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Caption: The widows of Vrindavan
Some 60 widows in white saris from the town of Vrindavan made thier way to Kolkata for the festival of the Goddess Durga. Something many of them ha...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
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This European-born couple who have called Australia home for many decades created the first in the Lonely Planet series of guide books more than 40...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 11, 2014
  • Length: 09:48
  • Purchases: 2
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Newspaper columnist and Montana rancher, Richard Geary, talks about rural culture then and now, and reads some of his essays.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, WCWP, KSJD, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
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How the Spine Affects your Brain with Dr Shannon Parisi

  • Added: Jun 10, 2014
  • Length: 16:37
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Where do you turn when you can’t afford to live in the city?

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Nearly everyone has strong emotional connections to music, and one man realized that our relationship to music might improve the quality of life fo...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bob Quin in leather jacket
I brought a microphone when I visited my grandfather, and he told stories I'd never heard. This is one of those stories, with original music and so...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious pays tribute to the life and times of Pete Seeger, folksinger, troubadour and activist, who died January 27th, 2014 at the age of 94.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jan 29, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry, Alice Friman's other honors include the Ezra Pound Poetry Award for her third book, ZOO. In t...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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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
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Radio Curious visits with local singer, songwriter Mary Buckley, who shares songs from her new CD “What Are You Afraid Of.”

  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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On a wide street full of work spaces, lined with cars and no trees in sight is the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center. It’s the one building on the ...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 07:30
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Radio Curious visits with organic grape grower Charlie Barra, founder of Barra of Mendocino Organic Wines.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Kris Kristofferson , Credit: NPR
Kris Kristofferson talks about his most recent album, "Feeling Mortal," and a lifetime spent with words and music.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2013
  • Length: 13:49
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A visit to a Jewish assisted living facility to record memories of what people hunger for over the courses of their lives.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Melissa Fletcher makes her home in the Twin Cities. Her poems and short stories have been published both locally, and nationally. The Beat is a dai...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
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Radio curious visits with Dr. Dan Gottlieb, a psychotherapist, author and host of Voices in the Family, a weekly public radio program originating f...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Olga Colon., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
In this short documentary, longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home lost to immigration.

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:52
Caption: Paul J. Hintersteiner (left) and Debra Klaber (right)., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Longtime New Yorkers recall cooking and food shopping in NYC's bygone era of milk and ice delivery men, ice boxes, horse-drawn fruit and vegetable ...

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:18
Caption: Margot Karp., Credit: Photo courtesy of Margot Karp.
Margot Karp, 86, moved with her family to Washington Heights, Manhattan, in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. Karp has fond memories of her mother's str...

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 03:04
Caption: Ruben Aguilar (R) and Bill Luna (L)
Ruben Aguilar tells his friend Bill Luna about his family's deportation as part of the Mexican Repatriation Program in 1933.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Reminiscing on Hartford's past.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 04:40
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With the legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine, Barton Girdwood got to wondering, what about all the gay men in Maine who never found love? S...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Paul J. Hintersteiner. , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:14