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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
Jonestown / Prime Time! / Vern's House! / PSA / Re-energize Your Workday!
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Julia Scheeres/Jonestown Patricia Cohen/middle-age Vern Yip/decorator Dr. Richard Ablin/Prostate Cancer Susan Shane/desk exercise

  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
Felix The Different
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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"My understanding had a name now." An 86 year old retired autistic judge chronicles his journey from the Everglade Swamp of the segregated South to...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 20:50
Little Rock Nine / Breaking Back Pain / The Art of Living Well / Files of a Family Lawyer / Wine Down
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Segment 1: Carlotta Walls Lanier Segment 2: Dr. Patton Segment 3: Roman Krznaric Segment 4: Margaret Klaw Segment 5: Melanie Wagner

  • Added: Aug 09, 2015
  • Length: 52:26
StoryCorps: Donnie Dunagan and Dana Dunagan
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Donnie (L) and Dana (R) Dunagan
Retired Marine Corps Major Donnie Dunagan, who was the voice of Bambi in the 1942 Disney film, tells his wife, Dana, about hiding his acting credit...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WVBI-LP, Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 6
Love, Sex, and Life: The Dr. Is In
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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First, Dr. Ruth is most famous as a sex therapist but few people know she narrowly escaped death from the Holocaust, was raised in an orphanage in ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WCNY, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WPCA-LP, and KEDT


  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 5
Il Barbiere di Madison
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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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
A Subject of Universal Interest
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Hundreds of New England towns honor their oldest resident with a cane when the previous town elder dies. Some recipients celebrate; others feel cur...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
An Everyday Guide to Alzheimer’s Prevention
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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First, from brain-protecting foods to physical and mental exercise, Dr. Gary Small, reveals an easy to follow regimen that will increase brain heal...

Bought by Harford Community Radio and WCWP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 2
Mike Remembers The War
From: Eric Molinsky
Caption: Mike at his home in Brookline, MA, Credit: Eric Molinsky
This audio was recorded in 2008 when I asked my uncle Mike Alexander to talk about his service as a bombardier in World War II. Mike was a proud Je...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 13:10
Episode 13: The Big Sleep
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Raymond Chandler is often called the greatest American crime novelist. But something very important to Chandler had gotten lost. No one noticed u...

Bought by KALH and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 16:08
  • Purchases: 2
Finding the Pursuit that Will Bring More Happiness to life
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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First, there are many ways to bring more happiness into life. Chris Guillebeau discovered there are many people set and accomplish lofty goals, as ...

Bought by WCWP


  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 1
A Thousand Untold Lives, Prime Time Years, Vern's House, Prostate Hoax, and Re-energize
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Series: 2 Boomer Babes Radio Hour
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First, Julia Scheeres, provides new insights into the largest mass suicide of modern times using newly released federal documents and extensive int...

Bought by WCWP


  • Added: Sep 16, 2014
  • Length: 54:51
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Alton Yates and Toni Yates
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Alton Yates tells his daughter, Toni, about being part of a small group of Air...

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WEZU, WTJU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 5
Enabling a Better Life for Aging Americans
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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First, the expected lifespan of the average American has nearly doubled in the past century. And the MIT AgeLab, part of the engineering division, ...

Bought by WCWP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Clela Rorex and Sue Larson
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Clela Rorex (R) and her friend Sue Larson (L).
Clela Rorex (R), a former County Clerk in Boulder, Colorado, tells her friend Sue Larson...

Bought by WEZU, WMUU-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KMUD, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 5
Healthy Living, Golden Gate's Guardian, Believe It or Not, Nunsense, and Model Mortician
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Series: 2 Boomer Babes Radio Hour
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First, Dr. David Agus, one of the world's leading cancer physicians and researchers, chronicled innovative steps we can take to prevent illness and...

Bought by WCWP


  • Added: Jun 03, 2014
  • Length: 54:51
  • Purchases: 1
Women AirForce Service Pilots, Medal of Honor, Army Wives, Life After War, and Reunions!
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Series: 2 Boomer Babes Radio Hour
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First, Deanie Bishop Parish is a WASP, a Women AirForce Service Pilot, and Associate Director of Wings Across America, an all volunteer non-profit ...

Bought by WJAB and WCWP


  • Added: May 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:51
  • Purchases: 2
Amy Grant: Caring for My Dad
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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At a time when singer Amy Grant was emotionally struggling with her parents dementia, she had temporarily stopped touring to take care of her ill f...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and WCWP


  • Added: Apr 15, 2014
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 2
Crisis at Memorial, Hearty Health, Tunes for Foodies, Surviving Secrets, and Root Down
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Series: 2 Boomer Babes Radio Hour
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First, Dr. Sheri Fink, a physician and an investigative reporter, reconstructs the events following Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Medical Center th...

Bought by WCWP


  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 54:51
  • Purchases: 1
Gadget Geeks Pursue Passion for Antique Radios
From: Rebecca Sheir
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For these guys, old radios are more than just electronics; they're works of art.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:25
China Camp State Park: Where past and present live side by side
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: John Muir and Frank Quan, Credit: Julie Caine
Lots of us know about China Camp State Park--there’s good hiking and mountain biking, and the beaches along San Pablo Bay are peaceful. But before ...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 10:16
The mysterious roots of a homegrown language
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Wes Smoot (far right), Don Pardini (second from right) and friends socialize at the Redwood Drive-in in Boonville, CA, Credit: Liz Pfeffer
A few hours north of San Francisco is the town of Boonville, nestled in the quaint Anderson Valley of Mendocino County. Like Silicon Valley, this p...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 13:24
The mysterious roots of a homegrown language
From: Liz Pfeffer
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Boontling is a dialect spoken in the tiny town of Boonville, Calif. While every word of the homegrown language tells a story, how and why it emerge...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 12:50
  • Purchases: 1
Legacies of Heroism and Hope, Perfect Staging, Alzheimer's Awareness, and Railroading
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Series: 2 Boomer Babes Radio Hour
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First, about a year-and-a-half ago, the 2 Boomer Babes first interviewed Navy SEAL Chris Kyle about his ten year stint in the elite and mysterious ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, WCWP, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 54:51
  • Purchases: 3