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StoryCorps: Deborah Wei and Kaia Chau
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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When Deborah Wei and her family moved to the Philadelphia suburbs in the 1960’s, they were the only Asian family in their neighborhood. Deborah rem...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Apple Seed - First and Last
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On today's episode of the Apple Seed, you're going to hear from the great North Carolina storyteller Donald Davis, with a story about how he got fi...

Bought by KECG, KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 1: Interference
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: Keeping Dad Alive
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95-year-old Richard and his daughter Margaret struggle with the technical details of their recording project.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2020
  • Length: 06:41
National Writers Series: A.J. Baime and Bryce Hoffman
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Authors A.J. Baime and Bryce Hoffman talk with Jean Jennings.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
StoryCorps: Monica Harwell and Andrea Cleveland
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Andrea Cleveland (L) and Monica Harwell (R)
Monica Harwell, talks to her daughter, Andrea Cleveland, about being the first woman to climb electric utility poles for ConEd in New York.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Why Cooking Sucks
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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This is an essay about cooking and all the shame and rage and frustration that can accompany this art. Writer Sarah Miller describes her desire to ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 1
#16 MIW Michelle Bandy - Pregnant Teens Social Worker and Super Mom
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Michelle Bandy on Making It Work Radio, Credit: Oddua Productions
Fun and cheap things to do is how social worker and mother of three, Michelle Bandy, enjoys herself here in the Bay. On this episode of Making It W...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 25:15
Cooking Potatoes In Idaho — A Thanksgiving Story
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Destination DIY host Julie Sabatier tells a story live on stage about that time she cooked potatoes for her Idaho in-laws.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KPIK-LP


  • Added: Nov 27, 2014
  • Length: 13:13
  • Purchases: 2
Waiting for Jim
From: Annie McEwen
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Jim is a young man who has everything in the world but direction.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 17:10
What YOU Expect When You're Expecting
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
Caption: Joanne at 32 weeks, Credit: Jason Reblando
A mom-to-be lays out her fears and expectations of having her first child at the age of 40.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 22:54
Baby Expectations
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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Are you My Baby? We’ve always been told it’s what’s on the inside that counts, but what if, what’s on the outside isn’t what you expected?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 04:42
Sex and Marriage
From: Brooklyn College Radio
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Is sex and marriage an oxymoron? and are the two mutually exclusives? Let's listen to the real stories of couples who knows the answers best on exp...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:35
  • Purchases: 1
SEED Performance Art's "Chrysalis"
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of "Art Beat", we visit with a writer and a cast member of SEED performance Arts next production in the experiment series entitled ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 16:04
  • Purchases: 2
The Real Holidays
From: WHJE
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Whether it’s Thanksgiving, Hanukah, Christmas, or Kwanza we all have to go through the ritual of celebrating the Holidays. But does anyone honestly...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
What Was Left Behind
From: Eric Winick
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Arriving at her family's storage space in Syracuse, NY, a Brooklyn-based writer and mom is surprised to find the contents far more plentiful and si...

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 15:20
  • Purchases: 3
Tales from the South 022
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Stories about children and the fine line between reality and fantasy, myth, and even truth. Told in front of a live audience each week at Starving ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Lawn Mowing
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Do you have a method to your madness? Have you stopped mowing your lawn? Do the neighbors do it for you when you're gone? Was it one of your chores...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 01:53:37
Mother and Daughter
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
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In this program, Gayle Streeter and her daughter Hannah talk about a buck they shot in 2005, and and the responses they got from their male hunting...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 1
Fashion Obsession
From: Radio Rookies
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Since she was little, Shakima has been dressing in style. She is proud of her fashion sense, but finds that as her family's finances have changed, ...

Bought by KSFR, WXLV-FM, YouthCast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 01, 2006
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 4
Maya Angelou & Guy Johnson - Mother and Son Poets become themselves
From: Sedge Thomson
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Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language. Funny, moving.

Bought by KFCF FM, 90.5 WSNC, KWMR, WJSU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2006
  • Length: 44:47
  • Purchases: 19
Arranged Marriage
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Looking at arranged marriage through my mothers eyes.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Nov 16, 2005
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Singing Sanitation Worker
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
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On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, a sanitation worker sings his way through a very lat...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, PRX Remix, WEKU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser) and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 21