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Jeffrey Toobin Reads Award-Winning Prison Essay
From: PEN America
Series: The Freedom to Write
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Author Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker reads "The Colfax Crew” an essay from the PEN Prison Writing Contest by Tim Boland of Minnesota Correctiona...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 10:55
Interivew with Cathy Cooks
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Cathy Cooks is an activist with Students for Reproductive Justice. She talks about her report from the DOJ and their findings. Interviewing Cathy i...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
StoryCorps OutLoud: Reverend Troy Perry
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Phillip “Buddy” De Blieck (left) and Rev. Troy Perry (right) , Credit: Rev. Troy Perry
On June 24, 1973, an intentionally set fire tore through a New Orleans gay bar killing 32. Rev. Troy Perry came to StoryCorps to recall the aftermath.

Bought by Radio Catskill, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 25 - Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Adam, Francisco, and Marcus at the Blackstone Library in Chicago
Kids from Chicago discuss a heartbreakingly beautiful book set in Maine: "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt. The writer shares the inspiration f...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2016
  • Length: 23:21
Kidnapped in Guatemala
From: Sarah Bromer
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When Richard Newman accepted at job at the World Health Organization in Guatemala in the late 70s, he never expected to get mixed up in the country...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2016
  • Length: 17:13
Adam Burrows
From: WNJR
Series: acousticSongs LIVE! from WNJR studios
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Adam Burrows on acousticSongs LIVE! from WNJR.org

  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 58:05
What’s Growing in Mossville? (Gravy Ep. 38)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Debra Ramirez, a Mossville native. , Credit: Photo by Tina Antolini.
The residents of Mossville, Louisiana have long prized self-sufficiency. Founded by freed slaves in the 1700s, Mossville was a place where everyone...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 31:37
  • 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
The Past American Voice of Poet C.D. Wright
From: New Letters on the Air
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We remember a Past American Voice--Arkansas native and former Rhode Island Poet Laureate, C.D. Wright who died suddenly in early 2016. She authored...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Catherine Alaniz-Simonds and David Taylor
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Catherine Alaniz-Simonds and retired Col. David Taylor remember Catherine’s husband, Andy Alaniz, who died by friendly fire during the Gulf War.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 14: Shorty - The Life and Disappearance of Mike "The Bike" Rust
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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On this special episode of Wish We Were Here: Tales and Investigations from the Shadows of America's Mountain, we worked with Nathan Ward at Grit a...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Apr 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:09
  • Purchases: 1
Georgia State Poet Laureate Judson Mitcham
From: New Letters on the Air
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Georgia State Poet Laureate Judson Mitcham shares stories about some of his influences, including the late poets Richard Hugo, William Stafford and...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Slipping Away: An Alzheimer's Story, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Frances Hilary McGuigan
As a boy I always thought it would be terrifying to be a tree rooted in the ground when developers arrived with backhoes and chainsaws. How you cou...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 27:22
StoryCorps OutLoud: Scott Goodling and Andy Goodling
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Andy Goodling tells to his father, Scott, about his boyfriend who passed away almost two years ago, and why he kept their relationship a secret.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Sean Smith and Lee Smith
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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In June 1989, Sean Smith, 10, fatally shot his younger sister while playing with his father’s gun. He talks to his mother, Lee, about that devastat...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 1
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
The Heart and Soul Of Community
From: Steven Scher
Series: On The Bus
Caption: On The Bus
For all the ways we devise to pull communities apart, people find ways to rebuild.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
People With Depression: You Are Not Alone
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Welcome to RadioActive's second podcast of summer 2015. We are talking about depression. We got some advice from a psychiatrist at the University o...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 14:40
On the Bus
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Seeing the city while on public transportation.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 08:28
Meow (Zoey's Last Adventure)
From: LN Lurie
Series: POW (Podcast of Wonder)
Caption: Zoey going hiking, Credit: LN Lurie
A sound-designed piece from a cat's perspective on her last adventure.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2015
  • Length: 07:32
The Girl Everybody Loves
From: Anne Hoffman
Series: Generation Voice
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Seventeen year-old Shamarra Rombawa lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Her city was dubbed "Murder Town" by a 2014 article in Newsweek because of its h...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 1
A Long Train
From: Andrew Poirier
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Reporter Andrew Poirier takes a ride on the A train from beginning to end and discovers that there is more to this train than meets the eye.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 04:22
StoryCorps: Paul Nilsen and Tom Graziano
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Paul Nilsen (L) and Tom Graziano (R)
Tom Graziano remembers how his son’s elementary school principal and the community responded when they learned that his son was HIV positive.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WEZU and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 7
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
StoryCorps OutLoud: Claudia Anton and Diana Keough
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Claudia Anton (L) and Diana Keough (R)
Sisters from Wisconsin recount what it was like to find out both of their parents had AIDS, and to lose them both to the disease in the early 1990s.

Bought by WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 4

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