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John LaFratta is a defense attorney in both civil and criminal cases. Over the years he has represented clients charged with every conceivable crim...
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 27:47
Kimberly had talked about her house as if it was a person, her best friend as she put it. Stephanie saw her house as a metaphor for her life, falli...
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 24:53
COVID-19 cancelled Richmond's premier music event--the Richmond Folk Festival, which annually attracts a couple hundred thousand people to three da...
- Added: Nov 02, 2020
- Length: 26:59
this is the conclusion of 2828 Story of a House. It’s about a man named Leroy Basham who hoarded for several decades, and the people who dug throug...
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 22:09
2828: Story of a House is about hoarding, and two people who can make order of chaos and find treasure in trash. It's also about a man whose life w...
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 26:05
Just as America is a nation of immigrants, Virginia is a commonwealth of immigrants. For the first time ever the state Department of Historic Res...
- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 08:45
A Nation of Immigrants is what we are, always have been, and always will be, as long as we remain the United States of America. Bans on immigrants ...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: May 18, 2017
- Length: 27:58
- Purchases: 1
Karla Helbert is many things. An accomplished writer and veteran therapist. Wife, mother, artist. A seeker, too. Libertine in matters spiritual. A...
- Added: Nov 04, 2016
- Length: 27:06
Abbie Waters lived in Richmond, Virginia and attended Holton Elementary School. She had survived a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. F...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 27:28
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 ...
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 26:25
Elisheva and Amaris, mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way ...
- Added: May 07, 2016
- Length: 27:49
For the longest while I would think of my mother as a husk like the shell left behind by a cicada, all the internal meat gone, just a crisp skin re...
- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 27:38
Jay Ipson is a survivor of the first magnitude. He learned his survival skills under the most harrowing conditions known to man. As a young boy, he...
- Added: Jan 28, 2016
- Length: 26:41
The Mummers Day Parade is as quintessentially South Philadelphia as Ben Franklin or Willy Penn, a Philly cheese steak or Italian water ice.
It’s u...
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 08:35
Fathers and Children is about a man named Melvin Major who became father to hundreds of young people. But he has no offspring.
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 27:40
Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 16:10
- Purchases: 1
How do you pass on the culture of a country you can’t remember? Three generations of the Hang family in Portland, Maine, try to reconcile memories ...
Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 3
Moving all your belongings by bike might sound crazy, but if enough people get involved, it can be both fun and efficient.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Destination DIY profiles two families who live the DIY lifestyle every day by growing and making most of what they need.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 1
This episode features stories about projects that might seem impossible at first: tiny house construction, moving by bike, "hacking" reality, and h...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Conversations with people who take a DIY approach to science and to life: DIY biologists working to democratize the lab, a single mom who says some...
Bought by XRAY.fm, KUT, KUOW, WYSO, and WRVO Public Media
- Added: Apr 19, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 5
Jeff's reputation as a bully was something of a legend in the coastal town where he grew up. Eight years later, and with a chance to start over ag...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, Listenwise, KUOW, and Vocalo.org
- Added: Mar 12, 2012
- Length: 09:34
- Purchases: 5
Griffin Bourassa possesses many traits of a typical 15 year old boy, but there is one facet of his life that is not normal.
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 07:06
- Purchases: 2
A recent college graduate receives an unexpected job offer from his uncle: teach English in Ciudad Juárez.
- Added: May 03, 2011
- Length: 03:25