PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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All of these episodes, the past 8 years, are set behind the backdrop of the town Haley has been working in: a midsize, rustbelt community that brin...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:01
Inspired by a year of forced isolation, essayist Bilal Qureshi explores the history, landscape, and meaning of friendship across cultures. At the h...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 08, 2021
- Length: 28:47
- Purchases: 1
Sedera feels light for the first time after her father's death.
- Added: Aug 31, 2020
- Length: 05:47
The island of St. Maarten (Sint Maarten) is the common denominator in the stories of two different families whose lives were changed when they land...
- Added: Jul 14, 2019
- Length: 29:55
Producer Jakob Lewis was born in a military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. At the time, his dad was stationed at a U.S. army base in Wölfersheim, ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 27, 2019
- Length: 29:24
- Purchases: 1
When the Massaro family traded life on dry land for a life at sea, they encountered some unexpected company.
- Added: Oct 02, 2017
- Length: 14:43
- Purchases: 2
Stories of men battling white water rapids and floods in Alaska.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Maisy is a shop dog in Toronto, but she had to take time off -- a sick leave. To battle her cancer, her humans traveled with Maisy to seek treatmen...
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 27:43
"I was a drug smuggler for love, I was a drug smuggler for my mom."
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 09:05
- Purchases: 2
An incredible story of a cancer survivor that goes on to do the impossible.
- Added: Dec 12, 2015
- Length: 34:49
An American father and young son spend a year living as expats in Asia, where they soon discover just the simple act of eating provides daily chal...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 14:29
How difficult is it to pick up and move your family overseas for a year ?
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 05:33
A guy backpacks through 50 countries in 5 years. We hear his story.
Bought by KQED
- Added: May 12, 2013
- Length: 29:03
- Purchases: 1
After a high-speed car crash, sisters Rachel DePuy and Katy-Robin Garton’s relationship cratered. Climbing 20,000-foot Mount Denali isn’t where mos...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WJCT, and WJCT
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 09:19
- Purchases: 3
This week, our stories are all about the power of friendship. Stories by George McLeod, Pat Gillum, and Susan Elder. True stories told by the South...
- Added: Oct 07, 2012
- Length: 29:00
On this week's show, our writers all grapple with expectations of others or themselves. Stories by Martin Ferguson, Anne Owings Wilson, and Richard...
- Added: Sep 29, 2012
- Length: 29:00
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
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
- Added: Oct 09, 2008
- Length: 14:37
- Added: Jun 15, 2008
- Length: 04:34
Personal essay about traveling to meet my father for the first time in 25 years.
- Added: May 17, 2008
- Length: 06:58
The story of a new comer to Athens, Greece, and what she finds in her life there.
- Added: Nov 24, 2006
- Length: 03:39
Storyteller Leni Ramberg visits that hot-bed of wild gambling: Hinkley, Minnesota.
- Added: Aug 19, 2006
- Length: 03:47