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U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2013, Natasha Trethewey
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is currently serving as both the Poet Laureate of the United States and of her home state of Mississippi. Trethewey discusses he...

Bought by KQED and WJCU


  • Added: Apr 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Southern Fiction Writer Stephanie Powell Watts
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Stephanie Powell Watts
2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner Stephanie Powell Watts knows what it's like to be an African American Jehovah's Witness in the South. She talks ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Searching for Sasha Krizhanovsky
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
Caption: Sasha & Jessica, Credit: Sarah Stuteville
Armed with a letter from 1990, producer Jessica Partnow goes in search of her childhood Soviet pen pal.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Diane Tells His Name and Bonnie Buchanan
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Diane Tells His Name (L) and Bonnie Buchanan (R)
Diane Tells His Name talks to her daughter Bonnie Buchanan about discovering she was adopted.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
Misophonia: the hatred of sound
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It’s a rare sensitivity to normal, everyday sounds, like typing, or footsteps, or even breathing. And it’s being increasingly diagnosed. Researcher...

Bought by Hark!


  • Added: Oct 21, 2012
  • Length: 09:32
  • Purchases: 1
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
Never Ending Chase
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Following one day in the life of Maine's Black Bear Monitoring Team, which braves bear dens in order to count the number of new-born cubs.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KUOW, WMPG, and KUT


  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 07:40
  • Purchases: 4
The Emperor's New Onesie
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
Caption: For many months, this is the only dress Violet would wear. Joyce washed it every night in the sink., Credit: Joyce Slaton
A woman spends a month at home with her naked two-year-old daughter, trying to figure out why she won't wear clothes.

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 14:16
  • Purchases: 2
The Theater of War
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Jason Robards, Jr. in THE DISENCHANTED on Broadway
In which David Pressman goes to war, suffers the consequences, and comes home to direct a hit play.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 1
The Needle Drop: Sunset Rubdown
From: Anthony Fantano
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This week, the soundtrack sounds of God Help the Girl and the brave pop ballads of Sunset Rubdown.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 7
Love Triangle
From: Lauren Kirby
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jim, Jamie and Sue find themselves torn between love and self-identity.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 16, 2008
  • Length: 08:49
  • Purchases: 1
In the Wake of Violence
From: With Good Reason
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Approaching the April 16 anniversary of Virginia Tech shootings, this show explores how healing can start to take place after atrocities, near and ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2008
  • Length: 29:19
Pick Up 101
From: Berkeley J-School
Caption: PRX default Piece image
pick-up artists on how getting lucky isn't about luck

  • Added: Mar 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:31
"The Agreement"
From: Rich Halten
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How two-timing love kept one GI out of Viet Nam

  • Added: Oct 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:17
Melvin is Dead
From: Sally Richardson
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First-person response to a surprising phone message from my brother about my old dog Melvin.

Bought by KUT, Radio Catskill, WYBC, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 4
Cortez, Montezuma & Abraham: Discovering Jewish Roots
From: Rebecca Sheir
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At 72, a Spanish-descended Catholic discovers the real reason she's never liked eating pork.

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 03:50
Narcoleptic Christmas
From: Hillary Frank
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A woman discovers she's narcoleptic at Christmastime.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 2
Midlife Web Diary
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us
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Middle-aged corporate malcontent goes online, to be found by mom

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 11, 2006
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 2
Rocky Mountain High
From: Song and Memory
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A song and memory story about a Christian summer camp, John Denver and a psychotherapeutic fad from the seventies.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KRCC-FM


  • Added: May 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 4
Keeping Secrets
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A story about what happens when we hold on to secrets, and what can happen when we let them go...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, Spokane Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 15, 2005
  • Length: 17:15
  • Purchases: 4
An Audio Birthday Card
From: Laura Kwerel
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an audio birthday card for my friend Jonathan

  • Added: Dec 09, 2005
  • Length: 04:31
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
A Cook's Notebook: Pears
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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An artist paints pears.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Jul 14, 2004
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 3
A Picture of Freedom from Behind Bars
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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Incarcerated youth producer, Tyler, interviewed his fellow inmates about their definition of freedom and what they would do with freedom if they ha...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2004
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
Sweet Phil from Sugar Hill
From: Phyllis Fletcher
Caption: the producer with her parents
A man has 14 children with 13 different women, dies young, and leaves them to learn about him through each other, and through the letters he wrote ...

Bought by KUER, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, WYBC, KCUR, NPR Station Showcase with PRX and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2004
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 10