• 2008
  • 2:52
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The Persistence of Ephemera

By Ceil Muller

A slighty wacky look at my own ephemera collection. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 2:59
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Sending Books to Africa

By Sarah Yahm

A surreal tale about book donations, whitefish salad, and trans-atlantic journeys. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 3:00
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Too Much Shade

By Annie Baxter

This piece traces the devolution of a trailer to a tree. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 2:58
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Pink George

By Kay Collins

McCarthyism and me. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 3:00
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Birth, Birth, Rebirth

By Chris Sewell

As Tom recovers from a traumatic brain injury, he and his wife welcome newborn twins into the world. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 3:32
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Leaves

By Max Barry

The planting of a memorial tree reveals a lost story about my grandmother. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 2:36
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Flying Dream Sequence

By Matt Fleeger

The tale of a recurring dream. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 2:57
  • Canada

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Ad Absurdum

By Sarah Boothroyd

A herd of marketing hits, cliches and platitudes, featuring a chorus of cats and two pounds of Velveeta. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 2:09
  • USA

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The Big Meeting

By Catherine Halley & Wendy Jo Carlton

Lorene decides to make real English marmalade for a meeting being held by striking maritime workers in her town. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 3:01
  • USA

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Beyond the Tree Line

By Jane Cramer

A lesson on abstinence recorded in a makeshift recording hut in rural Wisconsin. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 3:00
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Stork-Bird Brain

By Carolyn Hoerdemann

A journey through the mind of heartache on an island that is really a peninsula. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 58:30
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Re:sound #103: The Sean Hurley / Sherwin Sleeves Show

By Various

This hour: the work of producer Sean Hurley, a writer and musician who lives on top of a mountain in New Hampshire and has an alter-ego, Sherwin Sleeves, who's become central to Sean's radio storytelling. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 3:02
  • Australia

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Misguided Meditation

By Sarah L'Estrange

A guided meditation spoof for all those searching for enlightenment, but who don't know where to find it. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 2:31
  • USA

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That Tragic Night

By Catie Talarski

Survivors recount the sinking of the Titanic. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 2:58
  • USA

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The Subtle Tongue of Racism Remains Unbitten in a "Post-Racial" America

By Will Wright

How do Anglos think black people talk -- and how does that feel? (more)

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  • 2008
  • 3:00
  • USA

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Six Minutes

By Katie Ball

A motorcyclist hits the only tree standing in an otherwise empty field. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 2:51
  • USA

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Cicatrix

By Joan Schuman

"Cicatrix" resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness, and irreparably damaged nerves as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 2:58
  • USA

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The Haymarket Incident

By Rehman Tungekar

One teenager changes my perspective about a significant event in labor (and U.S.) history. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 2:35
  • Canada

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Forest to Desert

By Sarah Boothroyd

An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." Forest versus city / tree versus car / then versus now. (more)

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  • 2008
  • 2:52
  • USA

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The Good Citizen's Control of Body and Mind

By Sara Vogel & Aliza Simons

A mad professor attempts to bring a cadaver to life. (more)

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