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Beth Probst talks about her book "Now What? Navigating Life After Loss"

  • Added: Mar 23, 2023
  • Length: 08:42
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Tune in to this special walk down memory lane as Haley looks back at over 300 episodes of The Rough Draft Diaries. We begin where the show began wi...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 1
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Guatemalan Connections Part Three: Molly McKenzie was adopted from Guatemala in 1992 by her two moms, now retired navy captains who provided her wi...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2021
  • Length: 19:47
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We're talking to a brand new organization on this week's RDD. It's the Toledo Black Artist Coalition, a collection of artists, educators, activists...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2020
  • Length: 06:15
Caption: Burial of Billy Hornstein, Credit: Photo retrieved from Abraham L. Green & Son
Freelance journalist Jed Alexander talks with a family member about the experience of losing a brother during the pandemic, and the religious tradi...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 05:57
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Ellen Hughes speaks with Keith Miller, the hospital safety officer who helped her son when he had a violent reaction to a medication.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:34

  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 10:19
Caption: The Wine Fellers
What are the World's Worst Wine Faux Pas? For instance, #5 is using a Corkscrew on a Screw Cap.

  • Added: May 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Harry Chin, subject of the play "The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin", Credit: Sheila Chin Morris
President Trump’s efforts to halt immigration from specific countries isn’t new. In the 19th century, the United States prohibited working-class Ch...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 05:00
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Camaran Henson grew up hearing stories about his grandfather, Leonard Simmons, who was a police officer in Newark, New Jersey. He came to StoryCorp...

Bought by Public Radio for All, KALW, WEZU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Andy Downs (L) and Angelia Sheer (R)
On October 4, 1971, George Giffe, a 35-year-old Tennessee man suffering from mental illness hijacked a charter plane at gunpoint from the Nashville...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Isaac Feliciano
Isaac Feliciano, a longtime worker at Brooklyn's historic Green-Wood Cemetery, remembers being at his job on September 11, 2001, when his wife, Ros...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tyra Treadway (L) and Ardyn Treadway
Tyra Treadway and her daughter, Ardyn, remember their husband and father, Dr. James Kent Treadway, a beloved pediatrician in New Orleans. Dr. Tread...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2015
  • Length: 01:06
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Kevin has been homeless ten times. What is it like when you can't always live comfortably in the world of people?

  • Added: Jul 26, 2015
  • Length: 27:09
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In most families, mental health can be a taboo topic. But not in the House family. Jeff and Tenley’s relationship is not your usual father and daug...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 11:10
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: In the van, Credit: Nicola Benizzi
Report on the "Beauty in Transition" mobile hair salon.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 04:01
Caption: Family visits at the Alameda County Jail , Credit: Daniel Arauz
Nearly one in ten children in California have a parent in the criminal justice system, but it’s hard to find numbers for individual cities. Experts...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 05:37
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Elisa Seeger and her husband, Bobby Seeger, Jr. remember their son, Aidan, who died in 2012 from a genetic disorder called adrenoleukodystrophy, or...

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Brenda Hellen lives and works in Northfield, Minnesota. She's a mother of three, has an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University, Ma...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:17
Caption: Lisa Zullig
Lisa Zullig and her team of dietitians at God's Love We Deliver provide nutritional assistance to a diverse clientele around the metro-New York Cit...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
Caption: Brendan Angus McGuigan, Credit: Charles McGuigan
this week’s episode contains two parts. The first act is called Weather or Not. Act Two is titled Life Among The Immortals. They’re about my two s...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 28:11
Caption:  "Do You Trust Me?  Allowing Hope to Triumph Over Tragedy" by Jessica Leigh Johnson
Heidi Holtan talks with Jessica Leigh Johnson about her book "Do You Trust Me? Allowing Hope to Triumph Over Tragedy," in this Real Good Words int...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KVSC


  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 25:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Shelli Wright and her son, Graham Haggett, remember his grandmother Sandra Lee Wright, who was killed on September 11, 2001. Shelli Wright and her ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Florence Nightingale helps a sick man, Credit: unknown
A conversation between nurses. Interviewer Muriel Murch talks with nurse, writer and poet Cortney Davis

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KRZA


  • Added: May 05, 2012
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 2
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When Grace was a child, she and her mom moved out to a remote piece of the Arizona desert to live off the land. Things didn't work out exactly the ...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, WTIP, PRX Remix, YouthCast, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 07, 2011
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 5