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Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School and an intern at Northern Community Radio. During the school year she's been checking in with e...
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 03:01
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 1
The full-hour version of our Annual Holiday Show. Also available in 2 29-minute segments.
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 59:00
Francine Sterle is the author of 2006 book "Nude In Winter," which was a finalist for the LA Times Book of the Year. She has also published two oth...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 01:53
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: 02:55
- Purchases: 1
On this month's Tin Roof Project, it's acclaimed photographer Andrew Kilgore telling his own true story.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 02:15
Richard signs up with his roommate to work amidst the lakes and falls and trees in Upstate New York. Richard and Jim preach on Sundays and spend th...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:05
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In thi...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 03:27
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In thi...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 03:50
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 03:25
- Purchases: 1
An essay on how to unplug and gain balance during the holiday season by watching classic holiday films.
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 12:26
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
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:08
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 02:52
This month's Tin Roof Project, featuring Senator David Pryor reading his story "Nine Miles to Mustin Lake," followed by Q&A. True stories told by t...
- Added: Nov 10, 2012
- Length: 42:38
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year Erika Kooda will be checking in with essays reflecting on her senior ye...
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 03:12
This week, our stories are all about the power of friendship. Stories by George McLeod, Pat Gillum, and Susan Elder. True stories told by the South...
- Added: Oct 07, 2012
- Length: 29:00
On this week's show, our writers all grapple with expectations of others or themselves. Stories by Martin Ferguson, Anne Owings Wilson, and Richard...
- Added: Sep 29, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week it's our monthly series The Tin Roof Project, where well-known Southerners bring their own true stories to life. This month's Tin Roofer ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Meet Katy Hayes. She’s hoping to get her arms back in the world's first-ever double arm transplant above the elbow. The Texas mom lost all her lim...
- Added: Sep 13, 2012
- Length: 02:25
The series from the WUNC Youth Radio Institute concludes with a story from Fontezia Walker.
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:35
The Monti - American Graduate Special is an hour of true stories from the front lines of North Carolina’s high school drop out crisis.
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 59:01
