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Steel is the signature material of the Industrial Revolution. It’s also an essential component of the wind turbines, electric cars, and climate-fri...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Apr 20, 2022
- Length: 44:52
- Purchases: 1
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
Philip Armand ruins a cup of hot cocoa and realizes his mad, sweaty, sloppy rushing is no longer working.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:02
In this episode of Wish We Were Here, we tell the remarkable story of Bishop Castle--an incredible piece of folk architecture that is likely one of...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 59:08
In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:18
On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement s...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:45
All of us are on this planet because we were born. Still, for most of us, giving birth is so mysterious. Many people don’t really learn about what ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:00
Who was your favorite teacher in high school? We all have that unforgettable teacher that sets us on our life’s trajectory. But most of the time we...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:29
When you get into a taxi, you usually know where you are coming from, where you are going. But what about your taxi driver? This week we travel wit...
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 29:02
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
The skyline of the Twin Cities in the 1920’s and 30’s was an ever-changing sight. Buildings like the Foshay Tower, the Ramsey County Courthouse and...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 28:06
- Purchases: 2
On December 5, 2013, fast food workers across the country walked out on a one-day strike, demanding fairer wages. But what's really at stake? The G...
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 06:08
Rachel comes full-circle. She goes from being a college student to be a stripper and then back to starting all over again.
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 18:57
As the U.S. Postal Service faces financial crisis, Central Appalachia and much of rural America may be hard hit by pending closures of post offices...
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 21:19
In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:19
- Purchases: 1
In our final segment, producer Jessica Partnow follows the story of one family living in immigration limbo in Auburn, Washington.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, XRAY.fm, KISU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 6
The libraries of Los Angeles might shut down in a few years, unless the people of the city rally and write letters, demanding they stay open. Plans...
- Added: Mar 22, 2010
- Length: 59:40
- Added: Nov 23, 2009
- Length: 03:44
Stories, anecdotes, and fantastical rants about the woes of working life
- Added: Jul 28, 2009
- Length: 34:06
- Purchases: 2
Matthew Works has been living on the streets for ten years. Here he remembers one of his last paying jobs, assembling Braille typewriters, which th...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WLPR , KUT, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 30, 2007
- Length: 08:42
- Purchases: 7
- Added: Feb 27, 2007
- Length: 11:11
What happens after an industry collapses?
- Added: Feb 07, 2007
- Length: 18:14
