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Reflections on China's Bureaucracy: Standing in my Underwear in a Shanghai Supermarket
From: STephen ASma
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Humorous and philosophical essay about a brush with Chinese Security Guards in Shanghai

  • Added: Jun 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
If a Butterfly Flaps it Wings A Polar Bear Gets A Hernia
From: Joel Brussell
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Absurd Connectivity of Things

  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 02:36
My Sister, Elizabeth Who?
From: ANITA PALLADINO
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Celebrities - Then & Now

  • Added: Jul 31, 2008
  • Length: 01:45
Rock, Paper, Scissors Championships
From: Nicholas Demarest
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This piece is a short essay about the rock, paper, scissors championships in Las Vegas.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2008
  • Length: 06:32
Sleepless Nights
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
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A day...night, rather, in the life of a high school senior

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
Little Nips
From: ANITA PALLADINO
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Claws Encounter of the Worst Kind

  • Added: Jun 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:27
Lunchroom
From: David Green
Series: School Scenes
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Third grader Evan remembers the simple pleasures of first grade: blue sports drink.

Bought by KUOW, WTIP, and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 3
First Passover
From: Sarah Neal (Neal-Estes)
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A touching, insightful, irreverent and funny view of Melissa Robert's first Passover with her fiance's family.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Vocalo.org, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 05, 2008
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 3
How I Lost Religion
From: Susan Kottler
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A childhood encounter with a supposedly punitive God

  • Added: Mar 16, 2008
  • Length: 02:44
This I Believe - Barbara Held
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Psychologist Barbara Held of Maine believes a little kvetching makes for a better outlook on life.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 3
Memory of a 5th grade rebel
From: Sarah Lange
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a reflection on childhood "attitude"

  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 04:11
Happy anniversary, Lego! Please go away.
From: Merle Kessler
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Anybody besides Ian have mixed feelings about Legos?

Bought by Kansas Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2008
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 1
Cyro Baptista: in his own words
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
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Cyro Baptista in his percussion garage ...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, The Story, and KGLT


  • Added: Feb 04, 2008
  • Length: 07:06
  • Purchases: 4
Football North and South
From: Jim Hoskins
Series: TBubbaTalks!
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Football North and South

  • Added: Dec 03, 2007
  • Length: 06:02
"The Christmas I Saved Macy's"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Christmas Programming
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This is a true story that happened to me Christmas of 1964 at Bamberger's in Newark, NJ, when I was five years old.

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Here and Now, WGUC/ WVXU, KUT and more


  • Added: Nov 27, 2007
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 7
Hawaii
From: Jim Hoskins
Series: TBubbaTalks!
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Hawaii

  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 02:15
I'm Thankful, I'm Thankful!
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Unconventional Wisdom
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Commentator Fred Flaxman is just as thankful for what he's missing.

Bought by WRTU


  • Added: Oct 31, 2007
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
Becoming Interesting
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
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A first person essay about dealing with illness and middle-age

  • Added: Oct 21, 2007
  • Length: 05:21
Halloween Should be for Kids
From: Jim Hoskins
Series: TBubbaTalks!
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Halloween Should be for Kids

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 13, 2007
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - David Buetow
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Chicago attorney David Buetow believes his dog helped him grow into a better, more mature person.

Bought by WEZU, WYSO, WEZU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KJZZ


  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 5
Television, sliced and diced
From: Merle Kessler
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Sony launches 5 minute versions of old tv shows on myspace. Why?

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 02:13
Healing in the Cards
From: David Kates
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David Kates seeks healing for a small business and himself.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 1
Coke: the unreal thing
From: Merle Kessler
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Soda meets skin care: why?

  • Added: May 05, 2007
  • Length: 02:30
"Focus"
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
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A funny, wistful piece about discipline my lack of same

  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: 01:16
April Fools' Day
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Unconventional Wisdom
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A brief, tongue-in-cheek commentary advocating making April Fools' Day a national holiday.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 27, 2007
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 1