PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque

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Caption: Scratch & Sniff Logo, Credit: Walker Raigh
A special Mother’s Day episode where Walker reads a letter she sent to her mom years ago to tell her why her desire to never have children does not...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 05:14
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We all live with the knowledge of our own mortality, but what about those who know more, how do you chart a course through the world when the end i...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2015
  • Length: 22:34
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Anna Reidy is unable to forget the sound of the "war games" her family involved her in when she was a child, in this detailed report on the organiz...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 10:55
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Will a kindergartner and a first grader find the same thing funny? A school librarian in San Francisco teamed up with his Kindergartners to write ...

Bought by WMMT, KUOW, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 3
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How do you proceed with your life when a family secret is revealed?

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 06:11
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What does it take to raise a child with a severe food allergy?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:12
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Roadtrip! Our writers take us on various adventures, beginning with Jackie Manning in a European railway station. Phillip Taylor travels across the...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Go back to 1936 with Shervena Grubbs, her twin sister, and their daddy on a train to Little Rock, get in a car with Wetzel LaGrone in the 1940's, a...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This kickoff show is steeped in Southern heat as the writers take us back to childhood summers. Sarah Mattingly takes a vacation to meet family, Sa...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
One must be focused to excel

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: :42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A calf might be easier on the grandchildren

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 07, 2010
  • Length: :43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
In the US your chances of being shot are relatively high.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 26, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Love your child by being deliberately obtuse.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 07, 2010
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Have you ever read a news story and wanted to know more?

  • Added: Jul 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:27
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The Statistics Are Shameful

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: :37
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Never Again Clean Up After A Child's Birthday Party.

Bought by KUT and WTIP


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 01:26
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Time is now worth more than the price of food

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: May 07, 2010
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Adipose Rex was the fattest king in Thebes

  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: :23
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Young grandchildren who visit raise the rubber ducks in the bathtub problem

  • Added: Mar 13, 2010
  • Length: :49
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Anthony Marshall was an impatient heir who couldn’t wait for his mother to die so he could get his hands on her money

  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: :32
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A young man seeking enlightenment once travelled far away to a distant land and climbed a tall mountain where a wise old man was known to dispense ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2009
  • Length: :46
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A sociologist at Harvard, has just published a study proving that everything is youth oriented in the present decade.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: :39
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Ten million American children now come home from school to lonely empty houses. With both parents working, care of the child is now left up to the ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
How does a large family ever manage in a small house?

  • Added: Dec 30, 2008
  • Length: :21
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
transforming high school for the 21st century

  • Added: Dec 17, 2008
  • Length: :40