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"Lost my first friend to the virus"
From: Katie Semro
Series: Transmission Times: Radio Diaries During COVID-19
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Audio diaries from around the world giving us a glimpse into daily life during the pandemic. In this piece, among other things, we hear about the "...

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 11:30
  • Purchases: 1
"That's Not Two Meters"
From: Katie Semro
Series: Transmission Times: Radio Diaries During COVID-19
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Audio diaries from around the world giving us a glimpse into daily life during the pandemic. In this episode, among other things, we hear about a n...

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 13:06
  • Purchases: 1
Two Revolutions, Many Secrets
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Left: Wilson Dairy Restaurant Right: Helen Zia as baby with mom
In the midst of our dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s hard to imagine what stories we will ultimately tell our children and grandchildren. T...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
"It's quite interesting how life has altered."
From: Katie Semro
Series: Transmission Times: Radio Diaries During COVID-19
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Voices from around the world on how the pandemic is affecting life. In this episode, among other things, we hear about noticing springtime, having ...

Bought by KGUA and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 12:42
  • Purchases: 2
2 : PAWS FOR LiFE
From: matthew schneeman
Series: AT NiGHT I FLY
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Episode 2. Spoon talks about a dog rescue program that took place inside Lancaster State Prison. He talked to Common the rapper, Matthew visits a s...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 20:00
1 : FAT KiNG
From: matthew schneeman
Series: AT NiGHT I FLY
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First episode. Spoon talks about growing up in the desert, reads a poem about maggots and a pig, and Matthew visits his parents.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 20:00
Centenarians in Lockdown
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Hunker Down Diaries
Caption: Joe Newman and Anita Sampson, Credit: ABC Action News
Joe Newman is 107 years old. He was 5 during the flu pandemic of 1918. Today, he lives in a senior apartment complex in Sarasota, Florida with his ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
Borders Between Us
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: The Transom Radio Specials
Caption: Aminata Tejan-Thomas, Saidu Tejan-Thomas and Saidu Tejan-Thomas, Jr., Credit: courtesy of Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr
Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother. It's a tragic love stor...

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


  • Added: Apr 15, 2020
  • Length: 38:13
  • Purchases: 2
Not Quite Through the Storm
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Coastal Youth Media
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When Hurricane Florence hit coastal North Carolina, Shecoria Smith, age 16, was worried about her father returning from a work trip.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 02:49
Episode 73: Not Healed, But Healing
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Brandon Kuehn survived the Iraq War. But after he got home, he struggled with nightmares and addiction. Then he found trail running…and the Pacific...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 18:09
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Paige Macklin and Russell King
From: StoryCorps
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Russell King sat down with his music teacher Paige Macklin, to tell her about a choice she made, and how it changed his life.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Dena Kohleriter and Jori Kohleriter
From: StoryCorps
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Dena Kohleriter had always seen herself becoming a mother one day. So when she was 36 years old, she decided to have a child on her own.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Drew Lanham and John Lane
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Drew Lanham tells his friend John Lane about his lifelong passion for birds and nature.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
A T-Shirt Hug from Dad
From: Lori Mortimer
Series: Mementos
Caption: The eagle t-shirt made by Karen Krolak, Credit: Steve Nelson
Interdisciplinary artist Karen Krolak tells us about the t-shirt she hand-stitched for her father and why it's so important that she hold on to it.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 29, 2019
  • Length: 15:38
  • Purchases: 1
Are You There God? It's me, Paula.
From: KAYLA LATTIMORE
Caption: Paula Degree, Credit: Kayla Lattimore
Going through puberty is rough. It’s a time most of us would give anything to forget. Well, Paula Degree chose to do it all over again at 72.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 08:41
  • Purchases: 1
When Truman Touches the Wall
From: Dale McGowan
Series: How Music Does That
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From a Bach fugue to Princess Diana's funeral to Truman's wall, this technique is the music of finality.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2019
  • Length: 12:05
Novelist, Poet, & Memoirist Alan Proctor
From: New Letters on the Air
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We mark Veteran's Day with two interviews featuring Alan Proctor. His book, THE SWEDEN FILE: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN EX-PATRIATE, was named one of th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
National Writers Series: Aarti Shahani
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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National Public Radio reporter Aarti Shahani talks with WDET News Director Jerome Vaughn about her book, "Here We Are: American Dreams, American Ni...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 28, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
National Writers Series: David Maraniss
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Journalist and biographer David Maraniss talks with fellow author John Bacon.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
Five Instruments
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry about five particular musical instruments.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
Opposing Children's Detention Centers - Marina from the Rio Grande Valley
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Marina is a pediatric nurse from Austin and the Rio Grande Valley who deeply opposes the detention centers for children crossing the Texas-Mexico b...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 26:01
On the Border - Jan from Bastrop
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
Caption: Photo of Big Bend in Texas., Credit: Pius Wong
Jan from Bastrop in Central Texas is hugely concerned about the way the USA is handling several issues at the border with Mexico.

Bought by KRZA and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 2
RDD: I Don't Feel Like A Refugee
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Last week we met with Corine Dehabey, the Director of Programs at US Together a non-profit Refugee Resettlement Agency. This week we meet one of th...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 06:17
Locked
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2019
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Our piece is about Tobias’ brother and Miracle’s uncle and how they live their lives in and outside of prison.

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 08, 2019
  • Length: 08:02
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Poppy
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California
Caption: Melissa Dueñas' dad in Donovan Correctional Facility in the early 1990s., Credit: Photo courtesy of Melissa Dueñas
Melissa Dueñas’ dad went in-and-out of jail and prison her whole life. Whenever he was locked up, they would keep in touch by writing letters. She ...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 04, 2019
  • Length: 16:19
  • Purchases: 1

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