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Brazen Presents: The Closer Back to School Special
From: PRX
Series: Brazen Presents
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This is a special "Back to School" edition of The Closer, a series from Project Brazen and PRX that shares the inside story of the deals that chang...

Bought by WRKF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Nevada Public Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 14
Space Oddities: Episode 10-Odds 'n Ends
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: Coke's zero-g soda can., Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
Our last episode of the Space Oddities Podcast is a hodgepodge of stories dealing with space related marketing ideas, a couple of which you may rem...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 13:11
Enron
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The legendary story of one of America’s most stunning corporate collapses.

Bought by KKRN, KWMR, KMUN, KFCF FM, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 35
RDD: The Old and New
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Sven Olaf Nelson began his printing press shop with a small table-top proof press and a few drawers of type in 2001, now he has over 300 drawers an...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 06:11
Episode 145: How to Sell a Haunted House
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York. It didn’t go as planned. The house became the center of a case th...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 30:05
Love and Samosas: How a Massachusetts town backed a local general store owner
From: James Szkobel-Wolff
Caption: Storefront of Sangar General Store, Credit: http://musingsinmass.blogspot.com
Sangar General Store, in Windsor, MA, is owned by Prem Sangar. Prem wasn't born in Windsor and doesn't quite fit the mold of the town, but the comm...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: David Maraniss
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
Caption: David Maraniss with John U. Bacon
A conversation with journalist David Maraniss on the National Writers Series from Interlochen Public Radio.

Bought by Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 3
Job Talk Episode 18
From: Paul Russell
Series: Job Talk
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It’s a merger of storytelling, theatre and mystery as Doug and Dave learn from a freelance historical consultant Jeff Clark.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2017
  • Length: 18:33
Job Talk Episode 17
From: Paul Russell
Series: Job Talk
Caption: http://jobtalkradio.org, Credit: Job Talk LLC
Dave and Doug resurrect memories of old cars as they talk with a restorer of Volkswagen buses. How to turn your hobby in to a business, right here ...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2017
  • Length: 13:46
The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result...

Bought by KCUR, WWNO, Michigan Radio, WWNO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 68
Ironies and Onion Rings: The Layered Story of the Vidalia Onion
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: The Vidalia Onion Museum in Vidalia, Georgia. , Credit: Photo by Tyler Pratt.
If you know and love the Vidalia onion—an onion sweet enough, its fans say, to eat like an apple—you likely also know it as a product of Georgia, a...

Bought by WMMT, KVLU, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 3
RDD: Happy Birthday FM91!
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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It's FM91's 40th birthday! WGTE FM in Toledo began broadcasting May 2, 1976 and for four decades has continued to deliver the highest quality arts,...

  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 06:20
Author Mary Pilon talks about the intriguing history of Monopoly
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Mary Pilon, author of "The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite Board Game," discusses her New York Times bes...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 1
Panics, depressions, recessions
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 2
The House That Beer -- and Pyrophobia -- Built
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: There's quite a story behind D.C.'s first fireproof residence..., Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/josepha/2977738045/
After losing a home and two breweries to fire, one German beermaker vowed not to let history repeat itself... and built an extraordinary house that...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
Detroit's Floating Post Office
From: Zak Rosen
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On the banks of the Detroit River, sits the J.W. Westcott. The ship is only 45 feet long. But believe it or not, it has its own zip code. Since 1...

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 2
The Forensic Architect
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: Chris Carley, Forensic Architect
That's a real job? Yup. A forensic architect finds out what's wrong with old buildings by understanding their history...and using a garden hose.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
Debtors' Prison, Why Creditors Don't Care if You Repay Your Debt, and Bankruptcy
From: Steve Rhode
Series: Get Out of Debt Guy Show
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On today's show I talk with Dr. Louis Hyman, an expert in the history of debt. Not only was it great talking with him but we chatted just as long o...

Bought by KZYX and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Garbage Finds New Life in Queens Office
From: Kenan Davis
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The story what happens to the belongings of someone who dies

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 03, 2008
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 2
What happened to San Francisco's "Greektown?"
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Looking for San Francisco's Greektown

  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: 05:42