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Polio survivor Shirley Duhart tells her longtime friend and doctor, Dale Strasser, about why wearing stylish shoes has been so empowering.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio
- Added: Apr 25, 2023
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 1
This week on On Story writer Derek Kolstad, creator of the John Wick franchise reflects on his thrilling career, how he weaves emotion and humanity...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 54:00
This week on On Story, web series creator-turned cable TV sensation Issa Rae on her journey from YouTube to HBO, her desire for diversity on televi...
- Added: Nov 11, 2021
- Length: 54:00
On this episode of the Apple Seed you'll hear the great storyteller and songwriter Micheal Reno Ferral tell the story of his family cleaning out ma...
Bought by Angelica Community Radio, KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, KICI Iowa City and more
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 6
Anderson and Karen Lawson remember their father, engineer, Gerald Lawson and how his pioneering spirit influenced their childhood in 1970’s Silicon...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Sep 22, 2021
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 1
On this week’s On Story Emmy Award® winning television producer, actor, comedian and writer Larry Wilmore discusses the creation of the influential...
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 53:57
A solo performance from a master storyteller.
Bought by KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, WNJR, WCPN, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 15, 2019
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 17
In 1849, abolitionist and attorney Wendell Phillips wrote: “We should look in vain through the most trying times of our revolutionary history for a...
Bought by WFAE
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 29:37
- Purchases: 1
Clarence ”Clancy” Haskett talks with his friend and former coworker about his long and successful career as a beer vendor for the Baltimore Orioles.
Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 02:09
- Purchases: 2
Mario Loiseau talks with his 9-year-old daughter, Mabou, about why he works so hard to provide for her education.
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 01:48
Just a few years ago, 18-year-old Noah McQueen was struggling in school, had been arrested multiple times, and spent time in juvenile detention. Bu...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
Her first year in the competition, Elisha says this piece is about being friends with your imaginary friend once again. Elisha Miles is 14 years o...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 02:54
Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language. Funny, moving.
- Added: Jan 08, 2006
- Length: 44:47
- Purchases: 19
Popular storyteller Imakhu Mwt Shekemet's contemporary version of Afro-Brazillian folktale, "Mae de Agua."
- Added: Dec 06, 2005
- Length: 25:58
- Purchases: 10
