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Women's History Month
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
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“Sounds Jewish” celebrates International Women’s Day (March 8th) and Women’s History Month (March) with a global playlist of recordings by Jewish w...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
New York City's love coach
From: Yzeppa Macias
Caption: Amy and her tiny sidekick in Brooklyn New York , Credit: Yzeppa Macias
In a city of 8 million people, you’d think finding someone to date would be easy. There are dating apps, dating events, you can even hire a profess...

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 05:13
Ep. 3 Can’t It Just Stay 1998 Forever?
From: Haley Taylor
Series: Tales For Other Times
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An episode that discusses the “neverendingness” of it all - a phrase spell-check does not recognize, but one you may have experienced if you ever f...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:06
Portrait of US Ep. 04 Casper
From: Adam Scher
Series: Portrait of US
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Casper talks with us about coming to terms with health struggles.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 10:36
Woman-Owned Bait Shop Fosters Community in Harris, MN
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Berlin Miscevich, owner of Fish Lake Premium, fetches some minnows for a customer., Credit: Ann Ward
Locally owned bait shops aren't as common across Minnesota as they once were. A young woman who owns a bait shop about an hour north of the Twin Ci...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 07:48
How many ways can we ‘Spell Heaven’?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pacifica Municipal Pier, Credit: Toni Mirosevich
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Hunny Reiken and Elliot Reiken
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Hunny and Elliot Reiken at StoryCorps in New York City., Credit: StoryCorps
At StoryCorps, Hunny and Elliot Reiken remember when Hunny and her identical twin sister met Elliot and his twin brother, Danny, in the Catskills.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:17
Vod's Here
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Michelle Atkinson goes by her roller derby name, Vod. She also named her craft business after the same moniker, Vod's Here. The venture is a brand ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 1
2213: Refeed: To All the Boys I've Loved Before & Workin' Moms, 3/31/2022
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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This week on On Story we’ll hear playwright and screenwriter Sofia Alvarez discuss the difference between writing for the stage and screen and the ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
StoryCorps Griot: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer at their StoryCorps interview in Saint Clair Shores, MI, and Sparks, NV, on Feb. 6, 2022. , Credit: By StoryCorps
Mary Othella Burnette tells her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, about “Granny Hayden,” a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
205: Vatican Women's Rifle Team
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Amy pulled out all the stops for this shenanigan filled episode. Don't be an April's Fool like Trace.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
White Elephants, Cuss Boxes and Cheating Jerry Lewis
From: Jan McInnis
Series: Comedian Stories: Tales From the Road in Under 5 Minutes
Caption: comedian Jan Talks backyard carnivals
Summer carnivals were all the rage in the 1960s and us kids loved to put them on. Do you remember those? Did you run one?

  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 05:06
National Writers Series: Megan Miranda and Emily Henry
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Discussions with authors Megan Miranda ("Such a Quiet Place") and Emily Henry ("People We Meet on Vacation").

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Aug 28, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
Mum's Addicted to Tetris!
From: Chris Attaway
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Seventy five yar old Lynn tells the story of her Game Boy addiction

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
Hannah by the Way
From: Chris Attaway
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The stages of grief in the context of house hunting

  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 10:56
Emily Michaels King and Her Digital Detritus for the Zoom Era
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Emily Michaels King
Performance artist Emily Michaels King has a new production called ‘Digital,” which invites the audience into the bedroom, into the computer screen...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 2
The Junot Files:Amy Bruni
From: Jim Junot
Series: Lights, Camera, Author!
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An interview with Amy Bruni, star of "Kindred Spirits" and author of "Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts"

  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 23:56
Episode 85: The Unclimbables
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Mo Beck was a professional climber who regularly won gold in competitions. But when she joined a team on a long expedition in the remote Cirque of ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 21:51
  • Purchases: 3
The Junot Files: Suzi Quatro
From: Jim Junot
Series: Lights, Camera, Author!
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An interview with Suzi Quatro

  • Added: Aug 08, 2020
  • Length: 20:45
Let's Visit Meadowlands: The view from a transplant
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Let's Visit
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Julie Crabb moved to the tiny town of Meadowlands from California. It was a move that changed her life for the better. Hear all about it in this ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 10:48
S03 Ep52: Humorous Music, 8/24/2019
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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Who says classical music needs to be stuffy? This week, music with a sense of humor.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 58:30
The Ultimate Dunk
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Women in the Austin Music Scene
Caption: Kana Harris (right) interviewed in the Texas Folklife archive room
Punk Musician & Creator of Community Record Store, Kana Harris merges all. This story was produced by Mary Hollyman, Tony Plata, and Cynthia Luna w...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
Wrestlers Body Slam Domestic Violence
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Midwest All-Star Wrestling League recently invited wrestlers from across the country to compete in Minnesota. Behind all the trash-talking and ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WDSE


  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 2
Fire Mama, Doom Props, And A Monster Named Fred
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Amy Bloss, Credit: Francesca Bernardi
She spits fire. She spins fire. Amy Bloss is Fire Mama. She performs and teaches a variety of fire performance arts and safety. She is the Director...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
Heavenly Harp
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Harpist Kirsten Agresta Copley, Credit: courtesy of the artist
New Releases with Harp

Bought by KMUN, KWAX, Interlochen Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9

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