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The worst U.S. mass murder of homosexuals in the 20th century was by a gruesome fire in a New Orleans French Quarter nightclub. Yet, the Upstairs L...
- Added: Jun 27, 2023
- Length: 19:45
An audio producer falls into step with a global advocacy campaign at the very moment it rises to call for mandatory action to fortify staple foods ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2023
- Length: 04:00
After years of languishing at the far end of the soda aisle, TaB has at last fallen victim to a decision by its parent company, Coca-Cola, to end p...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 13, 2022
- Length: 11:50
- Purchases: 1
In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 27:43
- Purchases: 1
A special Mother’s Day episode where Walker reads a letter she sent to her mom years ago to tell her why her desire to never have children does not...
- Added: Feb 21, 2022
- Length: 05:14
Have you ever found yourself looking around in a meeting or a class only to realize that you are the only one? Standing out in the crowd can be har...
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 34:53
A short form version of the non-narrated ARRVLS feature "Orthodox".
What happens when your religious faith and sexual identity directly contradic...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 06, 2016
- Length: 23:43
- Purchases: 1
Philip Armand becomes enamored with Campari while on vacation in Milan, then discovers the geography of the past and future.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 06:17
Philip Armand accidentally falls into a vortex of Bliss, then the bliss hangs up.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 05:43
Stories from disaster relief workers Ian Burgess and LN Lurie
- Added: Sep 13, 2015
- Length: 14:54
After accidentally joining a traveling circus, writer Jonathan Argyle recounts his discovery of the meaning of the word "home" from the point of vi...
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 11:19
- Purchases: 1
Mishy Harman shares the zany matchmaking adventures of his Orthodox downstairs neighbor, which he had no chance but to overhear because all her dat...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 09:27
- Purchases: 2
Michael Kelly's humorous look back at childhood Thanksgiving celebrations from long ago and the first turkey day he will spend far and away in Shan...
Bought by Angelica Community Radio, WTIP, WHRV, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 01, 2014
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 5
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
A cold-water, slap on the face, static-electric jolt reminder of just how powerfully spaces can affect the way we think and act.
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 3
Sadly, the historic Hubig's Pie factory in New Orleans burned down, and its neighbor Laura McKnight slept through it...almost.
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 04:43
Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 11:53
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
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
Once upon a time, Sam and Gerrit were flipping through a booklet of incoming college freshmen when they happened upon an unlikely superhero named C...
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 18:51
Sam meets the mysterious Man in the White Van, who rents him a beat-up cab, which he uses for his first fare, which nearly destroys him.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 09:51
3 Essays from This I Believe on Fear
Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This true gothic story was told by author Randy Osborne in which he recounts life with his eccentric grandmother, her 35 cats, and a retribution th...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 10:24
Jennifer Bosworth had to go crazy in L.A. before she could discover that the man she was looking for was in her home town all along.
- Added: Nov 21, 2010
- Length: 15:56
- Purchases: 5
Sarah Haskins (comedienne, Infomania's "Target Women" series) discusses how pregnancy has inspired her to prepare for the end of the world. Recorde...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 19, 2010
- Length: 09:16
- Purchases: 1
