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Produced by two-time Peabody Award winning feature producer, Greg R. Barron, “The 19th Floor” is a light-hearted little “ditty”, an acoustic ariett...
- Added: Feb 24, 2016
- Length: 12:53
A personal, acoustic account of discovery...discovery of something close but unseen for many years. It is a metaphorical story about Hope..hope los...
- Added: Feb 24, 2016
- Length: 19:55
This ancient, raw soup is easier than you think.
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 03:58
This Minorcan gin tells us quite a bit about the island's history and culture.
- Added: Feb 07, 2016
- Length: 05:57
Maisy is a shop dog in Toronto, but she had to take time off -- a sick leave. To battle her cancer, her humans traveled with Maisy to seek treatmen...
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 27:43
Growing up, my family played a lot of music. We also performed... mostly funerals. The driving force behind it all? My dad. So, in order to better ...
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 28:53
"I was a drug smuggler for love, I was a drug smuggler for my mom."
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 09:05
- Purchases: 2
This special episode of Mortified features the story of a closeted teenager who escapes the bullies at school and retreats into his bedroom where h...
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 34:43
A Song Story is a mini-history of a time, a place, an individual and a song. It's a personal experience, rising from memory every time we hear a ce...
- Added: Jan 09, 2016
- Length: 06:50
This seasoned pork sausage has a flavor as rich as its history.
- Added: Jan 08, 2016
- Length: 04:44
A young man's journey from his home in Chile to his host family in suburban Minnesota quickly turns from exciting adventure to a nightmare.
- Added: Dec 26, 2015
- Length: 30:20
When Thanksgiving arrived in 2008, Robert found himself struggling with a tangled mess of emotions. The economic crisis in the U.S., big changes at...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 31:20
We all live with the knowledge of our own mortality, but what about those who know more, how do you chart a course through the world when the end i...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 22:34
Lise Saffran explores her son Jonah’s decision to embark on a Jewish rite of passage, despite the fact that he comes from a secular home.
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 06:58
Like the JFK assassination, everyone remembers what they were doing when they heard the news. For Aliza Goren, that isn’t so hard – she was one of ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 09:56
For years Danna Harman had been reporting the same old political stories for The Jerusalem Post. She wanted out. That’s how she found herself in Ke...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 20:05
On July 17th, 1981 The Kansas City Hyatt Hotel Skywalk fell onto the unsuspecting attendants at one of the hotel’s popular Tea Dances. 114 people w...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 10:26
Two journeys - in very different directions, and taken for very different reasons - out of, and then into, Africa.
- Added: Oct 21, 2015
- Length: 44:14
What if an influential teacher set you on your life's path? What would that teacher say if she met you today?
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 19:07
This is a story of a white immigrant troublemaker from Eastern Europe, a black revolutionary musician from New York and how one of them saves the o...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 13:56
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 05:13
I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 04:19
A story about the transformative power of loss. How one tiny life can become so large, that you begin to see it everywhere and in everything that y...
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- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 20:02
- Purchases: 1
Is live theatre still relevant? Why do I spend my summers doing family-friendly theatre in small towns?
- Added: Jul 23, 2015
- Length: 08:27
Being a soccer mom is harder than it looks.
- Added: Jul 05, 2015
- Length: 24:26
- Purchases: 2
