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Fiction Writer Amina Gautier
From: New Letters on the Air
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Multi-award winning short story writer, Amina Gautier, shares excerpts from her 2018 PEN/Malamud Award-winning, THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS, as par...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Episode 117: The Lake
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Amanda Hamm and her boyfriend Maurice LaGrone drove to Clinton Lake one night in 2003. The next day, DeWitt County Sheriff Roger Massey told a loca...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 33:34
Hector Berlioz, Part 2
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Hector Berlioz, Credit: Josef Kriehuber
More from the complete works of Berlioz out on Warner Classics.

Bought by KMUN, KWAX, WETS, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
David Wynn and Carolyn Lyon
From: StoryCorps
Caption: David Wynn (left) and Carolyn Lyon (right)
The scene could be a bleak one — a hospital room, a patient near death, and no family or loved ones present during their final moments. But David W...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Nov 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
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
Small Fists
From: Ryan Trauman
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A flash-fiction story told from the perspective of a boy getting his bearings in the grown-up world of funerals.

  • Added: May 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:01
Novelist Jayne Anne Phillips
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Women's History Month, we revisit a novel that's built around real life West Virginia murders of a widow and her three children during the Grea...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jean Anoilh play Antigone Performed by IU Theater
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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IU performs Jean Anoilh adaption of Sophocles' Antigone

  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 09:10
A Short Guide to a Long Life / A Boomer's Second Act / Believe It or Not! / Nunsense! / Undertaking and Playboy Posing!
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Segment 1: Dr. Agus/Long Life Segment 2: Kevin Briggs/Bridge Patrol Segment 3: Ed Meyers/Ripley's Segment 4: Jane Christmas/Nun's Story Segment ...

  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 52:01
Fear On the Inside: A Story of Domestic Violence
From: Long Haul Productions
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A week in the life of a woman in Chicago attempting to escape a physically and emotionally abusive marriage.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2014
  • Length: 23:22
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Drew Pham and Molly Pearl
From: StoryCorps
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Army Captain Drew Pham, 26, tells his wife, Molly Pearl, about Afghanistan and some of his most difficult combat memories.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
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
The Skins They Carried
From: Michael May
Caption: Medic Clint McCullough shows off his memorial tattoo with the name of his unit, and the names of three friends who died., Credit: Michael May
American fighters have been getting military tattoos, such as American eagles, stars and stripes, anchors and cannons, since the 19th century. Tatt...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps MVI: Randy and Judy Pilgrim
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Judy and Randy Pilgrim remember their son and Iraq war veteran, Army Specialist Lance Pilgrim.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Lil Boy by Juwan Wooten
From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
Part Five-The Night Before The Surrender
From: Jan Thompson
Series: The Tragedy of Bataan
Caption: American Troops Surrendering
The final segment describes the fall of Bataan and those who were able to escape to Corregidor Island. Interviews are with: Art Campbell, Ralph Lev...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 1
Everywhere But Here
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Is Maine immune to a deadly bat disease?

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 2
State of Privilege
From: War News Radio
Caption: The two highest earning Iraqi politicians: Prime Minister Maliki and President Talibani, Credit: Photo Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 28:58
Sculpting Agent Orange's Legacy
From: Avishay Artsy
Caption: A Vietnamese boy exposed to Agent Orange., Credit: Kirk Torregrossa
A Dartmouth student travels to Vietnam to document in sculpture the legacy of Agent Orange.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 20, 2009
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1
Cuando la Fuerza Abandona para Uno (When strength abandons you)
From: Megan Martin
Series: Llegando de los Pueblos (Arriving from the Villages)
Caption: Irineo Sánchez Hernández
A migration Story told by Irineo Sánchez Hernández; recorded in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca

  • Added: Dec 01, 2008
  • Length: 08:33
Physician Depression-Part 3
From: KUOW
Series: Troubled Doctors: Addiction and Depression in Medicine
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Examines depression in physicans

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: May 01, 2008
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 2
The Intervention-Part 2
From: KUOW
Series: Troubled Doctors: Addiction and Depression in Medicine
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Treating medical professionals

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 01, 2008
  • Length: 06:23
  • Purchases: 2
Girl Detectives-Expanded Version
From: Sue Mell
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The aftermath of a friend's murder and the search for resolution in the face of an unexplained death.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 25:53
  • Purchases: 3
Botanarchy
From: Anthony Mascorro
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Narrative monologue with music. Three interrelated stories about fertility, reproduction, and a young man's inability to confront directly what is...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2006
  • Length: 54:59