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Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 60
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes that push against stereotypes.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Americonned: Director Sean Claffey
From: KRCL
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A conversation with Americonned Director Sean Claffey. Despite an increase in productivity in recent decades, compensation for the American worker ...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 07:19
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 39
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes that deal with life and death.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 35
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes about people doing what they love, despite adversity.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shame in Medicine: 2. The Ideal Doctor
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest
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Medical culture is filled with impossible ideals. What makes an “ideal doctor”? Where do these “ideals” come from? How are they communicated? And w...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:11
StoryCorps: Mark Woodley and Jon Winkleman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: The Action Tours protest at the Macy’s 34th St Store in NYC on Nov 29, 1991., Credit: Meryl Levin
On Black Friday 1991, AIDS activists protested the department store's refusal to rehire a Santa who had HIV. The man who inspired the protest recon...

Bought by KALW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 2
CBC S 1 E 3: Chicago: A Tribute to Essential Workers
From: WNIN
Series: COVID Between the Coasts
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Who are the three people memorialized on a mural to essential workers in the Latino neighborhood of Pilsen?

  • Added: Nov 21, 2020
  • Length: 23:52
Deport Me - Monologue by Alejandro Fuentes Mena and Kirsten Wilson
From: Motus Theater Boulder
Series: Motus Theater UndocuAmerica Monologues
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Alejandro Fuentes-Mena tells the story of his hard working parents and shares his journey to becoming one of the first two DACAmented teachers in t...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 16:20
The Write Question - Stephanie Land - 412
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Stephanie Land discusses her memoir, "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive." She also reads a few short passages.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Prairie Public, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps: Trent Andrews and Ginnie Peters
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Ginnie Peters remembers her husband, Matt Peters, who committed suicide in May of 2011 after farming for more than 35 years. She spoke with Trent A...

Bought by WEZU and Enchantment Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 2
The Working Tapes: Auto Mechanics
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Lee Singer (1971)
In the 1970's, Studs Terkel interviewed Duke and Lee Singer at their auto repair shop in Geneva, Illinois. He was looking for a story about fixing ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Working Tapes: Taxi Driver
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Studs Terkel
In 1974, author and oral historian Studs Terkel published his seminal book "Working," a portrait of America based on 130 interviews. The raw record...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Union Rep
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Gary Bryner, Credit: Detroit Free Press
Gary Bryner tells Studs Terkel about being a union member and working in an auto factory for General Motors. Four decades later, he reflects on how...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 6
StoryCorps: Michael Yandell and Amy Yandell
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Michael Yandell tells his wife, Amy, about being exposed to sarin gas while serving in the U.S. Army as a bomb disposal technician in Iraq.

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hunger and Work Strikes
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We learn about the Chicago Community Bond Fund, a group that bails people out of Chicago's Cook County Jail and strives to end pretrial detention....

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:31
StoryCorps: Larry Kushner and Eileen Kushner
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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As an adult, Eileen was diagnosed with a learning disability. At StoryCorps, she remembers how she overcame the challenges she faced at work.

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU


  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Pulga in our Neighborhood
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Martin Middle School Fall 2014
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In this short piece, students decide to talk about their neighborhood and interview folks at a nearby flea market, where they run into other studen...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:14
StoryCorps: Michelle Dynes and Anne Purfield
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Epidemiologists Anne Purfield (L) and Michelle Dynes (R) talk about responding to the Ebola outbreak...

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Lori and Erich Baker
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dr. Lori Baker, a forensic scientist, tells her husband, Dr. Erich Baker, about identifying bodies...

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
Rich Sutton, Night Guard
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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Rich Sutton is an overnight security guard at a car impound lot in Los Angeles.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:53
The Working Poor II: Brushawn
From: WCPN
Series: The Working Poor
Caption: Brushawn Fletcher at Green City Growers., Credit: Brian Bull, WCPN.
An ex-felon and former car salesman works two jobs to rebuild his life and hopefully some day reunite with his daughter.

Bought by KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 3
Women Rising 23: Via Campesina
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We profile women of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement celebrating 20 years of grassroots activism, for sustainable farming, land rights...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
StoryCorps MVI: Veterans Crisis Line
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Elizabeth Olson and her colleagues at the Veterans Crisis Line, the only national suicide prevention hotline for service members, talk about helpin...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 3
Off to a New Start
From: American Student Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Rachel comes full-circle. She goes from being a college student to be a stripper and then back to starting all over again.

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 18:57
StoryCorps: Frank Curre
From: StoryCorps
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88-year-old Frank Curre remembers serving on the U.S.S. Tennessee during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDBM, WVBI-LP, WEZU, KUER and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 10