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StoryCorps: Gerry Kleba and Lauren Bennett
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Father Gerry Kleba and Reverend Lauren Bennett forged an unlikely friendship through their experience offering spiritual support in Missouri’s exec...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and KALW


  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Felts Update
From: StoryCorps
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A few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we heard from 90-year-old Kenneth Felts, a man who amidst quarantine, decided it was time to confront a tr...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:20
Episode 5: Lockdown blues
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: Keeping Dad Alive
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When Richard stops answering the phone and getting out of bed for Zoom meetings, daughter Kerry finds a new way to reach dad—just in time for new r...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 10:35
StoryCorps: Kenneth Felts and Rebecca Mayes
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Kenneth Felts and Rebecca Mayes after their StoryCorps interview in Arvada, Colorado in July 2020., Credit: Kenneth Felts and Rebecca Mayes for StoryCorps.
In the late 1950s, Kenneth Felts met the love of his life, Phillip. But he kept their relationship a secret for more than 60 years. It wasn’t until...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WERA-LP


  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
Pairing Fine Wine with Cologne?
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program
Caption: The Wine Fellers
Does the mere wearing of cologne overpower a fine wine tasting? The Wine Fellers is an upbeat, good chemistry driven show created for anyone who h...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Larry Kushner and Eileen Kushner
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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As an adult, Eileen was diagnosed with a learning disability. At StoryCorps, she remembers how she overcame the challenges she faced at work.

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU


  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
Raising a Police Officer
From: Missouri Audio Project
Series: Summer Story Workshop, 2015
Caption: Raymond Summerville, Credit: Meredith Turk
Raymond Summerville uncovers the surprising and troubled past of George Hatton, a beloved citizen of Columbia, Missouri, whom neighborhood children...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 06:58
Sol (Remembering The Hyatt Disaster)
From: Matt Hodapp
Series: Paris of the Plains Podcast
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On July 17th, 1981 The Kansas City Hyatt Hotel Skywalk fell onto the unsuspecting attendants at one of the hotel’s popular Tea Dances. 114 people w...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 10:26
Poopy Old Man
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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We are all busy getting older, for better and for worse. Here is an unvarnished perspective on aging by author Marc Estrin. Marc Estrin is a write...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 24, 2014
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Kevin Lucey and Joyce Lucey
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Kevin Lucey talks to his wife, Joyce Lucey, about their son Jeff who was a...

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
A day with the Eviction Assistance Unit
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Deputies Joe Crittle and Diego Perez, Credit: Ninna Gaensler-Debs
When a landlord and a tenant are involved in a dispute, an eviction from the property is the last resort. And when evictions do occur in San Franci...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 18, 2014
  • Length: 08:52
  • Purchases: 1
Veterans find peace and community through mindfulness
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Nathan and Lesley Keith met on a military base in Kuwait, in 2006. They’re both Navy veterans, and together they served for a cumulative 27 years. ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps MVI: Veterans Crisis Line
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Elizabeth Olson and her colleagues at the Veterans Crisis Line, the only national suicide prevention hotline for service members, talk about helpin...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 3
Sicilian Grandmother Takes on The Godfather
From: Nancy Greenleese
Caption: Pina Maisano Grassi is a fabrics store owner and dedicated activist in the fight against the Mafia. Her husband was murdered in 1991 for refusing to pay the Mafia’s extortion tax., Credit: Nancy Greenleese
An 84-year-old grandmother and business owner is taking on the mob in Sicily. Organized criminals demand that business owners pay protection money...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:21
130210 The Meaning of Mardi Gras
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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From early calypso and New Orleans Mardi Gras music to New Orleans neighborhoods to my demise - what Mardi Gras means to me.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:47:46
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 9: Frank Piccirillo/Beggar Man Thief - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Frank Piccirillo
Bobby speaks with "Papa" about life and loyalties 60 miles north of New York City, in what some have labeled the “armpit of Connecticut”. A place t...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:25:02
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
Bea is 85.
From: Jaime Bedrin
Caption: Great Grandma Bea with Henry and Juliet, Credit: Jeff Slater
We recently celebrated my grandmother's 85th birthday. Her reflections here.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: :54
StoryCorps: Harrison Wright and Sean Guess
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Harrison Wright (R) with his grandson, Sean Guess (L)
Harrison Wright tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about serving in the Army at the end of World War II.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
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
The art of dying well
From: KALW
Caption: Dale Borglum is founder the Living/Dying Project
Dealing with death can be emotionally draining, but one man says we shouldn’t fear the experience. Instead, it should be embraced as a natural part...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 1
A Revolutionary's Memorial in His Own Words: Richard W. Johnson, Jr.
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious remembers Richard W. Johnson, Jr., an activist and publisher of four newspapers in Mendocino County, California, under the banner Men...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
The Maine Event
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Several times a month, art dealer Rob Elowitch becomes Robbie Ellis, "America's Sexiest Sexagenarian Superstud," a legend in Maine's independent wr...

Bought by WMPG and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 2
Stimulus Checks, Fort Sumner
From: Rogi Riverstone
Series: KUNM News
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Federal stimulus checks are arriving for retired railroad workers, veterans and people on Social Security Disability and SSI. Rogi Riverstone inte...

  • Added: May 08, 2009
  • Length: 04:23
Bookends
From: Maria Howes
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In the beginning, there was light - but there were also baby chickens.

  • Added: May 21, 2007
  • Length: 02:30