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Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
Envision Yourself Being a Free Man
Sylvia Ryerson works with family members of those incarcerated in Virginia supermax prisons to capture the sounds, voices & music of home - to be broadcast directly into the prisons.
- 2016
- 10:52
- Sylvia Ryerson
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
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
We Believe We Are Invincible
In sports, the margin of victory can come down to just thousandths of a second. Ben Rubin interviews several famous track and field stars to explore the mental edge athletes try to develop as they prepare for competition.
- 2004
- 09:20
- Ben Rubin
Finding Miles
A few years ago, radio producer Sarah Reynolds was privy to an intimate confession: her friend Megan told her that she was about to undergo a transition in gender from female to male.
- 2011
- 27:11
- Sarah P. Reynolds
Basement Story
When his mother decided to sell his childhood home, Austin Bunn returned to help clean out the basement and rediscovered traces of a childhood game that never really ended.
- 2011
- 08:36
- Austin Bunn
Planet Kaleigh
Cindy Harasen is not the first the first mother to think that her daughter might be from another planet.
- 2011
- 13:01
- Jody Porter
- Neil Sandell
Downtown Avant Garde
Composer, label owner and multi-instrumentalist John Zorn is one of the most beloved (and provocative) American masters of free jazz, improvisation, and musical innovation.
- 2011
- 28:22
- Steve Shepherd
Practice, Practice, Practice
Everyone knows the riddle: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? And the answer: Practice, practice, practice. But what if you practice, practice, practice, and still don't get there?
- 2011
- 09:29
- Stanzi Vaubel
The Auctioneer
More than 20 years ago, musicologist Ned Sublette attended the Missouri Auction School in Kansas City, and brought along his tape recorder.
- 2011
- 27:08
- Ned Sublette
The Small Person Acquisition Project
This is a story about two men and a little baby... well, a big baby actually.
- 2011
- 23:23
- Kristin Nelson
99% Invisible: A Designed Language
What would it be like if, in addition to our native languages, we could communicate across cultures in a neutral second language?
- 2011
- 05:53
- Roman Mars
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
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
El otro, el mismo (The Other, The Same)
Meet Eduardo Bechara (from Colombia) and Eduardo Bechara (from Argentina).
- 2012
- 15:32
- Camila Segura
All in Time
The clock ticks; the moon waxes; the autumn leaves turn crimson.
- 2011
- 25:00
- Sarah Boothroyd
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
Out of the Blocks
What does an entire city block sound like?
- 2012
- 07:30
- Aaron Henkin
- Wendel Patrick
Bullied: Teen Stories from Generation PRX
Bullying isn't a new story, but lately, it's all over the news.
- 2012
- 14:00
- Catie Talarski
- Jones Franzel
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
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
Beginnings
"A new start for the start."
- 2012
- 05:23
- Roger Beebe
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
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
Everybody SCREAM!!
Spin class gets personal.
- 2012
- 10:32
- Jonathan Mitchell