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230813 Overtime, Free Form Radio - The Great Voices
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Van Morrison
It is 3am on Sunday morning. I've finished my formal show but the radio muse still whispers for more. It's free form radio. Unplanned, improvisa...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 4
Seeking Asylum
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Asylum seekers continue to arrive in New York City. We look at how one faith-based organization is responding to the continuing crisis in the hope ...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 24:27
Buscando Asilo
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Este episodio es sobre los solicitantes de asilo en la ciudad de Nueva York. Estamos compartiendo estas narrativas personales con la esperanza de q...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 24:56
StoryCorps Missoula 2022 - 01
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: MTPR Documentary Specials
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The first special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio on January 22nd, 2023, this f...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Shame in Medicine: 7. On Trial
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest
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1 in 10 physicians will get sued at some point in their career – but physicians rarely discuss this, much less prepare for it. How do we bring liti...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 40:56
Trich
From: Chris Attaway
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When Kyla was eleven years old, she started pulling out her eyelashes

  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 11:38
Let's Talk
From: Ears Adrift
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The following episode has stories from those who have sought out mental health services in the military. They are active duty service members who h...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Sep 09, 2020
  • Length: 16:15
  • Purchases: 1
200730 Blues - Sitting in for the Midnight Creeper
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Jesse Hawthorne, The Midnight Creeper
Jesse Hawthorne used to do the Friday midnight to Saturday 5am shift (a day before my show) and the Sunday morning gospel show. That's a grueling ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:54:55
  • Purchases: 1
Who Moved My Estrogen?
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
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Change! Most of us adapt poorly to change. We don't like it when we have to adjust to something new

  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 24:29
150 Years after the Navajo Long Walk
From: Alix Blair
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"You can't heal from something unless you really honor that it happened." This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of 1868, which relea...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:07:35
Steve Kirby
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
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A memory on the late Steve Kirby and the lesson of human decency that he taught me.

  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:53
Clayton Williams
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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See all these blankets and quilts and stuff? I got enough in here to keep me warm.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
180120 Substitute for Peggy Lou
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music referring to Africa plus Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Sun Ra, Mingus and some others from my youth as an uninvited guest (more like a pest) at radio ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 01:35:35
My Vietnam War - During, After, and Way After
From: WGCU
Caption: Michael Hirsh tells his story of being an Army Combat Correspondent in Vietnam.
Punta Gorda resident and WGCU reporter Michael Hirsh shares a first-hand account of his Vietnam War experiences, including audio recordings he made...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16) Natasha Trethewey
From: New Letters on the Air
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Guest editor of BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2017, Natasha Trethewey talks about her her first creative non-fiction book, BEYOND KATRINA: A MEDITATION ON T...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 3: Lost weekends
From: KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Series: Off The Block
Caption: Betty Peters, known as Mama Betty, shuttles jail visitors along the last mile of the journey. , Credit: George Lavender
Thousands of Los Angeles County prisoners are housed in Pitchess Detention center. For visitors, the journey to the jail can take all day. The clos...

Bought by PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 3
Norman's House
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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A story of three friends, a disease, and the opera.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 20:25
Political Junkie 2015 Remembrances Special (PROMO)
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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SPECIAL NOW AVAILABLE -- Please purchase and download the program files from the PRX piece linked in the description below.

Bought by WCQS and KISU


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
I Wanna Dance With Somebody - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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Law student and former go-go dancer, Armando Torres' Song Story recalls a time when he was a god above all, transmitting his energy from a box in t...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:15
The Dramatists
From: KCSM
Series: The Annals of Jazz
Caption: Richard Hadlock
Host, Richard Hadlock investigates performances by some of Jazz's greatest dramatic players while connecting their performances with that of the Gr...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 57:55
Real Love: A Valentine's Special from WNYC's Death, Sex & Money
From: WNYC
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A Valentine's Special from WNYC's Death, Sex & Money, hosted by Anna Sale.

Bought by KUT, KCPW Salt Lake City, KJZZ, KRPS, KUER and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 39
Episode #10: Cultural Mixdown
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: The Mixing Board
Caption: Beno Picciano poses amid the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. He spent time there during the summer of 2008 living with a host family.
Beno Picciano and Lizzie Kirschner dive into the issue of cultural understanding by chatting with good friends who immigrated from India and Ethiop...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 11:08
Furious Flower Honors Rita Dove (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The most celebrated African American poets in America pay homage to the life’s work of former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove.

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, KVSC, KRDP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Messages From a Forgotten Troopship (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the 1960s, it took almost three weeks to cross the sea from America to Vietnam. Three weeks for young men in crowded cabins, with salt water sho...

Bought by WHFR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, KYUK, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 26:24
  • Purchases: 10
'You're The Best Friend/Pen Pal/Third Grade Teacher Ever'
From: Will Michaels
Series: My Teacher
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Carrboro High School sophomore Carolyn Macleod credits her third grade teacher Hannah Stang with her passion for writing. They have written letters...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00