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The Man in the President's Limo
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. There are many photos from that day — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUCB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Joy Kahahawai and Kim Farrant
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Kim Farrant and Joy Kahahawai-Welch at their StoryCorps interview in Honolulu on June 17, 2022, Credit: Ben DeHaven for StoryCorps
Sisters Kim Farrant and Joy Kahahawai-Welch remember their uncle, Joseph Kahahawai, who was murdered in Hawaii in 1932.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:51
StoryCorps: Angelina McCall and Matt McCall
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Angelina McCall after graduating from nursing school in the spring of 2020. , Credit: Photo courtesy the participants
After Angelina McCall left her job at a Tucson ER, she wondered if she was cut out for nursing. Then a volunteer position on the US-Mexico border h...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 23
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Prioritizing stories that don’t get a lot of attention.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 03, 2023
  • Length: 50:01
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Tom Sullivan and Terry Sullivan
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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
StoryCorps Griot: Alexander Landau and Nina Askew
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Alexander Landau spoke with his friend, Nina Askew, about the support they’ve given each other after both experienced violent arrests from Colorado...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
From Nothing, Into Something
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Fall 2020
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This story shows the process and the drastic change from an alcoholic and addict to a wife , a mother , a grandmother, 12 year recovering addict an...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 07:29
San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
From: New Letters on the Air
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We begin Native American Heritage Month with Cherokee citizen, Kim Shuck, the author of the recently released poetry collection, WHOSE WATER. San F...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Peter Balakian
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Peter Balakian talks about his 2010 book, ZIGGURAT-- a contemplation on architecture, visual arts, his personal experi...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Alee Opuiyo: Wanted to Commit Suicide
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Alafaka Opuiyo, Credit: Shefik
Love - Alee Opuiyo is a 2005 Howard University School of Communications graduate. She majored in Broadcast Journalism and minored in Political Scie...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:19
How to Abolish Solitary Confinement 
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses how to abolish solitary confinement and creating a rehabilitative attitude in prisons with Dr. Terry Allen Kupers, a foren...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Feb 21, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Come In From The Cold: Three short plays by Rachel Bonds, Cary Gitter, and James McLindon
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Elizabeth Ashley
Featuring Tony winner Elizabeth Ashley, COME IN FROM THE COLD features a wintry trio of short plays about connection, lost and found. With wit, h...

Bought by WRKF, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KFCF FM, KUNM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps: Lan Cao and Harlan Van Cao
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lan Cao lived through some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War before starting her life over in the United States. She tells her daughter w...

Bought by WEZU and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Feb 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Ted McDermott - 294
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Ted McDermott discusses where fiction and autobiography collide in his debut novel, The Minor Outsider. He also reads from the book.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
189: Empathy for Monsters / 190: Telling a Life, 7/29/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Empathy for Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
StoryCorps: George Rincon and Yolanda Reyes
From: StoryCorps
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At the beginning of the Iraq War, nearly 40,000 members of the United States military were not citizens. Army Private First Class Diego Rincon was ...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Michael Benjamin Ryan and Michael John Ryan
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Judge Michael John Ryan talks with his son, Michael Benjamin Ryan, about growing up in an abusive household, and how he found the strength to gradu...

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


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 3
Iraqi Poet & Journalist Duyna Mikhail
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail reads from her three books: THE WAR WORKS HARD, DIARY OF A WAVE OUTSIDE THE SEA, and THE IRAQI NIGHTS. Pushed ou...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gambling Nearly Killed Me
From: Matt Hill
Series: The Modern Mann
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What was your first bet? Matt Zarb-Cousin remembers his - because it led to a cycle of addiction that saw him flutter away over £10,000 in the book...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 23:27
The Speed of Sound: Langhorne Slim
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Kyle Meredith celebrates Langhorne Slim's 35th birthday with a discussion about age, sobriety, and the complexity of influences on his new album "T...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 3
Antonio and John
From: Littleglobe
Caption: John Gallegos, left, is interviewed by Antonio Martinez, right, with assistance from Marquell Hicks, center., Credit: Laura Marcus Green
N’MPower participant, Antonio Martinez, interviews Spanish Colonial artist John Gallegos, in a community engagement project between the Museum of I...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 06:34
StoryCorps: Joel Healy and Kelli Healy Salazar
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Joel Healy tells his daughter, Kelli Healy Salzar, about participating in Operation Plumbbob, one of the largest nuclear tests conducted by the U.S...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations 104: Alison
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Alison
A conversation with 'Alison', a South African woman at the center of one of the most infamous criminal trials in her country's history.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Jon Brock and Glenny Brock
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Jon Brock tells his daughter Glenny Brock about being committed to Bryce Hospital, Alabama's oldest psychiatric facility, in 1965.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 2
Eyesore Opulence - Peter Hessler & Christian Wiman
From: Open Source
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New Yorker correspondent Peter Hessler reports from the road in China on the human side of miracle growth and epic migration. Then, we meet poet Ch...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3