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Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
Join Gianna Elvia Rendon as she enters the kitchens of three women in San Antonio, Texas. Each woman discusses memories of their grandparents throu...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 17:49
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Jim Von Stein talks with his son, Jason, about his love of songwriting, and the 8,000 songs that almost nobody has ever heard.

Bought by WYAP and Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Mar 13, 2023
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 2
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La Hora Mágica has been the heart of Sunset Park’s storytime programming for a decade now, highlighting songs and stories in Spanish and English fo...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 10:56
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When she travels alone on a tram, sometimes she is taken by a sudden notion. A micro narration in a minute or so.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 01:08
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In this piece we hear people from Mexico, Jamaica, Indonesia, and Nigeria talk about their mothers and who they are because of their mothers.

Bought by WMPG and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 2
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In this piece we hear from 6 people across the globe talking about their mothers and who they are because of their mothers. From a mother who never...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMPG, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:36
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Chicken Tractor at Raven Rocks, Credit: Renee Wilde
In the 1970's a group of Quaker friends banded together to buy an 840 acre property and create a community of of people dedicated to preserving and...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 05:08
Caption: Live turkeys in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite American holiday, and this has been a year where we learned to be thankful for all the things we once took...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Richard revels in living in Philadelphia - the historical heart of U.S. democracy and home of his son Scott - while waiting anxiously for the votes...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2020
  • Length: 10:01
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Richard and his grandson Sam sing old favorites together while daughter Erika explores her father’s influence on Sam.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2020
  • Length: 10:03
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Richard and his daughter Johanna explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual planes of our existence while exercising on Zoom.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 08:47
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
To ring in the new year, take a dive into the stories of the Coney Island Polar Bear club. We hear from voices from across New York City—a cop spea...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 10:48
Caption: Tanya Benson, Credit: Tanya Benson
Feature story about a woman squatting in an abandoned house in Detroit with her family of five.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
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Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. But in the 1930s many people were doing it for the first time....

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Eunice Blanchard Poethig at her 80th birthday celebration in 2010.
A documentary about a family hymn-singing tradition

  • Added: Apr 14, 2018
  • Length: 22:58
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How do you feel about the future? Do you feel hopeful? Do you feel scared? Can we move forward together as a country? In our Season 1 finale, Carve...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 30:48
  • Purchases: 1
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How do you stand against evil, but not the evildoer? How do you go to war for what's right with love for the people you're fighting? Carvell Wallac...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 38:36
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Do you love America? No, seriously, Carvell Wallace wants to know: do you love America? Today, he talks with Van Jones and Rabia Chaudry about love...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 39:18
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It's like visiting a small town...but it's also like visiting the remaining survivors of an apocalypse. Carvell Wallace goes to his hometown of McK...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 32:01
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Going out and talking to people is a little thing, but it's also a big thing. Especially if those people are different from you, or might not like ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 01:01:00
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How can we come together as a country when it seems like so many things are working to keep us apart? Host Carvell Wallace turns to Shereen Marisol...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 01:09:48
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Who or what is in your own past right now that you need to face, but aren’t facing—and why not? Carvell Wallace has a theory that maybe this whole ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 57:02
Caption: Bobby Osborne on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes bluegrass legend Bobby Osborne.

Bought by KBRW, WOUB, WLIW, WLPR , RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Tippy, Credit: Karen Oothoudt
Milt Lee speaks with Sarah MacRostie about homeschooling her son.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The mural painted in memory on the side of the Wildfire Bakery
In November 2014 a vibrant young artist named Zoe Cassidy killed himself, leaving a deep wound in the arts community he was a part of. In this epi...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 33:27