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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
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
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
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
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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
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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
Caption: What would you say?
Welcome to an ALONG FOR THE RIDE, XTRAsode. In this episode it's just ONE on ONE when ride share driver Rubie picks up passenger Acei and learns m...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 12:08
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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
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
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
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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
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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
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On July 17th, 1981 The Kansas City Hyatt Hotel Skywalk fell onto the unsuspecting attendants at one of the hotel’s popular Tea Dances. 114 people w...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 10:26
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Two journeys - in very different directions, and taken for very different reasons - out of, and then into, Africa.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2015
  • Length: 44:14
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
Caption: Dave Brown with his bodhran., Credit: Jonathan Earle
A Vietnam War veteran plays the Irish drum to ease his PTSD.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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When Bad Guys don't always win, we can cheer: Author Kevin Fortuna reads from his story collection, The Dunning Man. Have you ever taken bold actio...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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How do you feel about your... well, eventual remains? Sealed caskets and ash-filled urns strike author Bernd Heinrich as unnatural, and this biolog...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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Along the road, stretches from Louisville to New Mexico, there are moments that never live up to the pictures we take. But they're what we always s...

Bought by KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 11:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Jonathan Ashely is a novelist living in Kentucky.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 17:29
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Award-winning author Chris Offutt's short story "Barred Owl", performed by actor Marc Powell

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 27:02
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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
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Rich Sutton is an overnight security guard at a car impound lot in Los Angeles.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:53
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Author Antonia Hodgson reads from her historical novel, The Devil In The Marshalsea." Just one of our daily readings for July. The Author's Corner ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:40