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He insults me every week so I call and confront him. Then music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. From the golden age a Amer...
- Added: Mar 17, 2013
- Length: 02:54:08
A woman arms herself before leaving for work; an 18 year old girl spends three months in an Alaskan cannery; and that woman on the phone is not who...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Aspen Public Radio, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 3
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:41
In the summer of 1950, Richard goes to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The job was both part of his theological education and necessary to h...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 22:16
Richard looks forward to his studies under Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most challenging theological thinkers of his generation. In his last summer...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:41
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
Richard receives an early political education from his Socialist cigar maker grandfather, by hearing over-the-counter conversations at the butcher ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 24:25
Robert Jevne offers up his version of "Winter Projects." Jevne brings a bit of a different perspective to winter tasks with his insight into dams a...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 01:56
Steve Downing, like Aaron Brown, looks at his seasonal tasks this winter and why those tasks should be avoided at all costs. Downing specifically a...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:52
Big-rig driver Boyd Applegate tells his sister, Rhonda Dixon, about being a real-beard Santa Claus.
- Added: Dec 21, 2012
- Length: 02:17
A documentary on Adrian Chi Tenney, a female professional driver in Los Angeles, CA.
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 07:12
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
Kevin Van Kanegan worked at the University of Illinois at Chicago for 27 years before being fired during the 2010 Illinois state budget crisis. He ...
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 03:28
Stephanie and James worked together at the University of Illinois at Chicago before they both found out that they were going to be fired.
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 1
Mark Edens tells his daughter, Jessie, about his career with the Michigan State Police.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Aug 31, 2012
- Length: 01:50
- Purchases: 1
On today's show hosts Caitlin and Farhan are hitting up Seattle's current job scene as they hear advice from KUOW journalists, childhood career dre...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 11:19
An introduction to some of my illustrious colleagues from my days as a bellhop/valet/part-time restaurant host at the Hilton.
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 15:12
One evening during the overnight shift at the Hilton, Sam inadvertently ruins a co-worker’s life.
- Added: Feb 28, 2012
- Length: 12:25
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 09:13
- 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
How one woman is re-imagining the possibilities of living, working, and building a sustainable Detroit
Bought by Public Radio Remix and WAMC
- Added: Dec 05, 2011
- Length: 07:14
- Purchases: 2
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
Brian recounts the first summer in Alaska working the slime lines of a cannery and the time the Captain was drunk, the crew quit, and the ship's an...
- Added: Oct 24, 2011
- Length: 11:00
- Purchases: 2
