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This is a sonnet for the baseball teams who after the tragedy at the Boston Marathon each played the song the Boston Red Sox play during a game w...
- Added: May 05, 2013
- Length: :54
Nathan Bergstedt is a writer from Grand Rapids. He is the Art and Education Editor for the Grand Rapids Herald Review. He is also responsible for T...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
Steve Downing shares the story of his unique placement of his Christmas tree and the added benefits it provides his home. Downing also dives into s...
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 04:38
In this essay Aaron Brown dresses down the most popular words from the year 2012, according to the Global Language Monitor.
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 03:16
Originally commissioned by Radio France Culture, this soundscape radio essay by Jean-Luc Nancy explores the 1967 meeting of Paul Celan and Martin H...
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 58:00
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
In celebrating Hanukkah Jews tell the story of sanctified oil that miraculously burned for eight days. In this humorous piece I retell the story of...
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 07:47
Two stories about healers and teachers who do not have the best interests of their students in mind.
Bought by KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Aug 04, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
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Essay on Quirky Superstitions in China, From a Befuddled Expat
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 24, 2012
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 1
This week’s Moth theme is “silver lining,” so here is a piece about the one bright spot in the worst summer of my life.
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 06:56
Hopefully each of us want to improve upon ourselves, if only day to day. A moment of truth on a day of significance.
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 03:19
Do you know why you celebrate Halloween?
In this special Halloween Seeds of Sound, Gabriel Rima asks listeners to question this tradition and celeb...
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and WTIP
- Added: Oct 19, 2011
- Length: 03:25
- Purchases: 2
How does death shape our behavior? Why do we grieve? How do we cope? What do we fear? and how can we accept our own exiting? Experts share their th...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 42:30
- Purchases: 1
Karol Wojtyla's path to papacy is laid out in this episode of Kaleidoscope.
- Added: May 02, 2011
- Length: 46:52
After visiting Tibet, Chinese journalist Zhu Rui underwent a personal transformation, from critic of Tibetan society to one of its most passionate ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 06:45
Jesus, in this narrative, emerges from the shadows to walk in a world peopled by simple hard-working men in a town called Nazareth. A town where a ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2011
- Length: 48:58
Nobleman, soldier, gambler, womanizer, priest, theologian, and founder of the Society of Jesus—and all this of just one man!
- Added: Mar 11, 2011
- Length: 46:50
What do you believe? Talking about Faith. Contributions by: Matthew Lawrence, Rachel Blatt, and Brice Peterson.
- Added: Nov 08, 2010
- Length: 30:39
Stephen tells stories from the set of Night Visitors and makes an interesting wager with an unforgettable bar companion.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 52:21
- Purchases: 1
Reverend David Bechmann, president of Bread for the World, speaks at the National Press Club about the problem of global hunger
- Added: Sep 17, 2010
- Length: 54:01
On this news feature, Arts and Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack travels back in time with the Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict’s “In The...
- Added: Aug 10, 2010
- Length: 32:04
A Catholic scholars group says opposing unions is a mortal sin.
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 03:28
When Nadine Warner and her life partner, Laurie, adopted a child it never occurred to them that they may one day find the Catholic school system to...
Bought by WBEZ, Vocalo.org, and WRIR
- Added: Jun 09, 2010
- Length: 12:40
- Purchases: 3
Never before aired! PRX exclusive!
A personal tour through the Holy Land, looking at how the conflict started and what it's like today between Jeru...
Bought by Public Radio Remix, KZYX, KGLT, KFAI, KUT and more
- Added: Dec 05, 2009
- Length: 13:27
- Purchases: 7
- Added: Aug 25, 2009
- Length: 04:58
