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The Last Man on the Mountain
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mining Pigeonroost Hollow. Now Jimmy Weekley is the last person left there.

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, PRX Remix, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 13:59
  • Purchases: 4
The Square Deal
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 16:09
  • Purchases: 4
The Live Feed Presents: "Enemy Alien" by Scott Dixon
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this special edition of "The Live Feed" we air a reading of the original play, "Enemy Alien" written by Scott Dixon of the Commonweal Theatre in...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:42:08
  • Purchases: 1
Winona's 24/7 Garage Sale
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of "Culture Clique" we examine how technology can help create a sustainable community in Winona, through facebook! This group has t...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 39:28
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 111: Assumptions
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Fall Season
Caption: Jim Frey reads "Prism Riot"
This week's stories are about assumptions-- and we all know what happens when people make them. Stories by Kay Brockwell, Jim Frey, and Patrice Mel...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
If We Can Get The Beast Out of His Lair...
From: Radio K
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In 1913, the American Social Hygiene Association launched a campaign to eradicate sexually transmitted diseases and prostitution. The subject was c...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
A picture of American consumerism
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With the March announcement that Best Buy is closing 50 large stores around the country, the dominance of big box retail has been called into quest...

Bought by KENW and KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 2
Rudy's Gray Area
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Rudy has lived on this bizarre little block since 1953, before a dozen railroad tracks and nearly as many highway lanes separated it from other res...

Bought by The Story, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 3
Tales from the South 091: Bullies
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Summer Season
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This week our writers show us the not-so-pretty world of bullies and those being bullied. Stories by Angela Gattin, Wyatt Jones, and J.W. Taylor. T...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Bye Bye Blue Bird
From: JP Davidson
Caption: Sign on the door from Falmouth Animal Control, Credit: JP Davidson
Strange visitors to an otherwise unremarkable strip-mall on Cape Cod face eviction. Shopkeepers and residents speak out on behalf of their beloved ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 3
Prospect Park Interview #1
From: miranda loud
Series: Park Dreams
Caption: Park Dreams Logo, Credit: Miranda Loud
Miranda Loud interviews painter Gary Dunn on the edge of Brooklyn's Prospect Park - asking him to share his ideas about the role public parks play ...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 05:14
Exotica
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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The rise of exotica, a mysterious musical genre of the '50s and '60s.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1: The Second Thought
From: Sam Dingman
Series: The Taxi Tapes
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A complex set of circumstances results in Sam awakening at 4:30am on a frigid January morning for his first day as a New York City cab driver.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 1
Simeon Taylor Webb (Casey Jones' Fireman), July 13, 1957
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Who was Sim Webb? Well, fifty-seven years earlier, April of 1900, he was the man who lived. It happened like this ...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, July 6, 1971
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Armstrong was born in Storyville, a redlight district of New Orleans, 1901. His father left and his mother was probably a prostitute. He first lear...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Lawrence Albert Payton (Four Tops) June 20, 1997
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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If the sound of his name isn't familiar, the sound of his voice certainly is. This is the unlikely story of four Detroit kids who went to a birthda...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Groundhog and Mirror
From: Ronan Kelly
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Jane O'Connor is a young woman from Dublin whose mother was a big fan of the film Groundhog day. The irony of her beloved film choice was that when...

Bought by KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 11:28
  • Purchases: 5
The Young Hearts of Soul! The Chee Chee & Peppy Story (Part B): with Dottie Moore-Thomas
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Chee Chee & Peppy (1972), Credit: Buddah Records
"CHEE CHEE & PEPPY" was a pre-teen / teenage R&B act of the early 1970's. They were a cross between MARVIN GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL and PEACHES and HER...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 55:40
Phoning Home
From: War News Radio
Caption: David Rohde at a speaking engagement., Credit: Wheeler Cowperthwaite
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Talking with the dead: One on one with Ireland’s most famous psychic
From: Becky Palmstrom
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Sandra O’Hara is a psychic channeller from Ireland. Becky Palmstrom gets more than she bargained for in a one-on-one interview. They discuss Sandra...

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1
Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, January 3, 1923
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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While many of the most-told love stories are fairy tales, hers was real and it changed YOUR life.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Millennials: Are we lazy, or just smart?
From: Lillian Mongeau
Caption: Mary Marmastone (featured in the piece) plays with her dog Titan on a beach near her home in Seattle., Credit: Lillian Mongeau
This fun piece launches from the ideas broached in the New York Times article, "What is it about 20-somethings?" I ask my friends, all at the tail-...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:54
Grace Murray Hopper, January 1, 1992
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Even if you've never heard of Grace Hopper, she changed your life.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Roger Arthur Peterson (Buddy Holly Pilot), February 3, 1959
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The Buddy Holly pilot. Everybody knows how Roger Peterson died, but almost nobody knows who he was.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
The Vietnam War - Generations Speak
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A rare generational discussion on the Vietnam War

  • Added: Aug 08, 2010
  • Length: 28:00

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