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One of my very first pieces ever: A chronicle of my adventures doing sound for an Elvis Tribute Artist and a large ish gospel Church in Madison WI....
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 14, 2022
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 1
Just about everyone has a memory with a bike, and a lot of the time, it includes getting into a little bit of nonsense. We'll bring up some of thos...
Bought by KTXK, KKRN, WVPE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and KSJE
- Added: Jan 12, 2022
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 5
Why enjoy the story of one great storyteller, when you can enjoy two? Join us to listen to "The Ten Thousand Treasure Cave" from the storytelling d...
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 54:56
- Purchases: 2
Everyone of us needs to know how special and how precious we are to someone. A great place for a kid to learn those kinds of things is on the lap o...
Bought by KSJE, KKRN, WVPE, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920
- Added: Dec 01, 2021
- Length: 54:55
- Purchases: 4
Sex - Solo is a R&B musical group. The original members were Robert Anderson, Darnell Chavis, Eunique Mack, and Dan Stokes. The group recorded thei...
- Added: Nov 18, 2021
- Length: 01:01
Some stories are just there to help us know that things can get tough, but sometimes they work out. We'll hear a story from Catherine Conant about ...
Bought by KSJE, KTXK, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and WVPE
- Added: Nov 17, 2021
- Length: 54:54
- Purchases: 4
Two Artists in their conversations with Laura, wheelchair dancer Alice Sheppard and TourettesHero Jess Thom, expand our ideas about beauty, mobili...
Bought by KMUN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 4
Dolly Parton helped comedian Jan McInnis move away from certain comedy club bookers and into bigger gigs. And the funny thing is, Dolly has no idea.
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 04:15
Comedian Jan McInnis took a comedy writing class when she first got into comedy, and merely getting to the class gave her some comedy gold!
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 03:14
Zombies. I hate them the way Indiana Jones hates snakes. As part of my series Imaginary Worlds, I confront my biggest phobia with the help of a zom...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 16:54
- Purchases: 3
When you’re emceeing for a week, and none of the shows are going well, you need to figure out how to cover your butt. Here’s what Jan did.
- Added: Mar 09, 2019
- Length: 03:20
What, if any, difference is there in comedy clubs that have more white or black audiences? Jan talks about her experience starting out in comedy.
- Added: Mar 09, 2019
- Length: 03:41
Selling jokes to Jay Leno for his Tonight Show monologue was always fun. Here's a fun story about it.
- Added: Mar 06, 2019
- Length: 02:12
Comedians do believe in Karma, and when a comedian is kind of harsh with Jan, she is patient. . .and that pays off. But, yeah, it’s hard to be nice...
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 03:15
Oprah’s show could boost your comedy career, and Jan had her crack at it! Hear how it turned out!
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 04:21
Comedy club accommodations usually ain’t that great, though if you work at it long enough, comedy comes full-circle! But sometimes you have to leav...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 04:38
The Jay Leno Comedy Challenge launched many wannabe comedians into their comedy careers, and Jan is one of them. It was a nationwide search to put ...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 04:46
Sandip Roy addresses a major calamity in Kolkata.
- Added: Sep 04, 2018
- Length: 06:00
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE our host, Steve Rashid, becomes drunk with power as he takes over his own show ... with a tribute to one of his pers...
- Added: Jun 19, 2018
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 2
Sarah Wyman reflects on self-care, adulthood and the roommate she didn’t know she had.
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 03:18
The Naked American Songbook went LIVE with singer-songwriter-producer-genius Stephin Merritt, the force behind at least one indie-cult classic grou...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 01, 2017
- Length: 59:58
- Purchases: 1
Antonya Nelson is the author of eleven books of fiction. She talks about her most recent books: the novel BOUND which covers growing up in Wichita,...
- Added: Jul 19, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Two authors bring out humor in tragic situations.
- Added: Apr 06, 2017
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 2
I'm eighteen and for some reason I can't be on time.
- Added: Mar 31, 2017
- Length: 02:22
Is there something that Hawaii can teach the mainland? Something people of all races have learned from living together in such an isolated place? I...
- Added: Dec 15, 2016
- Length: 33:43
