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Hal and Marc help you to navigate the world as a single over 50.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 51:15
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Nicole Raymondi (right)
Bobby speaks, on location, from Columbus Circle (the literal epicenter of New York City) with Nicole Raymondi, creator of Quotiful, an iPhone app, ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2013
  • Length: 36:58
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I was hired in 1974 to help Ginger Rogers learn her lines for the opening of “Forty Carats,” at the Drury Lane East Theatre in Chicago. And that’s...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:55
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My life as a purveyor of “Business Theatre” for big corporations in Chicago.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 09:32
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The tale of disgusting littering run amuck when I lived in the Old Irving Park area of Chicago.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 07:37
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The story of dying my hair red on a whim and the way people reacted to me as a redhead.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 09:11
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The imaginary travails of myself reacting to rude patrons making noise with candy wrappers, cell phones, and other rude behavior in public movie th...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:48
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The characters who assembled every Monday night for the Open Mic at Earl’s Pub. This is the same Earl who owned the famous “Earl of Old Town Club,...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 20:17
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For our sixty-fourth episode we feature a group of guests: the Black Cherry Burlesque troupe from Tucson, AZ. A great group of gals who dance, act ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2013
  • Length: 28:01
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Gail describes her recent visit to an Irish bar in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2013
  • Length: 15:20
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My friendship with legendary puppeteer, Burr Tillstrom, and love affair with Kukla, Ollie, Fletcher Rabbit, and the rest of the Kuklapolitan Player...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2013
  • Length: 12:39
Caption: Frances Hilary McGuigan, Credit: Doug Dobery
This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2013
  • Length: 54:59
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know! Featuring Grammy Winner Miss Amy and Grammy Hopeful Matthew Shell.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
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Our SAVE AMERICA'S TREASURES selection this month features a 2001 public reading by Maxine Kumin, who shares poetry on a a variety of topics from b...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Actor Ned Averill-Snell reflects on sweaty teenage rehearsals for musical theatre, and forbidden glimpses of a more glamorous world.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
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Everyone loves a good happy hour - a chance to socialize and sip spirits. But what about happy hour in an assisted living facility?

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Strongman Eugene Sandow, 1893, Credit: Library of Congress
It’s summer, the beach is calling, and so is the dreaded swimsuit! Americans are constantly bombarded by images of physical perfection, especially ...

Bought by WUFT, KSRQ, KBRP Community Radio, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 26, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Episode Sixty-Two, Mary! Thank you for supporting all that episodic exposition! This episode we speak with romance novelist Mary Tate Engels. Autho...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
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Author and feminist pop cultural critic Roxane Gay talks about her upcoming novel, her approach to telling Haitian stories, and what writers can le...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 39:22
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In the 1970's, Minneapolis was Funky Town. One night, Joanna's mom met a disco guy with a body-sized freezer who took her on the worst date she eve...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KOSU, WFMU, and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Migrant cotton picker and her baby, Buckeye, AZ, 1940, Credit: (National Archives).
It’s BackStory’s birthday! To celebrate one year as a weekly show, the American History Guys are going back to where it all begins: birth. From mid...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KFOK-LPFM, KBRP Community Radio, WOUB, and WTJU


  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
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For our sixtieth (but far from the last) episode, we speak with Leslye Obiora, PhD, a person committed to community and women’s equality. Law profe...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
Caption: The View From Outside, by Susan Barnett, Credit: Hen House Press, LLC
Syndicated radio host Susan Barnett (51%, The Women's Perspective, WAMC-New York) reads 'Murray's Mustache' from her short story fiction collection...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 15:27
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The English Comedy Club, an expat theatre group in Brussels, Belgium, performs Calendar Girls this month. Alison Turner drops in to one of their f...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 10:35
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A woman arms herself before leaving for work; an 18 year old girl spends three months in an Alaskan cannery; and that woman on the phone is not who...

Bought by KUAC, XRAY.fm, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Aspen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 6