Featured Work
Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
The Ashes of Oakridge
A wildfire swept through Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar, California in November 2008, destroying more homes, and displacing more families, than any California blaze in decades.
- 2009
- 42:17
- Frank Stoltze
- Queena Sook Kim
Our Day Will Come
Our Day Will Come explores the impact of R&B on America's civil rights movement, as well as the influence of the movement on popular music.
- 2002
- 59:07
- Lex Gillespie
The Third Coast ShortDocs: Appetite Show
This hour: We showcase some of our favorite stories from the 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge.
- 2014
- 58:00
- Katie Mingle
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
The Failure of Flight Show
This hour: failure of flight. In one story a man mysteriously falls from the sky onto a sunny London street, and in another, a plane crashes into a mountain side, and an 11 year old walks away.
- 2014
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
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
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
The It's Complicated Show
This hour: imperfect, impolitic, infuriating... love.
The Letters Show
This hour: letters. To yourself, to your city, lost letters, found letters... and a love letterto letters.
- 2011
- 58:00
- Katie Mingle
DUPLICATE RESOUND The List Show
This hour: To do lists, compulsive lists, data lists, lists in literature and a list of firsts.
- 2012
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
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
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
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
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
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
Listening to Ghosts
In the past, radio was the most ephemeral of all art forms - it slipped by the ear and then vanished into the air forever.
- 2009
- 35:37
- Tom Morton
A Sense of Duty
This story is a tale of love, betrayal, and a secret.
- 2011
- 50:29
- Heather Stewart
Resound #145 The Fathers Show
This hour: Dads, in all their glory.
- 2011
- 59:00
- Multiple producers
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
Lucia's Letter
Slavery in America still exists. In southwest Florida, for example, women and girls from Central America arrive everyday looking for a better life.
- 2011
- 52:58
- Amy Tardif
Resound # 139 The Metamorphosis Show
This hour: two people shed old skins and resurface in foreign territory.
- 2011
- 56:38
- Multiple producers
Resound #137 The Jazz and Freedom Show
This hour: Jazz and the struggle for civil rights in South Africa and the U.S.
- 2010
- 59:30
- Multiple producers
The Too Hard Basket
Only in the last 60 years or so have people begun to talk openly about sex, but one group is often left out of the discussion.
- 2010
- 52:40
- John Blades
The Dead News Network
Anne is a 37-year-old mother of two. Her husband Paul is a carpenter. She lives in an ordinary house, in a medium-sized Irish town, about a half-hour drive from Dublin. From the outside, Anne's life couldn't look more normal.
- 2010
- 36:16
- Colette Kinsella
Two Wheels to Nowhere
One man, one motorcycle, 13,843 miles, 89 days, 37 states, 166 interviews.
- 2010
- 30:33
- Aengus Anderson