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Tales from the South 089: Family Secrets
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Summer Season
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This week, our storytellers spill the beans on some very interesting family secrets. Stories by Anne Nieto, Robbin Ridgell, and Arthur Paul Bowen. ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Dingmantics #14: Sandra From Avenue Z (Live)
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 11:53
Tales from the South: 073 Strangers in a Strange Land
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Spring Season
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This week, our writers are all strangers in a strange land, whether it's familiar, foreign, or in their own backyard. All stories are true and told...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Dingmantics: The Taxi Tapes #11-Sandra From Avenue Z
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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In the latest installment of The Taxi Tapes, Sam recalls the unexpected consequences of a voyage to the strange environs of Avenue Z in Brooklyn, w...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 15:07
Manohar and Vera, a Love Story; or, Bus 390
From: Mark Munger
Caption: Manohar and Vera, Credit: Kathryn Munger
Manohar, from Agra, and Vera, from Sao Paulo, meet on a mysterious bus when a lady falls on M. The rest is slight distrust and love.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 1
Any Other Name
From: Will Dean
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Names are important signifers, but they are also very mutable. This piece focuses on the slipperiness of names: how their meanings can change, why ...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 57:44
Tales from the South 066: Having a Bad Day
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Spring Season
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This week's stories are all about having a bad day-- sometimes, things go from bad to worse. Stories by Bruce Trice, Phillip Taylor, and Taylor Eub...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Adoption Story
From: Sarah Bromer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is a story about two women who attempt to adopt a baby from an abortion clinic. Things don't go exactly as planned, and they end up in over th...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
Salty Lou’s Local Lobster
From: JP Davidson
Caption: Rob Martin, Cape Cod lobsterman, Credit: JP Davidson
A lobsterman and his girlfriend try to build the market for locally caught and processed lobster, in an increasingly global industry.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., PRX Remix, KUT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 5
Woody Allen vs. Mean Joe Green
From: Graham Shelby
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A man-sized teenager believes joining the football team will help him feel big on the inside.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 35
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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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
Tales from the South 031: The Greatest Generation I
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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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
Tales from the South 38: Summer Season 2011 Kickoff
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
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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
Donald Jeffrey Herbert (Mr. Wizard), June 13, 2007
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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If his name doesn't ring a bell, it's because we knew him ... millions of television viewers ... from the 1950s all the way through to the Nickelod...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
The Devine Rhubarb Committee on "Everything Rhubarb" and The Rhubarb Festival!
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
Caption: The Devine Rhubarb Committee
This past Saturday during Memorial Day weekend four contributing authors of The book "Everything Rhubarb" visited the Winona Book shelf for a sign...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 14:47
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
Don't Go Far...
From: Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland
Series: RTE Documentary On One
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The story of two boys who, in 1985, instead of going in for their dinner, decided to go on a little journey....

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Mar 05, 2011
  • Length: 39:01
  • Purchases: 3
Make Love and Wine
From: Eric Miller
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Please enjoy our special Valentine's Day piece about Love and wine. The interviews with a marriage counselor and a winemaker intertwine as they bot...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Feb 05, 2011
  • Length: 27:08
  • Purchases: 1
Do What They Say
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The secret for a happy marriage

  • Added: Jan 05, 2011
  • Length: 01:15
Does Marriage Approximate Real Life?
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
An observation on marital bliss

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 20, 2010
  • Length: :37
  • 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
Kelly Slater on His Not-So-Perfect Life
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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Champion Surfer Kelly Slater: "My life was getting worse, not better, and it should have been getting better, because I’ve done all the things, met...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
Tips For A Happy Marriage
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Be responsive to your partner's needs

  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:57
Planning For Your Wedding
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A wedding requires a bit of planning

  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:24
We're All Just Shadows
From: One Hello World
Series: One Hello World
Caption: One Hello World, Credit: http://www.theonlymagicleftisart.com/
How could anybody be blind to the fact that, underneath it all, we’re all just shadows?

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, and KGLT


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 3

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