Featured Work
Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
From Sagebrush to Steppe
Two years ago a group of Mongolian herdsmen and musicians traveled to Elko, Nevada, to participate in the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
- 2006
- 16:48
- Hal Cannon
- Taki Telonidis
Re:sound #58: The 99 Ways Show
This hour: 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story, an audio experiment orchestrated by the Third Coast Festival in collaboration with cartoonist Matt Madden.
Re:sound #41: The Dry vs. the Moist Show
This hour: the captivating results of a transcontinental radio collaboration.
Re:sound #46: The Lemon Tree Show
This hour: two decades after he was forced to flee, a young Palestinian man returns to his home to meet the Israeli woman who lives there now.
- 2006
- 58:31
- Sandy Tolan
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #49: The Stans Show
This hour: a group of tourists travels through Central Asia, where antics and misbehavior ensue.
- 2006
- 58:31
- Ben Adair
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #53: The MBK Show
This hour: two stories by Mary Beth Kirchner.
- 2006
- 59:00
- Mary Beth Kirchner
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #55: The Twenty Years Out! Show
This hour: a story about the bitter fight for gay rights in New Zealand, featuring a blend of rare archival tape of the speeches, rallies, and debates that marked the struggle and the personal stories of people affected by the fight.
- 2006
- 59:00
- Gareth Watkins
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #56: The Haunting Show
This hour: the story of four small towns that were evacuated and flooded to create one of the biggest reservoirs of drinking water on the east coast.
- 2006
- 58:29
- Sean Cole
- Carolina Wheat
- Roman Mars
Re:sound #57: The Seeking Show
This hour: spiritual loss and pursuit, an isolated religious community in rural Montana, a grumpy minister, and more.
- 2006
- 59:01
- Benjamen Walker
- Brenda Hutchinson
- Joe Frank
- Roman Mars
The Dry vs. the Moist (INC)
A mix of fiction, fantasy and fact, The Dry vs. the Moist is an intercontinental collaboration between three artists: the U.S. writer Rick Moody, the Australian sound artist (and Radio Eye producer) Sherre DeLys, and pianist Chris Abrahams (the Necks).
- 2006
- 0
- Rick Moody
- Sherre DeLys
Who Is Vern Nash?
The day Thelon Oeming moved into an apartment in a working class area of Toronto, he saw a hunched-back man shouting to himself in the middle of the street.
- 2006
- 14:09
- Steve Wadhams
- Thelon Oeming
Taken Too Soon: The Cost of War (INC)
Nearly 40 public radio producers from around the world lend their voices to this compelling radio meditation featuring some of the names and circumstances of the deaths of coalition forces, Iraqi and Afghan civilians, contractors, and journalists killed since the fighting began in Afghanistan in October, 2001.
- 2006
- 0
- Paul Ingles
Epic, Painful, Long, Scary
Epic, Painful, Long, Scary is the story of 19-year-old African-Australian twins. The twins hardly remember their mother and father, who both died from AIDS-related illnesses when the boys were just toddlers.
- 2006
- 29:34
- Julie Kimberly
Hairwaves: A Cautionary Tale
Bouffants, buzz cuts, mohawks, and dreadlocks: no matter the style, hair has played an important social and cultural role throughout human history.
- 2006
- 04:24
- Mark Vernon
- Zoe Irvine
Teenaged Guitarists Tackle "El Gato Montes"
Carlos Maeda and his quartet struggle with "El Gato Montes" in after-school rehearsals. Produced by Maeda for Curie Youth Radio.
- 2006
- 02:42
- Curie Youth Radio
I'll Quit Cutting When You Quit Smoking
Excerpts from the diary of a girl who insists that self-mutilation is saving her life. Produced by April Winbun for Curie Youth Radio.
- 2006
- 03:26
- Curie Youth Radio
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
If It Be Your Will: A Radio Documentary Featuring Leonard Cohen
Canadian musician Leonard Cohen insists he hardly remembers anything from his past and that he lives mostly in the present.
- 2006
- 44:12
- Kari Hesthamar
How Many Miles to Babylon? or 13 Easy Pieces
Merry-go-rounds often reside deep in our memories, conjuring childhood and the magical ability to be carried far away in the blink of an eye or the spin of a carousel.
- 2006
- 37:48
- Kaye Mortley
Re:sound #35: The Dad Show
This hour: Dads. The good, the bad, and the complicated.