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From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes

In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result...

Bought by KCUR, WWNO, Michigan Radio, WWNO, North Country Public Radio and more

The Working Tapes: Car Hiker

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes

Studs Terkel interviews Al Pommier, aka 'One Swing Al', a parking lot attendant in Chicago, Illinois. This story aired as part of a week long serie...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix

Outside of Jazz Fest

From: Sarah Holtz
Series: New Orleans Street Economy

Despite strict rules that you can't illicitly sell things outside of Jazz Fest, there is a whole economy that exists just beyond the festival gates...

High-Speed Cocoa

From: Philip Armand

Philip Armand ruins a cup of hot cocoa and realizes his mad, sweaty, sloppy rushing is no longer working.

Hello Buffalo

From: Israel Story

Caption: Dubi tending to his water buffalo.

Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...

Having Fun?

From: Jake Smith

As a rude waiter, how should you know when you’ve gone too far?

Working: Then & Now

From: Radio Diaries

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

A Bunch of Boats in the Boatyard

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix

The Cart Men of Catalina

From: Alexander Ward

Caption: A golf cart for towing golf carts, Credit: Alex Ward

Golf carts are the primary vehicles for residents in Avalon, CA. This is about the guys that make them go.

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio

The Umami of Customer Service

From: Veronica Simmonds

We all know how sweet it is when our appetites are satisfied, but what's it like to be a satiator?

Crossing Over

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...

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

Lyal Corliss: 81 and still shoeing horses

From: Japhet Weeks

Caption: Lyal Corliss pulls a horse shoe off a horse's hoof., Credit: Yuli Weeks

In Northern California's Humboldt County, one octogenarian just won't quit working.

That Job Sucked Anyway

From: Megan Hall

Stories, anecdotes, and fantastical rants about the woes of working life

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT

We're Not Couch Potatoes: TV Fans Get Politically Active Online

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: A fan protests in front of Fox Studios in Century City, Los Angeles., Credit: nohodamon/Flickr

When TV writers went on strike in 2007, the couch potatoes got active. We look back at the writers strike, and see how the largest political force ...