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HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 16
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"Parks And Scandinavian Recreation" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Linda McGurk wanted her children to love the outdoors, just...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 33: Ten Steps
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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On December 22, 2016, Karen Klein got trapped in a snowstorm near the Grand Canyon. But she pushed through it to save her family.

Bought by KUER and KVNF


  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 26:24
  • Purchases: 2
Maureen
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Sparx is a rat terrier Chihuahua, and he doesn’t let people get too close to me, I think for fear that they’re going to hurt me. He’s a good boy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
Grandmothers Matter
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Some surprisingly controversial theories of human longevity. 

  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 18:06
StoryCorps: Dawn Sahr and Asma Jama
From: StoryCorps
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One night, in October 2015, Asma Jama went out for dinner with her family at an Applebee’s restaurant in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. Asma, who is Somal...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Marfa Public Radio, and WEZU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Sarah Churchill and Yomi Wrong
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Sarah Churchill tells her daughter Yomi Wrong -- who has a genetic disorder that causes her bones to break easily -- about the night Yomi was born.

Bought by Public Radio for All, WEZU, WVBI-LP, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 4
Kitty Keeps On Singing
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us
Caption: Kitty Flanagan Barrett Curran
Tribute to my grandmother: No matter what life hands them, great dames keep on singing.

Bought by WHQR and Public Radio East


  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Joanne Nucho and Jeff Ono
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Joanne Nucho tells her husband, Jeff Ono, about her grandmother, Isabel, who was born in a refugee camp after her parents fled the Armenian Genocide.

Bought by Public Radio for All, WGUC/ WVXU, WEZU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Alicia Beltrán-Castañeda and Serena Castañeda
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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A mother tells her daughter about growing up in California in the late 1960s, and the lesson learned after her mother gave her beloved bed away.

Bought by KZYX, WGUC/ WVXU, WEZU, and KRZA


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Jenn Stanley and Peter Stanley
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Jenn Stanley (left) and Peter Stanley (right)
A conservative father and his self-described liberal daughter try to put their political differences aside and listen to each other’s points of view.

Bought by Public Radio for All and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 07, 2016
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Jasmine Pacheco and Carmen Pacheco-Jones
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Jasmine Pacheco (left) and Carmen Pacheco-Jones (right)
A mother talks to her daughter about what it was like to reconnect with her children after her years of drug and alcohol abuse tore their family ap...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Tariq Sheikh and Tabinda Sheikh
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Tariq Sheikh (left) and Tabinda Sheikh (right)
Married for 25 years, Tabinda and Tariq were recent immigrants when they first met, and even without a common language, their love blossomed.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:23
A Woman Walks into a Bar
From: renee wilde
Series: Community Voices
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A woman walks into a bar, asks 23 random strangers what advice they would give their 18 year old self, and every single person said the same thing.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:03
StoryCorps MVI: Jenna Henderson and Laurie Laychak
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Jenna Henderson (right) and Laurie Laychak (left)
Jenna Henderson came to StoryCorps to remember her husband, Army Sgt. First Class Chris Henderson, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2007.

Bought by WTIP and WEZU


  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Look in a Mirror. Up Your Game. #526
From: Teosson Wells
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Slothfully inclined and vanity deficient? Less is more ... dress better!

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 09:10
StoryCorps: Savannah Phelan and Kellie Phelan
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Savannah Phelan, 8, talks with her mother, Kellie, about how she felt after learning that her mother was in jail on Rikers Island at the time of he...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Donna Engeman and Nicole McKenna
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Nicole Engeman (left) with her mom, Donna Engeman (right)
Donna Engeman shares stories about her husband, Army Chief Warrant Officer John Engeman, who was killed 10 years ago while deployed in Iraq.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:06
StoryCorps: Jim Stockdale and Jasey Schnaars
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Vice Admiral James Stockdale was a Vietnam War POW for more than seven years. His son, Jim, recalls the family’s difficult wait for his father’s re...

Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Bill Sayenga and Ellen Riek
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Bought by WXPR, WVBI-LP, WEZU, and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
Slipping Away: An Alzheimer's Story, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Triptych photo illustration, Credit: Doug Dobey.
For the longest while I would think of my mother as a husk like the shell left behind by a cicada, all the internal meat gone, just a crisp skin re...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 27:38
Ovarian transplants are on infertility's cutting edge
From: Robin Amer
Caption: Ralph and Katy Panek were able to have children thanks to a donated ovary from Katy’s twin sister Carol Enoch., Credit: Courtesy of Carol Enoch
Thirty-six-year-old twins Carol Enoch and Katy Panek are physically identical in every way but one: Katy was born without ovaries. She never menstr...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUER


  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Trista James, Tanya James and Michelle Paugh
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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In 1979, Tanya James went to work in the West Virginia coal mines. She came to StoryCorps to share her experiences from those early days.

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WRIR, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 6
Crying Dry Tears
From: Ibby Caputo
Caption: These eyes won't cry., Credit: Damian FitzPatrick
An homage to crying, originally aired on Radiotonic.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 15:26
  • Purchases: 1
Infant Loss
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A sensitive discussion among medical professionals about infant loss

  • Added: Oct 10, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
StoryCorps: Marilyn Hillerman and Andrea Crook
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Marilyn Hillerman (L) and Andrea Crook (R)
When Andrea Crook was 24, she began having paranoid thoughts, delusions, and her behavior became erratic. She picked up the phone and called her mo...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 3

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