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The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:55
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Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 12:15
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Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
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When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 26:07
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Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 20:54
Caption: Camp Christopher is available for campers who have lost a loved one to suicide, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
KFAI's Matthew Schneeman shares two stories of grief, family, and healing in and around Sax-Zim bog in Northern Minnesota.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 07:54
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Thousands of social justice leaders in communities all over the world passed away this year. We're closing out the year, as we usually do, with in...

Bought by WXDU and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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HOUR ONE: 'Taking Pop Seriously" - Korean pop music has been breaking global charts and hearts, selling millions of records every year. Is is time ...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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James Ponsoldt talks honoring the social contract, maintaining friendships, and what we need from stories.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 11:53
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HOUR ONE: "Are You Ready For The Psychedelic Revolution?" - Could a psychedelic compound undo years of depression or addiction? Meet the CEO behind...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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Sedera feels light for the first time after her father's death.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 05:47
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Family medicine physician Catherine Forest listens to one of he classical music idols serenade a dying loved one in the hospital.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2019
  • Length: 32:32
Caption: Zero Boys
This is a special 90-minute program detailing some of the greatest rock bands of the last 50 years. We’ll travel from Indianapolis, Indiana to Lima...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pauline Oliveros at home, Credit: Karen Michel
Electronic music pioneer and founder of Deep Listening, Pauline Oliveros, born: May 30, 1932, Houston, TX, died: November 24, 2016, Kingston, NY re...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 04:14
Caption: Matt Ross, San Francisco, CA 7/7/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Matt Ross talks parental anxiety, speaking the truth, and being non-binary.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 18:19
Caption: Meredith Turk, Credit: Meredith Turk
In “Like a Big Cookie,” Meredith Turk talks to a Missouri cattle rancher about life and death on the farm. She also dives into the world of sound art.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:37
Caption: Laurie Anderson, San Francisco, CA 11/9/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Laurie Anderson talks mortality, rhizomes, and catapulting through time.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 24:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Although grandparents have always been involved in the care of their grandchildren, a growing number of grandparents are now responsible for raisin...

Bought by WCNY, WCPN, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
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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
Caption: Troops aboard the General Nelson M. Walker, Credit: Vietnam Graffiti Project
Sound-rich stories from and about a Vietnam War-era troopship, in the voices of people whose lives were affected by the journey to war.

Bought by WCNY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WGCU, KMUN, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 53:32
  • Purchases: 29
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There's a growing body of evidence that many animal species actively grieve. And, a look at how people grieve when their pets die. Plus, how autism...

Bought by WJCT, 'The Sea', KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTJU, and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 11, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
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There's a growing body of evidence that many animal species actively grieve. And, a look at how people grieve when their pets die. Plus, how autism...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Oct 11, 2013
  • Length: 53:23
  • Purchases: 1
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People once buried their dead in small family plots. Now we can have our ashes turned into diamonds--or shot into space. What do our burial practic...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on The Live Feed we join a band that just released their first cd with the theme death in mind. Good Luck and Godspeed is a four man band...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 31:21