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Chuck Lakin has a unique hobby. He builds coffins. For living people.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 06:15
- Purchases: 1
People born at the leading edge of the Baby Boom turned 65 last year, with more and more Americans entering what experts call “young old age.” One ...
Bought by KUOW and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 2
Edith Green tells her granddaughter, Chaya, about being a survivor of gun violence.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:59
Freddie Wood and his wife Wilma Sue talk about the Wood and Swink General Store and Post Office, which has been in Freddie's family for more than a...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 02:12
- Purchases: 1
Virginia Mae Snyder lived alone in her house in West Virginia until she was 94. She suffered a drastic fall while gardening; a fall which forced he...
- Added: Apr 04, 2012
- Length: 05:55
Frank Lilley interviews his stepfather, David Plant, about approaching the end of his life.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Mar 30, 2012
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
After his mother has a massive stroke, writer Dave White describes the quick thinking and problem solving necessary for a simple trip to the movies.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 13, 2012
- Length: 10:49
- Purchases: 1
René Foreman, who survived cancer of the esophagus, tells her daughter Michelle about speaking through an electrolarynx.
- Added: Mar 12, 2012
- Length: 02:15
Peggy grew up on the Canadian prairie listening to big band on the radio. Hugh grew up in Seattle and tried to stay out of trouble from his Welsh ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2012
- Length: 17:18
75-year-old Julian Walker tells his daughter, Julia Walker Jewell, about an accident his father had as a young boy.
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 03:06
- Added: Jul 15, 2011
- Length: 02:17
- Purchases: 1
Is marriage forever? Sometimes it can seem like it. This short, fully-produced audio essay describes the tension between loving and LIVING WITH tho...
- Added: Dec 09, 2010
- Length: 03:11
And the question is: how do we lower America's horrendous highway death rate? (Attention: teens and seniors -- this column is for you!)
Here's ye...
- Added: Dec 02, 2010
- Length: 03:12
Elliot Reiken remembers how he and his identical twin brother, Danny, met and married another set of identical twins, Hunny and Bunny Feller.
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 01:48
Barbara Dundon tells her husband, Jack, how her mother, Dorothy Lang, found love in an assisted living home.
- Added: May 24, 2010
- Length: 01:52
- Purchases: 2
A new study says most babies born in developed countries since 2000 will live to see 100, but how much does living longer cost? Sally Herships inte...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: May 21, 2010
- Length: 04:45
- Purchases: 1
Seymour Gottlieb, who has Alzheimer’s disease, and his wife, Marcia, talk about their 60-year relationship.
Bought by KFOK-LP
- Added: Apr 21, 2010
- Length: 01:50
- Purchases: 1
Audrey Newman talks with her mother, Florence who has Alzheimer's, about her father, Joe Newman.
- Added: Apr 21, 2010
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Feb 08, 2010
- Length: 02:02
- Purchases: 1
93-year-old Paul Wilson tells his daughter Marty Smith about meeting her mother at the building where he worked in the early 1940s.
- Added: Jan 21, 2010
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
Alice Loesch has lived through a century that has seen some of history’s most sweeping changes in the lives of women.
Bought by WAMC, KUOW, WMPG, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:46
- Purchases: 4
Fanni Green tells her daughter, Danyealah(Dan - YAY - lah), about moving her mother, Pauline, into an assisted living facility, after her health be...
Bought by KWMU, KFOK-LP, and Remix Radio
- Added: Dec 21, 2009
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 3
Landowners in Johnson County, Wyoming, live with a kind of paradox. They hate to see their neighbor's ranches turned to subdivisions. But their b...
- Added: Nov 20, 2009
- Length: 05:11
An oral history of Portland, Maine's long-lost Little Italy.
- Added: Jan 20, 2009
- Length: 07:08
Richard and Jean Simons Massamore reflect on the 59 years they've been married.
Bought by KFOK-LP, KUOW, and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Jan 09, 2009
- Length: 01:18
- Purchases: 3
