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Get To Work!
From: Spud Davenport
Series: Satire Rock City Radio Show
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Satire Rock City Radio Show #110

  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:52
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 2
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two pieces about booms and busts.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Mark Woodley and Jon Winkleman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: The Action Tours protest at the Macy’s 34th St Store in NYC on Nov 29, 1991., Credit: Meryl Levin
On Black Friday 1991, AIDS activists protested the department store's refusal to rehire a Santa who had HIV. The man who inspired the protest recon...

Bought by KALW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 2
Working
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Everyday working people tell their stories.

Bought by KKRN, KMUN, KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 34
Gary Kanter, Song writer, Singer, Humorist
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gary Kanter
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his Learn Yourself series by interviewing his fellow host Gary Kanter about his new CD, with all his ori...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 27:58
Meet Your Robot Barista
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Meet Your Robot Barista, Credit: Seth Shostak
We sip lattes in a robot café and contemplate the future of work. Our mechanical barista is just a start as robots and A.I. train to do a variety o...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
144: My First Job
From: The Mortified Podcast
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Mortified celebrates Labor Day Weekend with a tribute to teenagers who bravely enter the labor force... regardless of how totally unqualified they ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 26:05
Philosophy of Retirement
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is retirement just an evil scheme invented by capitalists to get rid of higher-paid workers?

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
The Working Tapes: Car Hiker
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Studs Terkel interviews Al Pommier, aka 'One Swing Al', a parking lot attendant in Chicago, Illinois. This story aired as part of a week long serie...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4
Texas Traditions: A Boot Worth the Wait
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
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Lee Miller is a bootmaker with a storied history, carrying on the traditions and techniques of the best bootmakers anywhere in the world.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 06:03
Episode 178: Underground Railroad Flooded By Purple Rain
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: The Final Edition Radio Hour: Full Episodes
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Hear old-timey prospectors, bathroom romance, and sanctified stroking in this week’s Final Edition Radio Hour.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 49:39
StoryCorps: Monica Harwell and Andrea Cleveland
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Andrea Cleveland (L) and Monica Harwell (R)
Monica Harwell, talks to her daughter, Andrea Cleveland, about being the first woman to climb electric utility poles for ConEd in New York.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey, Archivist
Interview: Conor explains that the Labor Archives were founded to preserve history and make it accessible, and one of his jobs is bringing zeal to...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2015
  • Length: 27:58
Jimmy Kelly, Founder of the Annual Western Worker Labor Heritage Festival
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Jimmy Kelly
Interview: Jimmy gives us real and fun insights about the festival’s history, which includes artists, activists, organizers, educators, hell raise...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 28:13
Land of Oppotunity
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Janice Sage is hosting an essay contest with her Center Lovell Inn as the award.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:22
StoryCorps: Tammie Baird and Jeff Wilson
From: StoryCorps
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Jeff Wilson sits down with his former high school classmate Tammie Baird to talk about when he accidentally hit her with his car in 1984.

Bought by WVBI-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2
Hello Buffalo
From: Israel Story
Caption: Dubi tending to his water buffalo.
Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 17:03
VoxPod #4 - Acts and the Axe
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
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Today's show features a city actor and a country logger.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Pulga in our Neighborhood
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Martin Middle School Fall 2014
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In this short piece, students decide to talk about their neighborhood and interview folks at a nearby flea market, where they run into other studen...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:14
Amy Brooks, Deli Waitress
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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Amy Brooks serves Jewish favorites (matzoh ball soup, pastrami, you name it) in a historic LA deli.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
Caption: Eric Jones works as a custodian at LA's New Hope Baptist Church., Credit: Jerome Campbell
In this special report, twelve workers who might otherwise go unnoticed – including a stripper, deli waitress, bus driver, metal scrapper and bathr...

Bought by KQED, KFAI Minneapolis, KSFR, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 24
The Bowls That Might Have Never Been
From: Jakob Lewis
Caption: Brian signing his work, Credit: Jakob Lewis
Brian Weir is following his passion as a woodworker. He might still be working at a job he hated if it wasn't for his wife. This piece was produced...

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


  • Added: May 27, 2014
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 2
Day Job 4: Fight The Man
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Chris Cunningham of Ravenna Woods has a day job as a paralegal, Credit: Joshua McNichols
Chris Cunningham fronts the Seattle band Ravenna Woods. He looks the part, too, with a lip ring, skinny jeans and facial hair. What he doesn't look...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 10:42
  • Purchases: 2
Dixon Ticonderoga: An American Pencil Tragedy
From: Bryan Ward
Caption: The Dixon Ticonderoga Pencil, Credit: Bryan Ward
Author, producer and teacher Bryan Ward loves the Dixon Ticonderoga pencil, but his relationship with the writing utensil has soured since he disc...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 03:42
StoryCorps Griot: Clayton Sherrod
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Clayton Sherrod looks back to 1964, when at 19 years old he became executive chef at an all--white country club in Birmingham, Alabama.

Bought by WDBM, WMUU-LP, WEZU, and KMUD


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 4