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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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Sugartime (INC)
In the beginning of January 2008, the Belgian-Ghanaian Sugar Jackson defended his European welterweight world title.
- 2008
- 08:17
- Wim Vangrootloon
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Breaking Away
Luzer Twersky was raised as a Hasidic Jew. At the age of 23 he decided to leave his family and everything he'd ever known to move into secular society. His upbringing had been strict -- no school, no movies, no dates, no jobs. Otrasized from his community, he entered a world he knew very little about.
- 2010
- 21:35
- Josh Gleason
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American Student Radio
American Student Radio (ASR) is cultivating your future radio heroes.
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Alone Like a Stone in the New World (aka All These Things)
Writer Margy Rochlin wonders why her family is selling her grandmother's house in Arizona.
- 1989
- 26:14
- Jay Allison
- Margy Rochlin
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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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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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Locusts!
There's a feeling you get when you encounter a swarm of insects.
- 2013
- 09:00
- Lulu Miller
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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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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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The Whale's Choice
In certain waters, moments of connection between humans and whales do happen... but not often.
- 2013
- 13:20
- Jennifer Kingsley
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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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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Four Failing Lungs
For Beth and Brian, a lung transplant could extend their lives for years. Or, it could lead to rejection and continued suffering.
- 2014
- 25:15
- Catie Talarski
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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
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The Ghosts of Fire Island
Fire Island, only sixty miles from New York City, has long served as a safe and vibrant mecca for gay men and women. But in the early 1980's, the haven faced a new and lethal threat.
- 2014
- 25:00
- Myke Dodge Weiskopf
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Chance
Turn right and you'll meet the man or woman of your dreams. Turn left and you'll get hit by a car.
- 2014
- 13:30
- Sarah Boothroyd
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The Cabinet of Animosities
The things we give, the things we treasure, and the things we fling at each other when it all goes wrong.
- 2014
- 27:24
- Cathy FitzGerald
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Easy Love
Twenty-six years ago, Warren Kirk was at home in his suburban Melbourne rental flat. Freshly showered and dressed, he consulted the yellow pages before making a call.
- 2014
- 09:52
- Jaye Kranz
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We Lost Them
How does a victim's family cope, hours after a violent crime, when they are thrust into a national spotlight?
- 2014
- 13:42
- Lauren Spohrer
- Phoebe Judge
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Ripped Stockings
Growing up in Miami, Harvey Katz - then Elizabeth - was expected to have a bat mitzvah (the Jewish coming of age ceremony for girls), followed by a big, blow-out party.
- 2014
- 13:45
- Mitra Kaboli
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Senza Parole
Rustle of cardboard and tin foil. Polka dots. A curious island in the middle of the Seine.
- 2014
- 18:37
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The Golden Room
Dreams, black holes, a special door, a golden room...
- 2014
- 06:26
- John Jacobs
- Julie Shapiro
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Happy Birthday, Darling!
A romantic dinner for two begins with champagne and ends... with all out war.
- 2014
- 09:28
- Dmitry Nikolaev
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Bat Man
The central claim of this story is astounding: that if we all just raised our expectations, blind people could come to - literally - see.
- 2014
- 09:57
- Alix Spiegel
- Anne Gudenkauf
- Lulu Miller
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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