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StoryCorps Griot: Evette Jourdain and Craig Boddie
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Craig Boddie and Evette Jourdain, both mail carriers in Palm Beach, Fla., spoke for a remote StoryCorps conversation last month about the job risks created by the coronavirus outbreak., Credit: Courtesy of Craig Boddie and Evette Jourdain for StoryCorps.
Palm Beach, Florida Mail Carriers Evette Jourdain and Craig Boddie talk about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their daily lives--at work, an...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Home
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
It’s not an uncommon experience to be unstably housed in this country. From Brooklyn to San Francisco, communities often turn to public libraries f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 24:46
  • Purchases: 2
E's Barbershop Lounge
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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This barbershop built my character. I started off sweeping floors. I own the shop now.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
Bend, but Don't Break
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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My mom always used to tell me, 'Only the strong survive.' To this day, those words live in me.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Sharon Adams and Larry Adams
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Sharon and Larry Adams remember how their love story turned into a love affair with their whole community.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 03:03
StoryCorps: Percy White III and Terry Wright
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Perry White III and Terry Wright
Percy White III tells his friend Terry Wright about his family’s time as sharecroppers on a Virginia farm.

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
277: Center Of The World / 278: Hell Is Other People, 6/2/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Center Of The World" - Opiate addiction. Lost jobs. Lost hope. Producer Charles Monroe-Kane heads back to his Ohio hometown to see why p...

  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
211: Center Of The World / 212: Hell Is Other People, 10/14/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Center Of The World" - Opiate addiction. Lost jobs. Lost hope. Producer Charles Monroe-Kane heads back to his Ohio hometown to see why p...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
The Working Tapes: Auto Mechanics
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Lee Singer (1971)
In the 1970's, Studs Terkel interviewed Duke and Lee Singer at their auto repair shop in Geneva, Illinois. He was looking for a story about fixing ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Trista James, Tanya James and Michelle Paugh
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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In 1979, Tanya James went to work in the West Virginia coal mines. She came to StoryCorps to share her experiences from those early days.

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WRIR, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 6
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
PEI Cradle on the Waves Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: The Jollimores raise mussels., Credit: Charles McGuigan
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
StoryCorps: Phil Mortillaro and Philip Mortillaro Jr.
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Phil and Philip Mortillaro, a father-and-son locksmith team, talk about the family business.

Bought by WTJU and WEZU


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Kris Kalberer and Erika Kalberer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Kris Kalberer and her teenage daughter, Erika, talk about being homeless.

Bought by WEZU, KERA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4
Eric Jones, Custodian
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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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
StoryCorps: Dekalb Walcott Jr. and Dekalb Walcott III
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dekalb Walcott III talks to his dad, retired Chicago Fire Chief Dekalb Walcott Jr., about...

Bought by WEZU, WTJU, and KMUD


  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 3
Acoustic Stories : Aaron Brown - "Try New Things"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:07
StoryCorps Griot: Queen Jackson and Debra MacKillop
From: StoryCorps
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Queen Jackson tells her case manager, Debra MacKillop, how she became homeless.

Bought by WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 3
This I Believe - Russel Honoré
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré believes hard work can build character and promote freedom.

Bought by KPIK-LP, WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU, WCSU-FM and more


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 6
It's Just A Job
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Veronica McNally reflects on life and work on her daily walk to her job at Pantheon Guitars in Lewiston, Maine.

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WYBC


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 3
Son of a Coalminer
From: Appalachian Media Institute
Series: Living with Coal in Eastern Kentucky
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Josh Fleming grew up in a family of miners. In this piece he talks with his father about what being a coal miner has meant to his family and why h...

Bought by WGXC, WEKU, The Nature Podcast, WBEZ, WXLV-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2006
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 6
We see it all: life through the eyes of a photo developer
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A photo lab technician ponders our life as he sees it every day, through thousands of personal snapshots

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Audible, and WYSO


  • Added: Dec 10, 2004
  • Length: 12:43
  • Purchases: 3
Singing Sanitation Worker
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, a sanitation worker sings his way through a very lat...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, PRX Remix, WEKU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser) and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 21