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Ruben Östlund’s satire on the ruling class takes us on a luxury cruise headed for disaster.
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:33
We hear a familiar phrase, “2021 was not a good year for me,” and it’s true. 2021 was not a good year for Haley.
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 07:58
A rich, intimate story of family, childhood memories, and rediscovering old photographs and the stories that connect them.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 25, 2021
- Length: 16:36
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy addresses a major calamity in Kolkata.
- Added: Sep 04, 2018
- Length: 06:00
It was admittedly a moment of sheer American holiday nostalgia. Cooking a turkey in India. I thought it could be a fun adventure. I just didn’t rea...
- Added: Jan 09, 2017
- Length: 06:00
We enjoy many rights and privileges as citizens of a free and democratic society, and we we're asked to do is vote. Easy, right?
- Added: Nov 08, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Philip Armand grapples with commitment, then spends an afternoon watching the TV show Friends with a group of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 09:11
Tune in tonight as Tent Show host and author Michael Perry welcomes our very own Blue Canvas Orchestra in the first set followed by bluegrass outfi...
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 59:19
- Purchases: 12
What do the restaurants of your childhood say about the place you grew up? In Jack Hitt’s case, the Oysters Mornay and Escargots Bourguignonne of h...
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 3
Jonathan Chiu is an inmate at San Quentin State Prison. He was born in Hong Kong in 1982 and moved to the United States with is family when he was...
- Added: Jul 23, 2015
- Length: 05:21
Becca doesn't have very good luck with hiking. This is the story of her two near-death experiences with hiking, set ten years apart.
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 04:16
Keeping Me Humble is a podcast about the tough things in life...the stuff that keeps us humble.
Today...stories of disappointment.
Violinist Andrew...
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 16:19
Since I was 12-years-old, I always thought I would die by the age of 30. Here's the story of how I didn't, and how I spent my 'last few days' prepa...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 09:59
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Jul 20, 2014
- Length: 01:19
- Added: Jun 10, 2014
- Length: 02:01
Tent Show Radio welcomes from Nashville, Tennessee, Grammy Award bluegrass Nominees Della Mae.
Bought by KFOK-LPFM, WDSE, KSRQ, Wisconsin Public Radio, and KMXT
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 5
In this humorous piece, Nick, a music teacher, tells the story of two Celine Dion songs and how they have helped him understand the value of music ...
- Added: May 09, 2014
- Length: 06:38
The story of dying my hair red on a whim and the way people reacted to me as a redhead.
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 09:11
The imaginary travails of myself reacting to rude patrons making noise with candy wrappers, cell phones, and other rude behavior in public movie th...
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 05:48
Gail describes her recent visit to an Irish bar in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood.
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 15:20
Gail describes her adventures shopping for clothes. It starts out fun, and then...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 13:58
Mary Finch on women in sports.
- Added: Sep 05, 2012
- Length: 02:40
An introduction to some of my illustrious colleagues from my days as a bellhop/valet/part-time restaurant host at the Hilton.
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 15:12
A never-married guy comes clean.
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 04:42
This week’s Moth theme is “silver lining,” so here is a piece about the one bright spot in the worst summer of my life.
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 06:56
