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Tales from the South 48: Through the Eyes of a Child
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
Caption: Montgomery Trucking playing at Tales
True stories by Southerners in front of a live audience. This week's stories show us the innocence, imagination, and skewed logic of a child's mind...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 047
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
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Stories show us that with every ending, there follows a beginning...whether we want either to happen or not. Kate Knable watches her brother get st...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Tales from the South 044
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
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Lives can change in the flash of a moment: Helen Austin never sees the face of a stranger who saves her life, Susan Toone's life changes with one l...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 030: Arkansas Literary Festival
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Winners of the Arkansas Literary Festival share their winning stories: Jill Duvall visits an asylum, Wyatt Jones stands on the edge and tries not t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • 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
Tales from the South 35
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Roadtrip! Our writers take us on various adventures, beginning with Jackie Manning in a European railway station. Phillip Taylor travels across the...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Tales from the South 027
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Annual Mothers Show: Amy Manning Burns is in the very first stages of becoming a mother, Ardee Eichelmann's newborn son cries in pain as the pain o...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tales from the South 031: The Greatest Generation I
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Go back to 1936 with Shervena Grubbs, her twin sister, and their daddy on a train to Little Rock, get in a car with Wetzel LaGrone in the 1940's, a...

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


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tales from the South 38: Summer Season 2011 Kickoff
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
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This kickoff show is steeped in Southern heat as the writers take us back to childhood summers. Sarah Mattingly takes a vacation to meet family, Sa...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
What Was Left Behind
From: Eric Winick
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Arriving at her family's storage space in Syracuse, NY, a Brooklyn-based writer and mom is surprised to find the contents far more plentiful and si...

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 15:20
  • Purchases: 3
Tales from the South 022
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Stories about children and the fine line between reality and fantasy, myth, and even truth. Told in front of a live audience each week at Starving ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tales from the South 019
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
Caption: Sharolyn Jones-Taylor telling her tale
Southern-style storytelling in front of a live audience. This week's true stories are about beginnings and endings, starting with "I do" and endin...

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


  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tales from the South 018
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Hank Godwin, Chuck Butkus, and Daniel Koehler share about childhood mistakes. Southern-style storytelling in front of a live audience at Starving A...

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


  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tales from the South 013
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Visit Christmas memories with Lisa Brandom, Excy Johnston, Amy Manning Burns. Southern-style storytelling in front of a live audience at Starving A...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Tales from the South 011
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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This week's show concerns identity: Amy Gray Light takes a roadtrip to Ft. Worth she'd just as well forget, Amy Manning Burns finds a memory, and a...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Family (Full Episode)
From: BSR Radio
Series: The Radio Show
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In time for Thanksgiving, an exploration of Family. Contributions by: Gowri Chandra, Laurel Foglia, Brice Peterson, Katie Jennings, Rachel Blatt, a...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 31:35
1. A Dog's Life
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry
Caption: "Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry", Credit: Brittany Jencks
What I learned about life from my dog when I was eight years old.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
A Tip For Tired Mothers
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Never Again Clean Up After A Child's Birthday Party.

Bought by KUT and WTIP


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 01:26
  • Purchases: 2
Children Eat Too Much
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Time is now worth more than the price of food

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: May 07, 2010
  • Length: 01:27
  • 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
Late Onset Fatherhood
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Colin McEnroe Show: Fresh Voices
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Rand Cooper discusses the challenges of becoming a new dad at a time when friends are sending their children off to college.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 05:45
Impatient Anthony
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Anthony Marshall was an impatient heir who couldn’t wait for his mother to die so he could get his hands on her money

  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: :32
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
Divorced Kid
From: American Public Media
Caption: "Divorced Kid" producer Sasha Aslanian at her own wedding in September 1999., Credit: Liz Banfield Photography
America's divorce rate soared in the 1970s. Thirty years later, kids who grew up in the divorce revolution look back at that experience, and descri...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGDR and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 31