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Caption: Nigsiti Hailemariam - 2013
Nigisti Hailemariam has been in the United States for over 20 years; she has two kids, a stable job, and a red Honda outside her three bedroom apar...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 05:26
Caption: Cliff Brody looks at an old photo of his deceased friend/sergeant, Joe Blakely, who changed Cliff’s life during the Vietnam War., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
How do you thank someone who saves you from tragedy? This Vietnam veteran knows.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:40
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There's a private number you can call where you're asked to tell a story that will be shared with the whole world.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 21:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ann Rabson, Credit: Courtesy Alligator Records
Remembering Ann Rabson - highly regarded boogie-woogie pianist, songwriter, and founding member of Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:30
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Colorado’s SB 90 immigration bill tears apart undocumented communities and instills mistrust between citizens and the “criminal aliens.” However in...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 13:33
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Plagued by her tuberculosis, Richard’s mother yearns to raise her children outside the city. On special days, she takes Richard down to Penn Statio...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 12:19
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Sharon Harris is a member of the Jackpine Writer's Block, and a native of Park Rapids. She has published three books of poetry. The Beat is a daily...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:39
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Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota. In this piece, Finch explains the role of a Christmas t...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:25
Caption: Free Spirit Media
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: 02:04

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
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The volunteer choral group, Evensong, specializes in singing the last music their audience will ever hear.

Bought by KFAI and WAMC


  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 09:23
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Artistic director Rene Yung (right) gives instructions to the proxy storytellers during a rehearsal of the theater and oral history project “Chinese Whispers." Photo courtesy of Chinese Whispers
In the mid-1800s, the Gold Rush brought enthusiastic settlers westward, from across the United States. At the same time, another migration was flow...

Bought by KUOW and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 2
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Family Preserves Friday Night Tradition

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode is dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It features powerful civil rights music of multiple genres dating from the 60s to now.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
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A introduction to the Youth Spin listeners, as well as a personal story where the song is the main character in the plot. That's My Song weaves tog...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 03:53
Caption: Ian Williams
Songwriter Ian Williams discusses his approach to writing songs for the Seattle Rock Orchestra, inspired by Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Gloria Del Bianco and her nephew, Lou, remember her father, Luigi Del Bianco, one of the chief stone carvers of Mt. Rushmore.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gloria Arrieta-Sherman and her daughter Michaela Arrieta Nave., Credit: Photo courtesy of StoryCorps
Gloria Arrieta-Sherman never thought she would have kids – but at 36 she unexpectedly got pregnant, and nine months later Michaela was born. Gloria...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:05
Caption: Judy Brady and daughter Jillian Gustafson, Credit: Photo courtesy of StoryCorps
Dealing with death on a daily basis can be draining, but when the death affects your own family, well, that’s a different story altogether. Jillian...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 02:27
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Betsy Brooks tells her boyfriend, John Grecsek, about her father.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Doors members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger laying down flowers and incense at Jim Morrison's grave at Pere Lachaise cemetery., Credit: Henrik Persson
Report from the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, where the 40th anniversary of the death of The Doors singer Jim Morrison was celebrated July 3rd.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:40
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A man fulfills a promise to his 13-year old self by visiting the place his grandfather died, Blackrock island, Co.Mayo.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 09:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tim Hetherington, Credit: Sheri Quinn
Photojournalist and war correspondent Tim Hetherington was killed wednesday, April 20, 2011 along with two other journalists while covering the fig...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 14:01
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Buffalo native Jillian Mertz talks about how the songs of Jackson C. Frank, a little known folk musician from her hometown, helped her understand t...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 07:30
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For most women, the way their pregnancy, labor, and recuperation is handled by the correctional system has a lot to be desired. But there are some...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 1