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Ecclesiastes 3. To every thing there is a season
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The time to sell is when you have a buyer

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Jan 03, 2009
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
"Shift"
From: MayCope Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This audio essay is based upon a near accident during a winter weekend drive from Boston to New York City.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2009
  • Length: 04:47
Eat! Eat!
From: MayCope Media
Caption: Eat! Eat!, Credit: Sandy Chin
A personal audio essay about my Italian-American Nani teaching me the importance of showing love through cooking.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2009
  • Length: 06:19
Recycled Yacht Trash
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Trash left in Maine by New Jersey visitors might be brought back to New Jersey

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Jan 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 1
Will the New Year and Pres. Obama finally motivate Black men to shed excuses?
From: Will Wright
Caption: Will Wright, Credit: Brooks Peterson
Will Wright has been wondering: how will the New Year and Pres. Obama affect African-American men - their attitudes and futures?

  • Added: Dec 31, 2008
  • Length: 03:12
We Took in Boarders
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
How does a large family ever manage in a small house?

  • Added: Dec 30, 2008
  • Length: :21
Cleo
From: Alexander Yellen
Series: Tell Me Your Story
Piece image
Cleo had a hard time learning how to read

  • Added: Dec 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:49
They Moved Away
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The story of a visit

  • Added: Dec 29, 2008
  • Length: :53
I Am The Boss
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A man was uncomfortable because he was the only person in his office who didn't have a degree from a rich-kid school

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Dec 28, 2008
  • Length: :49
  • Purchases: 1
The Uncertainty Principle
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
the values of certain pairs of conjugate variables cannot both be known with arbitrary precision

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Dec 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
Jury Duty
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You can only serve on a jury if you have no opinions

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Dec 26, 2008
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 1
Some Women Need to Gain 30 Pounds
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Most of the women in the TV ads need to gain 30 pounds.

  • Added: Dec 25, 2008
  • Length: :23
Jane Austen's Little Problem.
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Visitors to Jane Austen's museum are scattering cremains. Administrators there disapprove. So does Ian.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:05
End of World in 2012?
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Mayans said that the world will end in 2012. Maybe.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:26
Sex Worker at Play?
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
New York Times takes a look at a prostitute's MySpace page so we don't have to.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:16
Movie Critics: Endangered Species?
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mainstream media movie critics are being laid off. Consequences?

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:01
An Andrew Wyeth Christmas
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Even the rich find the sending of Christmas cards prohibitive

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:09
Flat is the new black.
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
More cultural shorthand from the folks who offer cultural shorthand. We are not shorthanded in that department.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:11
Caffeine, America's Most Popular Drug
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you don't ask, you won't get it

  • Added: Dec 22, 2008
  • Length: 02:28
Amy
From: Alexander Yellen
Series: Tell Me Your Story
Piece image
Amy gives away hand-knit hats

  • Added: Dec 21, 2008
  • Length: 02:27
Obama and Rick Warren
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: j
Obama has chosen Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Dec 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1
Two Ponzi Perpetrators and a Journalism Student's Dilemma
From: Mordechai Twersky
Series: Variations on a Theme
Caption: PRX default Piece image
First-person essay in wake of Bernard L. Madoff scandal recalling a journalism student's dilemma in covering a similar scandal close to "home."

  • Added: Dec 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:20
Golf
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A man who is 107 plays golf every day

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Dec 18, 2008
  • Length: :35
  • Purchases: 2
The Other Nine Percent
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
transforming high school for the 21st century

  • Added: Dec 17, 2008
  • Length: :40
It Took A Lot of Memory
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
on the day before their marriage his bride-to-be told him about all of her previous affairs.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2008
  • Length: :28

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