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Everyday
From: Scott Wen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A day in the life of someone struggling to hold it together through the struggles of dealing with symptoms from ADHD.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Famous For Nothingness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Sometimes we go astray. But that’s all right, that’s our opposing nature, and we know how to get back on the right road. Not the “straight and narr...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Autumn Beatitudes
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Congratulations, you people! It is Fall. You made it. Might take another month or two, until you really notice, but summer is officially over. It'...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Straight To Hell
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many hero...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
These Enchanted Lands
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Are places such as Sedona, Arizona, truly "magical"? Is the desert enchanted? Well it can't be proven one way or another, but from Moses to Jesus t...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Primal Surprise
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Let’s go rambling with Ambrose Bierce on this new episode of Desert Oracle Radio. We shall get a few travel tips, too, in case we want to stop off ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Return of the Wild Things
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
An all-new quarantine episode of Desert Oracle Radio from our secure desert compound, where we are noting the return of the wildlife, the blue skie...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Embracing Mortality, With Erik Davis
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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An appropriate new hourlong episode for these interesting times we are cursed to live in. With guest Erik Davis, bestselling author of High Weirdne...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Snakesgiving Day Weekend
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The holiday so nice we celebrate it twice: once when the snakes come out, and once when the snakes go back in the ground for their long winter's nap.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Voice Crying In the Wilderness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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A harsh visit to the desert of the Bible: a place of banishment and horror, where ostriches and demons dance in the abandoned cabins.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Holy Rangers
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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In the chaos of a dysfunctional government, who will protect the wilderness and public lands, our national parks and monuments, our nature preserve...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Travel Options for the Collapse
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Not a scientist? You can still help collect valuable data
From: WXXI Rochester
Caption: Volunteer Peter Lent wades through Oatka Creek in Scottsville, New York, looking for bugs to send back to Albany., Credit: Caitlin Whyte/WXXI News
Helping the environment isn’t just about recycling and abandoning plastic straws. WXXI’s Caitlin Whyte explored the concept of citizen science, and...

Bought by WBFO


  • Added: Aug 21, 2018
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 1
The Start of Escape
From: Zachary Eshleman
Caption: The sailboat "No Options" sails on the Gulf of Mexico, off of the coast of Mississippi. , Credit: Zachary S. Eshleman
It has always been my dream to live on a sailboat and travel the world. In this short audio piece, I invite the listener into the first step in the...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 05:03
Sound Ecology: Raptors
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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What is a raptor? Naturalist Ken Burton offers up some details on these amazing birds, including addressing the concept of convergent evolution.

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Native Power: Language, Land, and Water NoDAPL
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oceti Sakowin Camp, Credit: Bo Hakala
The actions at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline continue, We share interviews from the Voices of Standing Rock. Vincent Medina is a...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Postcard from the Center of Canada
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Paddle Minnesota
Caption: Paddle MN producer Jim Gallagher from the center of Canada, Credit: Jim Gallagher
Paddle Minnesota producer Jim Gallagher shares an audio postcard from a canoe trip he took during the summer of 2015 in the barren lands at the cen...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 07:39
The Grease Trails
From: Teresa Goff
Series: The Grease Trails
Caption: A string of ooligan fish.
The Grease Trails, a centuries-old network of trails through Northwestern Canada, described as the cultural arteries of First Nations peoples. Once...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:37
Catch 311
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
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On March 11th, 2011 Justine Beed was sitting in an English classroom outside of Tokyo, when the 9.0 Earthquake hit near Fukushima.

Bought by MPR News Stations


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 1
Going plastic free (almost)
From: Veronica Simmonds
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My sincere but silly attempt to live without plastic for a week.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 06:36
The Python Challenge
From: casey schelhorn
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Two first time radio producers travel to the Everglades intending to tell the story of a state-sanctioned Python hunt, but end up telling an altoge...

Bought by KGOU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 09, 2013
  • Length: 15:34
  • Purchases: 2
In Off-Season Tulum, More Turtles Than Tourists
From: Valerie Hamilton
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If the Caribbean’s balmy turquoise charms are doubled by wintry weather at home, the argument could be made they’re halved in close succession to a...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 2
Spooky Trip Down The Ghost River
From: Candice Ludlow
Caption: Heading into the Ghost Section of the Wolf River, Credit: Candice Ludlow
Audio postcard with Keith Kirkland, an avid river geek, tells about an eerie night on the Ghost River.

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 02:46
New Year's Storms
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: The Barrett Pear tree dies
The New Year came riding in on a wind storm, killing old and young trees. The crew comes in to work their music and magic

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KWMR


  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 09:11
  • Purchases: 2
Lost in the Friendly Skies
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: The Mansions at night, Credit: Walter Murch
We fly to Las Vegas for the weekend while a racing pigeon finds her way to the farm.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 09:39