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Collaborating with the Mystery
From: Mary Quintas
Caption: Bud Brown with his trumpazoo and washboard, Credit: Mary Quintas
Bud Brown is known for singing Iris DeMent's "Let the Mystery Be". A few years ago, his relationship to the song changed: Bud's wife became termin...

Bought by XRAY.fm, PRX Remix, KALW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 13, 2014
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 4
Minor Key: A Teenage Composer at a Crossroads
From: Mary Quintas
Caption: Bryson Alexander playing one of his compositions, Credit: Mary Quintas
Bryson Alexander is a Contemporary Classical music composer. At 16 years old, he’s composed nearly 40 pieces...all without knowing how to read or ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 2
In Preparation for Sleep
From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio
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Daily routines can become monotonous, but when dealing with mental illness these tasks can feel insurmountable. Student producer Alanna Duncan take...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
Sing and I Will Hear You
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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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
Remembrance
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Remembrance of a friend and learning about Japanese funeral rites

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jan 31, 2008
  • Length: 08:52
  • Purchases: 1
Speaking to My Heart
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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When Nikki became a mother of two at the age of seventeen she promised to leave her life of drugs and crime behind. It was a promise she couldn't k...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Remix Radio, YouthCast, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Nov 28, 2006
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 4
It's Just A Job
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Veronica McNally reflects on life and work on her daily walk to her job at Pantheon Guitars in Lewiston, Maine.

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


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 3
Graduation Story
From: Terin Mayer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Emily Schwing is graduating out of sync, and without pomp and circumstance, but why should you care?

  • Added: Nov 25, 2005
  • Length: 05:31
"And Never The Twain Shall Meet"
From: Carmody Wilson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tim Hildebrand is just a regular, devout,church-going Baptist who is looking for the right girl to share his faith...and his bed.

Bought by KOPN


  • Added: Jun 25, 2005
  • Length: 08:15
  • Purchases: 1
Bringing The Work Into You
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Mike Luce builds a casket for his deceased mother.

Bought by PRX Remix, WORLDcompass.org, SALTcast Podcast, and American Public Media


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 4
Watching My Mother's Breath
From: Dale Short
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A gentle poem about the ending of a 90-year-old farm woman's full life

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
"Out of the Ashes: Teatro la Fenice"
From: Angela Taylor
Caption: PRX default Piece image
"Out of the Ashes: Teatro la Fenice" is a feature on the tragedy and triumphant return of this iconic Venetian opera and music house.

Bought by WHQR


  • Added: May 25, 2004
  • Length: 17:14
  • Purchases: 1
Surviving Church
From: Bruce Gerstman
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Two people who joined Jim Jones's cult, The People's Temple, and got married 20 years after the Jonestown Massacre.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2003
  • Length: 10:22