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StoryCorps Griot: Monica Mickle and Rev. Harry Blake
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Rev. Harry Blake came to StoryCorps to speak with his daughter Monica Mickle about how his experiences growing up the son of a sharecropper in Loui...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:44
StoryCorps Griot: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer at their StoryCorps interview in Saint Clair Shores, MI, and Sparks, NV, on Feb. 6, 2022. , Credit: By StoryCorps
Mary Othella Burnette tells her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, about “Granny Hayden,” a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
From Community Dance to Dance Community: Recalling the Old Farmer's Ball
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: The original Farmer's Ball, and an OFB dance today, Credit: Phil Jameson/Carla Seidl
The Old Farmer's Ball is a regional folk dance organization in Asheville, North Carolina that is best known for its lively Thursday night contra da...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 49:50
On Passing
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Belle da Costa Greene and Nella Larsen are two librarians of color, one who is white passing, and the other of mixed heritage who wrote famously ab...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 32:46
  • Purchases: 1
Exploring Martha's Vineyard and the American south
From: World Footprints LLC
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Experience a slice of American history as two journalists share their knowledge about Martha’s Vineyard and parts of the American south.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:55
Composer and Performer Sherry Ladig is Inspired by History
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Sherry Ladig, Credit: Karyn Wrenshall
Sherry Ladig is a keyboardist and singer who performs and composes in many traditions. Her musical breadth comes from two sources. One is that she ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2018
  • Length: 16:00
Losing the Nobel Prize: A Conversation with Brian Keating
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Dr. Brian Keating
Astrophysicist Brian Keating discusses his book, "Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor."

Bought by WETS


  • Added: May 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 1
I'm alive because of a dictator's ego and my family's clever thinking
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: RadioActive producer Jad Vianu with his father Alec Vianu., Credit: Courtesy of Jad Vianu
Many people have heard of the brutal dictatorships that ruled Soviet Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. RadioActive youth producer and high s...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:55
StoryCorps: Hartmut Lau and Barbara Lau
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Hartmut Lau and Barbara Lau
A decorated veteran who served 24 years in the U.S. Army talks with his wife for the first time about his experiences during the Vietnam War.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:40
CAMERAPERSON -- Kirsten Johnson Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Kristen Johnson, San Francisco, CA 9/30/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Kirsten Johnson talks bearing witness, tricks of memory, and the tension of the unseen.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2016
  • Length: 23:04
Bovey Farmer's Day Parade in Bovey, Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Close to Home
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Grant Frashier reports on the Bovey Farmer's Day Parade in Bovey, Minnesota.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 09:11
  • Purchases: 1
Allusionist 12: Pride
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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It’s June; the President of the USA has officially designated it LGBT Pride Month, and there’ll be Pride events around the world. But how did the w...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZMU Moab Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 14:08
  • Purchases: 3
Master Traditional Singer Sherry Minnick in a Concert of Great Songs
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Sherry Minnick, Credit: Elizabeth Lofgren
Sherry Minnick has sung many styles of music in her life. In the last few decades she has focused on great traditional songs, many of them very old...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 02, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Candlestick Memory: Croix de Candlestick
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Candlestick fan Fernando Aguilar
As San Francisco bids farewell to Candlestick Park, we’re talking to people about their memories of this iconic San Francisco landmark. Today we he...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:24
Passages: Treasures of the Bible
From: Kristen Eicher
Caption: PRX default Piece image
“Passages: Treasures of the Bible,” currently is in Springfield, Mo, the fifth stop on a national tour. Learn more about the traveling exhibit here...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 08:16
Stronghold
From: From Block2Block
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As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2014
  • Length: 14:07
Princess Grace on JFK
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"He turned to me suddenly and asked: 'Is that a Givenchy you’re wearing?' And I said, 'why how clever of you, Mr. President! However did you kno...

Bought by WABE, Troy Public Radio, WSLR, PRX Remix, and KZYX


  • Added: Nov 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 5
M4M
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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With the legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine, Barton Girdwood got to wondering, what about all the gay men in Maine who never found love? S...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Spirit of John Beargrease
From: WDSE
Caption: John Beargrease, circa 1890, Credit: courtesy Ron Boshey
Ron Boshey offers the prayers and performs the pipe ceremony to start the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon every year ... and he's also honoring h...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Soda Fountain Memories
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Monte Malach. , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Monte Malach, 85, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, remembers a time when soda fountains occupied any busy street corner in New York City.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:07
  • Purchases: 1
They Always Pay, in the End
From: Traveling 219
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During the Great Depression, Ken Hardesty's grandfather was the de-facto bank for the townspeople of Aurora, West Virginia.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
WNR: Sgt. Chuck's Tour of Iraq
From: War News Radio
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From "Six Years In" (March 20, 2009): War News Radio features the story of an U.S. soldier who found himself in the Sunni Triangle in April of 2003.

  • Added: Mar 20, 2009
  • Length: 06:24
This I Believe - Veterans Day Feature
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Veterans from World War I through the Iraq War discuss how their combat experiences shaped their beliefs.

Bought by WUTC, KKWE Niijii Radio, WEZU, KBGA 89.9 FM, Vocalo.org and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Chinatown Friendship Gate
From: Chinatown Youth Radio Philadelphia
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The icon of Philadelphia Chinatown gets a makeover

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
At What Price History?
From: Cecily Hilleary
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This piece describes the value of a dusty 1915 Washington DC Directory I found in an old bookshop

  • Added: Jul 20, 2008
  • Length: 04:04