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HOUR ONE: "Rethinking The Holidays" - What are you doing for the holidays this year? We know we need to keep it small, keep it safe. But maybe we c...
- Added: Nov 26, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
To ring in the new year, take a dive into the stories of the Coney Island Polar Bear club. We hear from voices from across New York City—a cop spea...
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 10:48
A mom and veterinarian politely asks Santa not to bring her children the item that tops their Christmas lists: a puppy. With love and detail, Dr. ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 04:00
This Mother’s Day Sandip remembers Nigel Akkara, who told him about his two mothers.
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 06:00
At the end of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads the poem "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite is chos...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KSFR
- Added: Dec 26, 2017
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 2
At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite poem was chosen not o...
- Added: Dec 27, 2016
- Length: 04:51
There's a lot of talk about food these days, from farmer's markets to the local food movement. But in some communities, there's a whole different c...
Bought by KUAF Public Radio, WRGY, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KENW
- Added: Nov 18, 2016
- Length: 32:45
- Purchases: 4
In honor of Halloween, mortifying tales about the kind of fears kids actually have.
- Added: Oct 23, 2016
- Length: 26:34
Jennifer Kingsley returns to the Arctic almost every year. She has taken some long journeys across the north by canoe, but these days she travels a...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 11:06
- Purchases: 1
Retired American Presbyterian missionary Barry Alter explains, in India, how the Easter story convinced her that Christianity wasn't about converti...
Bought by KZYX, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, and WEZU
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 4
There is a demand in this country that corporations acknowledge that they are not people. Until corporations wake up one morning, and say, “I‘m r...
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 03:50
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
- Added: Jan 20, 2014
- Length: 03:30
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has no central "ocean" theme, but many of its myriad studies, project...
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 05:23
Liz Massey's family only had 3 holiday record albums when she was growing up. In this story, she explains her role as an unlikely evangelist for on...
- Added: Nov 24, 2013
- Length: 08:22
Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota. In this piece, Finch explains the role of a Christmas t...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 1
Each year during the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen above all oth...
- Added: Dec 20, 2011
- Length: 05:13
Just who were the Pilgrims and what did they want?
- Added: Oct 24, 2011
- Length: 46:15
- Purchases: 2
Do you know why you celebrate Halloween?
In this special Halloween Seeds of Sound, Gabriel Rima asks listeners to question this tradition and celeb...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KRZA, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and WTIP
- Added: Oct 19, 2011
- Length: 03:25
- Purchases: 4
Part one of a two-hour remembrance for Memorial Day... Since the ending of the Civil War in 1865, America has lost over 700,000 soldiers. For Memor...
Bought by KTXK
- Added: Apr 26, 2011
- Length: 44:32
- Purchases: 1
Celebrating St. Patrick's Day with this edition of Kaleidoscope. From Mose the Firefighter to terminology and Irish practices, here is a look at th...
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Feb 14, 2011
- Length: 47:56
- Purchases: 1
Traditions, trivia, and history of St. Valentine's Day. Also included is a brief story by Charles Westcott about a little girl and her homemade val...
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Jan 17, 2011
- Length: 50:32
- Purchases: 1
Our Pilgrim Fathers & Mothers—Mike Whorf details the first few years of the Plymouth colony and the natives they befriended.
- Added: Nov 09, 2010
- Length: 44:09
The Salvation Army bell ringer, bundled up to stay warm in weather that has turned brutal overnight, stands just beside the front door of the busy ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2009
- Length: 04:01
Thoughtful commentary about the symbolic role of lights at Christmas
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 03:30
(Could be used as a "dark" Valentine) Public smiles often hide the private anger of those 'perfect' couples
- Added: Jan 31, 2007
- Length: 03:25
