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Making sense of my father and our estranged relationship with the music he left me.
- Added: Feb 26, 2021
- Length: 04:43
My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...
- Added: Jul 21, 2020
- Length: 03:48
- Added: May 07, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip remembers a bitter part of his childhood.
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Bharati Mukherjee is gone but she left the light on for many of us.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
I don’t know how many shoes this old radio program sells. But it can never feel the same as hearing those voices, most of them long dead, bring a c...
- Added: Oct 04, 2016
- Length: 05:59
When Alexis Diao’s father arrived in Tallahassee, Florida, he couldn’t even find coconut milk—let alone many other ingredients to make the Filipino...
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 26:13
- Purchases: 3
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
China Smith and her students share their perspectives on the dance world, and describe how they created their own world in Ballet Afrique.
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 04:42
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
Storyville is a new collaboration between of the University of New Orleans and WWNO. These are true stories about New Orleans written by the studen...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
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
In 2005, I moved from Chicago to the resort area of “Harbor Country,” directly across the lake from Chicago. It is the story of a city girl turned...
- Added: Sep 12, 2013
- Length: 04:22
My Uncle Harry died in World War II, before I was born. What I didn’t know was where he died, in a secret battle in the Aleutian Islands.
- Added: Sep 12, 2013
- Length: 05:51
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
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:00
City living proves less glamorous than anticipated to one wide-eyed newcomer -- but there are lessons about family to be learned.
Bought by American Voices
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 10:23
- Purchases: 1
Shayla Torres is a senior at Community Academy in Philadelphia and is going to college next year. But first, she’ll have to leave her grandparents ...
- Added: May 20, 2012
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 2
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
- Added: Oct 17, 2011
- Length: 05:15
Elk visit the ranch. Jessie and Pops sneak in for a close look.
- Added: Oct 13, 2011
- Length: 03:23
Remember Summer as a kid? Remember how there were no iPhones, video games or computers? Just the world outside waiting to be explored. Recollection...
Bought by KWSO
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 05:18
- Purchases: 1
After visiting Tibet, Chinese journalist Zhu Rui underwent a personal transformation, from critic of Tibetan society to one of its most passionate ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 06:45
A short story about my romance with a young German actress back in 1986, based on my journal entries and her letters. Thanks to Noel Dinneen and E...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 23, 2010
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 1
The author reminds her loved ones that the valentines keep coming all year long.
- Added: Feb 11, 2010
- Length: 04:00
