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Constant Wonder - From Emancipation to the Great Migration: A Family Journey
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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History is made by the daily decisions of regular people. One family's story of the Great Migration.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
Constant Wonder - A Cartoonist Uses Pen & Paper to Rediscover Her Lost Grandparents
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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A cartoonist’s journey: an unlikely path to finding awe, family, and a place in the world.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 52:49
Constant Wonder - The Search for a Lost Jewish Community
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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One hundred year old Stella Levi, wants you to know about her childhood home on the island of Rhodes, on Constant Wonder.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Downton Shabby
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Would you really want to inherit a castle?

Bought by KUHF, RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman at their StoryCorps interview in Chicago Illinois on September 4, 2014., Credit: By Andre Perez for StoryCorps.
Halyna Hrushetsky tells her daughter Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman about when she learned her Ukrainian parents had lived through the Holodomor famine.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Phillip Lazowski and Ruth Lazowski
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Philip and Ruth Lazowski on their wedding day, in 1955. , Credit: Courtesy of the Lazowski family.
Rabbi Philip Lazowski tells his wife Ruth about the stranger who saved him from the Nazis as a young boy, and how this fateful encounter would mark...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Descendant Of Three Founding Fathers Keeps American History Alive
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Laura Belman's family tree includes three Declaration signers., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
Laura Belman is descended from three signers of the Declaration of Independence, and is working to preserve the history of early Washington, D.C.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2014
  • Length: 03:06
StoryCorps Griot: Charlie Morris and Sylvester Lewis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Charlie Morris remembers his brother's death in 1939, with his cousin Sylvester Lewis.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Adeline Roccko and Zachariah Fike
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Army National Guard Capt. Zachariah Fike speaks with Adeline Rockko about returning her brother's lost Purple Heart medal.

Bought by WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 4
Walking With My Father
From: Long Haul Productions
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Charlie Rizzo's lifelong journey with his father, including a few twists and turns.

Bought by XRAY.fm, KPIK-LP, KUOW, The Story, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 10:10
  • Purchases: 8
Vietnam Bones
From: Karen Brown
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A man tries to repatriate the bones of a Viet Cong soldier that his father took from the jungle, 35 years earlier.

Bought by WRFA-LP, Prairie Public, WFHB, WTJU, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2004
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 10