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Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
Fez, Morocco: A Journey in Sound
When you stroll through the maze of streets in Fez, Morocco, it's as if you are walking back in time.
- 2002
- 12:43
- Jim Metzner
Hard-Hearted Hannah
Eighteen-year-old Hannah Hoose describes growing up as a part of her family's folk band, with all its healthy snacks, archetypal psychodramas, and oddly compelling songs.
- 2002
- 08:26
- Joni Murphy
Steve the Baker
"Without bread we are all orphans," says the sign that greets customers as they walk into Steve's Bread Shop in Portland, Maine. Meet Steve, who bakes bread in the most traditional way possible: by hand.
- 2002
- 05:10
- David Welch
The Best of Ideas: Petula Clark
Many people know of pianist Glenn Gould's unique and somewhat maverick contributions to the classical music world.
- 2002
- 29:38
- Glenn Gould
Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song
Dmae Roberts tell two interwoven stories in this personal documentary: the frustration she feels not living up to her mother's ideal of a perfect Taiwanese daughter and the compassion she has for a mother who as a child suffered abuse, starvation, and the horrors of World War Two.
- 2002
- 26:35
- Dmae Roberts
Hollister
Hollister is an investigation into what really happened on July 4, 1947, when 2,000 bikers roared into a small California town and left a media explosion in their wake.
- 2002
- 15:20
- Helen Borten
Childhood Trains
What is it about train travel that inspires music and memory? And why do people tend to confess their innermost thoughts once they get on board?
- 2006
- 21:15
- Sandy Thacker
- Steve Wadhams
Original Kasper's: The Hot Dog Stand That Saved a Neighborhood
Hot dogs are a classic American food. But when is a hot dog more than just a hot dog? When it's a neighborhood mainstay, through years of change.
- 2003
- 25:21
- Peter Thomson
The Hunter
They say one man's trash is another man's treasure... Well, in Darren Atkinson's case, it's also his job.
- 2011
- 21:35
- Dominic Girard
Cohabitation: Olive & Jack
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 12:02
- Jill Dorothy Summers
The Graying of the Convent
Documentarian Mary Beth Kirchner lived in a Chicago convent to produce this intimate portrait of aging Catholic nuns.
- 2001
- 29:12
- Mary Beth Kirchner
"Diamond" Jimmy Roy
At one time "Diamond" Jimmy Roy owned half the businesses in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town just outside Pittsburgh.
- 2001
- 19:00
- Dan Collison
Mind, Body, Soul
An interview with a performance artist, whose "art" consists of consuming entire copies of the Oxford English Dictionary, Gray's Anatomy, and the King James Bible.
- 2002
- 14:02
- Gregory Whitehead
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
For one month during the summer of 1996, producer Brenda Hutchinson drove her piano from New York City to San Francisco in the back of a U-Haul truck.
- 2002
- 25:58
- Brenda Hutchinson
The Last Voice of an Ancient Tongue
Elsie Vaalbooi was the last speaker of !Auni, the ancient language of South Africa's first peoples. Producer Siven Maslamoney tells the story of how languages die and how Elsie's people have been driven to extinction.
- 2003
- 27:39
- ABC Ulwazi
Geekspeak
The origins of Geekspeak lie in a 1995 artist residency Pamela Z participated in at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center.
- 2004
- 07:34
- Pamela Z
Voices in Your Head
Voices in Your Head is an audio segment from Voci, a performance work Pamela Z created in 2003.
- 2003
- 05:41
- Pamela Z
Theory of Everything #3: Cell Phones
Your pet can now own a cell phone -- what's the world coming to?
- 2004
- 29:00
- Benjamen Walker
Cohabitation: Roberto and Rosa
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 05:45
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Cohabitation: Apricot Wensleydale
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 14:29
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Cohabitation: Sylvester & Barry
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 13:22
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Healing the Wound of Wounded Knee
Leonard Little Finger is the great-great grandson of Chief Big Foot, whose band of Lakota Sioux Indians were killed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890.
- 2000
- 16:41
- Hal Cannon
- Taki Telonidis
Cohabitation: Jacob & Angelina
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
- 2005
- 14:16
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Sweeping Statements
Being a teenager can be really hard. Especially if you've flunked out of school. Or your dad has disappeared.
- 2007
- 06:48
- Judith Sloan
Gone
About 12,000 students drop out of Chicago Public Schools each year despite efforts by administrators and teachers to keep them on track.
- 2009
- 13:43
- Linda Lutton