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It's one thing to make it to living in your nineties, and another to get to that age and still live independently at home. Bob and Terry Rohe have ...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WMPG, KUOW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2011
- Length: 06:54
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: :47
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
This short, fully produced audio essay – with music and sound effects – is a rumination on growing old, with a nod to the effects of Alzheimer's. I...
- Added: Dec 09, 2010
- Length: 03:38
Fred Flaxman's tongue-in-cheek memoir, "Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry," concludes when the author discovers he's an old man on a subway in Paris.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 03, 2010
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 1
Portrait of Lou Alexander, a crossing guide in Portland, Maine
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 06:56
Every January thousands of retirees from the north will migrate south to escape the cruelest months of winter. Minneapolis Producer Susan Gray spok...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Dec 14, 2009
- Length: 04:39
- Purchases: 1
A group of senior citizens provide a surprising twist on a kids competition
- Added: Jun 24, 2009
- Length: 05:36
The moving story of Hans Ten Schermerhorn, as told to his granddaughter, in the back of a large, custom van.
- Added: Feb 24, 2009
- Length: 02:43
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
- Added: Jun 02, 2008
- Length: :47
- Added: Jun 02, 2008
- Length: 02:27
- Added: Dec 27, 2007
- Length: 04:10
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 21, 2007
- Length: 03:13
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 03:48
Elderly women at the annual Valentine's day dance in Chicago.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 08, 2007
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 2
Six ideas given shape by one man's unique view of life - includes how to treat others and cooking in moonlight.
- Added: Jun 19, 2006
- Length: :58
A meatball-eating contest story retold in a noisy restaurant.
- Added: Jun 19, 2006
- Length: 01:19
David Greenberger's monologue introduces his work with the Duplex Planet, interviews with the elderly that began at a Boston nursing home. Here Gre...
- Added: Jun 18, 2006
- Length: 02:15
Norman Millett has run the Senior Citizens' Barbershop for forty-one years. As Norman has learned, there are some perils unique to catering to seni...
- Added: Feb 18, 2004
- Length: 02:31
