PRX - Pieces for Tone: Melancholic

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Caption: Josh Weiner and Sylvia Grosvold at their StoryCorps interview in Portland, OR on March 27, 2019. , Credit: By Beth Duckles for StoryCorps.
Sylvia Grosvold was 5 and half years old when she lost her mother to suicide. A decade later, she came to StoryCorps with her dad Josh Weiner to ta...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:43
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Hi, my name is Heidi and this is the story of my aunt Guadalupe Espinoza a Mexican immigrant who has been diagnosed with cancer.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Dec 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ashley Baker and Sandy Baker at their StoryCorps interview in Dallas, Texas on October 19, 2019., Credit: By Eleanor Vasilli for StoryCorps.
Sandy Baker and her daughter, Ashley Baker, recall the two and a half years without permanent housing and the love that helped them make it through...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 02:18
Caption: Rapper P.O.S, Credit: Erin Cahanes
For some artists, sickness can fuel their creativity. But for others, illness can drain the inspiration right out of them. In this episode, musicia...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 17:21
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poem published in Literary Mama September 2019.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:17
Caption: Kristin Sollars and Marci Ebbers at their StoryCorps interview in Orlando, FL on May 21, 2019., Credit: By Emilyn Sosa for StoryCorps.
Kristin Sollars and Marci Ebberts talk about their experiences as critical-care nurses in Kansas City, MO.

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
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"One-two-three-four/ What are we waiting for? Fifty years on, after a night spent largely on that big wet, now commercialized field in Bethel, New...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:00
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Vanessa from Austin, Texas, talks about why she wants the detention centers at the border to be closed. She describes what she saw in the children'...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:10
Caption: Amanda Farrell and Craig Farrell at their StoryCorps interview in Appleton, WI in July 2019., Credit: By Sylvie Lubow for StoryCorps
Amanda Farrell tells her husband Craig about how she lost -- and ultimately regained -- control of her mental health.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WDBM, and WHRV


  • Added: Aug 08, 2019
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Kathleen Payne and Corinthia Isom at their StoryCorps interview in New York City, New York on September 29, 2015., Credit: Carolina Escobar for StoryCorps
Corinthia Isom and Kathleen Payne remember Corinthia’s mother, DeSeane Isom, and how Kathleen took Corinthia in after DeSeane died from an AIDS-rel...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 02:43
Caption: The Pablo Ziegler Trio at the 2018 Grammy Awards
Claudio Ragazzi is a guitarist, songwriter, and film composer. In 2018, he won a Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album. But if it wasn't for a run in wi...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 07:13
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What is your favorite summer activity? A walk in the park? Going for a swim? Sitting in the shade with an ice-cold glass of lemonade? This wee...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMFA, WUAL, and KTXK


  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 4
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We remember. This week on Wind & Rhythm, host David Lawrence commemorates the US Memorial Day and pays tribute to those who paid the ultimate sacri...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMSU, and KMFA


  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 3
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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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On this week's episode Julian reads an essay he reads an essay about a relationship coming to an end and the feeling that sometimes you're in a com...

  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 15:27
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The Mandelring Quartet plays works by Borodin and Tchaikovsky

Bought by KPOV, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Can you describe color without using words linked to your sense of sight?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1
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“O Fortune, like the moon you are changeable, ever waxing, ever waning…” This week on Wind & Rhythm, host David Lawrence takes us on a musical adv...

Bought by KWAX, KTXK, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUAL, and KMFA


  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 5
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Memorabilia is about a grown man reconnecting with rituals and memories from his childhood. It's about some good old sports collectibles. And my an...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio on the road this episode live and in the studio from the southwest corner of Arizona, KAWC Yuma and KAWP Parker, 88.9 FM, allowing us to get ...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WYAP, WVBI-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 8
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The Southeastern Louisiana University Department of English presents: Literary Ghost Stories, readings of nineteenth-century tales by American auth...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 55:14
  • Purchases: 1
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10 pm. In Bishop Ca Listening To Frogs

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:06
  • Purchases: 1
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A look back at some of the people the rock world lost in 2018

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 57:09
Caption: The Duluth, Minn. delegation to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. gathers in front of the Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Memorial to that city's 1920 lynching before boarding a bus for a 1,223-mile journey to Alabama in April., Credit: Julia Cheng
The fascinating journey of delegates from Duluth, Minn. - the scene of a horrific triple lynching in 1920 and the first city to erect a prominent m...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 47:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Meant to be an Israeli version of Hair’s ‘Let the Sunshine In,’, Shir La’Shalom was quickly banned by generals and labeled as both defeatist and de...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 12:16
  • Purchases: 2