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Staff Reporter Kenya, speaks about the significant role her mother has had on her life.
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 02:26
Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota. In this piece, Finch explains the role of a Christmas t...
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 02:25
In this season of gratitude, speak. Uphold civil liberties, the human rights that we have, that others will travel thousands of miles for, and when...
- Added: Dec 08, 2012
- Length: 03:28
A fire truck in the driveway, 20 at the table for meals and buying by the dozens (the better for sharing) my father believed in being Santa Claus y...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 06:12
- Purchases: 1
Ringing the Salvation Army bell is boring, cold work during the busy Christmas holiday season. Margaret Agard, author and bell ringing volunteer, ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 04:16
City living proves less glamorous than anticipated to one wide-eyed newcomer -- but there are lessons about family to be learned.
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 10:23
- Added: Oct 30, 2012
- Length: 03:53
- Purchases: 1
Go into the classroom with this non-narrated, oral history-style profile of a high school teacher at a pilot school in San Fernando, CA.
- Added: Oct 30, 2012
- Length: 05:44
Stephen recounts fond memories of his mother, and an unexpected miracle in the hospital during her final days.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 51:11
- Purchases: 1
In the summer of 2012 WUNC established its first ever Youth Radio Institute. The station hired five young people -- and two mentors -- to produce r...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:57
WUNC is a part of the American Graduate Project. It's a public media initiative looking at the drop out crisis across the country. As a part of thi...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 10:23
- Purchases: 1
Part Two of the Open Heart Surgery Adventure. Some journeys are best enjoyed without actually having to reach the destination.
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 51:01
- Purchases: 2
The oldest and most revered piece of hardware in professional sports has arrived in Los Angeles for the first time. So, how will the Los Angeles Ki...
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 08:02
A never-married guy comes clean.
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 04:42
Fifteen-year-old Ashley hasn't seen her mom in a long time.
- Added: May 05, 2012
- Length: 04:20
A small town may be losing part of it's unique holiday tradition:
New, "radio-friendly" 3-minute version!
- Added: Dec 21, 2011
- Length: 06:20
Just as Sam is starting to feel like he's getting the hang of this whole cab driving thing, he becomes ensnared in the nefarious clutches of 31st S...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 08:35
Sam meets the mysterious Man in the White Van, who rents him a beat-up cab, which he uses for his first fare, which nearly destroys him.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 09:51
It's Crunch Time this week; sharing stories of the times you were late or just barely made it as we get through the Crunch Time of our summer fundr...
- Added: Jun 21, 2011
- Length: 03:53
It's 1957 - Stephen and his older brother Paul learn about science and get more than they bargain for with results that took decades to understand.
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 52:01
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 17:07
- Purchases: 1
Although I really wanted a baby, once I was pregnant I felt indifferent. I worried I'd be one of those mothers who ends up on the evening news.
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 08:27
- Purchases: 1
One day, we sold everything we owned and cashed in our savings and moved to a yurt in the woods. A true story.
Bought by KUT and Public Radio Remix
- Added: May 20, 2011
- Length: 09:25
- Purchases: 2
A true story. When my best friend broke up with me, I wished her dead. Then she had a brain hemorrhage.
Bought by WAMC, KUT, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 3
When will I get over my obsession with Walden Pond? As a 20something interested in connecting to nature, is Thoreau the best example?
- Added: Mar 23, 2011
- Length: 10:18
