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Memoirist Cheryl Strayed
From: New Letters on the Air
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Cheryl Strayed's memoir, WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, took over twenty years to write and has since been selected by Oprah'...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KQED, WNJR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WJCU


  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
Live From Studio 10 (Episode 1) M & O
From: WBEZ
Series: Live From Studio 10
Caption: M and O
Jamila and Owen of Chicago’s “adventure soul” duo M&O (formerly Milo and Otis) have been cultivating a sound that incorporates elements of brooding...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 57:22
Deadly Divide: Migrant death on the Border
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: One of the few remaining unknown markers left in the county cemetery in Falfurrias, Texas, Credit: Brandon Thibodeaux
Over 6,000 migrant deaths were recorded on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico between 1998 and 2013. This documentary travels to the desert ra...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Last Cowboy Waltz - Rod Johnson
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: Country Songs
Caption: Kingwood Kowboy, Credit: Performed by Rod Johnson
It's his last cowboy waltz before she marries another cowboy next Sunday. Music & Vocals by Rod Johnson. Lyrics by Larry W Jones, Kingwood Kowboy.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 03:51
StoryCorps: Shirley Parello and Kevin Powell
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Shirley Parrello speaks with former Marine Sergeant Kevin Powell, who was with her son Lance...

Bought by WEZU, PRX Remix, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
For Another You Love - Steve Klingforth
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: Country Songs
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The other person makes a triangle love.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 03:39
Just A Honky Tonk Song - Steve Klingforth
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: Country Songs
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Sometimes a love is written as just a honky tonk song.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 03:59
Lovely Mansion On the Hill - Steve Klingforth
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: Country Songs
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A poor rejected man looks out his lowly cabin window at the big mansion on the hill where he knows she is not happy.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 03:16
StoryCorps: Sgt. Paul Braun and Philip
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Paul Braun, a Sergeant with the Minnesota Army National Guard, and his interpreter, Philip, remember... more.

Bought by WDBM, WMUU-LP, WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 3: Joan and Shirley's Story
From: Mother
Series: MOTHER: A PODCAST
Caption: MOTHER: A PODCAST, Credit: Logo created by Justin Schnarr (justinschnarr.com/).
"I didn't really want to have children. It's just that I got pregnant." -Shirley, 57, Nebraska

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 06:15
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: Sandra Sowder and Marcia Sutton
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Marcia Sutton talks to her partner, Sandra Sowder, about what happened after she came out....

Bought by WTJU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:10
  • Purchases: 2
Fear On the Inside: A Story of Domestic Violence
From: Long Haul Productions
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A week in the life of a woman in Chicago attempting to escape a physically and emotionally abusive marriage.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2014
  • Length: 23:22
  • Purchases: 2
Poet and Children's Author Janice N. Harrington
From: New Letters on the Air
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Janice N. Harrington, draws from myriad experiences to create her poetry and children's stories. In this interview with NEW LETTERS magazine editor...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNJR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Beat: Mark Christensen - "There's a Lot of Living In a Tree"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Kris Kalberer and Erika Kalberer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Kris Kalberer and her teenage daughter, Erika, talk about being homeless.

Bought by WEZU, KERA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4
From the streets to the barbershop
From: Tatyana Safronova
Caption: Andre Simms and Junior, Credit: Laurie Feld
Andre Simms is 45. He’s been shot. Stabbed. Homeless. Arrested. He sold and used drugs. But everything changed when his girlfriend died and he was ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Alex Landau and Patsy Hathaway
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Alex Landau, who is African American, and his adoptive mother, Patsy Hathaway, who is white,...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), WTJU, and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 5
Eva, Nanny
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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Eva fled to the U.S. from El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago. Since then, she’s cared for 11 kids – and mastered emotional calculus of ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
StoryCorps: Patty Woods
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Patty Woods remembers her partner, who left a lasting impact on her life.

Bought by WEZU, KMUD, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 3
David Foster Wallace on The Connection with Chris Lydon, February 1996
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In February 1996, David Foster Wallace came to Boston. He was the not-quite recognized writer of the massive book, Infinite Jest, which was just be...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KFOK-LPFM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 36:36
  • Purchases: 3
Strangers (podcast): "Cora Leighton: The Gift"
From: Lea Thau
Series: Strangers
Caption: Cora Leighton
On this episode of Strangers... a stripper and a tattoo artist have a fateful encounter.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Public Radio for All, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 4
Raising Angel
From: Chloe Prasinos
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Jamie is pregnant and has nowhere she can go. She finds herself at Saint Andre Home, a modern day home for unwed mothers, where she awaits her four...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
'I Met You And Everything Changed'
From: Will Michaels
Series: My Teacher
Caption: Northern High School sophomore Christina Dixon and Erica Walker Joynes
Northern High School sophomore Christina Dixon entered Erica Walker-Joynes' exceptional children's class last year because she was deemed to be at ...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00

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