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- Added: Dec 19, 2023
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
The FRFF is a festival held around Winona that features a variety of documentary films. Though these films vary in message, topic, and substance th...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 31:15
This week on the show: How old is too old to work? -
Despite reaching retirement age, work never stops for civil servants in the Democratic R...
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Jul 15, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: As Europe and North America deal with record-breaking heatwaves, we look at how cities from Ahmedabad, India to Athens, Gre...
Bought by Radio Kansas, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WXDU
- Added: Jun 24, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
As the coal industry in West Virginia declides, a nonprofit is offering displaced workers an environmentally friendly industry instead—beekeeping.
- Added: Aug 30, 2021
- Length: 02:38
This week on the show: Solutions in sight -
Global problems often need local solutions — but who can find them? In Congo, there has been low tak...
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 30:00
- Added: Mar 05, 2021
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 1
The fishermen of Kerala took it upon themselves to clean up plastic waste in their precious ocean, and turn it into roads and local business.
- Added: Feb 27, 2021
- Length: 02:30
A theme park in Western France has come up with an unprecedented solution to deal with trash on their grounds. They’ve enlisted the help of a crew ...
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In the summer of 1922, in a town in southern Illinois, 23 people were murdered over two days. Men, women, and children came out of their houses to ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 24:23
this week on the show: Work — and no play? -
As today's fast-paced world spins faster and faster, the pressure is taking a toll on people's me...
- Added: Dec 19, 2019
- Length: 30:00
In 2018, Puerto Rico based actor, composer and filmmaker Juan Botta left job security behind to center on his creative life. That’s when he launche...
- Added: Oct 29, 2019
- Length: 12:52
This week on the show: The Florida Keys were devastated by Hurricane Irma over one year ago — we check in to see how residents are coping with de...
- Added: Nov 28, 2018
- Length: 30:00
We’ll say goodbye to the “Red Scare Next Door” in Evansville, Indiana and travel East to the Green Mountains of Vermont where it turns out that eve...
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 58:01
This week on the show: Working against the odds -
South Korea's automation craze is taking a toll on employees. Former gang members in El Sal...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 30:00
It’s no secret that rent around Salt Lake City is really high. And if you drive around downtown, you’ll see tons of new apartment complexes under c...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: May 21, 2018
- Length: 17:26
- Purchases: 1
When you think about Las Vegas, you might picture casinos, opulent hotels and neon signs. Like the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, Circus Cir...
- Added: May 09, 2018
- Length: 12:37
This week on the show: What's changed in the textile industry five years after the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh ? --- Women in Poland take to...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 30:00
Most of the lawsuits filed in Utah are debt collection suits, usually in the realm of a couple hundred dollars. And nearly all the debtors being s...
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 15:14
In 1974, author and oral historian Studs Terkel published his seminal book "Working," a portrait of America based on 130 interviews. The raw record...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 3
Sharon Griggins was 17 years old and working for Illinois Bell as a telephone operator when she was interviewed by Studs Terkel. For a job that req...
Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 4
When he was first interviewed by Studs Terkel in 1971, jockey Eddie Arroyo had been racing for 6 years. He said it was the hardest and most dangero...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 04:10
- Purchases: 3
Studs Terkel interviews a gravedigger in 1972 for his book "Working."
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 4
Studs Terkel interviews Al Pommier, aka 'One Swing Al', a parking lot attendant in Chicago, Illinois. This story aired as part of a week long serie...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 01:27
- Purchases: 4
Despite strict rules that you can't illicitly sell things outside of Jazz Fest, there is a whole economy that exists just beyond the festival gates...
- Added: Apr 28, 2017
- Length: 04:40
