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StoryCorps: Don Rearden and Qaiyaan Harcharek
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Qaiyaan Harcharek and Don Rearden pose with fossilized mammoth ivory in Utqiagvik, AK on July 10, 2018, Credit: By Joe Yelverton
Friends Don Rearden and Qaiyaan Harcharek talk about suicides in their Alaskan communities and a moment that bonded them together.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 02:38
Appalachian Vibes: Stories of the Stitch, FUNK YOU, Appalachian Horror stories
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
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This week we dive into the history of quilting in Appalachia with Stories of the Stitch, a quilt show from Galax, VA And...Funk You is a spicy hot...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
StoryCorps: Felts Update
From: StoryCorps
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A few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we heard from 90-year-old Kenneth Felts, a man who amidst quarantine, decided it was time to confront a tr...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:20
S2 E8 All That Jazz
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Psychiatrist Matthew Hirschtritt turns to lessons from his Jewish upbringing when caring for a patient with severe refractory depression.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:34
StoryCorps: Joanna Wright and Tara Cummings
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Joanna Wright and her friend Tara Cummings talk about surviving years of abuse at a religious reform school in Louisiana.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
Nick Bacon by Stephen Lang
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Nick Bacon
The story of Nick Bacon is a portrait from Stephen Lang's one-man show, Beyond Glory, based on the book by Larry Smith of the same title. He portra...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 16:50
Inside Voice by Kate Robin
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Kate Robin
In Kate Robin's Inside Voice, two parents watching their toddlers having fun in an indoor playground take on the big wide world beyond. Hear an exc...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 33:45
Cell by Cassandra Medley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Condola Rashad
Starring Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins and Condola Rashad (“Billions”), CELL tells the riveting story of three African-American women working at ...

Bought by WCPN, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WHRV


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
Her Road of Trials, Episode 102
From: Lisa Reilly
Series: THE HUSTLER FILES
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Meet hustler La’Kia Young. She could be anyone, anywhere with a past paved in rubble and pain but her perseverance proves that failure isn't final.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 21:12
Meet The Hustler Files
From: Lisa Reilly
Series: THE HUSTLER FILES
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The Hustler Files is stories set around ex-offenders and their second chances as they strive to pursue entrepreneurship, be productive citizens and...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:56
The Live Feed Presents: I Slam Therefore I Am
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed, we bring you I Slam Therefore I Am - Slam Poetry Night from the Midwest Music Fest Store in downtown Winona. Slam...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 24:12
Napoleon in Exile by Daniel Reitz
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Jane Kaczmarek
Napoleon in Exile by Daniel Reitz, is a humorous and touching piece about a single mother and her young adult son who has ASD (Autistic Spectrum Di...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 38:26
  • Purchases: 1
Beyond Glory - Three short pieces by Stephen Lang
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Stephen Lang
"As starkly moving as taps at dusk" says the Washington Post about BEYOND GLORY, a powerful tribute to military valor written and performed by stag...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KWIT and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 14
Episode 7: Man vs. Machine
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Micah Schweizer was skiing in the back-country when he uttered a curse against snowmobilers. But you know what they say—be careful what you wish for.

Bought by KUER, KRZA, HowSound, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KALW


  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 13:26
  • Purchases: 5
Orson Undiminished, Or How Kane Was Raised
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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From theater to radio to Hollywood...the ambition of Orson Welles, as Patrick McGilligan tells us in his new book Young Orson, was already old-fash...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 59:57
All Well and Good: Two Short Plays by David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Kelly Hutchinson
Two short plays by the master of the form, David Ives (Venus In Fur, All in the Timing). In David Ives’ ITS ALL GOOD, a Chicago native visits his h...

Bought by WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Kevin Berthia and Kevin Briggs
From: StoryCorps
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Kevin Berthia talks with retired California Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Briggs. They met the day Berthia tried to end his life by jumping off the ...

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Jonathan Ashley discusses "The Cost of Doing Business"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Jonathan Ashely is a novelist living in Kentucky.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 17:29
StoryCorps: Alex Landau and Patsy Hathaway
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Alex Landau, who is African American, and his adoptive mother, Patsy Hathaway, who is white,...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), WTJU, and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 5
"Country Noir" and fiction writer Daniel Woodrell
From: New Letters on the Air
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Two of Daniel Woodrell's eight novels are now acclaimed films. The 1998 movie RIDE WITH THE DEVIL was adapted from his novel WOE TO LIVE ON, and th...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2: Adam Rutkowski/Houseless vs. Tony/Homeless - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
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Bobby talks with Adam Rutkowski, a shit-talking Polish Long Islander who lost his house to Hurricane Sandy, and Tony (no last name provided), a hom...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2012
  • Length: 02:35:45
Untitled (August 28, 2012)
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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This edition of Radio Curious is dedicated to Gerard "Tiger" Hill and those who died, when Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans in 2005. Our gue...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Vagina Monologues
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a 2004 conversation with Eve Ensler, creator of "The Vagina Monologue," for Women's History Month.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, and WMMT


  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
"Northwest Angle" by William Kent Kreuger
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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A battle with nature leads to mystery and suspense in "Northwest Angle." Realgoodwords is our weekly book program; a place for those who read, wri...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 26:29
  • Purchases: 1