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Thank You
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The importance of rain and international good manners.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:36
Home Alone
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In Holland it's legal.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: :45
A Condition of the Heart
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Reflecting on aging, the illness and death of his wife, his own decline, then renewed social life by joining a retirement community.

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


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 08:19
  • Purchases: 2
Leaving Portland
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A carefree tale of plane travel with mixed, but happy results.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: :15
Perpetual Motion
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A centenarian painter reflects on art and the most important forms of nourishment in life.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:33
My First Funeral
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
David Greenberger's monologue introduces his work with the Duplex Planet, interviews with the elderly that began at a Boston nursing home. Here Gre...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:15
Hide in Trees
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Children love to climb trees and get up to hijinx.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: :32
Broken Hearts
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A series of thoughts about love and other obstacles in life.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:50
Wildest Party
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What starts out as fun between college boys and girls takes a turn to communism then the whole family gets involved.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 04:49
Upper Tiny
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An ambitious woodcarver comes back from the edge with the help of a business dream.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: :36
Vampire
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A stream-of-consciousness recitation of facts from an imagined horror film including Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney, with spooky music followed by a ra...

Bought by WRIR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Administrator and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 7
Good Old Mum
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An off-kilter, stream-of-consciousness listing of that are not your usual Halloween goodies.

Bought by PRX Administrator


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: :41
  • Purchases: 1
Tricks or Treat
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A grown-up version of Halloween includes winning at Pimlico Racetrack

Bought by PRX Administrator


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:15
  • Purchases: 1
Smoking is a Pleasure
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A chain smoker anticipates his next cigarette.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:58
Kirk Douglas
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A schoolyard encounter with Kirk Douglas.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:16
Saddle Kate, She Cried
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The recounting of an imagined classic Western movie

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:08
Eggs
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A march through a dozen ways to enjoy an egg.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:34
We Need More Teachers Like This
From: David Greenberger
Series: Growing Old In East L.A.
Caption: PRX default Piece image
David Orosco left school after third grade to work supporting his family. Here he recalls the importance of his elementary school teacher.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:44
Growing Old In East L.A.
From: David Greenberger
Series: Growing Old In East L.A.
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An audio version of David Greenberger?s Duplex Planet magazine, Growing Old In East L.A., offers a look into the lives of elderly Mexican-Americans...

Bought by KGLT, KPFA, KGLT, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 4
This I Believe - Ruth Kamps
From: This I Believe
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Listener Ruth Kamps now finds her beliefs to be as firmly rooted as the pine tree that gives her inspiration.

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 1
After the Dumpster
From: Elizabeth Chur
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Drowning in stuff, a hoarder discovers how to let go of some objects.

Bought by KVMR, WDBM, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2006
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 7
Portraits of our Elders
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2003
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Stories of growing old with grace.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WGDR, and KWCW


  • Added: May 27, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Crossword Puzzle Masters: Will Shortz and Stanley Newman
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz joins the world?s fastest crossword solver Stanley Newman in a meeting of the puzzle masters. Then, sma...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: May 16, 2006
  • Length: 01:00:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Aging Eye
From: Ron Kauffman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Marc Winnick, MD talks about the recent medical advances in senior eye care

  • Added: Apr 30, 2006
  • Length: 39:36
Boxcar Poet
From: Adam Allington
Caption: PRX default Piece image
93-year-old Clive Haswell is a poet who spent his youth riding the rails and playing poker

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2006
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1

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