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A Long Train
From: Andrew Poirier
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Reporter Andrew Poirier takes a ride on the A train from beginning to end and discovers that there is more to this train than meets the eye.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 04:22
StoryCorps: Barry Romo
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Bill Branson (L) and Barry Romo (R)
Veteran Barry Romo and his nephew Bobby Romo were born a month apart and grew up together. They both went to Vietnam, only one came home.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WEZU, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU


  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps Griot: Gwen Moten
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Gwen Moten remembers her childhood best friend, Denise McNair, who was killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WTJU


  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 2
The Rise and Fall of Nova Roma
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A micronation that aimed to restore the Roman Empire to its former glory, turns against its founding father.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 09:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Book Munsinger Clemens Gardens: The Jewel of St. Cloud and the Untold Story of Its Publication
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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As spring showers are truly bringing May flowers to St. Cloud, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack brings us an Untold Stories of Cent...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 26:06
  • Purchases: 1
Truths from the 1960's Deep South
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2015
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Another authentic author's voice -- Jo Ivestor reads from her touching book, The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960's Deep South. Her true sto...

  • Added: May 03, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
A Box Within a Box Within a Box: The Riddle of the Raintree
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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As I considered making a show to serve as a kind of year in review, I first thought to choose my favorite program from each month of the year, 12 s...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 57:06
StoryCorps: Ruth Coker Burks and Paul Wineland
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Ruth Coker Burks and Paul Wineland.
Ruth Coker Burks tells her friend Paul Wineland about caring for AIDS patients during the...

Bought by WUTC, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU


  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 3
Sylviane Diouf reads from Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons (5/21)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Runaway slaves often hid in self-made caves.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Anonymous and Diana
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
WHERE WERE WE IN '63 ?
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
Caption: interviewing Irving Brecher
Interviews with New Yorkers remembering where they were on November 22nd, 1963

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps MVI: Travis Williams
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Iraq war Veteran Travis Williams, sole survivor of his 12-man squad, remembers the explosion that took his 11 teammates.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 1
Chapter 12 - A Time to Live, A Time to Die
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard learns the value of a liberal education at the College of Wooster, where the study of science and religion are complementary. During Easter...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 25:00
The Tale of Lot 180
From: Kenny Malone
Caption: "A quintessential wartime embrace.", Credit: Kenny Malone
In the safety deposit box that Udavilla Rutherford had with the Bank of America in Bradenton, Fla. she kept a strange array of items: a set of cow-...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Harvey Hilbert
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Vietnam veteran Harvey Hilbert remembers one night from the war.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
First World War Poetry - Graham Vincent reads Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen
From: Alison Turner
Series: Armistice Day for Expats in Belgium
Caption: Trooper Henry Dixon
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 06:49
The Exeter River
From: WPEA Phillips Exeter Academy Summer Radio
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Kelden Lin, A.J. Cook and Jenny Hong spent six weeks at Phillips Exeter Academy's Summer Session in Exeter, New Hampshire. As part of their Broadca...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2012
  • Length: 04:06
Compact Discoveries 196: Yours, Anne
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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A dramatic musical based on "The Diary of Anne Frank," with music by Michael Cohen and libretto by Enid Futterman. Perfect for scheduling in April ...

Bought by KPVL and KENW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
Midwiving Death
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Mainers take matters of death into their own hands.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 10:35
  • Purchases: 1
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
Part Five-The Night Before The Surrender
From: Jan Thompson
Series: The Tragedy of Bataan
Caption: American Troops Surrendering
The final segment describes the fall of Bataan and those who were able to escape to Corregidor Island. Interviews are with: Art Campbell, Ralph Lev...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 1
In The Time of The Butterflies: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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A radio program featuring author Julia Alvarez along with Neko Case, Edwidge Danticat, and Junot Diaz, among others.

Bought by KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, KPIP-LP, KQED, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:55
  • Purchases: 5
Hidden Histories: Kent State- New evidence suggest massacre was ordered!
From: Jack Johnson
Series: Hidden Histories
Caption: Kent State
Forty years ago last Tuesday the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd of Kent State College Students, killing four students and wounding 9 ot...

  • Added: May 09, 2010
  • Length: 02:01
The Rwandan Genocide
From: Arndt Peltner
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In the evening of April 6th 1994 the plane of the Rwandan president was shot down. This sparked the genocide that nearly killed one million people

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 14:39