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StoryCorps: Penelope Simmons and Suzanne Wayne
From: StoryCorps
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Penelope Simmons remembers her mother, Cora Lee "Sug" Collins, in an interview with her daughter Suzanne Wayne.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
Never Done Year
From: Shannon Geis
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A woman does something new every day for a year.

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
No Room At The Inn Builds Rooms In Haiti
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Each year at Church of the Redeemer in Mechanicsville, Virginia hundreds of nativities go on display. And for the past three years proceeds from t...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 26:47
Not Quite Nutcracker (and way better than christmas carols)
From: Emily Corwin
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Set to the entire score of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet, Vanessa White's The Slutcracker is a wholesome kind of raunchy...

Bought by KUT and KUT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 21:14
  • Purchases: 2
The Friendship Center
From: Emilie Ritter Saunders
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A local sewing group is making a difference for women who are forced to start over...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2010
  • Length: 05:11
Shower of Love- A Valentine's Day Story
From: Jill Marcus
Caption: Newlyweds & cat - circa 1977
Valentine's Day, 1977 was our first together as a young couple. We thought we were soul mates, but how well did we really know each other? The gift...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2010
  • Length: 05:16
Finding the perfect money match online
From: Sally Herships
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Can dating sites really help form the perfect union, even when it comes to money?

  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: 05:30
Holiday tubeworms
From: Ari Daniel Shapiro
Caption: Riftia clump, Credit: Irene L.G. Newton: www.fjstewart.org/FieldWork.html
Riftia tubeworms were one of the first marvels to be discovered on the very bottom of the seafloor. And they've entered into an co-dependence with...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 13, 2009
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Other Side of Valentine's Day
From: Mandy Walker
Caption: A Valentine's display at the supermarket, Credit: Mandy Walker
All the adverts for the lavish gifts make Valentine's Day sound wonderfully romantic but the hype sets couples for failure and disappointment.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 04:10
The Stories of Hanukkah
From: Eric Molinsky
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Hanukkah can be seen as a holiday about assimilation.

Bought by KUOW, WAMC, Interfaith Voices, WRNC-LP, KUOW and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2008
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 7
"Marion the Librarian"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Valentine Programming
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...in Marion's own words, set to the song "Marian the Librarian" from "The Music Man"

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Jan 14, 2008
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 1
Women Who Can Fly: Trina Robbins and Superheroines
From: Elizabeth Chur
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Profile of Trina Robbins, who literally wrote the book on women in comics.

Bought by WJAB, WAMC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2007
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Rebecca Katechis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Rebecca Katechis and her sister, Carolyn Schlam, remember growing up in the Bronx.

Bought by KFOK-LP and WMNF


  • Added: Nov 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:39
  • Purchases: 2