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Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 01:13
Radio Curious visits with journalist and satirist, Paul Krassner, author of his newly revised autobiography, “Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined N...
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Edith Green tells her granddaughter, Chaya, about being a survivor of gun violence.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:59
- Added: Jul 27, 2012
- Length: 07:50
Virginia Mae Snyder lived alone in her house in West Virginia until she was 94. She suffered a drastic fall while gardening; a fall which forced he...
- Added: Apr 04, 2012
- Length: 05:55
René Foreman, who survived cancer of the esophagus, tells her daughter Michelle about speaking through an electrolarynx.
- Added: Mar 12, 2012
- Length: 02:15
Peggy grew up on the Canadian prairie listening to big band on the radio. Hugh grew up in Seattle and tried to stay out of trouble from his Welsh ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2012
- Length: 17:18
Robert Hamilton wanted to be known as the world's greatest unknown painter. When he died in 2004, he left behind 600 paintings. Now it is up to his...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 1
Jim and Martha were married in 1955 - and took up karaoke "a week ago". It might have made their love stronger. Might have. Found sound from the...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 15, 2012
- Length: 06:19
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious visits with Betty Ball, co-founder of the Mendocino Environmental Center in Ukiah, Ca. They discuss the movements to protect Northern...
- Added: Nov 15, 2011
- Length: 29:01
Radio Curious visits with Robert Dole, a Professor of English as a Foreign Language at the University of Chicoutimi in Quebec, Canada, about his pe...
- Added: Nov 08, 2011
- Length: 29:01
Elaine and Francis- a nun and a priest- fell deeply in love and left the Church so they could be married. Nearly 40 years later, on Jan. 3rd 2010, ...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 07:58
- Purchases: 1
The story of the unique bond between a father and son - Danny and Connor Hughes in County Louth who run two shops side by side...
- Added: Jun 14, 2011
- Length: 33:05
Cicada III is a communal reading of a poem by Oklahoma native Scott Aycock. In addition to Aycock's poem, we bring you a granddaughter's grief and...
- Added: Jun 03, 2011
- Length: 02:35
Two hospice workers invite us into the world of death and dying.
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 11:36
- Purchases: 3
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 2
Aileen LeBlanc tells a very personal story of her friends Conrad and Evelyn who fell in love in older age.
- Added: May 11, 2011
- Length: 18:25
Compline from Heinz Chapel on the University of Pittsburgh Campus. Programs will air weekly all year, designed for 11:00 PM to midnight Sunday air...
- Added: Mar 20, 2011
- Length: 59:00
In early 2010, Elaine McGillicuddy lost her husband to bone cancer. Elaine has created her own grieving process rooted in daily rituals. She is e...
Bought by WMPG, WAMC, Interfaith Voices, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2011
- Length: 07:58
- Purchases: 5
A glimpse into the world of highly acclaimed photographer Jane Bown. Jane discusses balancing her career with her family, her two identities, Jane ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 05:46
Lauren Kessler worked for minimum wage as an RA (resident assistant) while writing FINDING LIFE IN THE LAND OF ALZHEIMER'S (formerly titled, Dancin...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
A 54-year-old woman living with Alzheimer's disease in Central New York is sounding the alarm, as more and more Americans face the same diagnosis.
- Added: Mar 16, 2010
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 2
"What do you think of when you think of your dad?"
People in Seattle share stories about their fathers. Death, divorce, drugs, love, Casey Kasem...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 14:24
- Purchases: 1
93-year-old Paul Wilson tells his daughter Marty Smith about meeting her mother at the building where he worked in the early 1940s.
- Added: Jan 21, 2010
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
Alice Loesch has lived through a century that has seen some of history’s most sweeping changes in the lives of women.
Bought by WAMC, KUOW, WMPG, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:46
- Purchases: 4
