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Willie Nelson 80th Birthday Celebration with Joe Nick Patoski
From: Marfa Public Radio
Caption: Willie Nelson being interviewed by host Joe Nick Patoski, Austin Texas, Credit: Joe Nick Patoski, KRTS.
Marfa Public Radio's Joe Nick Patoski, Willie Nelson biographer and host of the Texas Music Hour of Power, looks back on the life and career of the...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 56:36
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2013, Natasha Trethewey
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is currently serving as both the Poet Laureate of the United States and of her home state of Mississippi. Trethewey discusses he...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Apr 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Southern Fiction Writer Stephanie Powell Watts
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Stephanie Powell Watts
2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner Stephanie Powell Watts knows what it's like to be an African American Jehovah's Witness in the South. She talks ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Searching for Sasha Krizhanovsky
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
Caption: Sasha & Jessica, Credit: Sarah Stuteville
Armed with a letter from 1990, producer Jessica Partnow goes in search of her childhood Soviet pen pal.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:03
StoryCorps: Diane Tells His Name and Bonnie Buchanan
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Diane Tells His Name (L) and Bonnie Buchanan (R)
Diane Tells His Name talks to her daughter Bonnie Buchanan about discovering she was adopted.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
Misophonia: the hatred of sound
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It’s a rare sensitivity to normal, everyday sounds, like typing, or footsteps, or even breathing. And it’s being increasingly diagnosed. Researcher...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2012
  • Length: 09:32
StoryCorps: Adeline Roccko and Zachariah Fike
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Army National Guard Capt. Zachariah Fike speaks with Adeline Rockko about returning her brother's lost Purple Heart medal.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 2
Never Ending Chase
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Following one day in the life of Maine's Black Bear Monitoring Team, which braves bear dens in order to count the number of new-born cubs.

Bought by KUOW, WMPG, and KUT


  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 07:40
  • Purchases: 3
The Emperor's New Onesie
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
Caption: For many months, this is the only dress Violet would wear. Joyce washed it every night in the sink., Credit: Joyce Slaton
A woman spends a month at home with her naked two-year-old daughter, trying to figure out why she won't wear clothes.

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KUT


  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 13:36
  • Purchases: 2
The Theater of War
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Jason Robards, Jr. in THE DISENCHANTED on Broadway
In which David Pressman goes to war, suffers the consequences, and comes home to direct a hit play.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 08:31
The Needle Drop: Sunset Rubdown
From: Anthony Fantano
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This week, the soundtrack sounds of God Help the Girl and the brave pop ballads of Sunset Rubdown.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 6
Redefining Black Power in the Age of Obama
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Does a black president equal black power? Three African-American community leaders discuss how Obama’s election, and presidency, has changed their ...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and KALW


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Love Triangle
From: Lauren Kirby
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jim, Jamie and Sue find themselves torn between love and self-identity.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2008
  • Length: 08:49
In the Wake of Violence
From: With Good Reason
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Approaching the April 16 anniversary of Virginia Tech shootings, this show explores how healing can start to take place after atrocities, near and ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2008
  • Length: 29:19
Pick Up 101
From: Berkeley J-School
Caption: PRX default Piece image
pick-up artists on how getting lucky isn't about luck

  • Added: Mar 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:31
"The Agreement"
From: Rich Halten
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How two-timing love kept one GI out of Viet Nam

  • Added: Oct 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:17
Melvin is Dead
From: Sally Richardson
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First-person response to a surprising phone message from my brother about my old dog Melvin.

Bought by KUT, WJFF, WYBC, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 4
Cortez, Montezuma & Abraham: Discovering Jewish Roots
From: Rebecca Sheir
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At 72, a Spanish-descended Catholic discovers the real reason she's never liked eating pork.

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 03:50
Narcoleptic Christmas
From: Hillary Frank
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A woman discovers she's narcoleptic at Christmastime.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 07:24
Midlife Web Diary
From: Susan Barrett Price
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Middle-aged corporate malcontent goes online, to be found by mom

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KFAI


  • Added: Jul 11, 2006
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 2
Rocky Mountain High
From: Song and Memory
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A song and memory story about a Christian summer camp, John Denver and a psychotherapeutic fad from the seventies.

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KRCC-FM


  • Added: May 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 2
Keeping Secrets
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A story about what happens when we hold on to secrets, and what can happen when we let them go...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUT, Spokane Public Radio, and KFAI


  • Added: Dec 15, 2005
  • Length: 17:15
  • Purchases: 4
An Audio Birthday Card
From: Laura Kwerel
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an audio birthday card for my friend Jonathan

  • Added: Dec 09, 2005
  • Length: 04:31
StoryCorps: Debora Brakarz and Michael Wolmetz
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Boyfriend and girlfriend Michael Wolmetz and Debora Brakarz, both in their mid-twenties, interview each other.

Bought by KUOW, KFOK-LP, WAMC, KERA, and East Village Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2005
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 5
Vietnam Bones
From: Karen Brown
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A man tries to repatriate the bones of a Viet Cong soldier that his father took from the jungle, 35 years earlier.

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, KZSC, Here and Now, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 21, 2004
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 5