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John LaFratta didn’t start practicing law until he was in his thirties. He had studied business and English literature as an undergraduate, and wor...
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 27:06
The Ellis Act lets California landlords evict rent-controlled tenants. Supporters call it an important tool for repurposing land, but opponents fea...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 12:25
- Purchases: 1
This hour, the suits we wear and the impressions we make.
Bought by KUHF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Prairie Public, KCPW Salt Lake City, Troy Public Radio and more
- Added: Apr 22, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
There’s a man in a small city thirty miles south of Richmond Virginia whose business was pretty much wiped out by the Coronavirus pandemic. But des...
- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 12:26
this is the conclusion of 2828 Story of a House. It’s about a man named Leroy Basham who hoarded for several decades, and the people who dug throug...
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 22:09
The UnCommonCore Podcast explores the ideas, experiences and perspectives that make us all different. Content includes everything from live to tape...
- Added: Feb 03, 2018
- Length: 38:02
Hear from two nonprofit organizations trying to provide girls with more education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)
- Added: Sep 28, 2017
- Length: 47:25
Ritual Chocolate was founded in 2010 by Robbie Stout and Anna Davies and is based in Park City, USA. The company makes small-batch, bean-to-bar cho...
- Added: Jul 28, 2017
- Length: 33:48
How Angelica Garcia-Dunn went from struggling to feed her kids to building a booming Texas-sized trucking company.
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 12:45
Mikael Cho is the co-founder and CEO of Crew, at one point in the business’s history, he says they were running straight towards a brick wall. They...
- Added: Oct 22, 2016
- Length: 08:16
Michael Kearney is a genius — he holds the Guinness World Record for being the youngest person to graduate from college, at age 10. Now he's 32, an...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Marfa Public Radio, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 12, 2016
- Length: 17:44
- Purchases: 4
An incredible story of a cancer survivor that goes on to do the impossible.
- Added: Dec 12, 2015
- Length: 34:49
An immigrant's dream in Kansas City.
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 19:59
America's first African American female millionaire.
Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KBEM, KSKA, RadioStPete Florida, KETR-FM and more
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 02:02
- Purchases: 8
On December 5, 2013, fast food workers across the country walked out on a one-day strike, demanding fairer wages. But what's really at stake? The G...
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 06:08
Vietnamese fishing communities are still finding themselves grounded by the BP oil spill, one of the largest environmental disasters of the century...
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 10:20
- Purchases: 2
During the Great Depression, Ken Hardesty's grandfather was the de-facto bank for the townspeople of Aurora, West Virginia.
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 03:54
When a neighborhood newspaper folds, the publisher creates a unique ritual to mark its passing.
- Added: Sep 01, 2011
- Length: 05:42
- Added: Nov 23, 2009
- Length: 03:44
Stories, anecdotes, and fantastical rants about the woes of working life
- Added: Jul 28, 2009
- Length: 34:06
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 26, 2007
- Length: 12:55
- Purchases: 1
Winn Dixie recently opened in New Orleans East and while the rest of the area is slow to rebuild, residents are at least able to make groceries. I ...
- Added: Oct 04, 2007
- Length: 05:58
Matthew Works has been living on the streets for ten years. Here he remembers one of his last paying jobs, assembling Braille typewriters, which th...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WLPR , KUT, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 30, 2007
- Length: 08:42
- Purchases: 7
- Added: Jun 04, 2007
- Length: 18:54
- Purchases: 1
Stories of gay folks who stood up to their oppressors and kicked butt.
Bought by KICI Iowa City, North State Public Radio, KZYX, and KWCW
- Added: May 28, 2006
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 4
