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Jack and Rose
From: Emma Miller
Caption: Gloria and Rose
Sassy and sagacious Gloria, 85, shares stories of being in both a conventional heterosexual marriage and a long-time same-sex relationship.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 2
My Mystery Magnum of Wine
From: Reese Erlich
Caption: Wine expert Narsi David, Credit: Reese Erlich 2014 (c)
Reese Erlich unravels a family tale and explores old wine making as he opens a mysterious magnum of Sebastiani Barbera.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Collin Smith and Ernest Greene
From: StoryCorps
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Collin Smith (23), who became quadriplegic after a car accident in high school, talks with Ernest Greene (72) who volunteered to go to college with...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: May 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Dennis and Barbara Hale
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dennis Hale tells his wife, Barbara, about being the sole survivor of the Daniel J. Morrell shipwreck on Lake Huron in 1966.

Bought by WEZU, KMUD, WTJU, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4
Alzheimer's: Slipping Away
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Frances Hilary McGuigan, Credit: Doug Dobery
This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2013
  • Length: 54:59
Alzheimer's: Slipping Away Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Alzheimer’s sucks an entire life away, bit by bit at first, almost imperceptibly. By degrees memories--short-term, and then long-term--begin to fad...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 27:30
Modern-Day Homesteaders
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Destination DIY profiles two families who live the DIY lifestyle every day by growing and making most of what they need.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Lynne and Jack Bruschetti
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lynne Bruschetti tells her son, Jack, about her father, Leonard Carpenter.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
Six Feet Above
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Chuck Lakin has a unique hobby. He builds coffins. For living people.

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


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 3
Early Memory Loss
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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People born at the leading edge of the Baby Boom turned 65 last year, with more and more Americans entering what experts call “young old age.” One ...

Bought by KENW, WXDU, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Edith Green and her granddaughter, Chaya
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Edith Green tells her granddaughter, Chaya, about being a survivor of gun violence.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Freddie and Wilma Sue Wood
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Freddie Wood and his wife Wilma Sue talk about the Wood and Swink General Store and Post Office, which has been in Freddie's family for more than a...

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 2
It becomes more beautiful all the time
From: Anne Hoffman
Caption: The producer and her Grandmother, several years ago
Virginia Mae Snyder lived alone in her house in West Virginia until she was 94. She suffered a drastic fall while gardening; a fall which forced he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: David Plant and Frank Lilley
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: David Plant (L) with his stepson, Frank Lilley (R)
Frank Lilley interviews his stepfather, David Plant, about approaching the end of his life.

Bought by WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KMUD, and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 4
Taking Mom to the Movies
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
Caption: Dave White
After his mother has a massive stroke, writer Dave White describes the quick thinking and problem solving necessary for a simple trip to the movies.

Bought by WCNY, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 13, 2012
  • Length: 10:49
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: René and Michelle Foreman
From: StoryCorps
Caption: René Foreman (R) and her daughter Michelle (L)
René Foreman, who survived cancer of the esophagus, tells her daughter Michelle about speaking through an electrolarynx.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 1
Peggy and Hugh: An Oral History
From: Laura Herberg
Caption: Peggy and Hugh, then and now.
Peggy grew up on the Canadian prairie listening to big band on the radio. Hugh grew up in Seattle and tried to stay out of trouble from his Welsh ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2012
  • Length: 17:18
StoryCorps: Julian Walker and Julia Walker Jewell
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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75-year-old Julian Walker tells his daughter, Julia Walker Jewell, about an accident his father had as a young boy.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Betsy Brooks and John Grecsek
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Betsy Brooks tells her boyfriend, John Grecsek, about her father.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 2
'Til Death: Love, Marriage and Valentine Sweethearts
From: Rosemary Langford
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Is marriage forever? Sometimes it can seem like it. This short, fully-produced audio essay describes the tension between loving and LIVING WITH tho...

Bought by KPIK-LP and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 2
It's Right For Me
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Alice Loesch has lived through a century that has seen some of history’s most sweeping changes in the lives of women.

Bought by WTIP, Delta College Public Radio, KSFR, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 10
No Faith in Zoning
From: Addie Goss
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Landowners in Johnson County, Wyoming, live with a kind of paradox. They hate to see their neighbor's ranches turned to subdivisions. But their b...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2009
  • Length: 05:11
What We Talk About When We Talk About Little Italy
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An oral history of Portland, Maine's long-lost Little Italy.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2009
  • Length: 07:08
Grandfather
From: Sarah Neal (Neal-Estes)
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is a piece about an unexpected recording from the past. My grandfather taped hours of his thoughts for me when I was two - sitting in his sel...

Bought by KSFR, New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, WSLR, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2008
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 6
In Sickness & In Health
From: ANITA PALLADINO
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Humor, family

  • Added: Jun 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:27