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Introducing "Keeping Dad Alive," a podcast that captures the voice of a father living under lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic, and his five ...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2020
  • Length: :30
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Richard and his daughter Johanna explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual planes of our existence while exercising on Zoom.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 08:47
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I'm eighteen and for some reason I can't be on time.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:22
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A teenage misfit tries to empower himself by taking on the persona of a medieval Scottish King.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 21:44
  • Purchases: 1
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What happens when someone does something to their house that stands out in the neighborhood? Lucia Duncan, from Somerville, Massachusetts, went to ...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
Caption: Leaving Los Angeles, Credit: Alison Byrne
Personal Essay on working odd jobs to get by in Los Angeles, trying to find creative and fulfilling work, getting older, and, finally, leaving Holl...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 27, 2014
  • Length: 11:53
  • Purchases: 2
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I really wish Donald Sterling wasn't quite the jerk that he is, because his case gives the push-back against our loss of civil liberties a bad nam...

  • Added: May 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:17
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Sadly, the historic Hubig's Pie factory in New Orleans burned down, and its neighbor Laura McKnight slept through it...almost.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:43
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A woman arms herself before leaving for work; an 18 year old girl spends three months in an Alaskan cannery; and that woman on the phone is not who...

Bought by KUAC, XRAY.fm, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Aspen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Martin Ferguson on Tales from the South
It's our Annual 1-Hour Holiday Special, in two parts. Christmas memories by Mary Lester, Wetzel LaGrone, Sara Baker, Martin Ferguson, Ann Talman, a...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2013
  • Length: 33:00
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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
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Brian recounts the first summer in Alaska working the slime lines of a cannery and the time the Captain was drunk, the crew quit, and the ship's an...

Bought by KUT and KRUA


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 11:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Anyon believes in things and that has always worked out (the easter bunny, santa claus, etc) but a trip to St. Patrick's Cathedral throws the catho...

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Aug 06, 2011
  • Length: 12:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Lee Cowan goes for a walk in the woods with her furry children, Jillian Burgess returns to her small, childhood school with her own young boys, and...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
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Storyteller Jennifer Munro shares a childhood memory about her father and an overzealous neighbor.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Julia Child, Credit: Christopher Hirscheimer
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. We hear Julia introducing her late friend, M.F.K. Fisher, who takes us out for a staggeringly gluttonous me...

Bought by KSJD, KSFR, KZYX, and WTIP


  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 4
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"This afternoon, I have the most popular vagina in the state of Iowa. There are never fewer than two, and sometimes as many as six people gathered...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2010
  • Length: 07:37
Caption: Tahjin
During my homestay with a family in rural Morocco, I had a tricky cultural experience which many of us can relate to.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: :00
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A science experiment that didn't go tragically wrong

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2009
  • Length: 01:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Grampa appreciating, Credit: Probably my Grandmother
A girl who is really, really proud to be from Montana

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, YouthCast, KUOW, KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2009
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 6