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Love Over Time
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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A reminder that love keeps changing

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 04:01
The Staircase to Old Age
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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We climb the stairs to old age with two women & one man

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:54
How to Celebrate 50 Years of Marriage
From: The humble Farmer
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A Silly Story --- but check out my earlier piece on Electronic Voting Machines

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


  • Added: Oct 15, 2008
  • Length: :45
  • Purchases: 1
A Letter from the Seventies
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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A retrospective museum exhibit take us back to the seventies

  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 09:28
When the Market Comes Home to Roost
From: Ted Magnuson
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Laugh at your economic problems, everyone else does?

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 04:59
A San Telmo Day
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Following twenty-four hours in one street of San Telmo, Buenos Aries

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Aug 16, 2008
  • Length: 10:47
  • Purchases: 1
Meaningful Conversation
From: The humble Farmer
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Enrich your life by chatting with the elderly

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


  • Added: Aug 09, 2008
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 1
Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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The story of the Grandmothes of the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aries

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Aug 02, 2008
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 1
After the Weekend
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Past post mistress Anne Crotts sings at the 4th July. Postal workers in Ghana make music to make their work go smoother

  • Added: Jul 09, 2008
  • Length: 09:57
Go Tell It On The Mountain
From: The humble Farmer
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What happens when an old man is asked to fast?

  • Added: Jul 06, 2008
  • Length: 01:26
Walking San Telmo
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Walking in San Telmo and the Defensa Market

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2008
  • Length: 10:28
  • Purchases: 1
It Seems Like I Was 6 Only Yesterday
From: The humble Farmer
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Relativity

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jun 10, 2008
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
Grandfather
From: Sarah Neal (Neal-Estes)
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This is a piece about an unexpected recording from the past. My grandfather taped hours of his thoughts for me when I was two - sitting in his sel...

Bought by KSFR, New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, WSLR, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2008
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 6
Peanut Butter
From: ANITA PALLADINO
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Another True Life/Near Death Experience

  • Added: Jun 02, 2008
  • Length: :47
In Sickness & In Health
From: ANITA PALLADINO
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Humor, family

  • Added: Jun 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:27
They Don't Make Things To Last
From: The humble Farmer
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Products are obsolete before you get them out of the wrapping paper

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2008
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
A Twilight Zone Bordering Chaos
From: The humble Farmer
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Seniors have to struggle to keep abeam of technology

  • Added: May 19, 2008
  • Length: 03:49
Two Days on Key West
From: The humble Farmer
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An Island Adventure

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:15
  • Purchases: 1
Senior Poets
From: Catie Talarski
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Senior poets discuss their art.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 21:51
  • Purchases: 1
Little Black Train
From: Nora Harrington
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Five Conversations on Death

  • Added: Dec 09, 2007
  • Length: 26:22
Remembering...The D-Day Spirit
From: Ted Magnuson
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Patriotic recollections

  • Added: Nov 22, 2007
  • Length: 08:49
This I Believe - David Greenberger
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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David Greenberger believes the elderly people he's met during his life will enrich his own older years.

Bought by WEZU and KJZZ


  • Added: Apr 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Car Sex
From: Rachel Bonham Carter
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The secret to feeling young and sensual...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: 03:48
The Ground We Lived On
From: Sound Portraits
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Journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc faces mortality and loss in recordings she made during the last months of her father's life.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., The Story, PRX Remix, KUT and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 11:33
  • Purchases: 12
Muriel's Message
From: mira burt-wintonick
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Radio Portrait of a Grandma

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KFAI Minneapolis, PRX to iTunes, Remix Radio, WYBC and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2006
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 6