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Marriage Equality
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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To what lengths have same sex couples had to go, in order to be lawfully married?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:48
Acoustic Stories : Steve Downing : " Romance and reason aren't the mismatch that they appear to be."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories : Robert Jevne : "Sometimes romance can be heated up on the stove in only a few minutes."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Robert Jevne is a new contributing writer to KAXE - he offers his thoughts radio as theater of the mind and on what being a part of a community rad...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories : Nathan Bergstedt : " Mere synapses firing? I think not."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Nathan Bergstedt is a writer from Grand Rapids. He is the Art and Education Editor for the Grand Rapids Herald Review. He is also responsible for T...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 115: Tin Roof Project with Mark Landon Smith
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Season 8, 2013 Spring Season
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We kick off our Season 8 with writer, actor, and director Mark Landon Smith on our monthly Tin Roof Project reading a story about a family secret. ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
Chapter 26 - Leaving New York Behind
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard and Eunice introduce each other to their families and begin plans for a June wedding. Richard finds a job and is ordained. Driving north ou...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 23:48
Chapter 25 - Starting a New Chapter
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
As seniors at Union Seminary, Richard and Jim are responsible for welcoming the incoming students through “round robins” hosted in the homes of fac...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 15:40
Tannah and Coley Morrris
From: You're U.S.
Series: You're U.S.
Caption: Detail of Portraits, Credit: Paintings by Emile B Klein
Tannah and Coley are twin Gospel musicians living in an economically depressed community. Beyond the stereotypes we discover how two high-schoolers...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 15:02
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: "Trip In Dad's Truck" an essay by Anne Dunn
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Anne Dunn
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman. In this essay A...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 2
Dingmantics: The Taxi Tapes #11-Sandra From Avenue Z
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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In the latest installment of The Taxi Tapes, Sam recalls the unexpected consequences of a voyage to the strange environs of Avenue Z in Brooklyn, w...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 15:07
Jamie Lee reports on ice skating, from rinks to lakes, and from learning with her father to being a woman in her fifties on skates
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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From JFK Elementary in Babbitt, Minnesota as child to Pike Bay on Cass Lake, Minnesota, long after her father's passing, Jamie Lee is still held up...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 2
Remembering Barbara Jean
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Pat (left) and Joshua Presby
If Pat could tell his late step-mother, Barbara Jean, one thing, it's that he probably should have listened to her advice.

Bought by YouthCast and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
'Til Death: Love, Marriage and Valentine Sweethearts
From: Rosemary Langford
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Is marriage forever? Sometimes it can seem like it. This short, fully-produced audio essay describes the tension between loving and LIVING WITH tho...

Bought by KPIK-LP and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 2
Southern Ties: Nourishment and Death
From: Carroll Dale Short
Caption: The omnipresent casserole
A brief reflection, upon the death of my grandmother, on the ways that food and death are inextricably linked in Southern culture.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 14, 2010
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1
One Daughter's Journey.
From: City High Radio
Caption: photo by: Vicky Barnett
Vicky was living in a tough situation in Phoenix, AZ. Her mom had told her that her father didn't want anything to do with her. But one day Vicky f...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Apr 12, 2010
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Smashing Story
From: Kendra Greene
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"The Elephant Who Liked To Smash Small Cars" enthralled me as a kid. As an adult, trying to track down a copy of the book took me across the country.

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 05, 2010
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dad to Dad: A Preparation
From: Eric Winick
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In Fall 2009, as my wife entered the late stage of pregnancy, I asked several friends of mine who are recent or long-time dads for advice on becomi...

Bought by KSKA, KUER, WTJU, KZYX, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 13:46
  • Purchases: 7
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: The passing of time
From: Spokane Public Radio
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How the passage of time touches every life

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:59
This I Believe - Amy Tan
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Acclaimed writer Amy Tan believes in ghosts and the messages of joy, love and peace they bring her.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WEZU, KUER, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU and more


  • Added: May 13, 2009
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 7
This I Believe - Macklin Levine
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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She's only 12, but Macklin Levine is already old enough to appreciate—and believe in—The Beatles.

Bought by WEZU, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KFOK-LPFM, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 07, 2009
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 8
Easter Monday
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Chicks on the farm, Credit: Muriel Murch
From America's White House to the small farms and families in the country spring and new beginnings are in the air.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 13, 2009
  • Length: 08:21
  • Purchases: 1
Seeds of my Ancestors
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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History in a seed packet

  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 05:01
This I Believe - Claude Knobler
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Claude Knobler believes life should be more ridiculous. And he has the gorilla suits to prove it.

Bought by WEZU and WEZU


  • Added: Jan 05, 2009
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 2
Cleo
From: Alexander Yellen
Series: Tell Me Your Story
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Cleo had a hard time learning how to read

  • Added: Dec 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:49
Amy
From: Alexander Yellen
Series: Tell Me Your Story
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Amy gives away hand-knit hats

  • Added: Dec 21, 2008
  • Length: 02:27