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Caption: Bill Shanabruch leads Conservation Landscaping Workshop.
Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 26:08
Caption: Bill Shanabruch, Credit: Charles McGuigan
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 24:26
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In My Body Odyssey’s (MBO) first episode, we meet Ultimate Mark – uber-competitive weekend warrior in Ultimate Disc: “If it hurts me but helps the ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 18:49
Caption: Ed Peeples
Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Sep 09, 2019
  • Length: 25:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: David Hudson, Credit: Charles McGuigan
David Hudson has been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:19
Caption: David Hudson, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
David Hudson had been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:11
Caption: Jonathon Austin, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Jonathan Austin is a North Side Richmonder who began juggling when he was just 12-years old. Two years later he performed his first professional gi...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 23:44
Caption: Red wolf howling.
Encountering one of the last red wolves in the wild at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. And a run in with a black bear.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 24:57
Caption: Red wolf howling.
Kim Wheeler is the Wolf Lady. She knows more about red wolves than just about anybody in the world. And the more I learn about these remarkable ani...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2018
  • Length: 24:51
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A 10-year-old boy's journey to legally and socially change his gender in his hometown in the Rocky Mountain West.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
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Stories of children getting their tongues stuck to metal things in winter.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
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There comes a moment in every school kid's life where it’s time where the student becomes the teacher. The Mortified Podcast celebrates kids who at...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: Charles climbing the summit of Cadillac Mountain., Credit: Charles McGuigan
The schools claim there is zero tolerance for bully, but one school system practices bullying against students and parents alike.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 21:35
Caption: Statues by Peter Wolf Toth, Credit: Charles McGuigan
For most of his adult life Peter Wolf Toth has been on a mission to honor the native American tribes of Virginia. Over the decades he has carved ma...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 26:08
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The Miracle Workers of Holton Elementary School are Christal Mark, Ricky Gay, Mary Pace, Robin Barber, Cheryll Hughes and Latonya Brown-Oliver. Wha...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 23:46
Caption: Abbie Catherine Waters
Abbie Waters lived in Richmond, Virginia and attended Holton Elementary School. She had survived a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. F...

  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 27:28
Caption: Abbie Catherine Waters
Abbie Catherine Waters was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...

  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 26:25
Caption: Elisheva and Amaris, Credit: Rebecca D'
Elisheva and Amaris, mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way...

  • Added: May 13, 2016
  • Length: 26:51
Caption: Elisheva and Amaris, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Elisheva and Amaris, mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way ...

  • Added: May 07, 2016
  • Length: 27:49
Caption: Diane Watkins of Richmond, Virginia.
A bell tower without a carillon is like a throat without a voice box. Utterly mute. This story could be called the mystery of the missing bells and...

  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 27:33
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Will a kindergartner and a first grader find the same thing funny? A school librarian in San Francisco teamed up with his Kindergartners to write ...

Bought by WMMT, KUOW, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Jacqueline Belton helps Chynna Baker, 18, finish her prom outfit with heels. , Credit: Margaret J. Krauss
This week on What What Why, it's almost prom season and we're examining the event's significance. Love it, hate it, go to it or don’t, but prom is ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 07:59
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An interview with Female-to-Male teen Kyle Smith about his experience as a transgender high school student.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 20:30
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A story about a place some people think of as "home."

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 13:22
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
We’re back with another installment of our “Summer Dispatches” series, this time starring Field Trip Correspondent Nicole Jones as she figures out ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1