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StoryCorps: Constance Labetti
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Constance Labetti remembers her boss, Ron Fazio, who died in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Ben Westlie - "The Road"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Ben Westlie graduated from Bemidji State University in 2006 with a BFA in Creative and Professional Writing. He's published three chapbooks of poet...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:09
A Diva on Oxygen: The Esther England Story
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Esther England
Esther England was good at everything she did. Singing opera around the world, teaching university students who wanted to be her, doing that even a...

  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 09:40
Tom Owens, The Vegetarian
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper
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Our Killer meets her first victim

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:20
Chapter 2: Soldier of Fortune
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper
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The world's only contract killer not to own a gun discovers she is in business.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:33
The Beat: Kevin Zepper - "Autumn Daughter"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Kevin Zepper is an Associate Professor of English at Minnesota State University - Moorehead. He was recently awarded a writing residency at Starry ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 03:02
A Woman Named Johnnie
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Recounting a difficult life.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 05:26
StoryCorps MVI: Tracy Johnson and Sandra Johnson
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Tracy Johnson and her mother in-law, Sandra Johnson, talk about the death of their wife and daughter, Army Staff Sergeant Donna Johnson.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Sharon Harris - "The Chances I Never Took"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Sharon Harris is a member of the Jackpine Writer's Block, and a native of Park Rapids. She has published three books of poetry. The Beat is a daily...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:40
The Beat: Michelle Matthees - "Vladivostok Apartment"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Michelle Mathees has received a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. The Jerome Foundation, and the Arrowhead...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:48
The Beat: CarolAnn Russell - "A Return"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
First World War poetry - The End by Wilfred Owen, read by Mark Prescott
From: Alison Turner
Series: Armistice Day for Expats in Belgium
Caption: Names of fallen soldiers from the First World War, engraved on the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 06:44
StoryCorps: Joel Healy and Kelli Healy Salazar
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Joel Healy tells his daughter, Kelli Healy Salzar, about participating in Operation Plumbbob, one of the largest nuclear tests conducted by the U.S...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Mark Christensen - "Boy With Dog"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:52
A Silent Tornado, A Long Black Night
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Virginia Miller and her husband Tim recount the night a tornado hit Apison, Tenn., and how it changed their relationship with their neighbors.

Bought by The Story, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 3
The Needle Drop: 08-20-11
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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New music from Chelsea Wolfe, the War On Drugs, and More.

Bought by KSJD, KRCB 104.9, WTIP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 57:09
  • Purchases: 5
A Eulogy Too Soon
From: Philly Youth Radio
Series: Students of Violence
Caption: Luis Lopez, Credit: Craig Santoro
For Luis Lopez, violence arrived unexpectedly at his own front door. The seventeen-year-old sophomore starts his story in a classroom.

Bought by WHYY and WGXC


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 2
More Than Just Houses
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Portland, Maine’s Little Italy was one of many neighborhoods across America that was demolished as a result of Urban Renewal.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, WMPG, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Dec 14, 2010
  • Length: 08:17
  • Purchases: 4
Music effects the way we feel
From: Larry Carlson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Music effects behavior and taps into the soul of the listener. Music is a universal language, and transcends and communicates non verbally. As we l...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 03:16
Something Left To Give
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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At 53, Dr. Bruce Churchill was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 10, 2010
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 4
Goat Auction in North Carolina
From: Alix Blair
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Curtis Ring sells off all his goats: this story presents an intimate look at what is happening to farmers across the country

Bought by Remix Radio and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Sep 10, 2008
  • Length: 08:04
  • Purchases: 2
25 Years Later, Elia Tape Lives On
From: Sam Hudzik
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Anniversary of Legendary Rant by a Former Cubs Manager

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Feb 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 1
Love, War, and PTSD
From: Karen Brown
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A young couple tells the story of married life after war -- and it's not pretty.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Third Coast International Audio Festival


  • Added: Apr 23, 2007
  • Length: 11:13
  • Purchases: 2
The Street of the Cauldron Makers
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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A well-known Turkish novelist confronts her country's modern history on a nondescript street in Istanbul.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Apr 10, 2007
  • Length: 13:26
  • Purchases: 2
Homes
From: Bria Dolnick
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Narriative and sound exploration of remembered and missed landmarks and landscapes of Chicago and New Orleans

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 05:51