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Two stories about people finding stability when things feel out of control.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tom and Terry Sullivan at their StoryCorps interview in Centennial, CO on July 9, 2022., Credit: Annie Russell for StoryCorp
Tom and Terry Sullivan share how they honor their son Alex, one of twelve people a mass shooter killed in a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colorad...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:05
  • Purchases: 1
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A lonely, guarded black man falls into a relationship with a Latina who is desperate to leave the home in which she is made to feel inferior. Regin...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 08:45
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Normally, Rachel Gemara is an oncology nurse at Shaare Tzedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. But back in March, she was one of a handful of nurses tr...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 06:35
Caption: Amanda Farrell and Craig Farrell at their StoryCorps interview in Appleton, WI in July 2019., Credit: By Sylvie Lubow for StoryCorps
Amanda Farrell tells her husband Craig about how she lost -- and ultimately regained -- control of her mental health.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WDBM, and WHRV


  • Added: Aug 08, 2019
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 3
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On this week's episode Julian reads an essay he reads an essay about a relationship coming to an end and the feeling that sometimes you're in a com...

  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 15:27
Caption: Clarence Sasser
The story of Clarence Sasser is a portrait from Stephen Lang's one-man show, Beyond Glory, based on the book by Larry Smith of the same title. He p...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 15:14
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Tyler Dunning went into the wild to distract himself from his grief…but ended up coming face to face with it instead.

Bought by KUER and KRZA


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 20:12
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Belief in Angels by J. Dylan Yates.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:36
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First hand accounts from women in prison

  • Added: Sep 11, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:03
Caption: Michael Stuhlbarg
Amy Ryan and Michael Stuhlbarg star in You Belong to Me by Daniel Reitz. Two old friends from grad school, played by Amy Ryan ( Gone, Baby, Gone) a...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 17:49
Caption: Liv Rooth
In David Ives’ fantastical The End of Travel, a young woman seeks a travel agent and journeys to the end of the line. The play features Liv Rooth a...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 12:48
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Melody William's spent the first 18 months of her life sentence in lock-down.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:55
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: r wilde
An inmate talks about how her incarceration has brought her mother around in a full circle: remembering how her mother visited her father in prison...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:32
Caption: László Nemes & Géza Röhrig, San Francisco, CA 12/12/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Géza Röhrig László Nemes talk psychic reality, earning our lives, and narrowing the field of vision.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 12:54
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You figure you always know where the line is. You know how to stay on the right side of it, but it turns out... that's easier said than done. On th...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
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A little girl is lost.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Frank “the Bear” Abramovitz lost his wife to cancer. That’s when he took over her business, and became a bounty hunter.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 10:21
Caption: Samaj examines his painting. It is part of his new series, called Entry/Dropline.
An artist living in Seattle has just had to move for the fifth time in four years. As he gets older it's becoming harder and harder for him to expo...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:44
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Third Episode of Aural Regions

  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:25
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Former Baltimore police officer Mytokia Fair remembers the day she shot and killed her abusive...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 3
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Wisconsin to Indiana: 80 miles, 12 hours, 1 day.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 12:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Lede for Steve Moore Steve Moore had hit his stride as a comedian back in the late 1980s. He was working all over Hollywood as a warm up comic...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 59:53
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:20
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Recounting a difficult life.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 05:26