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The Beat: Kyle Underwoods "The Old Massey Ferguson 165"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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In December at Schoolcraft Learning Community near Bemidji student teacher Anna Brown worked with Sara Breeze's 6th and 8th grade classes writing p...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:26
The Beat: Soren Dybing "Thoughts from a Hot Tub On An Early Sunday Morning in Late October"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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In December at Schoolcraft Learning Community near Bemidji student teacher Anna Brown worked with Sara Breeze's 6th and 8th grade classes writing p...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
StoryCorps: Rami Aizic and Robin Share
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Rami Aizic talks to Robin Share about how they met and decided to start a family.

Bought by WEZU and KMUD


  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Liza Long and her son
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Liza Long talks to her son about his experiences living with mental illness.

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 2
Serendipity on the airwaves
From: KALW
Caption: Lita Hernandez shows off her new credentials. , Credit: Audrey Dilling
There are many different sounds that float through the intersection of 81st Avenue and Rudsdale Street in East Oakland: crowds heading to the Oakla...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 07:09
99% Invisible #83- Heyoon
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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Bored and disaffected and angry, Alex longed for a place to escape to. And then he found Heyoon.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, XRAY.fm, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KALW, and HowSound


  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 27:07
  • Purchases: 5
Learning to date all over again
From: Erika Lorentzsen
Series: New American Stories
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Dating can be different for Muslims, Hindus and Latinos. Even once they've moved to America, some of the traditions stay alive, and some die.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:23
Peter Pan In Kensington Garden by James M. Barrie
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This short story of 4 chapters was where Barrie tried out some of the ideas that would be used in the play "Peter Pan". The main difference is that...

  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 01:43:57
Caesarian Sunday - a storm in a Pimms cup?
From: Ben Weisz
Caption: Jesus Green, Credit: Ben Weisz
Every year, in a decades-old tradition, student drinking societies descend on Jesus Green in the heart of the English University city of Cambridge ...

  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 14:56
Mapping the War
From: War News Radio
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The four Iraqis you’re about to hear tell a story of a remembered landscape. It’s a story about how war blackened the city of Baghdad, split its ne...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 06:47
  • Purchases: 1
To Date or Not To Date? That is the Chinese Immigrant Teenager's Question
From: Philly Youth Radio
Series: At the Heart, From the Heart
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Philly Youth Radio’s Yingci Chen is a first generation Chinese immigrant. She's noticed that Chinese immigrant parents often don't want their kids ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 2
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
Generation Putin - Hour Special
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
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"Generation Putin" is an hourlong special on young people and politics in the former Soviet Union. Embeddable on SoundCloud, too.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City, WGBH Radio Boston, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 55
Melanie Burnett or How to Make Changes in Life that Matter
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Melanie, Credit: MB
Melanie is a young woman of Suriname in South America who now lives in Holland and is becoming an icon and inspiration for those who want to change...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:54
Bill Cross and His Bear
From: Roy Trumbull
Series: True Bear Stories by Joaquin Miller
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A former sailor settles in Oregon. He is adverse to work of any sort. He's a self proclaimed expert. He fails to take seriously warnings about the ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 09:53
Mswaki - how to make the African Toothstick
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Richard and Moniko brushing their teeth with Mswaki, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Two Kenyan boys from different backgrounds, cultures and educations discover how to make toothbrushes at an overnight outing. This is how traditio...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:52
StoryCorps: "Boston" Bill Hansbury and Jake Bainter
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Jake Bainter talks to "Boston" Bill Hansbury about their chance meeting on the day Jake got his leg amputated.

Bought by WEZU, The Story, and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Community Has Spoken. We Reject This Plan.
From: On Blast
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The Philadelphia School District released a plan to close schools, dismantle the school district as we know it, eliminate union jobs & and privatiz...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:15
La Santa Muerte
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
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A fascinating look at a new and sometimes controversial folk spiritual tradition to cross over the border from Mexico to Texas. Produced by student...

  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:59
The Friendly Rabid Squirrel
From: JP Davidson
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When I was 9 years old, a rabid squirrel bit me.

Bought by WJCT, KBRP Community Radio, PRX Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Feb 26, 2012
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Peter and Jacqueline Headen
From: StoryCorps
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Peter Headen and his wife, Jacqueline, tell the story of their 40-year courtship.

Bought by WEZU, KBBI Alaska, and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 3
There is No Dog
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: G.P. Putnam's Sons jacket cover, Credit: Natalie C. Sousa, cover design
Meg Rosoff, a Printz Award-winning author, returns to the young adult marketplace with "There is No Dog," a provocative and imaginative novel starr...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 21:06
The Words of Our Parents
From: City High Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
When adults talk to teenagers, they often wonder, "Are they hearing ANYTHING I say? Are they going to remember ANY of this?" Seventeen-year-old Gra...

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1
Tattooed Teens
From: City High Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
High school freshman Karla interviews fellow students to see what they think about teenagers getting tattoos. Do tattoos in high school make you Re...

Bought by Vocalo.org


  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 1
Punta Hondureña
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
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Youth producer Tania Martinez describes punta, a type of music and dance, and how it connects and reminds her of her culture and homeland of Hondur...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2011
  • Length: 05:48

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