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For Me, I Believe They're Real
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2018 Martin Middle School Stories
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Ashley, Mercedes, Jasmine, and Lesliann share their personal stories and beliefs about ghosts.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2018
  • Length: 06:01
Happy Trails Lead To The Cowboy Church
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Joe Penrose is the senior pastor at Open Range Cowboy Church in Ham Lake, Minnesota. , Credit: Nikki Tundel
Baptisms in a horse trough. A triangle dinner bell near the altar. And a minister in a Western shirt. Welcome to the Open Range Cowboy Church, loca...

  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
Happy Birthday Mother Teresa
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Last week Kolkata was busy celebrating a birthday with flowers, candles, cards and songs. It was Mother Teresa’s 106th birthday/ By the time the n...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Episode 10: The Moon And The Possum
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Where do we come from? And where do we go when we die? Paul Taylor shares one of the oldest answers to those questions.

Bought by KUER, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 11:51
  • Purchases: 3
Got a Place To Go Tonight?
From: Israel Story
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Visitors to Jerusalem's Old City can reasonably expect to bump into a missionary or two. Mishy Harman and Nava Winkler introduce us to a couple of ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
No news is good news
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:53
Haunting
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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October is full of ghosts, but in our show we will not be talking about little kids who wear white sheets.

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Silent Seekers
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Most people know Sufism as the religion practiced by the whirling dervishes. But this mystical form of Islam has taken root in America, too.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 06:41
Quick Queue: Baking Bread and Breaking Bread
From: Radio K
Series: Quick Queue
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by Marcheta Fornoff. A class about baking bread turns into a course about creating a community for students of Pastor Bryce Johnson and Ross Saffor...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:45
Culture Queue 1-27-13: "Over the Top"
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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Whether you like to laugh, shout, sit quietly with your feelings, or just plain get physical, Culture Queue has something for everyone this week. F...

Bought by KPVL and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 30:03
  • Purchases: 2
Audie Winner - Adele Park
From: Cyrus Emerson
Caption: Adele Park, Credit: http://www.jittersaudiobook.com/
What happens when a female shock jock from Hackensack, New Jersey finds herself working at a radio station near a polygamist enclave in Utah?

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 14:22
Sonic Ghoul
From: Karen Michel
Caption: Mingus RIP, Credit: Robert Vye
For years I've been obsessed with death, asking people about living, dying, killing (www.livediekill.org) but really getting into the dying. For ev...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:42
Living Every Day Like It’s Your Last
From: Nathan Callahan
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A Funeral for Platitudes

  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 06:09
Quick Queue: Campus Preachers
From: Radio K
Series: Quick Queue
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By Amy Friedman. Spend even a little time on a college campus and you're bound to run into someone preaching their key to salvation. But for some i...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:14
Holier Than Thou
From: Janean Jorgensen
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen
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Broadway musicals evangelize with a light-hearted style

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, KKRN, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 4
The Exile Files, Part 1: "Outlandish"
From: The Tibet Connection
Series: The Exile Files
Caption: Thupten Kelsang Dakpa, Credit: TibetConnection.org
A Tibetan writer tries to make sense of sex, gender issues and relationships in exile.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:08
Christian Lite
From: Janean Jorgensen
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen
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The lighter side of Christianity from Nunsense, Altar Boyz, and more

Bought by KZUM, GCR (Global Community Radio), 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Jan 15, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
A Buddhist's Obsession
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Michelle discovers Buddhism through a friend's death and tries to improve her mental control.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 08:18
Roots: Anyon
From: Paul Flahive
Series: Arctic Entries
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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
The Three Card Monte
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Should we resolve inconsistent beliefs... or let them be?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
A slice of life with the Church of Pie
From: KALW
Caption: Erin Shannon, “Queen of Pie.”, Credit: Rob Hoey
One San Francisco-based group is taking the worship of food to a whole new level. This past Saturday, about 100 people descended on 111 Minna Galle...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Sinner's Crossroads Episode 7
From: WFMU
Series: Sinner's Crossroads
Caption: Sinner's Crossroads
Americana and rare gospel music for the South. Almost all of the records on this episode are taken from 45 RPM singles. Kevin Nutt is the host and ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WHCP-LP Cambridge, Radio Catskill, 'The Sea', Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Sinner's Crossroads Episode 5
From: WFMU
Series: Sinner's Crossroads
Caption: Sinner's Crossroads
Americana and rare gospel music for the South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of this show. See playlist below.

Bought by Radio Catskill, WHCP-LP Cambridge, Radio Catskill, 'The Sea', Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Sinner's Crossroads Episode 2
From: WFMU
Series: Sinner's Crossroads
Caption: Sinner's Crossroads
Americana and rare gospel music for the South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of the show. See playlist below.

Bought by Radio Catskill, WHCP-LP Cambridge, Radio Catskill, 'The Sea', Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Parrot Fortune Teller
From: Seattle Globalist
Caption: Khan's Parrot, Credit: Alex Stonehill
People come to fortunetellers for answers and entertainment, but not all fortunetellers use a crystal ball. In Karachi, Pakistan, one street vendor...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 05:49