Featured Work
Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
The Change in Farming
This story brings together a young Toronto composer, Adam Goddard, whose passion is music, and his 90-year-old grandfather, Henry Haws, whose passion is farming.
- 2001
- 13:02
- Adam Goddard
- Steve Wadhams
City X
The shopping mall is a cultural and commercial phenomenon in America that most can relate to in some way or another.
- 2005
- 22:33
- Jonathan Mitchell
Childhood Trains
What is it about train travel that inspires music and memory? And why do people tend to confess their innermost thoughts once they get on board?
- 2006
- 21:15
- Sandy Thacker
- Steve Wadhams
Choose Responsibly
Choosing a partner is just a game, or is it?
- 2017
- 01:10
- Dennis Funk
The Century in Sound: An American's Perspective
Voice of America's The Century in Sound is a radio documentary that chronicles the entire 20th century without narration.
- 2001
- 38:26
- Adam Phillips
Circling the Center of Creation
Scott Carrier joins the ranks of thousands of religious pilgrims who have been circling the base of Mount Kailash in Tibet for centuries.
- 2007
- 18:05
- Scott Carrier
The Colors Show
This hour: a purple hotel, a family who argues over their skin color, a singing rainbow and more.
- 2013
- 59:01
- Katie Mingle
Re:sound #100: The Cambodia Show
This hour: sounds and stories from Cambodia.
- 2008
- 59:30
- Virginia Madsen
- Aaron Ximm
- Delaney Hall
Cowbird
While the Internet is teeming with storytelling portals - including the one you're on right now - some rise above the rest: in quality, spirit, and ambition.
- 2012
- 01:16
- Annie Correal
- Jordan Bower
Chance
Turn right and you'll meet the man or woman of your dreams. Turn left and you'll get hit by a car.
- 2014
- 13:30
- Sarah Boothroyd
The Cabinet of Animosities
The things we give, the things we treasure, and the things we fling at each other when it all goes wrong.
- 2014
- 27:24
- Cathy FitzGerald
Chicago Hustles
Meet Floyd (not his real name), a self-described "cigarette hustler" and part of Chicago's thriving underground economy, where goods and services -- legal and illegal -- are sold under the radar.
- 2005
- 26:37
- Ann Heppermann
- Kara Oehler
Confessions of a Child Beauty Queen
A series of interconnected stories by A. H. Weatherman about the trauma of growing up in the south and participating in beauty pageants.
- 2003
- 30:14
- Roman Mars
Cohabitation: Jacob & Angelina
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 14:16
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Cohabitation: Sylvester & Barry
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 13:22
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Cohabitation: Olive & Jack
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 12:02
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Cohabitation: Apricot Wensleydale
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 14:29
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Cohabitation: Roberto and Rosa
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 05:45
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Chosen People
At least forty thousand African Americans are practicing Jews. They call themselves Hebrew Israelites and their style of worship inspires a variety of reactions: enthusiasm, curiosity, and sometimes even outright hostility.
- 2008
- 13:44
- Eric Molinsky
Children's America
Imagine an America ruled by children. They staff the post offices, run the schools, oversee the military, and decide on the form of government.
- 2009
- 35:11
- Alessandro Bosetti
City Nights: Star for Sale
A man visits a star sale, where auctioneers are selling off the cosmos to the highest bidder. The Southern Cross, Orion's Belt, the Big Dipper -- they're all up for grabs.
- 2010
- 05:07
- Gretchen Miller
Chanukah, 1992
One minute, snatched from a Chanukah party in 1992. Gwen Macsai's party, to be exact.
- 2017
- 01:17
- Dennis Funk
Cognitive Dissonance: Lightning in a Bottle
What was the earliest sound ever recorded, or "bottled"? The First Sounds (FS) project, organized by a group of audio historians, scientists, and archivists, is dedicated to exploring these pioneering sounds, and sharing them with the world.
- 2011
- 34:04
- Chris Trimmer