of the Cal...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 04:36:13
  • Purchases: 1
Who uses spider silk? The Army and Stella McCartney, for starters
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: These silk threads are produced by silkworms but based on the protein spiders use to spin a web. , Credit: Kraig Biocraft Laboratories
The silky strands made by spiders are prized for their strength and suppleness. Now, scientists in the Great Lakes region are using technology to r...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Michigan Radio, North Country Public Radio, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 8
Mark Schultz: writer and innovator
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Call of the Wild
Caption: Tippy, Credit: Karen Oothoudt
Milt Lee talks with Mark Schultz, writer and innovator, working with the essential basics of life.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 1
SoundsLA - Operating a Crane at the Port 150 Feet High
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Frank Kostrencich has been working the night shift as a crane operator at the Port of Los Angeles for the past 26 years. Using his precision and ex...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
Keila McCracken, weaver and sustainable fashion designer in Bemidji, MN
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Call of the Wild
Caption: Tippy, Credit: Karen Oothoudt
Milt Lee talks with Keila McCracken, weaver and sustainable fashion designer and owner of Bare Cloth Studios in Bemidji, MN. Keila makes sustainabl...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 1
John Schroeder, artist with Uncommon Loons
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Call of the Wild
Caption: Tippy, Credit: Karen Oothoudt
Milt Lee speaks with John Schroeder. John runs Schroeder Log Home Supply by day, and is an artist, dreamer, and theater guy by night. He's currentl...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 08:01
  • Purchases: 1
Inspiration Or Appropriation? Behind Music Copyright Lawsuits
From: Allyson McCabe
Caption: John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. The band's "Stairway to Heaven" is the subject of a current copyright-infringement lawsuit. , Credit: Danny Martindale/Getty Images
Where do you draw the line between inspiration and appropriation when it comes to musical compositions?

  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 09:24
Shopping with Seafarers
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Dheeraj Singh trying on sunglasses at Old Navy in Emeryville, Credit: Julie Caine
Dheeraj Singh is the first officer on a container ship that makes regular runs from China, to California, to Japan, and back again.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 08:51
When Ground Zero was known as Radio Row
From: Radio Diaries
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For more than four decades, Radio Row it was the largest collection of radio and electronics stores in the world. Then in 1966 the stores were cond...

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


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 13:55
  • Purchases: 4
Farming Underwater: Steve Mello’s Story
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Farmer Steve Mello has put down roots in “The Delta” in central California. But climate change is threatening the levees which protect Delta farms....

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
The Rabbit Hutch
From: Big Shed Audio
Series: Place + Memory
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Have you ever eaten Fried Rabbit? Barbecued Rabbit? Rice with Rabbit Gravy? They were standard fare at the Venz Rabbit Hutch Restaurant in Logan, ...

Bought by WBHM, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 3
La Tanda -- A Grassroots Savings Scheme
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A newshole ready first-person piece about "La Tanda", a tradition of many immigrant communities of pooling their money, and sharing the benefits.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 2
Lyal Corliss: 81 and still shoeing horses
From: Japhet Weeks
Caption: Lyal Corliss pulls a horse shoe off a horse's hoof., Credit: Yuli Weeks
In Northern California's Humboldt County, one octogenarian just won't quit working.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2009
  • Length: 04:20
A Fresh Catch
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In recent decades, it’s gotten harder and harder for small fishermen and women to earn a living from the sea.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:35
What Are You Gonna Do with 400 Fish?
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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C'mon, bait your line. Let's go smelt fishin' on the ice.

Bought by PRX to iTunes, KGLT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, The Nature Podcast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 29, 2007
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 5