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None Dare Call It a Depression
From: Merle Kessler
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Ian scratches his head at whatever it is we're going through. Apparently, we're broke. Welcome to my world.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
Billions lost! Ask me how!
From: Merle Kessler
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Some flunky at a bank in France lost billions. How?

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
Ducks and Shoes at Abakus
From: Chinatown Youth Radio Philadelphia
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Introducing Abakus, a new shopping experience in Philadelphia Chinatown

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:01
Obama Heads: Obama's Traveling T-Shirt Vendors
From: PRX
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WFDD's LeShea Agnew was outside North Carolina's Lawrence Joel Veterans Coliseum hanging with supporters before an Obama event. She met some polit...

  • Added: May 01, 2008
  • Length: 03:14
Garbage Finds New Life in Queens Office
From: Kenan Davis
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The story what happens to the belongings of someone who dies

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 03, 2008
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 2
Hairdressers of New York City
From: Laura Spero
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Hairdressers in New York City describe how things look from behind the chair

Bought by KUT, KXOT Public Radio, and WFUV


  • Added: Nov 01, 2007
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 3
Not My Job: Tales From the "Degreasing Room."
From: Chelsea Merz
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Matthew Works has been living on the streets for ten years. Here he remembers one of his last paying jobs, assembling Braille typewriters, which th...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WLPR , KUT, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2007
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 7
Baah to Human Billboarding!
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary noting that two National Football League coaches have made a small but possibly significant move that could undermine human billboardi...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2007
  • Length: 04:38
Cheez
From: Merle Kessler
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A tribute to the foodlike substances of my youth.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 01:53
'Til Death Do Us Part
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Husband and wife funeral directors, Judie and Morrell York, prepare a body for burial.

Bought by HowSound, SALTcast Podcast, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 22, 2007
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 4
This I Believe - Craig Newmark
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Craigslist founder Craig Newmark believes people are trustworthy and usually abide by the Golden Rule.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, Remix Radio, and KJZZ


  • Added: Apr 23, 2007
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 4
Tales of the Free Market
From: Merle Kessler
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Ian Shoales finds disturbing evidence of the failures of capitalism.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2006
  • Length: 02:31
Wildlife Poaching
From: KRCC-FM
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The wild world of the wildlife repository

  • Added: Nov 02, 2005
  • Length: 07:48
The Thrill of the Unmarked Car
From: Dick Meister
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We're all driving billboards -- for free.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 13, 2005
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 1
Is Your Boss Insane?
From: Merle Kessler
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A new test determines if your boss is a sociopath. Discuss.

  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 01:49
Grad Student Discos for Dollars
From: Hillary Frank
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A grad student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago pays for his living expenses by disco dancing on the street.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, KUOW, PRX to iTunes, KGOU and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2004
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 6