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When Deborah Wei and her family moved to the Philadelphia suburbs in the 1960’s, they were the only Asian family in their neighborhood. Deborah rem...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
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It's a wacky selection of tunes from decades past – Todd Rundgren just wants to bang on the drum all day, the California Raisins are sweet and deli...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Entirely NEW tunes today - from the likes of The Lemon Twigs, The Liverbirds, The Last Dinner Party and more. Plus, a hilarious "on-air call" from ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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Comedian Maria Bamford talks about her new book "Sure, I'll Join Your Cult"

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 10:19
Caption: Nidera and Conchetta Brown at their StoryCorps interview in San Antonio, TX on November 17, 2022, Credit: Manuela Velasquez for StoryCorps
Conchetta Brown and her daughter, Nidera Brown, discuss their close relationship in life and in death.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
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A wide variety of tunes today - including a Pixar jazz standard, a Chipmunks Broadway cover, a McCartney nursery rhyme, and new indie gems by The L...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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It’s our “Best of 2023” show! With novelty and pop tunes galore and a few of the funniest on-air phone calls from the last year, plus a review of t...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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Dana Delany and Susan Sullivan star in Richard Greenberg's Broadway hit

Bought by KMUN, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KUOW, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 30
Caption: Debora Brakarz and Mike Wolmetz
Nearly two decades after Mike Wolmetz proposed to Debora Brakarz at the StoryCorps booth in Grand Central, they returned to share an update about t...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Kal Penn talks with Chasten Buttigieg, author of the memoir "I Have Something to Tell You."

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Susan Odgers talks with writer Jeannette Walls.

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next "Sounds Jewish" for a Mother's Day celebration featuring a global Jewish playlist praising mom.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption:  Mason Best and Roseann Smith at their StoryCorps interview in Queens, New York on March 25, 2023, Credit:  By Julia Kirschenbaum for StoryCorps
Mason Best, age 12, came to StoryCorps with his mother Roseann Smith to reflect on their relationship and share some of his philosophies on life.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP


  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 2
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Shannon Gibney talks about her new picture book "Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight"

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 08:04
Caption: Margaret Powell and Folashade Alao at their StoryCorps in Decatur, Georgia on January 31, 2023, Credit: Kevin Alarcon
Folashade Alao remembers when she presented a Bill of Rights to her mother, Margaret Powell, and how it shaped their relationship.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Sammy Marques tells stories, one-man-shows that last an hour and more. The stories within the bigger stories are chapters of his life. Because they...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 25:28
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Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 27:56
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Sammy Marques is a raconteur. He frequently draws on personal experience to flesh out stories that seem always to embrace some humorous element. Th...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 27:30
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For three generations, Sammy Marques’ family was stuck in a sort of revolving door of emigration from Europe to the United States and back again. I...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:24
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Sammy Marques has been a lot of things over the years. He was never a butcher, but he was certainly a baker. Twice. And armed with a wood lathe he ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 26:21
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
The smelly food with a loyal following. Explore the origins of sauerkraut in the Texas Hill Country, its present makers, and sauerkraut’s ability ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 19:09

  • Added: Dec 27, 2022
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: The Imagine Neighborhood Holiday logo, Credit: Committee for Children
In this special holiday episode: Huzzah, hooray! It’s Cardboard Boxing Day! The day when everyone in The Imagine Neighborhood uses the empty boxes ...

Bought by KMXT, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and WITF


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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A Pulitzer Prize-winner from Neil Simon

Bought by KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN, KALW and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:04
  • Purchases: 36
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Exploring the generational differences when it comes to taking care of yourself

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1