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Caption: Ozark Highlands Radio
A select few of the next generation of Ozark folk musicians perform live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, int...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
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Celebrating the life and work of Beatrix Potter

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Shortly after Meridy Volz moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco, she received a phone call from a friend asking her to take over a small bakery bus...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 21:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ozark Highlands Radio
East Tennessee all-girl stringboard “The Poor Valley Girls” perform live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, Int...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Prince Charming Arrives with the 108th Button, Credit: Edward L. Ott 1896 sketch, with Illustrator Overlay
Mary Leonardson was a button fanatic traveling around the world roughly between the 1920s to the 1950s meeting up with various button clubs to coll...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 12:24
Caption: Ozark Highlands Radio
Nationally recognized clawhammer banjo prodigy and Stone County native Lukas Pool with his band “The Moonlight Ramblers” perform live at the Ozark ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Ozark Highlands Radio
Nashville based neo-folk stringband “Locust Honey” performs live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews ...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Ozark Highlands Radio
Original Ozark Stringband “The Leatherwoods” perform live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews with “T...

  • Added: May 29, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
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On Good Friday, thousands of pilgrims walk from across New Mexico to the little church El Santuario de Chimayo. Hear the story of this legendary s...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 01:34:59
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Listeners escape with Michelle Valentine to a quaint, historical Florida waterside bed & breakfast. Learn about the history of the hotel and take a...

Bought by KXCR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Deoli Internees in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
In 1962 a group of Indians were shipped off to internment camps during a war with China.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
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François Clemmons played Officer Clemmons on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." He came to StoryCorps to discuss the role and his life.

Bought by WITF, WMUU-LP, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Felted Sheep, Credit: Patty Lovegreen
It's Fiber Arts Week on Area Voices! Producer Alauna Yust took a felting class with fiber artist Patty Lovegreen, and a table full of budding artis...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:19
Caption: A 1936 photo of one of the first events reconnecting Cajuns and Acadians. It was taken at the Grand-Pre, the national historic site where the largest settlement of Acadians was before the expulsion of the mid 1700’s.  That's Simon Thibault's great uncle, , Credit: Photo courtesy of Simon Thibault.
How is a region of the far north—Canada—intimately connected to a region 2,000 miles away in the Deep South? In this episode of Gravy, the story of...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 25:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bill and Odelle Berkley shortly after they got married.
Here's a WWII love story you've not heard before.

Bought by KUCB


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Freeman “Buzzy” Buzzell has been a barber in Madison, Maine for the past fifty-five years, and he keeps at it because he loves his customers.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 2
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In this Prelude to Summer we end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and looking up at the ...

  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 25:20
Caption: B.B. King
A music intensive two-hour program of B.B. King performances that celebrate his long-standing role as the unassailable "King of The Blues." Paul I...

Bought by WHRV, KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, KWIT and more


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:57:42
  • Purchases: 16
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As spring showers are truly bringing May flowers to St. Cloud, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack brings us an Untold Stories of Cent...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 26:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Science and medicine was a main passion for Earl Bakken, inventor of the portable pacemaker. As a co-founder of Medtronic he began collecting early...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
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Many of the historic Art Deco movie theaters you see throughout Minnesota can be attributed to one man, Jack Liebenberg. KFAI's Ryan Dawes speaks w...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:33
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During the last 150 years, most of Minnesota’s native prairies have been destroyed—converted into farmland for crops like corn and soybeans. But a ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Satchmo in 1960.
In this hour, it's a look at the life and music of Louis Armstrong with the good people of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, located in Louis' form...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KMUN, WGBH Radio Boston, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
Caption: Debika and Ronu
The end of year issues all over magazine stands in India all carry photo spreads of the icons we lost. Famous people from the world of politics and...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
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Read by Winona LaDuke

Bought by KSFR and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 2