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CESAR CHAVEZ STORY 2
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: CESAR CHAVEZ ANECDOTES
Caption: resist, Credit: flocabulary
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:01
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 7
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"Home On The Waves With A Seafaring Cowboy" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Herb Pownall wanted to see the world. So he boarded...

Bought by KSTK and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Staying Alive: The Art and Science of Living to 100
From: Karen Brown
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An audio essay that combines science, personal moments, and the wit and wisdom of four 100-year-old (and up) women.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 10:26
Jonestown / Prime Time! / Vern's House! / PSA / Re-energize Your Workday!
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Julia Scheeres/Jonestown Patricia Cohen/middle-age Vern Yip/decorator Dr. Richard Ablin/Prostate Cancer Susan Shane/desk exercise

  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
StoryCorps: Donnie Dunagan and Dana Dunagan
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Donnie (L) and Dana (R) Dunagan
Retired Marine Corps Major Donnie Dunagan, who was the voice of Bambi in the 1942 Disney film, tells his wife, Dana, about hiding his acting credit...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WVBI-LP, Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 6
A Subject of Universal Interest
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Hundreds of New England towns honor their oldest resident with a cane when the previous town elder dies. Some recipients celebrate; others feel cur...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 13: The Big Sleep
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Raymond Chandler is often called the greatest American crime novelist. But something very important to Chandler had gotten lost. No one noticed u...

Bought by KALH and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 16:08
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Alton Yates and Toni Yates
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Alton Yates tells his daughter, Toni, about being part of a small group of Air...

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WEZU, WTJU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 5
The mysterious roots of a homegrown language
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Wes Smoot (far right), Don Pardini (second from right) and friends socialize at the Redwood Drive-in in Boonville, CA, Credit: Liz Pfeffer
A few hours north of San Francisco is the town of Boonville, nestled in the quaint Anderson Valley of Mendocino County. Like Silicon Valley, this p...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 13:24
Even a Newspaper Can Protect You From The Atomic Bomb
From: Sage Tyrtle
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What if you knew your teacher was lying to you? In 1956, ten year old Carolyn Himmer watched the classic "Duck and Cover" film in school, knowing i...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:34
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Well Yes We Have No Bananas Today!" -- Food Shopping in Old New York
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Paul J. Hintersteiner. , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:14
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Grandma's Stuffed Cabbage
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950., Credit: Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America.
Bonnie Sue Pokorny, 66, of Forest Hills, Queens, recalls her grandmother's stuffed cabbage. It's a dish she loves, but it's too difficult for her t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "I Guess Dessert Has Been My Upbringing"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Debra Klaber (right) and Paul J. Hintersteiner (left). , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Me Nacieron Mi Diente Cocinando; I Was Born Cooking"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950., Credit: Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America.
Nurys Ortiz, 58, of Washington Heights, left the Dominican Republic ("DR") to work in a NYC factory when she was 17 years old. Ortiz started cooki...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Missing Hong Kong Handmade Noodles & Winter Melon Soup in NYC
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Photograph from The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
Nancy Soong, 90, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the foods of her childhood in Hong Kong.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Learning to Cook and Eat in America
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Photograph from The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
Christina Lam, 68, of Chinatown, Manhattan, grew up in Hong Kong and moved to New York to work in a garment factory on East Broadway. She recalls h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 2
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Automat Baked Beans and Childs' Chocolate Syrup
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Hilda Baumol., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Hilda Baumol, 89, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the automat and a memorable (and long-shuttered) New York City restaurant chain, Childs.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 2
Red, White, and Bruised
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Don Floyd looks back on his life of 80 years after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 3
"Never Too Late: A 90 year-old's Pursuit of A Whirlwind Life"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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JOURNALIST ROY ROWAN, HAS WRITTEN A NEW BOOK “NEVER TOO LATE: A 90-YEAR OLD’S PURSUIT OF A WHIRLWIND LIFE”. IN WHICH HE SHARES HIS VIEWS OF THE PL...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:34
Going Local: The Ins And Outs Of "Washingtonian-ness"
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The Newcomer's Guide to Washington
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Paris has its Parisians, Boston its Bostonians. What does it take to be/become a Washingtonian?

  • Added: May 18, 2010
  • Length: 07:04
Minerals and Moon
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An unconventional and wrong-headed telling of European history (Napoleon and Hitler) and the space race.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 1
Dinosaurs
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A bombastic but friendly, fictional history of dinosaurs.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 01:28