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Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
The Signing
The bureaucracy surrounding support for the unemployed is often mindless and ultimately de-humanizing for everyone involved.
- 2012
- 08:39
- Ellie Richold
- Nina Garthwaite
An Extraordinary Affair
The time: Ireland, mid 1700s. Young Eleanor Butler is from one of the most notable families in the country and lives in a grand castle.
- 2012
- 38:54
- Leeanne O'Donnell
- Liam O'Brien
Passing Stranger
Ron Padgett and Andrei Codrescu recall a night in 1968, when fellow poet Kenneth Koch was assassinated, or so it seemed, during a reading at St. Mark's Church in New York City.
- 2010
- 05:13
- Pejk Malinovski
Beginnings
"A new start for the start."
- 2012
- 05:23
- Roger Beebe
American Dad
Growing up poor in Mexico City, Pilar dreamed of reuniting with her father who had moved to America years before.
- 2012
- 11:29
- Stephanie Foo
Me and Run Like a Dream
Here's your typical love story, except for one small detail: the husband is a race horse.
- 2012
- 13:21
- Jessie Borrelle
- Jon Tjhia
Out of the Blocks
What does an entire city block sound like?
- 2012
- 07:30
- Aaron Henkin
- Wendel Patrick
Everybody SCREAM!!
Spin class gets personal.
- 2012
- 10:32
- Jonathan Mitchell
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
Work in Progress
By now you've probably heard plenty of stories about "the transformation of a beleaguered Detroit" but we bet you've never heard one like Work in Progress.
- 2012
- 17:46
- Zak Rosen
The Glass Piano
At the tender age of 23, Princess Alexandra Amelie of Bavaria (1826-1875) was observed awkwardly walking sideways down the corridors of her family palace.
- 2012
- 30:07
- Deborah Levy
- Kate Bland
All in Time
The clock ticks; the moon waxes; the autumn leaves turn crimson.
- 2011
- 25:00
- Sarah Boothroyd
Dallas, Pitiless Universe
Dallas, the 1980s prime-time soap opera, may have disappeared from American television 20 years ago, but like J.R. Ewing, the show never really died.
- 2011
- 14:10
- Julia Barton
Signal to Noise
What happens when you work with sound everyday -- listening to it, recording it, manipulating it -- and then one day, one of those sounds sticks around for good?
- 2011
- 13:30
- Paolo Pietropaolo
A Sense of Duty
This story is a tale of love, betrayal, and a secret.
- 2011
- 50:29
- Heather Stewart
The Pigeon Race
We may be a bit biased subject-wise, but here's a delightful, sound-rich exploration of an endangered sport and community in Maine that's got it all: history, suspense, expertise and devoted participants both human and winged.
- 2011
- 07:01
- Rachel James
Resound #145 The Fathers Show
This hour: Dads, in all their glory.
- 2011
- 59:00
- Multiple producers
Anthony and the Green Goats
Anthony explains the economics of the Goat Farm.
- 2012
- 03:02
- Jenny Ament
ARTE Radio
It's French. It's all online. It's pretty much Radio 2.0...
- 2012
- 01:15
- Silvain Gire
Mike and Victor: A Family Story
In 1993, Mike Checuga was a 24 year-old working obsessively long hours until his boss ordered him to take a day off each week.
- 2014
- 29:03
- Alex Kotlowitz
- Amy Drozdowska
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.
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
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
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