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StoryCorps: Mason Best and Roseann Smith
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Mason Best and Roseann Smith at their StoryCorps interview in Queens, New York on March 25, 2023, Credit: By Julia Kirschenbaum for StoryCorps
Mason Best, age 12, came to StoryCorps with his mother Roseann Smith to reflect on their relationship and share some of his philosophies on life.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP


  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 2
The Apple Seed - Blonde, Beautiful, and Bubbly
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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What happens when your ideas about what makes a successful person are tied up in your ideas about your sister, who as you describe, is blonde, beau...

Bought by KTXK, KKRN, WVPE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and KSJE


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps Griot and American Pathways: Beau McCall and Julaina Glass
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Julaina Glass and Beau McCall met as neighbors in a Harlem, NY brownstone. They came to StoryCorps nearly 35 years later to remember -- and laugh a...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Learning from the Land
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Today’s collection of stories celebrates nature. Storytellers Jay O’Callahan, Glenda Bonin, Joseph Bruchac, Susan Reed, and Valentina Oritz take us...

Bought by KSJE and WVPE


  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 2
Mistress Shadey
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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This hour of the Apple Seed features a story about a mean rodeo bull, a story about dog mischief, and an entertaining rhyme called "Mistress Shadey."

Bought by KTXK and KSJE


  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 2
Short List #8
From: David Green
Series: Short Lists
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A collaborative "Short List" poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: :47
  • Purchases: 1
Animal Relationships
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
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A teacher in Austin has a very special relationship with her numerous pets.

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Dec 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Zoë Waters, Maddy Waters, and Nick Waters
From: StoryCorps
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Ten-year-old triplets Maddy, Zoë, and Nick Waters have spent their entire lives together, sharing everything from a birthday to a bedroom. But desp...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
(Episode #14) Improving in Tutoring and in Life
From: Odegaard Writing and Research Center
Series: Character Development
Caption: Odegaard Writing and Research Center, Credit: OWRC
This week’s episode revisits a topic from one of the OWRC Week 7 workshops held in the previous quarter, which was related to improvisation and how...

  • Added: May 08, 2016
  • Length: 24:05
Comedy, Comedians, and Political Correctness: Not a Laughing Matter
From: Lauren Perlowski
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This piece looks at what is and is not acceptable to say on stage from a comedians point of view.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 04:40
(Episode #05) Mid-Quarter Break
From: Odegaard Writing and Research Center
Series: Character Development
Caption: Odegaard Writing and Research Center, Credit: OWRC
Hello again, listeners. As you may have already guessed by the title and length of this episode, the Character Development team is taking a (much n...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2016
  • Length: :54
Christine's First
From: Caitlin Pierce
Series: Borders
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Christine navigates love and romance as she grows up.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 07:08
$5,400 for a piece of cardboard? The allure of 'Magic: The Gathering'
From: KALW
Caption: Our heroes prepare their decks for battle. Michelle Roberson, Mike Conn and Matt Wilcox., Credit: Jeremy Dalmas
Suddenly the peace is broken. A mountain shoots out of the Earth and Planeswalker Mike Escalante begins amassing his army. A pack of goblins surf ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:49
For Valentine's Day: Love on the New York Subway
From: Asa Merritt
Caption: It all went down in the 6th Ave tunnel.
A couple who fell in love during Hurricane Sandy shares how their romance blossomed on the platforms of New York City's subway.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:59
#16 MIW Michelle Bandy - Pregnant Teens Social Worker and Super Mom
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Michelle Bandy on Making It Work Radio, Credit: Oddua Productions
Fun and cheap things to do is how social worker and mother of three, Michelle Bandy, enjoys herself here in the Bay. On this episode of Making It W...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 25:15
VoxPod #13 - Learning the Language
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
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Today's show looks at people coming together to hone another language.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 11:22
  • Purchases: 1
VoxPod #7 - The Lure of Gnomes and Homes
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
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Today's show refutes frequent stigmas of both home schooled students and garden gnomes.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 1
12 Days to Curtain: Inside a Summer Theatre Camp
From: Alexander Ward
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A piece exploring the Young People's Theatre Project's summer theater production, which brings 6th-12th graders into the wilderness to produce a mu...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2014
  • Length: 17:38
Birthdays
From: Margaret Krauss
Series: What What Why: Stories of Life and Living
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Everyone has a birthday, but the day's meaning changes over time. In this episode, we look at life from 21st and 94th birthdays.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 10:53
The Return of the Childhood Crush
From: JP Davidson
Caption: Konstantine and Salina in grade 2 class photo.
The funny and touching love story of Konstantine and Salina. They met in 1st grade, and parted ways in 8th grade - just another childhood crush. Bu...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KVSC, WHRV, and Talking Information Center


  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 28:08
  • Purchases: 4
Searching for Sasha Krizhanovsky
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
Caption: Sasha & Jessica, Credit: Sarah Stuteville
Armed with a letter from 1990, producer Jessica Partnow goes in search of her childhood Soviet pen pal.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
St. Valentine, Gangster of Love
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The shocking truth about the patron saint of romantic love, marriage ... and bee keeping.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 1
First Kiss
From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio
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A dead squid in your mouth. Slugs. A mollusk. We're talking about your first kiss.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 03:16
Pizza Time by Alex Malmude for the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
From: YouthCast
Caption: So much pizza!, Credit: Flickr User rj3
Ah, the mysterious life of a pizza delivery man, finally captured in his natural habitat. This documentary takes a smooth non-narrated path to tel...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Robert Stover and Valerie Anderson
From: StoryCorps
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Robert Stover tells his daughter, Valerie Anderson about growing up in the 1930's.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 2