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Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
Last Words from Hopi High
For nearly a thousand years the Hopi people of Arizona have lived on the same three mesas and for all that time they've spoken the Hopi language. But now elders and youth alike say the language is dying.
- 2010
- 06:15
- Brett Myers
Chosen People
At least forty thousand African Americans are practicing Jews. They call themselves Hebrew Israelites and their style of worship inspires a variety of reactions: enthusiasm, curiosity, and sometimes even outright hostility.
- 2008
- 13:44
- Eric Molinsky
Two Wheels to Nowhere
One man, one motorcycle, 13,843 miles, 89 days, 37 states, 166 interviews.
- 2010
- 30:33
- Aengus Anderson
Re:sound #124: The Kids Show
This hour: kids sing opera, they talk about life on a remote island, and they opine about running the world.
- 2010
- 58:26
- Alix Blair
- Neil Sandell
- Alessandro Bosetti
- Delaney Hall
Children's America
Imagine an America ruled by children. They staff the post offices, run the schools, oversee the military, and decide on the form of government.
- 2009
- 35:11
- Alessandro Bosetti
The Books
Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto, otherwise known as the Books, incorporate an array of sound fragments and miniature stories into their music.
- 2003
- 04:06
- The Books
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
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
Scrape
An up-and-coming executive and his car have a very bad day.
- 2008
- 02:25
- Dave Urlakis
- Michael Slaboch
Baggage
On the flight back from her honeymoon, Mary Beth loses her luggage and thinks it's a sign that her marriage might be a mistake.
- 2008
- 03:16
- Sue Mell
Debt Collector
A sci-fi melodrama about the abusive relationship between debt collector and collectee.
- 2008
- 03:39
- Roman Mars
Take Me Out
This audio art lament asks the question, "What happens when false care and concern land on the ears of someone truly in need?"
- 2008
- 02:37
- Carma Jolly
Weird Little Plan
A revenge plot goes awry when a woman ropes in her estranged best friend.
- 2008
- 03:16
- Hillary Frank
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
The Obscure News: Anatomy of a Punch, Part Two (INC)
The Obscure News podcast claims to feature "all the news the networks omitted." Dedicated to redeeming the ordinary, it's a chorus of anonymous voices telling those weird little anecdotes that are born every day, all tied together by a steadfast host, driving rhythm, and strategic bits of found sound.
- 2007
- 0
- Lloyd B. King
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
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
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
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: 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
The Dry vs. the Moist (INC)
A mix of fiction, fantasy and fact, The Dry vs. the Moist is an intercontinental collaboration between three artists: the U.S. writer Rick Moody, the Australian sound artist (and Radio Eye producer) Sherre DeLys, and pianist Chris Abrahams (the Necks).
- 2006
- 0
- Rick Moody
- Sherre DeLys
Taken Too Soon: The Cost of War (INC)
Nearly 40 public radio producers from around the world lend their voices to this compelling radio meditation featuring some of the names and circumstances of the deaths of coalition forces, Iraqi and Afghan civilians, contractors, and journalists killed since the fighting began in Afghanistan in October, 2001.
- 2006
- 0
- Paul Ingles
The Best Show on WFMU (INC)
WFMU is an independent, volunteer-run, listener-supported, freeform radio station broadcasting from Jersey City, New Jersey, and every Tuesday night at 8 PM Tom Scharpling takes over the airwaves.
- 2017
- 0
- Jon Wurster
- Tom Scharpling
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
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