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Black Love
From: The Stoop
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From our words, to dance, to the everyday sounds that surround us, we explore the special ways we express and feel the love..

Bought by KALW, WFSU, KVCR, WGBH Radio Boston, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 52:10
  • Purchases: 12
Ep. 2 The Working World
From: Haley Taylor
Series: Tales For Other Times
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Haley begins her career in the working world at her local NPR radio station, but this new job doesn’t exactly turn out the way she had hoped. It be...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Episode 91: Meeting A King
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Shermin de Silva was an elephant researcher looking for a sign. Then she met a king.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 18:52
  • Purchases: 2
Building Community One (Dance) Step at a Time
From: David Condos
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Joann Jones co-founded a community dance class that helps senior citizens fight inactivity and isolation. But as she gets older, Joann has to fight...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2020
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 2
RDD: Ruby's Dream
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week we're meeting a local business owner. Ruby owns Ruby kitchen in Maumee, Ohio, join us to hear how Ruby turned her dream of owning her own...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 06:09
Love in Translation
From: Israel Story
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Sharon and Cansu are from enemy countries and have no common language. They also happen to be in love. A story of a relationship in the age of Goog...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 09:16
  • Purchases: 2
A License to Drive
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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Episode 26: It’s celebration time! Houda got her driver’s license! Last September, Melanie started teaching Houda how to drive–the first woman in h...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:15
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 16
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"Parks And Scandinavian Recreation" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Linda McGurk wanted her children to love the outdoors, just...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lizzie Webb Guptill-Amber Lyon
From: Kara Morgan
Series: Voices of Spanish Point
Caption: Lizzie Webb Guptill
Lizzie Webb Guptill as written and performed by Amber Lyon

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 05:49
Episode 47: Brownie Lady
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Shortly after Meridy Volz moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco, she received a phone call from a friend asking her to take over a small bakery bus...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 21:16
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 35: Pen & Paper
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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As a young woman in the 60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in Chicago. She spent 43 years sketching everyone f...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 24, 2016
  • Length: 17:21
  • Purchases: 1
Mama, I'm A Girl
From: Jonathan Hirsch
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"I sat my kid down and said 'do you wanna be a girl?' And she said 'no, I am a girl'"

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 23:30
  • Purchases: 1
Love Syndrome
From: Israel Story
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Israel Story's Mother's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching tale you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are now avai...

Bought by WYSO, WVPE, WZEN.org, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WNYC


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
It's Been Six Dates
From: Israel Story
Caption: The infamous staircase., Credit: Mishy Harman
Mishy Harman shares the zany matchmaking adventures of his Orthodox downstairs neighbor, which he had no chance but to overhear because all her dat...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 09:27
  • Purchases: 2
Proud Tummy Mom
From: Savanna Nilsen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
When my sister placed her baby for adoption, she and the adoptive parents developed an unexpected relationship.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2014
  • Length: 10:06
Dingmantics: The Taxi Tapes #11-Sandra From Avenue Z
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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In the latest installment of The Taxi Tapes, Sam recalls the unexpected consequences of a voyage to the strange environs of Avenue Z in Brooklyn, w...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 15:07
Frogtown Narratives: The Three-Month Parade
From: Mark Saldaña
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Community member Sally Shepard fights the odds and her health to launch a successful parade in Frogtown, St. Paul.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2010
  • Length: 05:11
Art and Women.
From: Kinsee Morlan
Series: This Small Town Life
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Yet another nod to Women's History month: Rebecca Barfoot talks about her art.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: 10:07
Home Planet: Going home
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Home. It's where we go for comfort, even when it no longer exists.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1