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Queen Mother Imakhu's rendition of the African American folktale about a group of mystical enslaved Africans who escaped their oppression by regain...
- Added: Feb 05, 2022
- Length: 08:35
In the first month of lockdown during the global pandemic, I made this short poem/prayer. The music in this piece is Falling to Pieces Again, by t...
- Added: Aug 10, 2020
- Length: 01:46
When Van Booth retired from the army in 2016, he came home with a heavy load of PTSD. He found a spot up on the train tracks to park his car and wa...
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 06:53
- Purchases: 2
From Antonín Dvorak's “New World Symphony” through Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land”, James Baldwin’s visions of a “Native Son” into the lat...
- Added: Jan 18, 2019
- Length: 59:25
The story of how members of the mostly white Unitarian Church of Evanston decided to take a stand in the Black Lives Matter movement.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 16, 2016
- Length: 09:02
- Purchases: 2
In a park in Ellensburg, a tree grows beside a small stream. Daniel Curtis DeHollander’s ashes lie beneath the roots.
DeHollander committed suicid...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 05:08
- Purchases: 1
Lorenzo Manuel started impersonating Michael Jackson after the singer’s death. At the time he found impersonating Michael helped him to cope with t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 05:13
- Purchases: 1
A candidate for Wisconsin's 51st Assembly district remembers his son, Peter, who brought so much joy into his life.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 08:19
How do you pass on the culture of a country you can’t remember? Three generations of the Hang family in Portland, Maine, try to reconcile memories ...
Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 3
Alzheimer’s sucks an entire life away, bit by bit at first, almost imperceptibly. By degrees memories--short-term, and then long-term--begin to fad...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 27:30
A brief program synopsis :
This is an audio piece describing the life of a typical male in the western world. From womb to tomb.
This is my first...
- Added: Jul 19, 2013
- Length: 24:40
Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:08
Mad Genius presents the latest story-song in our "2012: A Year In Your Ear" series: "The Police Made Them Hold Hands And Close Their Eyes."
C...
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 04:18
Why is death such a difficult subject to talk about?
From hospital mortuary to the grave, The D-Word explores our complex relationship with death...
- Added: Jan 23, 2012
- Length: 30:30
Lindsay Ess was at the top of her form, doing what she knew how to do best. Fashion was her passion. She breathed it; she lived it. Modeling. Phot...
- Added: Oct 17, 2011
- Length: 50:17
Mattie River looked like a puppy when we first found her. She was small and frightened, could barely stand on her own paws. Her wants seemed so ins...
- Added: Jun 30, 2011
- Length: 25:56
A woman shares her decision to stop trying to help her mentally ill mother.
- Added: Jun 05, 2011
- Length: 03:27
Two hospice workers invite us into the world of death and dying.
Bought by WMPG, KUOW, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 11:36
- Purchases: 3
A woman talks about her decision to not physically resist being raped by a friend.
- Added: Apr 12, 2011
- Length: 02:33
In early 2010, Elaine McGillicuddy lost her husband to bone cancer. Elaine has created her own grieving process rooted in daily rituals. She is e...
Bought by WMPG, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Interfaith Voices, KUOW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2011
- Length: 07:58
- Purchases: 5
New EP by Seattle-based indie folk-pop band in stores on Feb 1. 5 great tracks for any AAA/Folk/Eclectic music shows or news/talk interstitials. "...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 21:25
- Purchases: 1
He was America's first rock star ... and we knew him as Johnny Ace
- Added: Nov 18, 2010
- Length: 03:00
When he was a teenaged boy scout, Bill Johnson met a girl from Alaska on a westbound train. He only saw her once more. But nearly two decades later...
- Added: Jan 19, 2010
- Length: 01:00:20
John Yanga is a refugee from Sudan. He's trying to start a family farm in Maine, where he and his family of nine settled.
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:58
Between 50 and 80 percent of American adults carry oral herpes, the virus that causes sold sores. Many people with oral herpes never show any symp...
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 07:19
