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In the spring of 1972, an event took place in a field west of Austin. It would not only give birth to Willie Nelson's now-famous 4th-of-July picnic...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 54:09
- Purchases: 2
In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mining Pigeonroost Hollow. Now Jimmy Weekley is the last person left there.
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, PRX Remix, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 13:59
- Purchases: 4
Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Lola Quartet, talks about her unique upbringing, moving to New York with no money, and whether social media he...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 47:08
Who could imagine overcoming a multi decade street life, fed by crack & prostitution, to care for a family that disowned you? Yolanda can, and did.
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 13:25
On this special edition of "The Live Feed" we air a reading of the original play, "Enemy Alien" written by Scott Dixon of the Commonweal Theatre in...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 01:42:08
- Purchases: 1
This week's stories are about assumptions-- and we all know what happens when people make them. Stories by Kay Brockwell, Jim Frey, and Patrice Mel...
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week our writers are all caught up in the tangled web of deception as they struggle to hold onto what's honest and true. Stories by Denise Sta...
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 32:50
This month's Tin Roof Project, featuring Senator David Pryor reading his story "Nine Miles to Mustin Lake," followed by Q&A. True stories told by t...
- Added: Nov 10, 2012
- Length: 42:38
How did a nice girl with a degree from Princeton University end up as a globetrotting... clown? Meet Christina Gelsone -- and her husband, Seth. Th...
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 08:37
This dramatic soundscape uses interviews, narration, sound effects, and music to explain the emerging neuroscience of tinnitus - a ringing, buzzing...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 09:40
- Purchases: 1
This week, our stories are all about the power of friendship. Stories by George McLeod, Pat Gillum, and Susan Elder. True stories told by the South...
- Added: Oct 07, 2012
- Length: 29:00
As part of the Youth Spin Summer Workshop series the teens of Youth Spin looked deep into the inner workings of four youth related organizations in...
- Added: Sep 29, 2012
- Length: 06:33
Robert Saxton on rescue.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Sep 06, 2012
- Length: 06:40
- Purchases: 1
With the March announcement that Best Buy is closing 50 large stores around the country, the dominance of big box retail has been called into quest...
Bought by KENW and KBRP Community Radio
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 2
Rudy has lived on this bizarre little block since 1953, before a dozen railroad tracks and nearly as many highway lanes separated it from other res...
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 3
Abbie Catherine Waters
was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 55:07
- Purchases: 1
In this episode of PPT, columnist Dan Savage offers an intriguing revisionist history of the Tudor Dynasty, and Sir Roger Bannister describes runni...
Bought by WYSO
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of PPT, The Daily Show's Samantha Bee risks an international incident with her hot-head opinions, and the very funny and very scary...
Bought by WYSO
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Host Randy Cohen sits down with singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones who talks about her origins, and former New York City mayor Ed Koch talks about ...
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 59:00
Host Randy Cohen sits down with "Curb Your Enthusiasm's" Susie Essman, and former Boston Celtic center Dave Cowens.
- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 55:38
On this episode of Friend Speaks My Mind, I explore Quaker's relationship with technology, from cell phones to Facebook.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jul 17, 2011
- Length: 38:08
- Purchases: 1
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
In this special mix, producer Dred-Scott Keyes interviews Keith and Kevin John-the sons of Little Willie John-and Susan Whitall, author of the just...
Bought by Prairie Public and WNCU
- Added: Jun 24, 2011
- Length: 59:49
- Purchases: 2
If the sound of his name isn't familiar, the sound of his voice certainly is. This is the unlikely story of four Detroit kids who went to a birthda...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 03:00
If his name doesn't ring a bell, it's because we knew him ... millions of television viewers ... from the 1950s all the way through to the Nickelod...
- Added: Jun 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
