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What would life look like if we oriented our week not around work—but rest? In this episode, we explore our personal and societal need for rest and...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 29:00
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years
was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 27:05
this is the conclusion of The Scotch Bonnet Republic, Ocracoke Island, and how local fisherman saved their way of life.
- Added: Aug 22, 2019
- Length: 24:42
Ocracoke Island is the Key West of the southeast. And where that notable Key claims the conch as its emblem, this remote island off North Carolina...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 27:26
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
Rendered follows up with Etsy about some of the concerns sellers brought up about the company on our April episode and get an update on how the com...
- Added: Aug 23, 2015
- Length: 18:09
My brother Thomas recounts a diving accident he lived through early in his career as a commercial diver.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 08:51
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:06
We return to Prince Edward Island where we’ll spend the next half hour with a father and daughter who produce what PEI has come to be known for the...
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 27:06
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 16:10
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 11:19
Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 2
Behind drawn shades in a brightly lit room downtown, dispatchers for the Los Angeles Police Department answer 9-1-1 calls and send officers to thei...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 1
Eva fled to the U.S. from El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago. Since then, she’s cared for 11 kids – and mastered emotional calculus of ...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 02:59
At USA Recycling in East LA, a two-story yellow crane smashes cars, refrigerators and stoves into neat piles of wreckage all day. The mistress of t...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
In car-choked LA, riding the bus is a sign that you can’t afford your own wheels. But Joshua Salazar's overnight routes are often full of people be...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:58
As dawn breaks, birds serenade Eric Jones, who crosses a church parking lot in his baggy jeans, jangling an oversized key ring. The plastic wheels ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
At Old Sturbridge Village, a rotating cast of men and women don period clothes while performing 19th century roles for the public. Emily Kwong take...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 07:45
- Purchases: 1
Julie Eaton is the captain of the Cat Sass. She spends 6 months of the year on the water, and is ready to haul in a union.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 2
We all know how sweet it is when our appetites are satisfied, but what's it like to be a satiator?
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 02:53
At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 28:06
Stephanie and James worked together at the University of Illinois at Chicago before they both found out that they were going to be fired.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 06:01
- Purchases: 2
Bob Jordan has a 3000-degree forge in his garage. He’s a blacksmith with over 40 years of experience – including work with German, Italian and Nort...
Bought by PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 04, 2011
- Length: 04:27
- Purchases: 3
