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Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
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The Blacksmith's Song
After the death of his wife, renowned blacksmith artist Steve Weis moved from Toowoomba to Kin Kin on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.
- 2013
- 28:50
- Hamish Sewell
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KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race
At the stroke of 10am PT on August 17th, 2013, producers around the world lept into action.
- 2013
- 04:49
- Bob Carlson
- Cristina Parry
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Special Feature: Persevering Rick
From the ABC's Long Story Short, the story of a guy who was thrown a lot of curve balls, and overcame them all.
- 2013
- 16:02
- Mike Williams
- Katie Mingle
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Special Feature: Everything Sounds
This week, we're featuring an episode of the podcast Everything Sounds.
- 2013
- 21:44
- George Drake Jr.
- Craig Shank
- Katie Mingle
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Re:sound #169 The Ghosts of Vietnam Show
This hour: hauntings of war, ethereal recordings, and other ghosts of Vietnam.
- 2013
- 57:31
- Christina Egloff
- Jay Allison
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Katie Mingle
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The Kid's Secret Places Show
This hour: where kids go to get away; from themselves, their troubles, the rules they're supposed to follow, and of course, their parents.
- 2013
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
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The Texas State Pen Show
This hour: we present two very different stories about the Texas State Penitentiary. Both are about soul - the kind you dance to, and the kind you pray for.
- 2013
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
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The It's Complicated Show
This hour: imperfect, impolitic, infuriating... love.
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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
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Dear Santo Toribio
After Oklahoma passed the toughest anti-immigration bill in the country, a Catholic church in Tulsa was looking for help, so they created a shrine to Santo Toribio, the patron saint of immigrants.
- 2013
- 05:15
- Sarah Geis
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2013 TC/RHDF Competition Winners
Behold! The 2013 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition winners - a most stellar batch of radio documentaries from around the world.
- 2013
- 06
- 2013 Winners
Voices Lost and Found
An old cassette, tucked away for years in the back of a drawer, magically brings a lost voice back to life.
- 2013
- 05:17
- Eleanor McDowall
- Jude Rogers
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The Whale's Choice
In certain waters, moments of connection between humans and whales do happen... but not often.
- 2013
- 13:20
- Jennifer Kingsley
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Decode DC #6: The Future Was Now
In January, 2012, America's digerati pulled off the broadest, most powerful political protest ever orchestrated on the Internet.
- 2013
- 23:49
- Andrea Seabrook
- Lina Misitzis
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Language Bites!
You may have been a "freelancer," or hired one, at some point in your work life, but have you ever wondered how the term originated?
- 2013
- 01:08
- Colette Kinsella
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Soul of a Man
Ramblin' Jack Elliott has played music with legends like Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.
- 2013
- 12:10
- Abby Wendle
- Sarah Geis
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Persevering Rick
Growing up in Australia, deaf in one ear, Rick had a rough time learning.
- 2013
- 14:01
- Jesse Cox
- Mike Williams
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Locusts!
There's a feeling you get when you encounter a swarm of insects.
- 2013
- 09:00
- Lulu Miller
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Everything Sounds Episode #11: Microphone Museum
The invention of the microphone changed many aspects of modern life beginning in the late 1800's, but today most of us take these simple machines for granted.
- 2013
- 20:36
- Craig Shank
- George Drake Jr.
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D Minor: The Ice Queen
If D minor were a person, who would she be?
- 2013
- 05:14
- Denise Ball
- Paolo Pietropaolo
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American Student Radio
American Student Radio (ASR) is cultivating your future radio heroes.
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John Cage and the Question of Genre
Form dances with function in this "seriously uncompromising"* and seriously compelling piece not so much about John Cage, as of the composer, music theorist, mycologist and artist, John Cage.
- 2013
- 31:02
- Chris Abrahams
- Rick Moody
- Sherre DeLys
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Harper Funeral
A principal reflects on a turbulent year: 27 current or former students shot, 8 of them dead.
- 2013
- 06:35
- Linda Lutton
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As Black As We Wish to Be
There's a tiny town in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that most look white.
- 2013
- 50:29
- Lu Olkowski
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The Organist
The Organist is a monthly experimental arts & culture program produced by the editors of the Believer - the award-winning monthly magazine published by McSweeney's.
- 2013
- 01:01:35
- Andrew Leland
- Jenna Weiss-Berman
- Ross Simonini