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Charlie Thomas worked as a whitewater rafting guide in the 80’s. His boss became obsessed with selling photos of clients taken while they ran the r...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 3
“Sorry I passed out in the middle of your mother’s funeral. I’m sure it was a lovely service.”
- Added: Oct 13, 2015
- Length: 10:50
A sound rich narrative interview with former Washington state park ranger and storyteller Jody Maberry
- Added: Aug 07, 2015
- Length: 17:53
Dan Burgard is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Puget Sound, and not long after Washington state voted to legalize cannabis...
- Added: Aug 01, 2015
- Length: 10:08
Sometimes the things we write can cause controversy, and even end up being deadly. Early this year two gunmen opened fire in the office of the Fren...
- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 06:34
Public infrastructure – parks, libraries, roads, and sidewalks – surrounds us. But have you ever wondered how any of it actually came into being? A...
- Added: Jul 13, 2015
- Length: 07:44
A 5th grade girl interviews a classmate about his interest in Little Lulu.
- Added: Jun 14, 2015
- Length: 02:38
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by WORT
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
The Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper in West Marin, is known for a lot of things. It won a Pulitzer Prize, it’s done muckraking reporting on a...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 1
A kaleidoscope of French Language Songs Introduced to English Speakers. No need to understand French to enjoy the show.. The songs range from joyfu...
Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 27:46
- Purchases: 1
With Akeisha Johnson, life coach and your show host, on this episode we will chat with Mindy Aronoff, Bay Area Video Coalition’s Director of Traini...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 22:16
Recreational pot has earned the state of Colorado $53 million dollars in tax revenue. All on a drug that, according to federal law is still illegal...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 23:27
- Purchases: 1
We all know the stereotype, beauty pageant contestants as godzillas. We’ve seen it in that show Toddlers And Tiaras. And the heat of the competitio...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 04:26
Exotic dancers, on-call drivers and writers might have a different name for what they do -- freelancing, part-time work and independent contracting...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 14:51
- Purchases: 4
With Akeisha Johnson, your show host on this episode of Making It Work, we will chat with undergraduate student, Amanda Harrinauth, about her exper...
- Added: Apr 06, 2015
- Length: 19:36
Ryan Dawes explores the character of Sherlock Holmes, past and present, by meeting with a group of Minnesotans devoted to preserving Sherlockian cu...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 1
Jess Mador goes behind the scenes of a familiar fast food landmark: White Castle building #8.
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:05
Visitors to Jerusalem's Old City can reasonably expect to bump into a missionary or two. Mishy Harman and Nava Winkler introduce us to a couple of ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 05:18
In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 16:05
Chaya Gilboa falls deeply in love with a library book, and becomes convinced that her soulmate will have felt the same connection to the text. She ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 12:51
Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer. When she came to New York twenty-one years ago to rehearse for a concert at Carnegie Hall, she never imag...
- Added: Mar 08, 2015
- Length: 14:09
When you lose your seat in Congress, what do you do? An audio postcard about former Maryland Representative Wayne Gilchrest who now runs a nature c...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:12
In 2011, two rap groups in northern Minnesota decided to join forces: 100 Souls from Red Lake, and NPC3 from Bemidji. Together they’re known as Rez...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:36
- Purchases: 1
What does it mean to love an object? And does that love...wear off?
- Added: Feb 15, 2015
- Length: 15:20
Yonder Mountain String Band has always played music by its own set of rules. Bending bluegrass, rock and countless other influences, Yonder has pi...
- Added: Feb 01, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 8
