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From Paper Bags to Circular Saws -- Who Thunk 'Em Up?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" may be true, but it leaves out an important component -- the real "mothers" and "aunts" and "...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
Want a Better Country? Here's a Wish List
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
August is the month when we mark Women's Equality Day, when the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote passed in 1920. But we're still behi...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
The Apple Seed - Onions
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode of the Apple Seed you're going to hear a story called "Onions" from Cindy Rivka Marshall. It's a Jewish folktale about a young girl...

Bought by KTXK, KSJE, KKRN, KTXK, and WVPE


  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 5
My Priest Who Had Wild High School Friends
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: I Sat Down With...
Caption: Gonzaga Prep
Maria Begger talked with the Rev. Rich Perry, a Jesuit priest. When Perry was going to high school at Gonzaga Prep, he hung out with a couple of gu...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 02:51
StoryCorps: Lynne and Greg Houston
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Greg Houston (left) and Lynne Houston (right)
Many StoryCorps conversations touch on love, work, and death. But when Lynne Houston and her husband, Greg, sat down for their interview, they cove...

Bought by WEZU and WOUB


  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Anthony "Tony Bees" Planakis
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Tony Bees shows off his bee-themed tattoos. The scroll reads in Latin: “Go to the honeybee, thy poet, consider her ways and be wise.”
When bee season in New York City begins in early spring, that means retired police detective (and unofficial NYPD beekeeper) Anthony “Tony Bees” Pl...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
Kidnapped in Guatemala
From: Sarah Bromer
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When Richard Newman accepted at job at the World Health Organization in Guatemala in the late 70s, he never expected to get mixed up in the country...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2016
  • Length: 17:13
StoryCorps Griot: Willie Harris and Alex Brown
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Willie Harris and Alex Brown remember the prejudice they faced as African American stuntmen while breaking into the film industry in the 1960s.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Parents Don't Have Roommates
From: Caitlin Pierce
Series: Borders
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Megan is excited to go on her class field trip to the county courthouse. But while she's there, she finds something that she's tried hard to keep s...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:39
StoryCorps: Donnie Dunagan and Dana Dunagan
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Donnie (L) and Dana (R) Dunagan
Retired Marine Corps Major Donnie Dunagan, who was the voice of Bambi in the 1942 Disney film, tells his wife, Dana, about hiding his acting credit...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WVBI-LP, Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 6
StoryCorps: Len Berk and Joshua Gubitz
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Joshua Gubitz (L) and Len Berk (R)
Len Berk talks to his friend, Joshua Gubitz, about becoming a salmon slicer after retiring from a 40 year career in accounting.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
Christmas Stories
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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For the next hour we’ve got three Christmas stories. From A Christmas Carol on Wheels, which is performed in 20 minutes, to an event called No Roo...

Bought by WLRN


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaimed Soul: The Wonder of Stevie
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s the case, then Stevie Wonder should know the feeling of flattery well. His son...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaimed Soul: Women Behind Megastars
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
Caption: Betty Davis, former wife of Miles Davis
This week, Ayana Contreras brings us vintage music from women whose careers were overshadowed by their associations with megastars. From the ex-wif...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 1
Elvis Was Our Shabbos Goy
From: Rob Sachs
Caption: Elvis with a cousin and two of the Fruchter children in Memphis, Credit: Harold Fruchter
The story of the Fruchters, an orthodox Jewish family who lived above Elvis Presley’s family in a house in Memphis. They would often call on teenag...

Bought by KFCF FM, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 3
My Identity by Alex Thibodeau
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Vocalo contributor Alex Thibodeau talks about growing up biracial outside of Detroit… without the benefit of knowing his Jamaican father. He shares...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 16, 2014
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 2
Martin Woods on Challenges for Black Opera Singers
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Martin Woods talks to Audra Wilson about the challenges and the rewards of being a Black Operatic Baritone from the West Side of Chicago, and takin...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Alton Yates and Toni Yates
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Alton Yates tells his daughter, Toni, about being part of a small group of Air...

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WEZU, WTJU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 5
Francis Scott Key: Lawyer, Layman, Tone-Deaf Lyricist?
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Francis Scott Key (shown here in a portrait by Theodor Horydczak) was far more than just the author of what would become our national anthem., Credit: Library of Congress
Turns out the author of our national anthem could very well have been nicknamed "Francis Scott Off-Key."

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
Thin edge of the wedge
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:27
Building the geologic history of Game of Thrones
From: Generation Anthropocene
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Ever wonder what Westeros looked like long before the Starks, Baratheons, Lannisters, or Targaryens roamed its surface? How far back can we really ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
D.C. Dodgeball Whiz Drops (Dodge)Bombs at World Championships
From: Lauren Ober
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We've all played dodgeball at some point in our childhood, right? And chances are, those memories of getting drilled in the face with a red rubber ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 20, 2013
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 2
Loving math and mime
From: Ari Daniel
Caption: Tim and Tanya Chartier present a classic mime stance in Central Park, NYC., Credit: Ari Daniel
Tim Chartier has found a way to fuse his two great loves: math and mime. (It's a fusion that's almost as unlikely as wanting to do a radio story a...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Here and Now, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 10:54
  • Purchases: 7
Aquarium Disasters
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Jaymee and her fish tank, Credit: Alex Johnson, Destination DIY
Destination DIY producer Jaymee Cuti shares some stories of home aquariums gone wrong.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 1
DIY Music For Kids
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Chris Ballew knows what it's like to be a rock star. (His band Presidents of the United States of America made it big in the 1990s.) But he's gone ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 2