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Big-rig driver Boyd Applegate tells his sister, Rhonda Dixon, about volunteering at the polls nearly every Election Day for 20 years.
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 02:03
Ocracoke Island North Carolina is the Key West of the mid-Atlantic. It's far removed from the mainland and the Outer Banks, surrounded by water, on...
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 28:03
Special education teacher Ken Rensink tells his friend Laurel Hill-Ward how surviving a near-fatal car crash influenced his teaching.
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:32
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
While researching a book, author Richard Hicks was a long haul trucker for a year and a half. He shares the unique perspective that truckers have ...
Bought by KUOW, KOSU, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 02, 2012
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 3
San Francisco’s public library system has become known for its digital innovations, special collections, and reading events. The Civic Center branc...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 13, 2012
- Length: 06:53
- Purchases: 1
Neurosurgeon Lee Buono and his eighth grade science teacher, Al Siedlecki, remember reconnecting after more than 15 years.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 01:52
- Purchases: 1
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, voices from the local turkey giveaway
- Added: Nov 23, 2011
- Length: 02:50
John Klein remembers meeting the love of his life, Mary Ann Allen, with her daughter Bernice Flournoy.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Oct 18, 2011
- Length: 01:50
- Purchases: 1
Reporter Rina Palta takes a hard look at how the toughest job market in decades will shape this recession generation.
Bought by WXVU 89.1 FM Villanova
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 12:48
- Purchases: 1
Judge John Kane talks with his daughter Sally about how his interest in law began.
- Added: Oct 08, 2010
- Length: 01:16
The old bluegrass comes from people who did hard, manual labor such as mining coal and farming. In bluegrass songs you hear about the danger of the...
Bought by WAMU and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM/FM-WLHV FM
- Added: Aug 19, 2010
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 2
If you still have a job in this recession, here's bad news: they're building more and more sophisticated robots these days. and one of them may be ...
- Added: Feb 22, 2010
- Length: 02:19
Entering her 19th year as a truck driver, Debbie Seelow is no burly man, but rather a self-described "grandma who loves to knit and crochet".
- Added: Mar 05, 2009
- Length: 05:47
- Purchases: 6
Day Job is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.
- Added: Aug 21, 2008
- Length: 03:45
- Added: May 09, 2008
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: May 09, 2008
- Length: 04:23
- Added: Jan 17, 2008
- Length: 07:54
Anna had always been interested in farming. So when she met Carolyn Snell at a farmers market in Portland, Anna decided to find out, once and for a...
- Added: Oct 28, 2007
- Length: 02:09
- Purchases: 3
Today's show features a profile of Seattle Youth Garden Works.
- Added: Aug 14, 2007
- Length: 10:22
Anarchists in Baltimore try to open and run a totally free store
- Added: Jul 17, 2007
- Length: 12:00
- Purchases: 2
New Orleans Pump Station workers Rufus Burkhalter and Bobby Brown remember the night Hurricane Katrina hit.
- Added: Aug 28, 2006
- Length: 01:37
- Purchases: 5
Former tobacco auctioneers Gregg Goins and Steve Nelms talk about their work.
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFOK-LP, WMNF, WCBU, South Carolina ETV Radio and more
- Added: Apr 28, 2006
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 6
Reflections with sound of hiking the Inca Trail, poor Peruvian porters carrying our belongings.
- Added: Feb 24, 2006
- Length: 04:26
An afternoon on the streets of Baltimore with professional dog walker Matt Fisher
- Added: Dec 03, 2004
- Length: 08:40
- Purchases: 2
