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Episode 38: Why the woodpecker knocks
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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Here's a little poem for the kids ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:46
Episode 53: Jessica's magical powers
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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Jessica was 12 years old when she realized she had magical powers. She could make birds fly simply by waving her arms ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 03:09
Episode 34: Why is the sky blue?
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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Not too long ago, in a town not too far away, there lived a very sensible young boy named Brian ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:20
Episode 29: The tale of young Alice and the biscuits
From: Rick Taylor
Series: Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
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Once upon a faraway long ago, there lived a young girl named Alice, who was very fond of stale biscuits ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:31
Four Year Old's Heart Set on Career at ESPN
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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My four-year-old brother represents the meaning of a true sports' fanatic. When he's not at preschool or taking a nap, you can typically find him o...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 04:08
StoryCorps: Lori and Erich Baker
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dr. Lori Baker, a forensic scientist, tells her husband, Dr. Erich Baker, about identifying bodies...

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Happy Dodson and Taz Roman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Happy Dodson (L) and Taz Roman (R)
Happy Dodson and Taz Roman, members of Bikers Against Child Abuse, talk about their work.

Bought by WEZU and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 2
Rad Dads!!!
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Fathers…and mothers…on fatherhood and how it’s changing. Traditional ideas about what a dad is supposed to be are slowly disappearing, but what wil...

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KZYX, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode 15: Jayne Freeman - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Jayne Freeman
Bobby speaks with Jayne Freeman, a Childbirth Educator certified through the CEA/MNY (Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York). J...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:28:13
America, the Wonderful and Weird
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A one-hour magazine program with four interviews that reveal some alternative slices of America, including a travelogue of gross and strange attrac...

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 46:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Divorce Revolution
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
Caption: Wes Hamilton, left, wraps Allison DeNio with blue duct tape forming the letter "X" standing for ex-wife during a rehearsal for the play "The Divorce Revolution" on Tuesday, July 26, 2011, at the Valencia Art Center in Winona. The play, in which both act a, Credit: Alexa Wallick/Winona Daily News
Maybe you've heard of co-parenting, and maybe you've heard about how the face of divorce is changing. If you'd like to know more, this edition of "...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2011
  • Length: 18:13
Poz Rayz
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Nigel Chase spent much of his youth learning the art of making and playing steel drums with his father. Nigel now makes a living making pans, playi...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KLCC, WMPG, and KUT


  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 4
Cool ways of learning - The Montessori-School-System
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Caption: Hannah
„Across the ocean“ , the first transatlantic radio bridge for kids by kids has joined with children in the southern part of Germany – Kronberg who ...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2009
  • Length: 30:00
Sexy stalk eyed Flies
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: The Amazing World of African Insects
Caption: Stalk eyed Fly, Credit: Dino Martins
Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins explains why widely spaced eyes are so sexy - that is if you are a stalk eyed fly. On another dudu safari in Kenya.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2009
  • Length: :54
A Horse Named "Buckwheat"
From: Rogi Riverstone
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
Thinking of Scopes and Trials
From: LISNews Netcast Network
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Commentary on the recent decision in Kansas to restrict library books.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2009
  • Length: 02:47
Bozo and the Storyteller
From: Tom Thumb
Caption: Available from www.bozoandthestoryteller.com
Chapter one of the book for anyone who never really grew up

  • Added: Jan 12, 2009
  • Length: 18:31
Respectacle: A Mockumentary
From: Susan Barrett Price
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Voices of innocence against the institutional clangor. Third Coast sound art.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:30
Sleepover!
From: Hillary Frank
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Two reporters spend the night at 10-year-old sleepover parties--one with the boys and one with the girls.

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, WRNC-LP, SALTcast Podcast, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 5
Daddy's Gone
From: Kevin T. Allen
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Girl with tape recorder waxes existential. My baby sister circa 1968.

Bought by WYBC


  • Added: Dec 21, 2006
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 1
"Youth, Day, Old Age, & Night" by Walt Whitman, recited by 6-yr.-old Gareth
From: Aaron Sanders
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Six-year-old Gareth has a voice made for poetry. He recites Walt Whitman's "Youth, Day, Old Age & Night."

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2006
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 6
"Little Boy Lost" by William Blake, recited by 6-yr.-old Gareth
From: Aaron Sanders
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Six-year-old Gareth has a voice made for poetry. He recites William Blake's "Little Boy Lost."

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KRUA, and KGLT


  • Added: Mar 31, 2006
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 3
Apocalypse Nanny
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Of clowns and music in surgery. Oh, and nannies.

  • Added: Jan 31, 2006
  • Length: 02:47
In a Bubble
From: Hillary Frank
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Four teens talk about what it's like to be quiet in school.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Remix Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMPG, East Village Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 8