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Occupy Everything: An Oakland Story
From: Leila Day
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Thousands gathered in downtown Oakland to occupy the ports and shut them down. Exploring a night with the Occupy Oakland movement, partly a party...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 06:15
Balancing being Mommy and Nanny
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Lupita Espinoza can often be seen pushing a stroller up one of those steep San Francisco hills that many of us try to avoid. She can’t avoid it, th...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 09:01
A Day in the Life of Nadeem Awan
From: Seattle Globalist
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This story follows a day in the life of Nadeem Awan, a child laborer and student in Karachi, Pakistan.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2009
  • Length: 05:22
Day Job 10: The Window Washer
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Mike Notter of the Seattle bands Motopony and Hannalee cleans windows for a living, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 16:10
  • Purchases: 1
24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
Caption: Eric Jones works as a custodian at LA's New Hope Baptist Church., Credit: Jerome Campbell
In this special report, twelve workers who might otherwise go unnoticed – including a stripper, deli waitress, bus driver, metal scrapper and bathr...

Bought by KQED, KFAI Minneapolis, KSFR, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 24
The Film that Exposed a Memorial Day Massacre
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A once-suppressed newsreel showing Chicago police chasing, killing and wounding strikers and their families on Memorial Day in 1937 played an impor...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KFAI Minneapolis, and KPFT


  • Added: May 27, 2006
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 3
The Pirate - Part 4
From: Lu Olkowski
Series: CARGOLAND
Caption: A pirate and his bird, Credit: Lu Olkowski
In this installment of CARGOLAND, Lu Olkowski meets one man who embodies the spirit of the fast-fading waterfront. Morning sunlight streams through...

Bought by HowSound, WRPI, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 30:26
  • Purchases: 3
Garland
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Painting, landscaping, demo work, dish washer... I'm available.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
Working: Then & Now
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Studs Terkel
In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 10
Four Feet Under
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery has two of the last true gravediggers in the state of Maine.

Bought by SALTcast Podcast and WORLDcompass.org


  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 2
Diversified Farming with Charles "Turkey" Goodin
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works
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a day in the life of a Kentucky farmer

  • Added: Nov 08, 2004
  • Length: 09:30
Jorge Aguilar, II
From: Pauline Bartolone
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Day in the Life of a Latino Public Interest Lawyer

  • Added: Nov 01, 2007
  • Length: 02:15
Up All Night
From: Seattle Globalist
Caption: Ali Jaffri, Credit: Alex Stonehill
Jessica Partnow takes us through a night in the life of Ali Jaffri, a professional telemarketer in Lahore, Pakistan.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KCRW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Advertising Executive
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel interviews a female advertising executive in the 1970's for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and KZYX


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 3
The Milkman
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The travels of the last milkman in Portland, Maine.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:05
4. RA Scion, hip hopper and leaf blower
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job (2007-2008 series)
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Day Job is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
The Art and Craft of Blacksmithing with Lewis Meyer
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works
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the day in the life of a Kentucky blacksmith

  • Added: Mar 29, 2004
  • Length: 09:00
Episode 132: Herrin Massacre
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In the summer of 1922, in a town in southern Illinois, 23 people were murdered over two days. Men, women, and children came out of their houses to ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2020
  • Length: 24:23
If You Can't Take the Heat
From: Lee Fuoco
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Dinner at the Munjoy Hill Fire Station starts at 8am.

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: May 19, 2004
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 1
Entrepreneur
From: Jesse Dukes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Adam Johns never wanted to be a worm digger, but he does what's necessary to make ends meet.

Bought by KLCC, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2005
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 12
At Sword's Point
From: New England Public Media
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The untold story of the Red Scare’s first true target – labor unions – and of the small town that against all expectations, fought back.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 51:58
5. Michael Moore, cellist and scene builder
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job (2007-2008 series)
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Day Job is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
The Traditions of Brown-Forman's Kentucky Bourbon and it's Master Distiller Lincoln Henderson
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works
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A day in the career of Brown-Forman Master Distiller Lincoln Henderson

  • Added: May 24, 2004
  • Length: 09:01
Bury Me Deep
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Two hospice workers invite us into the world of death and dying.

Bought by WMPG, KUOW, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 11:36
  • Purchases: 3
Nantucket Shuffle
From: Redmond Grybauskas
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Housing on Nantucket has always been expensive. But according to officials, things are reaching a tipping point as the demand for second and third ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 08:46

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