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Our Annual Love Show, with stories about the things we do for love. Stories by Sandra Hamilton, Pat Gillum, and J.W. Taylor. True stories told by t...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 34:00
A look at community motivated selfishness in "Buy Local" movements.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 04:47
Please don't feed the large reptiles! An American in Vienna finds herself at the bountiful mercy of strangers; A man seeking treatment for depressi...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 29:03
A woman finds refuge at a shelter for big cats; It's tough being a very tall person in a very small world; A chance encounter proves serendipitous ...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 22:21
A basketball fan experiences a shocking loss off the court; High school seniors torment a freshman for no good reason; Mmmmmmm….sprinkler beer.
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 21:18
Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on the subject of opening Augusta National Golf Club to women.
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 02:30
As we recognize Bud Powell as one of the most influential jazz pianists of the 20th century, we must also acknowledge how much of his greatness and...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 1
A woman arms herself before leaving for work; an 18 year old girl spends three months in an Alaskan cannery; and that woman on the phone is not who...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Aspen Public Radio, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 07:27
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
We kick off our Season 8 with writer, actor, and director Mark Landon Smith on our monthly Tin Roof Project reading a story about a family secret. ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 30:00
Richard and Eunice introduce each other to their families and begin plans for a June wedding. Richard finds a job and is ordained. Driving north ou...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:48
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:41
In the summer of 1950, Richard goes to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The job was both part of his theological education and necessary to h...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 22:16
At Union Seminary Richard immediately audits a seminar being co-taught by John Bennett and Reinhold Niebuhr on “Christianity and Communism.” Richar...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 26:22
Richard looks forward to his studies under Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most challenging theological thinkers of his generation. In his last summer...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:41
Richard's course on Reinhold Niebuhr with Robert Bonthius, Wooster’s religion professor, confirms his decision to attend Union Theological Seminary...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 20:05
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
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
Many songs, books, and movies focus on love and romance, but what happens when they become one’s only source for learning? Philly Youth Radio’s Jay...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 1
Richard faces the uncertainty of college life and its requirements. And his heavy New York accent marks him as an outsider at the College of Wooster.
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 19:47
Richard is caught between two philosophies of life: his father’s hard work ethic, which saw Richard’s responsibility to help meet the immediate exp...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 15:48
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 30:34
Richard's mother enrolls him in Good Will Sunday School, an East Side mission of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. At Good Will, Richard lear...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 21:38
