Featured Work
Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
Why Oh Why? With Andrea Silenzi, episode #2
Andrea Silenzi's new podcast holds up a mirror to contemporary love and relationships, revealing the good, the bad, and the ugly within.
- 2014
- 56:09
- Andrea Silenzi
The Runway
Mary Going runs Saint Harridan, a company that makes custom suits catering to butch women and trans men. Her fans are enthusiastic and dedicated, her products are selling out... and she can barely pay her rent.
- 2016
- 33:07
- Luke Malone
Shocking Pink
Australian anthropologist, botanist, and eccentric Olive Pink waged a 40-year, one-woman civil rights campaign on behalf of the Aboriginal peoples until her death in 1975.
- 2005
- 36:29
- Hollis Taylor
- Jane Ulman
The Lemon Tree
Bashir was six during the height of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when his family was forced to flee his stone home in old Palestine and live as refugees in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
- 1998
- 41:23
- Sandy Tolan
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
Nina Black
Imagine being so hyperactive and distractible that you can barely keep track of where you are, who you're talking to, and what you're talking about.
- 2009
- 43:00
- Melanie Harris
Wellington, Texas
When you enter Wellington, Texas, one of the first things you see is a large billboard that says: Welcome to Wellington: Great Past, Bright Future.
- 2008
- 35:27
- Katherine Wells
Nuevo South
Siler City, North Carolina, used to be a typical small southern town: lots of families had roots going back a century or two and its citizens were proud of the town's close-knit culture and neighborly feel.
- 2008
- 30:12
- John Biewen
- Tennessee Watson
Like Blackpool Went Through Rock
In the late 1950s, folk musicians Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger and BBC radio producer Charles Parker joined forces on a radio endeavor unlike anything the BBC (or the world, for that matter) had heard before.
- 2008
- 56:35
- Sara Parker
Leaps and Dunes
Summer sleepover camp means more than mosquito bites, sunburn, twig art, and bonfire gatherings. Camp offers many kids their first taste of independence -- which can be equal-parts blissful and terrifying.
- 2007
- 34:34
- Lisbeth Koerner
- Rikke Houd
- Sabine Hviid
Ocean Hour
Two friends sit on a dock, meandering through a variety of ocean stories (some true and some not):
- 2007
- 58:51
- Keith Talbot
- Larry Massett
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
When the Dog Was Just the Dog
When her husband brings two puppies home, producer Lea Redfern becomes completely immersed in the world of canines. Now dog culture pervades her every waking moment, from commanding her social life to steering her personal politics.
- 2004
- 44:38
- Lea Redfern
Educating Esme
Esme Cordell shares a year's worth of classroom anecdotes and musings, culled from a journal kept throughout her first year teaching in Chicago.
- 2001
- 59:03
- Esme Cordell
The Long-Expected Party
This Radio New Zealand documentary explores the construction of the world of The Lord of the Rings through the eyes of the New Zealanders whose "good old kiwi ingenuity" on the film set brought Middle Earth to life.
- 2003
- 40:56
- Camilla Maling
Dreaming of Fat Men
One evening in 1994, four women came together for a feast. They had never met one another before. As far as anybody knew, they only had one thing in common: they were all obese.
- 2003
- 41:22
- Lorelei Harris
The Herrin Massacre
America's history is rich with the stories of antagonistic coal strikes, but the Herrin Massacre of 1922 is a particularly distressing event that resulted in the deaths of nearly two dozen strike-breakers.
- 2003
- 32:01
- Gary Covino
The Forbidden Voyage
As a young boy, Earle Reynolds had a dream to build and sail a boat around the world.
- 2003
- 43:04
- Stephen Erickson
Ferlinghetti: San Francisco Locations
San Francisco luminary and famed poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti takes listeners on a freewheeling tour of his neighborhood haunts in San Francisco's Chinatown and North Beach.
- 2003
- 50:20
- Jim McKee
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
Hinterlands
In a blending of both drama and documentary, three bereaved women talk about their real experiences of loss and how they've tried to move forward with their lives. In a parallel drama, their loved ones meet on a beach in "the hinterland," somewhere between life and death.
- 1996
- 44:08
- Sara Conkey
Mucho Corazon
Mucho Corazon tells the story of Leon Perlee, who builds and restores antique street organs in Holland's oldest surviving street organ business, and Milades Sosa, who works at a Cuban organ factory.
- 2001
- 42:28
- Chris Brookes
- Michele Ernsting
Nostalgia
The first Johnny Rockets opened in 1986 on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, a concept restaurant embodying the epitome of retro culture.
- 2001
- 34:04
- Paul McCarthy
Knoxville: Summer of 1995
Here's an audio homage on three levels: first, to James Agee's poetic memoir of the sounds and smells of Knoxville, Tennessee in the summer of 1915, shortly before his father died; secondly, to Samuel Barber's 1947 orchestral setting of Agee's text for the soprano Eleanor Steber; and finally to the modern city of Knoxville.
- 1995
- 32:05
- Alan Hall