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This week, we explore the songbook of one of the greatest songwriters of the second half of the 20th century, Joni Mitchell. We'll hear her songs p...
- Added: Aug 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
I spent a few weeks asking friends and passers-by what songs their mom sang to them. Dedicated to Jeanette Metzner.
- Added: May 12, 2024
- Length: 07:34
In the early 1950s, singer June Christy broke away from Stan Kenton’s Orchestra to record solo, helping to establish the “vocal cool” style of jazz...
- Added: Feb 19, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week, we celebrate singer and film star Judy Garland. We’ll chronicle her music career and feature many of her recordings from the 1940s to th...
- Added: Feb 13, 2024
- Length: 59:00
On this special, we celebrate singer and film star Judy Garland on what would have been her 100th birthday (June 10, 2022). We’ll chronicle her mus...
- Added: May 18, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Best friends Jamie Olivieri and Yennie Neal-Achigbu talk about being beside each other through the highs and lows of life, and how they’ve learned ...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Feb 09, 2021
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 1
A very real and heartfelt story of a woman and the memories of her late cat. (Sad!)
- Added: Aug 27, 2019
- Length: 03:13
Hospitalist Peter Barish recounts an intense, intimate moment with a patient.
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 36:02
Sirisha Narayana, a hospital internal medicine physician, discusses her strong identity as a physician, and how it collided with her other identiti...
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 29:46
Vi Khi Nao’s poem inhabits the scene of a painting composed in 1998.
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Emily Skillings writes a tribute to poet John Ashbery who died in September of 2017.
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
The story of a 1960s transatlantic 'rock and roll' romance, created for radio. Laura remembers her love affair with Jim, a well known American rock...
- Added: Jul 23, 2017
- Length: 01:05:40
We follow a mother's love through the stages of life to seek wisdom about what love is, what love does, and why love happens. We follow five mother...
- Added: May 15, 2017
- Length: 47:06
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
Lana Williams is serving life without parole. Here she describes a typical day.
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 03:39
Diana Linz has always had a connection with dogs. Being in the dog program at the prison helped Diana cope with being locked up.
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 05:22
Hope Kirwan profiles Lori Stoll, who decided adopt five Southeast Asian children. “On Motherhood” considers what it means to raise nine kids.
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 04:48
Sgt. Major Lisa Torello remembers her father, Sgt 1st Class Carl Torello, who was killed in Vietnam in 1965, with Tony Cistaro, who was with her fa...
- Added: May 22, 2015
- Length: 03:05
What would college students say to their mothers on Mother's Day, since many students can't be with her?
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 01:21
- Purchases: 1
Midnight Zephyr, recorded by Marc Blackwell, is song #4120 written by Larry W Jones, the Kingwood Kowboy.
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 03:37
Nigisti Hailemariam has been in the United States for over 20 years; she has two kids, a stable job, and a red Honda outside her three bedroom apar...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 05:26
"Across The Sea" - Lyrics, Music, Vocals by Jim Whitman. Produced by Larry W Jones, Kingwood Kowboy.
- Added: Dec 13, 2014
- Length: 03:35
A poor rejected man looks out his lowly cabin window at the big mansion on the hill where he knows she is not happy.
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 03:16
On May 16, 2004 was the day I lost my closest friend, my biggest supporter, my biggest inspiration to be the best person I could be. and the best h...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 05:05
This Women's Words features Moriah Erickson reading her poems "The Mallard" and "Photo 1971."
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
