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What is The Most Beautiful Sound?
From: City High Radio
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What is the most beautiful sound? Teenager Alex Soto investigates. A version of this story was selected as a finalist in the 2020 NPR Student Pod...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 07:53
  • Purchases: 2
Laura Ann Singh: Blossoming of a Wildwood Flower, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Laura Ann Singh, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Laura Ann Singh, as her very name suggests, seemed destined to sing. In the Kingsport, Tennessee home where she grew up music was ever-present. Her...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 26:21
Queer youth, you'll belong at this old Seattle house
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Lambert House, Summer 2016, just after a water balloon fight., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/AMY STYER
On Seattle's Capitol Hill, the Lambert House is a space where queer youth are free to be themselves. RadioActive's Amy Styer takes us inside the ho...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 07:27
They chased him, shot at him, but he still managed to bring his family to America
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Omar Ali with his family. Omar is standing fourth form the left holding his daughter., Credit: Courtesy of Awal Ibrahim
Omar Ali is a hero in the eyes of his family. He embarked on a long journey that could have landed him nearly anywhere, fighting to find a safe spa...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 1
My mom was once single and homeless. That's why she does this job
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: The mother of RadioActive producer Hanad Jama, Nimo Husien with her niece Ardo Hersi. (Also a RadioActive producer.), Credit: Courtesy of Hanad Jama
Who are helpers? Often it's people who know how much it means to be helped.

Bought by Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 1
Live Art Sounds of the Human Soul Part 6
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Erin Frye and Charles, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Live Art, sponsored for the past three years by the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC), is the only program of its kin...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2016
  • Length: 27:38
Joni Mitchell on Illusions
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don’t know why I seem to bring that out in people." - Joni Mitchell as told to Joe Smith ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 3
Sick As A Dog
From: City High Radio
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Tyler spent a good chunk of his childhood so sick he couldn't even walk around the block. He ended up at the Mayo clinic in Rochester, where he was...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:12
Cobblestones: Jim Henson from A to Zoe
From: Andrew Hiller
Caption: Five-time Emmy Award winner Fran Brill, the first woman hired by Jim Henson for Sesame Street (seen here with Zoe) is retiring after 42 years , Credit: Jim Henson Legacy
Cobblestones: Jim Henson from A to Zoe is a sound rich special that includes original interviews, clips, music, and new skits with many of the orig...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 55:05
  • Purchases: 1
10,000 Tries
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Rebecca Lee has lived with a brain injury since shortly after birth. Throughout her life many people have helped her with the resulting physical a...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 3
Zibia and Clyde
From: Jesse Newcomb
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6-year-old Zibia can be sweet and thoughtful, but she also has a wild temper. She can be mean and she knows it. This is a story about a clash bet...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2011
  • Length: 08:23
  • Purchases: 1
Revelations In the Mudflats
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Coastal Studies for Girls is a hands-on marine science and leadership program for sophomores in high school. But for 15-year-old Laura, it’s more ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMPG, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2011
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 4
East Hundred: A Rock Band Waiting To Make It
From: Abbie Fentress Swanson
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East Hundred is a five-piece rock band waiting to make it.

  • Added: May 08, 2010
  • Length: 05:22
Come Soul, I Have Need Of Thee
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A Maine folk singer struggles with his identity, since losing his voice to cancer.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 2
"Lee the Horselogger"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Valentine Programming
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Joe Bevilaqcua meets a man who set out in a covered wagon in 2006 to find his childhood sweetheart and fell in love with America instead.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jan 11, 2008
  • Length: 10:28
  • Purchases: 1
The Sonic World of Nancy Scott
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Sound artist Nancy Scott's ears are tuned to the sounds most of us overlook.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 1
Sounds of Democracy
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Portland Public Library's free piano offers more than music the folks who play it.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 3