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Women in Sports
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Guido on women in sports.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:22
Mswaki - how to make the African Toothstick
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Richard and Moniko brushing their teeth with Mswaki, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Two Kenyan boys from different backgrounds, cultures and educations discover how to make toothbrushes at an overnight outing. This is how traditio...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:52
StoryCorps: Adeline Roccko and Zachariah Fike
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Army National Guard Capt. Zachariah Fike speaks with Adeline Rockko about returning her brother's lost Purple Heart medal.

Bought by WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 4
People Beat
From: The Truth
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High school sophomore Samantha O'Connell has just won a math award, and Gary Vosot is on the story.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 18, 2012
  • Length: 12:18
  • Purchases: 2
Dingmantics #14: Sandra From Avenue Z (Live)
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 11:53
Why TIME Magazine Shows Attachment Parenting is Going Mainstream, Not Extreme
From: Tennessee News Service
Caption: PRX default Piece image
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Are you mom enough? That's the question being posed to mothers across Tennessee and the nation this week by a controversial TIME...

  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:08
The Friendly Rabid Squirrel
From: JP Davidson
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When I was 9 years old, a rabid squirrel bit me.

Bought by WJCT, KBRP Community Radio, PRX Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Feb 26, 2012
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Steven and Alexandra Ketcham
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Steven and Alexandra Ketcham
Steven Ketcham and his wife Alexandra remember being set up by their parents.

Bought by WEZU, KMUD, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 3
Any Other Name
From: Will Dean
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Names are important signifers, but they are also very mutable. This piece focuses on the slipperiness of names: how their meanings can change, why ...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 57:44
Lambs to the Slaughter - Radcliffe Royds
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
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A true story told live in London. Radcliffe lost his home, his job and his wife in 24 hours. An uplifting tale on drug addiction and redemption, fr...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 13:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Words of Our Parents
From: City High Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
When adults talk to teenagers, they often wonder, "Are they hearing ANYTHING I say? Are they going to remember ANY of this?" Seventeen-year-old Gra...

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1
Kay and the Terror of the Smurfs
From: Paul Flahive
Series: Arctic Entries
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On our Fear Factor show Kay Little described the sole fear of as a young man, being shunned by his conservative Christian community.

Bought by KRUA and KUT


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 2
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Learn why you should have more children and not stress about parenting.

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 025
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
Caption: Madelyn Young reads "Good Intentions"
This week's stories are about words, and the silences between sentences. Madelyn Young reaches out to one of her students, Robin Satterfield strugg...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Between You and Me: Time
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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It's Crunch Time this week; sharing stories of the times you were late or just barely made it as we get through the Crunch Time of our summer fundr...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:08
The Decisions Project - 21 - A Job Offer in Afghanistan
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A man in his early forties decides to take a job in Afghanistan.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:43
San Francisco Stories from StoryCorps and KALW: A tale of two dresses
From: KALW
Caption: Trinity Ordona and Desiree Thompson
Trinity Ordona and Desiree Thompson have been married for 22 years; their first ceremony occurred in 1988. But their same-sex marriage was not acce...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 4
College Access Matters II
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: www.mmep.org
Did you know that according to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, 16 of the 20 fastest growing occupations in the sta...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 56:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Emperor's New Onesie
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
Caption: For many months, this is the only dress Violet would wear. Joyce washed it every night in the sink., Credit: Joyce Slaton
A woman spends a month at home with her naked two-year-old daughter, trying to figure out why she won't wear clothes.

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 14:16
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Historias: Ruben and Rachel Salazar
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Rachel Salazar and her husband, Ruben, remember how their romance started with a typo.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WXPR, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 4
San Francisco Stories from StoryCorps and KALW: How a 12-year-old foiled the FBI
From: KALW
Caption: Robert Tsutakawa spoke with his daughter Susan Tsutakawa in the San Francisco StoryCorps booth
It’s the year 1942. The United States has just joined the war in the Pacific. On the home front, the FBI is investigating and interning Japanese-Am...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Decisions Project - 15 - A Month in Juárez
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A recent college graduate receives an unexpected job offer from his uncle: teach English in Ciudad Juárez.

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:25
DIY Rituals
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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We depend on all kinds of secular and spiritual rituals to mark the ends and beginnings of things. Sometimes this means following a long-standing t...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WRVO Public Media, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WYSO, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
What About Dad? A Discussion on Single Fathers
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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This week on Culture Clique Dr. Aurea Osgood assistant professor of Sociology at Winona State University asks the question "What about Dad?" in he...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 39:12
  • Purchases: 1
Trading corner stores for diplomas: Oakland's Yemeni revolution
From: KALW
Caption: Photo courtesy of the American Association of Yemeni Scientists and Professionals
In the Bay Area, Yemeni-Americans are mostly young men, mostly in the East Bay, and often in the business of managing or owning the family corner s...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 06:30

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