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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on the gender gap and gun control, and why it will make a difference in the next elec...

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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Stephen reveals how his acting career got started amid fires, floods and other disasters on his first trip to Los Angeles.

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  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 51:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Winners of the Arkansas Literary Festival share their winning stories: Jill Duvall visits an asylum, Wyatt Jones stands on the edge and tries not t...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Carmen in Mexico
In this 1999 essay, Carmen Delzell talks about smuggling toys and gifts across the US border into Mexico to give to the people in the village where...

Bought by KUT, WAMC, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2010
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c. 2000
Carmen Delzell was homeless for a couple of years in the early 1990's. This piece was produced in 1996, after she got on her feet and was living i...

Bought by KUT, KGLT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c. 2000
On her way home from her grandmother's funeral in 1996, Carmen happens to meet a remarkable African-American guitarist in a thrift shop in North Ca...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Leigh Smythe
You feel like you’re a girl, but in the mirror and to everyone else's eyes, you’re a boy. You go along with it, just to not make waves, but then du...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2009
  • Length: :00