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Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
"El dia que se apareció el diablo" takes us back to a time when "the devil" appeared on the poor side of the tracks. The terrifying experience lead...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 12:18
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Chhaya Chhoum came to StoryCorps with her husband Eddie Rivera to talk about how they first met and the twists and turns of their relationship.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Grupo Mio performs at SPNN in St. Paul., Credit: Ryan Dawes
Tejano means "Texan" in Spanish. It's also a music genre that blends US American and Mexican traditions. Minnesota's own Tejano band, Grupo Mio, pe...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 40:07
Caption: Sleepy LaBeef in his movie role as a monster
It's topical theme night with songs about laughing and cigarettes. I've been playing with country and western songs that are swing jazz or boogie ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 07, 2019
  • Length: 03:32:42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Reynaliz playing her bike at home. , Credit: Elizabeth Estrada
Classically trained percussionist Reynaliz Herrera used to use her bike to get around Boston. Now, she uses it to make music.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 05:10
Caption: women power, Credit: npr
In Viva La Mujer we speak to different Latinas creating spaces and power in different platforms around the country.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 01:00
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues National Hispanic Heritage Month with a look back at Latina author Sandra Cisneros, who received the National Med...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNJR, KRZA, XRAY.fm, KHNS and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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The musician, song writer and music producer, Bert Berns, was another Brill Building character. Not loveable nor a scamp, he was more of a garden ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 01:41:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Tonight's show, Mexican rocanrol from the 1950s and 60s plus a radio musical. You know, in a theatrical musical, a song springs up interrupting ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:52:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Bassist Jack Radavich is featured artist, a new recording of Harry Warren material, later in the broadcast playing Neil Hefti. Chicago's young blue...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WOUB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Lila Trujillo and Julia Cooper join writer Meg Medina to discuss her book.
Book Club for Kids goes to Hooray For Books! bookstore in Alexandria, Virginia to talk about Meg Medina's novel about bullying and mother-daughter ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 22:33
Caption: Kaiden, Francisco, Kevin, Jefferson, and Nicholas are fifth graders at Thomson and Two Rivers Elementary Schools in Washington, DC.
These 5th graders love Tom Angleberger's "Origami Yoda" books so much, they formed a book club devoted to folding paper...and writing letters to th...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 20:46
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Book Club for Kids goes to LA for a discussion of Roald Dahl's first book for kids "James and the Giant Peach." Public radio legend Cash Peters is ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 21:34
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From on-location at Rayner's Chocolate & Coffee Shop, Glendale Arizona, going into its third year of supporting jazz radio, John Mueller is guest D...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WVBI-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, KPVL, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 5
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download or stream more music at aaronleeder.bandcamp.com facestogether.com

  • Added: Apr 17, 2015
  • Length: 10:18
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Students explore Martin Middle School urban legend Emily. Asking classmates and staff they get some pretty surprising answers as to who she was and...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 05:40
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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
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know! Featuring Poet Ruth Nolan and Musician Frankie Hernandez.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
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LatinoAltROCK was created with the goal of sharing the music that is part of our cultural experience, with a wider audience.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KZYX, KUOW, KRSC, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 53:27
  • Purchases: 5
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A short, strange history of marijuana in the U.S., Mexico and everywhere else

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 15:06
  • Purchases: 1
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One year ago, Ben and I wrote a song about Vladimir Guerrero, trumpeting what I viewed to be his inevitable destiny as Savior of the Baltimore Orio...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 13:01
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Scott Wall and his wife, Isabel Sobozinsky-Wall, talk about their long-distance courtship that began on New Year's Eve.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KUER, WEZU, KRZA, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 10
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Twelve-year old youth producer Vanessa Sanchez explores Mexico's relatively new artform of "Tribal" music, which merges cumbia with traditional Lat...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 03:28
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Boom! Bap! Biff! The CornerCast cruises from Los Angeles to La Ciudad Gotham with the lo-fi, lowrider soul of Chicano Batman.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 06:39
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14-year-old Radio Rookie Krystle Monclova has been living in a group home in Manhattan since last summer. She never expected to wind up in "the sys...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 09, 2009
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 1