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An episode that introduces a character while also saying goodbye to them.
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:01
Although 2019 was not a good year for Haley, this episode actually features one of her strongest allies throughout bad years and good ones. A frien...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:01
All of these episodes, the past 8 years, are set behind the backdrop of the town Haley has been working in: a midsize, rustbelt community that brin...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:01
This is a true story. Its 1956 and 11 year old Kenny Daniel discovers on televison the King of the Cowboys Roy Rogers. When he writes Roy Rogers a...
- Added: Mar 04, 2022
- Length: 15:57
To newborns, there is no discernable difference between night and day. Evening and morning blur together in this piece as Katie Marquette rocks her...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 09, 2021
- Length: 26:12
- Purchases: 1
Crystal Chandler finds the perfect memento of her grandfather, a former Seventh Day Adventist pastor, to take with her when she moves to New York.
- Added: Sep 09, 2021
- Length: 18:26
Working with personal diary entries, Dina Elsayed and Monika Müller-Kroll take listeners on a journey through the seasons to different places in th...
Bought by KMXT and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 28:11
- Purchases: 2
One day, Jakob Lewis receives an email from a German man named Ingo asking to be his pen pal. The close relationship they develop teaches Jakob tha...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 27:55
- Purchases: 1
A special episode, created in partnership with Queens Memory and the online newspaper The CITY, on grief and mourning during the COVID-19 pandemic,...
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 23:17
From: Motus Theater Boulder
Reydesel, a legally deaf undocumented college graduate, shares how he went from suicidal to successful after the Deferred Action for Childhood Arri...
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 17:35
Kiara tells a tender story of flying home to Mexico for the first time since she was four to see her ailing grandmother. (*She was able to visit as...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 14:27
- Purchases: 1
Don't tell me what to do!! Tales of strong-willed kids whose need for independence was unstoppable. With special guests Alex Kapranos and Paul Th...
- Added: Jan 14, 2018
- Length: 27:31
What's the very worst way to learn about the birds and the bees from your parents? The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2018
- Length: 22:02
What happens when you live in fear of everyone in school finding out your moms are gay? The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from ...
- Added: May 07, 2017
- Length: 20:05
What happens when everyone in your family knows you're the black sheep?
- Added: Jul 31, 2016
- Length: 18:09
A religious father refuses to let his daughter get corrupted by The Love Boat and other 80s pop culture.
- Added: Jun 19, 2016
- Length: 20:13
Part one of Audio Revolution! MIXTAPE #5 presents a powerful selection of stories made by youth at the Global Leadership Forum 2014 held at the Uni...
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 27:54
- Purchases: 2
Many spaces are designated for either men or women: bathrooms, clothing stores, hair salons. But some people don’t subscribe to being a man or a wo...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 08:01
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 10:03
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 1
Destination DIY host Julie Sabatier tells a story live on stage about that time she cooked potatoes for her Idaho in-laws.
Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KPIK-LP
- Added: Nov 27, 2014
- Length: 13:13
- Purchases: 2
"My sense has been that most men ultimately really do want children, and I think many of longer relationships -- that's been part of the end."
-Bet...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 01:53
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 06:17
- Purchases: 1
Staff Reporter Kenya, speaks about the significant role her mother has had on her life.
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 1
Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota. In this piece, Finch explains the role of a Christmas t...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 1
