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Caption: Peter Jesperson's record room, Credit: Todd Melby
Peter Jesperson is a music legend. Born in Minnesota, Jesperson was a seminal figure in the Minneapolis punk and new wave scene of the 1970's and 1...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 23:01
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On this episode of Wind & Rhythm we pay tribute to some of the composers and musicians that have passed away in 2023. We hear pieces by Harry Belaf...

Bought by WUAL, Delmarva Public Media, KCCU Radio, WBAA, KVNO and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:31
  • Purchases: 17
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How will you honor Memorial Day? On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we listen to Eric Ewazen's “A Hymn for the Lost and the Living”, James Beckel, J...

Bought by KECG, RadioStPete Florida, WQCS, Interlochen Public Radio, WBAA and more


  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: New York City MTA bus operators Tyrone Hampton (left) and Frank de Jesus spoke last week about how the coronavirus pandemic has affected their work. They talked during a remote StoryCorps conversation., Credit: Tyrone Hampton and Frank de Jesus.
New York City bus operators Tyrone Hampton and Frank de Jesus talk about how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted their calling.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 1
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My Grandma Jody, who recently passed away, sharing her life story...

  • Added: May 05, 2020
  • Length: 22:23
Caption: Minneapolis singer songwriter Lydia Liza, Credit: Sheila Regan
After bursting on the Twin Cities music scene as a teenager, singer songwriter Lydia Liza got a crash course in growing up. By her early 20s, she s...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Kathleen Payne and Corinthia Isom at their StoryCorps interview in New York City, New York on September 29, 2015., Credit: Carolina Escobar for StoryCorps
Corinthia Isom and Kathleen Payne remember Corinthia’s mother, DeSeane Isom, and how Kathleen took Corinthia in after DeSeane died from an AIDS-rel...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 02:43
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Memorabilia is about a grown man reconnecting with rituals and memories from his childhood. It's about some good old sports collectibles. And my an...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 1
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More than most people, Ben Groner feels pretty lucky to be alive.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 2
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His little sister is never far from his mind — and she somehow appears in everything he puts on paper.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 2
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The Takacs Quartet play Mozart’s “Spring” quartet number 14, from a concert last month in Portland.

Bought by WCNY, 'The Sea', WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
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In 1972, Studs Terkel interviewed hotel piano player Norman "Hots" Michels for his book "Working." Hots was the last live entertainment at the Sher...

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


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 3
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"What Blood, What Earth", is a documentary on the life of Puerto Rican black metal artist MQ. His story leads the listener on a journey from pre-co...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 27:20
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Seventy-five years ago this month President Roosevelt signed an executive order ordering all Japanese Americans into internment camps, including th...

Bought by Public Radio for All, WEZU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 3
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A father tells his daughter about growing up in Tijuana, Mexico, after his parents left to find work in the U.S., and the day he was reunited with ...

Bought by KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Public Radio for All, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 4
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Tent Show Radio host Michael Perry gets in and out of big trouble in Wyoming, and welcomes Louisiana native, Jeffery Broussard creates incredible ...

Bought by KALH, KSRQ, WDSE, and WPCA-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 4
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Jory Debenham explores the work Jewish composer Viktor Ullmann created in the Terezin concentration camp.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2015
  • Length: 06:53
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Army Sgt. Ryan Sharp speaks with his father, Kirk Sharp, about feeling off after coming...

Bought by WEZU, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 3
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Sekou Siby, a former kitchen worker at Windows on the World restaurant in the World...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
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Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
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Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 03, 2014
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
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Dennis Herschbach is a northern Minnesota writer whose poems have won awards in national contests. He is also the author of a number of fiction and...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:10
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Born in Germany, Ute Buehler had a premonition at very young age that her destiny would be fulfilled elsewhere in the world. She's now a photograp...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:25
Caption: Jim and Kristi Miller
On Saturday, July 6, the musician who has given the Bemidji area its honest and gritty musical swagger for decades, Jim Miller, passed on. Jim's lo...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 12, 2013
  • Length: 58:11
  • Purchases: 2