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“Known as the ‘apostle of the cacti,’ this advocate for the creation of desert national parks was named after this ancient Roman goddess ….” If tha...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 28:00
The people of Colombia love Tango and have honored Carlos Gardel's legacy since his tragic death there in 1935.
Bought by WXXI Rochester
- Added: Jul 12, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on Afterglow, our spotlight is on Miss Peggy Lee, with a closer look at the 1960s, a time when her music and persona became more sleek, r...
- Added: Apr 18, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Ronnie and Richie Palazzolo were identical twins who did everything together, including working at the World Trade Center. They were both there on ...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Sep 15, 2021
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 20, 2020
- Length: 58:46
- Purchases: 1
A heartfelt phoned-in story from a woman recalling something special about her late cat.
(Excerpt from my pilot "For Kindred Spirits.")
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 2
It’s hard to go anywhere on Cape Cod these days and not see litter on the side of the road or on hiking trails. Local poet Ralph Bousquet has start...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
At StoryCorps in Laramie, Wyoming, Rodger McDaniel came into the booth to remember his father and how finding a family treasure helped him see his ...
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 05:58
Larry Dearmon and Stephen Mills met during the height of the AIDS epidemic in Little Rock, Arkansas. They remember the loss that eventually brought...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Dec 06, 2018
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
On June 12, 2016 a lone gunman killed 49 people at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida.Among those killed was Deonka Drayton. She was 32.
Deon...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 1
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
Bill Jones, the first single man in California to successfully adopt a child, tells his friend Stu Maddux about his son, Aaron.
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 02:58
- Purchases: 3
Yusor Abu-Salha (R), one of the victims of the tragic shooting in Chapel Hill, recorded a StoryCorps interview last year. Here, she talks with Muss...
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 02:23
- Purchases: 2
Sometimes a love is written as just a honky tonk song.
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 03:59
A poor rejected man looks out his lowly cabin window at the big mansion on the hill where he knows she is not happy.
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 03:16
Eva fled to the U.S. from El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago. Since then, she’s cared for 11 kids – and mastered emotional calculus of ...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 02:59
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
Queen Jackson tells her case manager, Debra MacKillop, how she became homeless.
Bought by WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 3
Chris Whitney tells his friend Erin Kuka about being diagnosed HIV positive early on in the AIDS crisis.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WUTC, WEZU, and KUOW
- Added: Dec 12, 2011
- Length: 02:17
- Purchases: 4
Harvey Sherman remembers October 3, 1951, when the Brooklyn Dodgers lost the pennant on a home run known as the "shot heard 'round the world."
- Added: Oct 05, 2011
- Length: 01:29
- Purchases: 2
Betsy Brooks tells her boyfriend, John Grecsek, about her father.
- Added: Jul 15, 2011
- Length: 02:17
- Purchases: 2
Jennifer Bosworth had to go crazy in L.A. before she could discover that the man she was looking for was in her home town all along.
- Added: Nov 21, 2010
- Length: 15:56
- Purchases: 5
Tom Thomas, a lifetime resident of Picher, Oklahoma, is one of very few staying in the town even after it closes.
- Added: Jul 13, 2009
- Length: 03:48
I learned how to write a break-up song to get over my break-up
Bought by WHRV, WHRV, WBUR's Listen Up, KMXT, KVNF and more
- Added: Oct 15, 2008
- Length: 29:11
- Purchases: 14
Want Ad seeking a new pet companion for a lasting relationship
Bought by WYBC and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 18, 2006
- Length: 01:16
- Purchases: 2
