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Curse of the Traveller - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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Colin Bartlett takes us to East Germany before the wall came down.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:20
Lindberg - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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In his Song Story, Rod Clarance reminds everyone born in Montreal something we all intuitively know. You can leave Montreal, but Montreal will neve...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2015
  • Length: 06:06
Cinnamon Girl - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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Artist and medical technician Deb Mueller Peate take us to her youth and back in a Song Story that covers four decades of memory.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:42
Wonderful Tonight - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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Here's a Song Story guaranteed to make you smile, if not tear up.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:41
Fun, Fun, Fun - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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At 15, Melanie Clarance's world was turned upside down.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2015
  • Length: 03:54
Hurricane Katrina's Impact on the New Orleans Hip Hop Scene
From: Scott Gurian
Caption: MC Know One
Musical profile of the founder of a New Orleans hip hop label and one of his rappers discussing how they were impacted and influenced by Hurricane ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 08:12
  • Purchases: 1
On A Visit To The United States, A First Encounter With Racism
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: RadioActive's Kamna Shastri and her cousin Ananya Shankar in Seattle, Credit: Jenny Asarnow
A 13-year-old girl in Chennai, India, had always wanted to visit the United States. But when she does, her idealized view of America is tested by t...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 39: The Ups And Downs Of Moving Countries And Choosing Careers
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Monthly Podcast
Caption: RadioActive's Yafiet Bezabih and Ann Kane in KUOW's studio recording this program. , Credit: Lila Kitaeff
This month RadioActive hosts Yafiet Bezabih and Ann Kane are fixing to surprise you. First we bring you three amazing stories about the challenges ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 16:24
Teacher With A Calling
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Fall 2013
Caption: World History Teacher Andy Giron, Credit: Hassan Abdi
To many there’s an occupation, to some there’s a career and to a few there’s a passion. Hassan Abdi has the story of a teacher who is amongst the f...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:27
Simmer 1: Jingling to Health and the Relativity of Poverty
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Simmer
Caption: Yams simmering for fufu in Togo, West Africa, Credit: Carla Seidl
The first Simmer episode features an interview with Malawi Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and songwriter Dr. Jack Allison and an investigation of t...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
Locked Down, Locked Out
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Maya Schenwar
America is the leading industrial country for incarcerated citizens. Editor-in-Chief of Truthout, Maya Schenwar, envisions the possibility of a fut...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Wayne Coyne on Living with Death
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I’m pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time" - Wayne Coyne, as told to Jennifer Van Evra by phone in 2002. The Flamin...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WOUB, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 3
Angels by the River: A Memoir
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gus Speth
From Chair of the United Nations Development Group; Founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and World Resource Institute, law professor a...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Steve Almond
You've heard part of this story on two NPR shows. Here is an extended interview: Football is not good for us, Steve Almond concludes, it’s not goo...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Scott Miller Interview #1421
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Scott Miller, Credit: Official Press Photo
Scott Miller is miles away from his days with the V-Roys, but Knoxville still claims him as their own, even if he has since returned to rural Virgi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WSLR, KKRN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Resister
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bruce Dancis
Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took p...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Author Jenny Bowen, “Wish You Happy Forever"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Though she identifies herself as just an ordinary person with a dream, au contraire, Jenny’s accomplishments are stunning. She is an American who...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
OOC2: Chris Taylor
From: Jake Harper
Series: Out of Context
Caption: Wisconsin Rep. Chris Taylor , Credit: Jake Harper
State Rep. Chris Taylor tells the story of her difficult second pregnancy.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 17:40
The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Laskin
Bestselling author David Laskin unfolds a sweeping epic that spans the three major upheavals the affected Jews in the twentieth century: immigratio...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Country Fried Rock Interviews Caitlin Cary of NC Music Love Army #1339
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: We Are Not For Sale: Songs Of Protest, Credit: Skillet Gilmore
Caitlin Cary and Jon Lindsay formed the NC Music Love Army after a long phone conversation inspired by a song quickly written and posted on YouTube...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
Country Fried Rock: Austin Lucas #1336
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Austin Lucas Stay Reckless
Austin Lucas quit a prestigious children's choir that toured the world when he walked in one day in a Ramones tee shirt and decided to form his fir...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KKRN, WLPR , KFOK-LPFM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2013
  • Length: 58:06
  • Purchases: 7
Kurt Cobain the Lost Interview
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I even thought that I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to my problem." - Kurt Cobain. Interview by Jon Savage in New York City on Jul...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KALW, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 5
Above the Waves
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Photo by Lisa Wilkerson
Above the Waves, the third publication from photographer Lisa Wilkerson and British poet and author Jeremy Reed, is a continuation of their sensual...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 26:24
One World Everybody Eats
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Denise Cerreta
As founder of One World Everybody Eats, Denise Cerreta is determined to change the way restaurants do business and to bring delicious, healthful fo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 20:58
  • Purchases: 1
Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy (Muscle Shoals Musician, Formerly of Drive-By Truckers)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Press photo from the band
If you think you know Shonna Tucker from her years playing bass with Drive-By Truckers, then you are in for a surprise with her debut album of her ...

Bought by Prairie Public, Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KKRN, KMXT and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6