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Written by Savannah Spatafora Produced by Emma Lehman

  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 03:03
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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
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An episode that discusses the “neverendingness” of it all - a phrase spell-check does not recognize, but one you may have experienced if you ever f...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:06
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In April of 2022, Haley took a bold step and decided to quit her job; a job as a public radio host and a job she loved. As she tried to make sense ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: 'What Afghan Women Want You to Know' - Teachers. Actors. Ancient rug weavers. Whisperers of forbidden poetry. The women of Afghanistan wa...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
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I’ve made this piece based off of how it feels to be a wrestler.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 05:53
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Native American poet Deborah Miranda, author of the 2020 collection ALTER OF BROKEN THINGS, reads from her multi-genre book, BAD INDIANS: A TRIBAL...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Kiara tells a tender story of flying home to Mexico for the first time since she was four to see her ailing grandmother. (*She was able to visit as...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 14:27
  • Purchases: 1
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With the Hearts in the Ice expedition set to begin one month from now, World Ocean Radio is revisiting a special episode dedicated to the upcoming ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:28
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Julian chooses his first official essay to read from the submissions choosing an essay that focuses on family. More specifically, mothers and their...

  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 10:29
Caption: Nigel Akkara
This Mother’s Day Sandip remembers Nigel Akkara, who told him about his two mothers.

  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Bharati Mukherjee, Credit: Photo by Sandip Roy
Bharati Mukherjee is gone but she left the light on for many of us.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Iranian-American writer Firoozeh Dumas' commentaries about her hyphenated life have aired on NPR. But that was a different America. While Firoozeh ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week we continue the Earth Optimism Series, a 24-episode project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal, to address oc...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2016
  • Length: 05:20
Caption: Dipa Karmakar in Rio
On Sunday night, much of India was watching television with bated breath. All for one young woman at the Rio Olympics. Her name is Dipa Karmakar an...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
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In this episode on the meandering path of careers we look at the ways in which one job and juncture leads us to another and the role that faith tra...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 29:35
Caption: Candice Russell in her home in Irving, Texas. , Credit: (Jenn Stanley//RH Reality Check)
In this first episode of CHOICE/LESS, we hear from Candice, an activist, Texan, and Latina who will argue in front of the Supreme Court on March 2 ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 21:50
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In today’s confessional culture, secrets are generally considered bad, but this episode explores what opportunities open up when someone keeps a se...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Women have been making comics since the beginning. This engaging history tracks the gender dynamics of the comics industry for 120 years, highlight...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 21:39
  • Purchases: 2
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Junior year is universally known as the most difficult, stressful year of high school. Between academics, extra-curriculars, and athletics, college...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
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"My sense has been that most men ultimately really do want children, and I think many of longer relationships -- that's been part of the end." -Bet...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Just in time for Halloween, we look at gender issues in horror films. This essay takes a feminist angle on underrated horror heroines, from Candyma...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 21:26
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A meditation on relationships as DIY projects: The great thing — and the scary thing — about relationships is that you get to make it all up as you...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 23, 2014
  • Length: 19:34
  • Purchases: 1
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:01
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Free, audio book excerpt. Once upon a time, there was a girl who imagined a bear. Actually, she imagined a lot of bears. And then she drew them—bea...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2013
  • Length: 13:16