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Don Fidel, an immigrant to the United States, opened a staple restaurant in Chicago, but for his family, it was more than restaurant.
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 16:26
These are the real stories and experiences of people serving in bars and restaurants. They tell how are their personal life are connected and affec...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 09:32
- Purchases: 1
KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:07
LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...
- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 02:02
One Chicago factory became a flashpoint back in 2008, when workers occupied the floor for days in protest. Now, those same employees are trying to...
- Added: Sep 05, 2012
- Length: 07:48
Studs Terkel's classic look at working Americans, re-imagined as a musical.
Bought by KUNM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUIS, KUNM, KZYX and more
- Added: Aug 29, 2012
- Length: 01:28:59
- Purchases: 13
We begin this show playing recent bluegrass. The Gem of Bluegrass takes a look at bluegrass music and social class, and the Gem sets the tone for t...
Bought by WOUB, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM/FM-WLHV FM, KRZA, KUCB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 27, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 7
American ethos is that we’re all equal. We’re all middle class. But we know that there’s them’s that’s got. And them’s that not. In the old folk mu...
- Added: Aug 07, 2012
- Length: 07:33
Raul Bravo tells his former high school automotive teacher, Clairene Terry, how she inspired him to stay in school.
Bought by KUOW and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
Maurice Caldwell is just one of hundreds of former inmates whose convictions have been overturned after spending years in prison. Now, Caldwell is ...
Bought by KFAI and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 10:46
- Purchases: 2
Paul Crowley talks with his friend and fellow veteran Anthony Bravo Esparza, who calls himself "Dreamer," about the free haircuts he gives in a VA ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 01:50
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 1
On this edition of Culture Clique, KQAL's Bill Stoneberg visits with Barbara Martinez Jitner, an Emmy and Golden Globe Nominated television and fil...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 37:50
- Purchases: 1
Bob Jordan has a 3000-degree forge in his garage. He’s a blacksmith with over 40 years of experience – including work with German, Italian and Nort...
Bought by Public Radio Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC
- Added: Dec 04, 2011
- Length: 04:27
- Purchases: 3
Sam is blindsided with an unfortunate realization on the Grand Central Parkway.
- Added: Oct 19, 2011
- Length: 09:15
Russell Zacharison tells the story of how he got pinned down by his ATV for eight hours out in his pasture.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 03:14
Sam makes a not-so-triumphant return to the Hilton, where an old nemesis rears its ugly head.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 08:49
An orange naugahyde sofa. A pay-phone. A river of chicken blood.
- Added: Sep 16, 2011
- Length: 07:32
Follow a newspaper vendor through his day selling papers and changing his life.
- Added: Sep 12, 2011
- Length: 06:53
Oklahoma is considered a conservative state these days. But in the early 1900s, Oklahoma had an active leftist movement. Equally active was the Ku ...
Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Sep 06, 2011
- Length: 05:21
- Purchases: 2
Sam meets the mysterious Man in the White Van, who rents him a beat-up cab, which he uses for his first fare, which nearly destroys him.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 09:51
A complex set of circumstances results in Sam awakening at 4:30am on a frigid January morning for his first day as a New York City cab driver.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 07:35
Graduate students at UCONN are helping small businesses learn about enterprise risk management and they are producing stellar results.
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 59:57
The American Dream is that each generation will do better than the last. But the families of auto workers no longer have that expectation. As Detro...
- Added: Jun 07, 2011
- Length: 06:15
See what Labor looks like and does at your local convenience store.
- Added: Apr 02, 2011
- Length: :57
