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StoryCorps: Zach Stephney and Melissa Brooks
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Melissa Brooks and Zack Stephney at the site of her rescue in December of 2009. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Zack Stephney.
Zack Stephney remembers saving Melissa Brooks from the unprecedented 2009 Atlanta flash flood.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 2
WPRN Public Radio Theater Presents Caught Between Episode 19
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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Episode Nineteen – I’ll give the girls a bag for the powder room. D’laska goes to Juan’s Caribbean Club pretending he’s a drug dealer and befriend...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 17:42
WPRN Public Radio Theater Presents Caught Between – Episode 18
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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Episode Eighteen – What else do you have besides gin? D’laska’s persistence ultimately pays off. He unravels why Nickie Piantini was on the corner...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 16:51
The Apple Seed - Katora, Lord of the Wind
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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In this hour we'll hear a story from Judith Black, a story of goodness and honesty and see what happens when the Lord of the Wind must be appeased ...

Bought by KSJE, KKRN, KTXK, and WVPE


  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 54:53
  • Purchases: 4
The Apple Seed - The Name of the Tree
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode of the Apple Seed, you'll hear an old tale about a community of animals who's welfare depends on learning the name of a mysterious ...

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 3
WSU Dancescape 2020
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Today on Art Beat we talk Winona State University’s 30th annual Dancescape performance. Joining us today is Tatum Reitter, publicity assistant and ...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 23:43
Episode 64: Migrations
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Caroline Van Hemert and her husband Pat were nearly finished with the most ambitious trip of their lives, a 4000-mile trek across the Yukon and Ala...

Bought by KRZA and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 62: Lost Bearings
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Curt Meyer was looking for adventure, so he took a job aboard a Japanese fishing trawler on the Bering Sea. But when a storm hit, the lack of a sha...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 16:29
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 27
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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“Out Of The Frying Pan” A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Cheryl and Greg left Portland, Oregon, one hot summer for the cool of t...

Bought by KSTK, KPIK-LP, KVNF, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 42: Out Of The Frying Pan
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Cheryl and Greg left Portland, Oregon, one hot summer for the cool of the mountains. But that put them out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUER, PRX Remix, and KRZA


  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 15:50
  • Purchases: 4
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 21
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"The Law Of Gravity" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Bruce Smith was on a routine helicopter flight in the remote Wind River Mo...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 34: The Law Of Gravity
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Bruce Smith was on a routine helicopter flight in the remote Wind River Mountains. But what goes up must come down…one way or another.

Bought by WDBM, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2018
  • Length: 18:26
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 33: Ten Steps
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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On December 22, 2016, Karen Klein got trapped in a snowstorm near the Grand Canyon. But she pushed through it to save her family.

Bought by KUER and KVNF


  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 26:24
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 30: The In-Between
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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A possessed basement. A magic mirror. A shop of spirits. Mysterious lights where they don’t belong. Gather around the campfire as we open the porta...

Bought by WRFA-LP, Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WKMS, KQED and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
I Can't Get To You: A Birth Story
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Caption: Reunion
This is a story for my son, whose birth was supposed to be completely normal. It was anything but. And then they separated us. (Produced for the KC...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 12: Avalanche on Pikes Peak
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
Caption: Pikes Peak
Most people think of Pikes Peak as a tourist destination – the Fourteener with a highway and a donut shop on top. But for many local mountaineers, ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:02
Listening in the Dark 3: Ghost Story
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: Listening in the Dark
Caption: Listening in the Dark 3: Ghost Story
Two tales of terror from the Icebox Radio Theater. It's an hour filled to the brim with the true 'spirit' of Halloween.

Bought by 'The Sea', KMUN, WRGY, KKWE Niijii Radio, and WVPE


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:09
  • Purchases: 5
The Making of the Disease Detectives, Or the Case of the Nutty Dish
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: Disease Detective Badge, Credit: CDC
They’re called disease detectives – the nation’s medical eyes and ears on the lookout for disease outbreaks and bioterror attacks. They’re the Epid...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 3
Natrese Thomas, Police Dispatcher
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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Behind drawn shades in a brightly lit room downtown, dispatchers for the Los Angeles Police Department answer 9-1-1 calls and send officers to thei...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
Joking
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week on State of the Human we’re investigating how people use joking to create new realities for themselves and the people around them.

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:18
  • Purchases: 2
Missing Kim
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 3
"Margery Dickerson"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bev Shorts
Caption: Joe Bev reads "Margery Dickerson", Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
A short Irish fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bevilacqua. Great for Saint Patrick Day or anytime.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
In Theory
From: Helena de Groot
Series: We're All Strangers
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When it actually matters, do you care about the theory?

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
Aubry Edwards Versus Jay Thunderbolt
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Professional photographer, Aubry Edwards goes on the photo shoot from hell when Jay Thunderbolt locks her into the "private strip club" in his Detr...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 06:22
A Pirate Looks At Forty
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A profile of a young fisherman in Maine.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:28
  • Purchases: 1