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Satire Rock City Radio Show #110
- Added: May 02, 2022
- Length: 29:52
HOUR ONE: 'If Your Clothes Could Talk' - Whether you know it or not, your closets are filled with personal information. Do you think about what are...
- Added: Dec 03, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
On this episode of the Apple Seed we explore tales of different types of labor.
Bought by WVPE, RadioStPete Florida, WJCT, Morehead State Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more
- Added: Aug 10, 2021
- Length: 55:01
- Purchases: 8
Greg seemed to everyone like a mild mannered software developer. No one could predict that his invention could either save democracy, or lock the c...
- Added: Aug 15, 2020
- Length: 29:03
If "Bring Your Kid To Work Day" was a competition, Jack's father would win.
- Added: Jul 08, 2019
- Length: 02:37
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Senor Jorge has lived a multicultural life. Hear how he came to be a Spanish teacher in Austin, Texas.
- Added: Dec 17, 2018
- Length: 04:20
When you think about Las Vegas, you might picture casinos, opulent hotels and neon signs. Like the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, Circus Cir...
- Added: May 09, 2018
- Length: 12:37
When bee season in New York City begins in early spring, that means retired police detective (and unofficial NYPD beekeeper) Anthony “Tony Bees” Pl...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 1
Ok so Host Marc Cuniberti is on a run of off the wall news pieces. Another "not so normal" news piece. Once again its not about the stock markets b...
- Added: Apr 08, 2017
- Length: 08:20
A father and son talk about working together in an air conditioner repair business that has been in their family for more than half a century.
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 2
Enrolling in college at 40 to study art, Sharon Long had no idea an anthropology class would put her on a path to a career as a forensic artist.
Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio
- Added: Apr 29, 2016
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 2
Life in the Age of Leisure
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KALW, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 12:41
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 11:19
In car-choked LA, riding the bus is a sign that you can’t afford your own wheels. But Joshua Salazar's overnight routes are often full of people be...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:58
At Old Sturbridge Village, a rotating cast of men and women don period clothes while performing 19th century roles for the public. Emily Kwong take...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 07:45
- Purchases: 1
Clayton Sherrod looks back to 1964, when at 19 years old he became executive chef at an all--white country club in Birmingham, Alabama.
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 02:13
- Purchases: 4
![Caption: A wall upstairs at [freespace], Credit: Jen Chien](https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.mediajoint.prx.org/public/piece_images/251940/frees_square.JPG)
The seed idea for [freespace] came from a 48-hour hackathon called the National Day of Civic Hacking. A hackathon is when people get together for a...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:36
The first thing you should know about ironworkers is that they don’t make things out of iron, like horseshoes. They’re builders. Ironworkers from L...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:30
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
Richard’s leadership of the Student League for Industrial Democracy on the Wooster campus has not gone unnoticed. On of Richard's professors confro...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 19:17
A documentary on Adrian Chi Tenney, a female professional driver in Los Angeles, CA.
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 07:12
One Bay Area organization has created an economy based on trading services and skills. KALW's Jen Chien reports.
- Added: Aug 29, 2012
- Length: 08:11
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...
- Added: Oct 24, 2011
- Length: 11:00
- Purchases: 2
Mort Segal and his sister, Joan Feldman, remember their father, Jack Segal, a booking agent for novelty acts in the Catskills.
- Added: Aug 01, 2011
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 3
A comedic piece giving advice on how to follow up after your first interview.
- Added: Jan 21, 2011
- Length: 07:59
