PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque

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Caption: John Bailey with a cart full of TaB, Credit: John Bailey
After years of languishing at the far end of the soda aisle, TaB has at last fallen victim to a decision by its parent company, Coca-Cola, to end p...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 1
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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
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How did the mythic western cowboy learn to yodel? The unlikely history of voice breaking in American music, and what it says about us.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 31:31
Caption: Adelaide Bullen
Archeologist Adelaide Bullen written and presented by Anita Palladino.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 06:01
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College girl goes wild and learns important lesson along the way.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 11:16
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Randy Brown has to, no lie, shoot a bear and immediately grab it by the tail and Glenner Anderson makes the cardinal mistake of bear encounters--he...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
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After accidentally joining a traveling circus, writer Jonathan Argyle recounts his discovery of the meaning of the word "home" from the point of vi...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 18, 2015
  • Length: 11:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Well after the (wild) turkey
Michael Kelly's humorous look back at childhood Thanksgiving celebrations from long ago and the first turkey day he will spend far and away in Shan...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, WTIP, WHRV, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 5
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Amy O'Leary, a former producer for This American Life, is our reader here, contributing author of the book, Should I Go To Grad School: 41 Answers ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on State of the Human, we're looking at obsessions, the helpful and the debilitating.

Bought by WMUU-LP, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 3
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Can a labor and delivery nurse make or break your hospital experience? What would you do – or say – to a nurse with no filter?

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 04:18
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Artist Madi Diaz talks about the first time she got on stage.

  • Added: Sep 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:38
Caption: Tanya Fitzgerald reads on Tales from the South
This week our writers all find themselves in awkward situations. Stories by Kay Brockwell, Paul Bowen, and Tanya Fitzgerald. True stories told by t...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: J.W. Taylor reads on Tales from the South
Our Annual Love Show, with stories about the things we do for love. Stories by Sandra Hamilton, Pat Gillum, and J.W. Taylor. True stories told by t...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 34:00
Caption: Jeff Lewellen reads on Tales from the South
Our writers this week all experience the unexpected, with mixed results. Stories by Allie Sumner, Donna Dillahunty, and Jeff Lewellen. True stories...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Wayne Ball reads "The Secret"
This week it's stories about best laid plans, and how those plans go amiss. Stories by Wayne Ball, Peter O'Connell, and Mark Isbell. All stories ar...

  • Added: Dec 25, 2012
  • Length: :00
Caption: Mike Noland on Tales from the South
This week our writers take us back to one of their most embarrassing moments. Stories by Mike Noland, Anne Perry, and Jimmie Meese Moomaw. True sto...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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On this week's show, our writers all grapple with expectations of others or themselves. Stories by Martin Ferguson, Anne Owings Wilson, and Richard...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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This week, our storytellers spill the beans on some very interesting family secrets. Stories by Anne Nieto, Robbin Ridgell, and Arthur Paul Bowen. ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Chef Miles James
Chef Miles James is featured on our Tin Roof Project #20, a monthly special series where well-known Southerners bring their own true stories to lif...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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A true story told live in London. Rachel heads to New York to find 'her inner Jew', but ends up having a sexual awakening.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, our writers are all strangers in a strange land, whether it's familiar, foreign, or in their own backyard. All stories are true and told...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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Once upon a time, Sam and Gerrit were flipping through a booklet of incoming college freshmen when they happened upon an unlikely superhero named C...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 18:51
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One drunken afternoon at an Irish Pub in lower Manhattan, a fellow bellhop co-worker of mine informed me that he could see the future. This is an ...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 17:54
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Humorous,on-the-job stories told by a Driver Education instructor.

Bought by KMUZ


  • Added: Dec 14, 2011
  • Length: 14:30
  • Purchases: 1