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Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Melody William's spent the first 18 months of her life sentence in lock-down.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:55
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As part of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, we hear from Jonathan Stalling, the first westerner chosen as Beijing University's Poet-in-Reside...

Bought by KQED and XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 2
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“Classic-Pop Standards” is a one-hour program inspired by the Great American Songbook. This new series of podcasts features the singers, the lyrici...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2016
  • Length: 59:46
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5 Songs is a little secret that we tell you. These are the songs that we are passing to each other off-air, between shifts, under desks, in bars. T...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 06:07
Caption: Triptych photo illustration, Credit: Doug Dobey.
For the longest while I would think of my mother as a husk like the shell left behind by a cicada, all the internal meat gone, just a crisp skin re...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 27:38
Caption: Monica Liu
Most people who come to her restaurant and wash down golden fried prawn with cold beer have no inkling about her back story.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: r wilde
An inmate talks about how her incarceration has brought her mother around in a full circle: remembering how her mother visited her father in prison...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:32
Caption: Snap Judgment
Snap #530 "Behind The Curtain" -- When they think they are all alone, when they think no one is watching...that's when people reveal their true sel...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of the Afterlife, Credit: Julia Meek
Let's face it--that 'final passage' is the most difficult stage of life for 'the departed' AND the loved ones left behind--and it's that road we tr...

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KCMJ Community Radio, WFIU and more


  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Her hair was the color of red cascading off the walls of the Grand Canyon at sunrise.
A personal love story about love at first sight and a "romance" that spanned 50 years. Scored with field stereo recordings and music.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:39
Caption: In one word, its message spoke of a thousand stories, stories of sadness and joy. Short stories and epic tomes.
A personal, acoustic account of discovery...discovery of something close but unseen for many years. It is a metaphorical story about Hope..hope los...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 19:55
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Abraham lincoln debates Stephen Douglas... and which Valentino is the real Valentine?

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:38:59
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Tent Show Radio host Michael Perry gets in and out of big trouble in Wyoming, and welcomes Louisiana native, Jeffery Broussard creates incredible ...

Bought by KALH, KSRQ, WDSE, and WPCA-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 4
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A collaborative “Short List” poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: :44
  • Purchases: 1
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Sharon Chmielarz's poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines nationwide. She's also published travel memoirs and three childrens picture b...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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Welcome to RadioActive's second podcast of summer 2015. We are talking about depression. We got some advice from a psychiatrist at the University o...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 14:40
Caption: Upendo Moore makes beats. , Credit: Courtesy of Upendo Moore
Most young people don’t know what they want to do with their lives. This is a story about a high school student who was born into a calling – being...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
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Kevin Zepper teaches at Minnesota State University - Moorehead.

  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: László Nemes & Géza Röhrig, San Francisco, CA 12/12/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Géza Röhrig László Nemes talk psychic reality, earning our lives, and narrowing the field of vision.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 12:54
Caption: Suzette Jordan
Justice has finally come for Suzette Jordan.Though she was not there to witness it. In 2013 she became the face of rape in Kolkata, India. Her att...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
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Teachers give academic and (most importantly) life advice to students. This is the story of a teacher, Melanie Mac, who is way out of her depth in ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:48
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Meredith Turk, Credit: Meredith Turk
In “Like a Big Cookie,” Meredith Turk talks to a Missouri cattle rancher about life and death on the farm. She also dives into the world of sound art.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:37
Caption: Monica Hand, Credit: Meredith Turk
Monica Hand visits the unmarked slave graves of Jewell Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri, together with geneaologist Traci Wilson-Kleekamp.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1
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Julia Klatt-Singer as described by her son is a long haired, wild eyed, sweater wearing poet and thief.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 01:17
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Pompey is assassinated... Wenceslaus is murdered... and the President of Iran would speak before the UN...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:35:31