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Remember Dick Powell the actor? How about Dick Powell the jazz banjo player? He’s just one of many obscure early jazz performers heard in this pro...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 58:55
Residents of a quiet Santa Monica apartment building remember their neighbor, Charlie -- also known as notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" B...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, The Story, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 3
Amy Boortz bought a full-size school in north Georgia to live in with her family. They turned classrooms into bedrooms, and life was alright for a ...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 11:45
- Purchases: 1
Freddie Wood and his wife Wilma Sue talk about the Wood and Swink General Store and Post Office, which has been in Freddie's family for more than a...
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 02:12
- Purchases: 2
This week, our storytellers spill the beans on some very interesting family secrets. Stories by Anne Nieto, Robbin Ridgell, and Arthur Paul Bowen. ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 29:00
The Spirits of Imaginary Animals was written by Simon Jacobs and first published in the literary magazine bluestem. John Fredrick reads this tale ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2012
- Length: 04:30
June is National Accordion Awareness Month...who knew? Grand Marais accordionist and singer Leah Thomas stopped by WTIP's The Roadhouse June 22 to ...
- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 18:55
From: STephen ASma
Humorous and philosophical essay about a brush with Chinese Security Guards in Shanghai
- Added: Jun 24, 2012
- Length: 04:30
You may know him as the guy who takes surreal pictures of his Weimaraners; but that's just one strand of William Wegman's long and varied career. [...
- Added: Jun 11, 2012
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 2
It's happened again. Your favorite TV show is beginning to lose its appeal. Now the shark has been jumped, and there's no going back. Now what?
- Added: Jun 08, 2012
- Length: 10:37
- Purchases: 2
Buck Dietz is a figure model. That means he has to stand naked and completely still for long sessions while artists sketch him. But for Buck, it's ...
Bought by HowSound, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: May 28, 2012
- Length: 04:45
- Purchases: 7
Black Paint, Cool Cars and Root Canals
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 06:31
Thien To is a senior at South Philadelphia High. She’s been struggling to hold on to her sanctuary and become the big sister she wants to be.
Bought by WHYY
- Added: May 20, 2012
- Length: 03:21
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 06:20
A reflective piece about a middle aged man's visit to the cardiologist for his annual stress test.
- Added: Apr 29, 2012
- Length: 04:58
I Like Your Mustache, and other Lithuanian Tales features huge plates of fat dumplings smothered in sour cream and minced onion and a distinctly Ba...
- Added: Apr 27, 2012
- Length: 12:14
On this week's episode, our writers take us back in time to the angst of the teen years. Stories by Jill Bayles, Deana Nall, and Leslie Hitt. True ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2012
- Length: 29:00
When Jack Beck and Wendy Welch decided to move to the small mountain town of Big Stone Gap, they hadn’t planned on opening a used bookstore.
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 08, 2012
- Length: 04:39
- Purchases: 1
Sexy Kittens, Sexy Nurses, Sexy versions of normal looking things and people are generally what goes for Halloween Costumes for women. Becky tells...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Apr 02, 2012
- Length: 08:11
- Purchases: 1
This is the premiere episode of Virtually Everything is Handmade Radio. Stori Sojourner shares the inner workings of her being: From SF to Small To...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Mar 30, 2012
- Length: 07:48
- Purchases: 1
From: Blake Cooper
Koga the gorilla made an international splash after this week's escape attempt from the Buffalo Zoo. Could this be the unlikely path to prosperity ...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 03:23
Poet Jeanne Marie Beaumont's books include CURIOUS CONDUCT and PLACEBO EFFECTS, and her collection, BURNING OF THE THREE FIRES. She assembles ever...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
In San Francisco, the idea of "pop up" is ubiquitous. Pop-ups are temporary businesses, venues, or events that happen suddenly, in unexpected locat...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 05:32
- Purchases: 1
On today's show we look at the real and imagined implications of genetic modification in the middle of the 20th century.
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 14:40
