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Sergei Rachmaninoff's 150th Birthday
From: Wind & Rhythm
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Which famous Russian composer was born on April 1st, 1873? On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we play the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, with selecti...

Bought by WRTI, WQCS, GCR (Global Community Radio), Interlochen Public Radio, WBAA and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 11
Prize Winning Fiction Writer George Saunders
From: New Letters on the Air
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George Saunders, the renowned short story writer, talks about his debut novel, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, winner of Britain's 2017 Man Booker Prize for ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Kingsley Tufts Award-winning Poet Patricia Smith: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Patricia Smith, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts fellow and the 2018 winner of the coveted Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, is now the 2021 Ruth...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Russ, 2016
From: Greg Miller
Series: PhotoPhonica
Caption: Russ Darling building a stone wall in NE Connecticut. , Credit: © Greg Miller
Russ Darling is a Vietnam Era Veteran who has worn many hats over his life: Poet, Artist, former School Bus driver and most recently, Stone Mason.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 10:13
Burning of a Sacred Valley
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard about wildfire from the Sierra Nevada.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps MVI: Lynn Chapman and Keith Chapman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Keith Chapman sits down with his mother, Lynn Chapman, to remember his brother, Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Ross Chapman, the first American soldier to b...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Historias: Casimiro "Cas" Torres
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Casimiro “Cas” Torres reflects on how his childhood led him to incarceration at New York City’s Hart Island, where he buried the poor and unclaimed...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
Nevada resolution to protect swamp cedars reverberates across Indian Country
From: Brian Bahouth
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To learn more about the importance of Nevada's AJR4 for the preservation of Native American cultural sites not only in Spring Valley but across the...

  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 17:34
Invisible Women
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Domestic workers have been especially hard hit by the pandemic but have been consistently excluded from bills meant to help frontline workers. In t...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:10
And They Never Came Back: Life After Our Parents Have Died
From: melanie berzon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A documentary of the effects of being left both motherless and fatherless at an early age.

Bought by KUER, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KISU, KUNM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 57:03
  • Purchases: 8
Dispatch 333 - Going Home
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A screen capture from Sandip Roy's Twitter feed, Credit: Sandip Roy
The COVID pandemic has had a terrible effect on all of us, and opened our eyes to some of those who were invisible before.

  • Added: May 11, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
In Memoriam 2019
From: WBJB
Series: In Memoriam
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A look at the musicians we lost in 2019.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 57:44
Houda Listen to Your Mother
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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As Houda and Sara’s English has improved over the past three years, they’ve been able to share more of their story with Melanie–and with you. In th...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 04:27
Maxine A Voice From The Past
From: Glen Lasley
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This Is The Voice Of Maxine Who Past Away In 2008

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 101: The Fox
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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This episode picks up where Episode 100 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. When Martin McNally met another plane hijacker in prison...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 22:48
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Alfred Wilson and Susan Bro
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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In 2017, Heather Heyer was killed while protesting against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her supervisor from the law offi...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:32
StoryCorps: Leila Ramgren and Chad Eisen-Ramgren
From: StoryCorps
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10-year-old Leila Ramgren talks with her father, Chad Eisen-Ramgren, about Philando Castile, the cafeteria manager at her school who was killed by ...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
The 2017 Musician Memorial Hour
From: Paul Ingles
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Some of the prominent popular musicians who passed away in 2017 are celebrated in a one-hour special hosted by public radio music historian Paul In...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WVAS, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KDUR and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
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
Connecting With a Once Shunned Finnish Past Through Song
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Diane Jarvi, Credit: Courtesy of Diane Jarvi
Finnish immigrants to Minnesota often faced discrimination. Many were radicals. To avoid the "Dirty Finn" label, some Finns shunned their heritage....

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Blind Dog and Other Radio Stories: A Conversation With Scott Carrier
From: Missouri Audio Project
Caption: Scott Carrier and Julija Šukys, Credit: Shane Epping
Scott Carrier talks to Julija Šukys about bearing witness, about telling difficult stories, about spinning tales of human oddness, and about the re...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 15:23
Eyes of Another
From: Terence Mickey
Series: Memory Motel
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Autobiographical memories are the stories we tell ourselves, but they’re also a window into other people’s experiences. They’re one of the best way...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:10
Mwende Katwiwa at Community Book Center
From: Sarah Holtz
Series: The Poetic City
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Mwende Katwiwa performs a poem about a police killing in New Orleans that occurred on Lundi Gras.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:24
Border(less)
From: Hebah Fisher
Series: Kerning Cultures
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Refugees navigate Europe's elusive borders

Bought by WRGY and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:01
  • Purchases: 2