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Preface and Introduction to the book
- Added: Jun 21, 2012
- Length: 29:30
An experimental narrative music piece for Radiolab/Longshot Radio's project exploring creativity, failure and revision.
- Added: Jun 11, 2012
- Length: 03:32
Chloe Espinosa, a student at a Catholic school in Santa Fe, NM, explores the issue of gay rights in the context of religion. She interviews a local...
Bought by WDBM and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 05:32
- Purchases: 2
In which I write an break-up letter to improv comedy.
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 19:49
A Tibetan writer tries to make sense of sex, gender issues and relationships in exile.
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 05:08
One evening during the overnight shift at the Hilton, Sam inadvertently ruins a co-worker’s life.
- Added: Feb 28, 2012
- Length: 12:25
This week on Tales from the South, stories about lessons: some learned from a parent, some from a stranger, and some from a child. Stories by Murra...
- Added: Feb 17, 2012
- Length: 29:00
One drunken afternoon at an Irish Pub in lower Manhattan, a fellow bellhop co-worker of mine informed me that he could see the future. This is an ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 17:54
Bemidji area resident Susan Carol Hauser's most recent book is a nonfiction chronicle of an 18 day journey down the Mississippi. Susan joins Maggie...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 10, 2012
- Length: 18:25
- Purchases: 1
After twenty years of doing it, Mark Munger conveys this writer's "personification of pattern" as he recites this recent essay about his morning wr...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 10, 2012
- Length: 09:28
- Purchases: 1
Electronic Intifada founder Ali Abunimah says a global movement against Israeli government policy is breaking through. On this edition, Abunimah ex...
- Added: Nov 08, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Stories show us that with every ending, there follows a beginning...whether we want either to happen or not. Kate Knable watches her brother get st...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...
- Added: Aug 31, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Church holds unexpected surprises. George S. Smith challenges his Sunday school teacher, Marvin Schwartz witnesses a resurrection, and Wetzel LaGro...
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Annual Mothers Show: Amy Manning Burns is in the very first stages of becoming a mother, Ardee Eichelmann's newborn son cries in pain as the pain o...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Actress Natalie Canerday humorously remembers her first film role. A special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their ow...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Cristel Martinez came to America from the Dominican Republic with a dream to become a music producer. But the only music she hears in school, says ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WGXC, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 3
Shayla Torres dealt with a lot of violence in her last school, where she was a peer mediator. Here, the 17-year-old junior recalls one especially c...
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 3
Former National Security Advisor James Jones speaks to the Press Club about challenges facing the United States and the recent military mission tha...
- Added: May 21, 2011
- Length: 53:59
Less than one hundred years ago, women voted for the first time in a national election. Two months ago, Lauren Peterson headed to the polls for a s...
- Added: Apr 05, 2011
- Length: 04:48
“Palestinian Hoop Dreams” is a thoughtful story by Ahmed Hemeid, a Palestinian student at United World College. Ahmed’s tells us an amazing story t...
- Added: Apr 05, 2011
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
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
When will I get over my obsession with Walden Pond? As a 20something interested in connecting to nature, is Thoreau the best example?
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Mar 23, 2011
- Length: 10:18
- Purchases: 1
Youth producer and radio DJ Yithzak Ledesma explores his love of Tejano music and interviews a local Tejano DJ. Produced at LBJ High School in Aus...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Mar 16, 2011
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 1
Esmerelda Gonzales-Munoz's "The Love I Felt For You" shares with us her story about love. Created during Youth Media Project's 2010 Summer Intensiv...
- Added: Jan 07, 2011
- Length: 03:20
