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Author Karen Fults Kaler talks about her new book "Eastcliff"

  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 08:52
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 10:12
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The Monroe County History Center shares the stories of bygone diners and dives.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
Caption: Lana Cooper-Jones and Marla Cooper at their StoryCorps interview in San Diego, CA on May 11, 2022., Credit: StoryCorps.
Lana Cooper-Jones and Marla Cooper sit down at StoryCorps to remember their dad and his commitment to celebrating Juneteenth.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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Author of the 2022 book EDEN'S LAST HORIZON: POEMS FOR THE EARTH, Georgia nature writer and poet Philip Lee Williams discusses his earlier poetry b...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Philip and Ruth Lazowski on their wedding day, in 1955. , Credit: Courtesy of the Lazowski family.
Rabbi Philip Lazowski tells his wife Ruth about the stranger who saved him from the Nazis as a young boy, and how this fateful encounter would mark...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This year, the Rough Draft Diaries is taking a step back in time to learn about the history of the radio play. Tune in for this year's special but ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Take Me With You: Around The World Journey to Invite a Stranger Home Have you ever made friends with someone from a place where you visited as a t...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:29
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The music and life of the legendary underground Los Angeles jazz pianist and community activist, with remarks from his biographer Stephen Isoardi.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Rudolfo Anaya
Highlights from a 2002 writer's forum in Jemez Springs, New Mexico that featured beloved New Mexico author Rudolfo Anaya. FROM ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Jos Slovick is the featured guest on Sony Soundtracks Keeping Score podcast, produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Jos gives us a ...

  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 09:25
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A featurette cut from the documentary special THE EMERGENCE OF JOHN PRINE with spotlights the early career and on-going musical journey of the late...

Bought by WMOT


  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
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The story of one of the most long-lived and influential traditional New Mexican Hispanic musical groups in the state, Los Reyes de Albuquerque. The...

Bought by KUPR low power FM and KSJE


  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Welcome to the 'Little Women' podcast featurIng Academy Award®, Golden Globe® and GRAMMY® Award-winning composer; Alexandre Desplat.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 17:05
Caption: Dale Jett
Carter Family legacy Dale Jett & "Hello Stranger" recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews w...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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In this presentation at the Kansas City Public Library, Scottish-born writer Margot Livesey talks about her evolution as a reader and writer, and s...

  • Added: May 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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50 years after serving together in Vietnam, Army veterans Kay Lee and John Nordeen sat down for StoryCorps to remember how they first met.

Bought by KALW and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Greg Yance and Neoma Farr worked alongside each other during the Great Flood of 1993, to gird the town of Niota, Illinois from the rising waters of...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Jul 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
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Hear Bob Kustra talk with Amor Towles about his novel "A Gentleman in Moscow"

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Melba Beals
Melba Beals, one of the nine African-American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, tells her story of faith under fire.

Bought by WHYY and WETS


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Padma Viswanathan
Novelist Padma Viswanathan, a 2017 recipient of the Porter Fund Literary Prize, and poet Geoffrey Brock, discuss how they balance their writing car...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with author Connie Lounsbur...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:58
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Irish poet Anne Marie Fyfe explores parallels in her poetry with work of the renowned William Butler Yeats for the "Mapping Yeats Symposium" at the...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2