Featured Work
Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
Face of Mercy, Face of Hate
Predrag Bundalo was a Serbian fighter in Sarajevo, who everyone called by his nickname, "Gaga." On the eve of his 36th birthday, Gaga stopped to visit an elderly Muslim woman in her apartment.
- 2001
- 21:00
- Michael Montgomery
- Stephen Smith
File Under Soviet Bizarre: Vyacheslav Mescherin's Orchestra of Electro-Musical Instruments
It was the closest thing to Muzak in Russia. This is the story of the rise, fall, and sudden resurgence of the music that dominated television and radio airwaves and whose spacey sounds made it the favorite of the USSR's cosmonauts.
- 2004
- 09:58
- Charles Maynes
The Forbidden Voyage
As a young boy, Earle Reynolds had a dream to build and sail a boat around the world.
- 2003
- 43:04
- Stephen Erickson
Face to Face: Stories From the Aftermath of Infamy
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Americans of Japanese ancestry were subjected to racial hatred, distrust, and incarceration.
- 2003
- 28:30
- Rob Mikuriya
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
Resound #145 The Fathers Show
This hour: Dads, in all their glory.
- 2011
- 59:00
- Multiple producers
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
The Failure of Flight Show
This hour: failure of flight. In one story a man mysteriously falls from the sky onto a sunny London street, and in another, a plane crashes into a mountain side, and an 11 year old walks away.
- 2014
- 59:00
- Katie Mingle
Re:sound #22: The Fish Story Show
This hour: a beached whale in Maine, a conversation with the "real" Darth Vader, school kids deconstruct the work of one of America's most difficult poets, and more.
First Steps
Raising kids is one of life's biggest and most complicated adventures. Sometimes a basic task can present a monumental challenge - especially for new parents.
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
From Sagebrush to Steppe
Two years ago a group of Mongolian herdsmen and musicians traveled to Elko, Nevada, to participate in the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
- 2006
- 16:48
- Hal Cannon
- Taki Telonidis
Ferlinghetti: San Francisco Locations
San Francisco luminary and famed poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti takes listeners on a freewheeling tour of his neighborhood haunts in San Francisco's Chinatown and North Beach.
- 2003
- 50:20
- Jim McKee
Fresh Air: Joe Frank
"Whatever tragedies might befall you, you can always right away think, 'well that would make a great story for radio!'"
- 2018
- 19:56
- Terry Gross
- Joe Frank
Frozen Alive
Outside Podcast plunges into a night of bitterly cold catastrophes.
- 2016
- 23:47
- Peter Frick-Wright
- Robbie Carver
First You Leave and Then You Go
Karen's dad wanted to pass on his curiosity and his faith to his seven children. Karen inherited that curiosity, but sharing his faith is another story.
- 2017
- 10:28
- Karen Duffin
The Flickerman (INC)
Cornelius Zane-Gray is being stalked. His girlfriend left him, a good friend was murdered, and he's recently been assaulted, chased, and nearly blown up. Cornelius's life is falling apart, and what's more, it's all being documented through photos posted on the Internet for everyone to see.
- 2009
- 46:45
- Lance Dann
The Fire Within (INC)
A growing number of African-American men are converting to Islam while in prison. In this story you'll meet several of them, all living in a medium-security prison in Logan, Illinois, and hear how the "call of Islam" fills a silence and a vacuum in their lives.
- 1996
- 0
- Cecilia Vaisman
- Katie Davis
Fighting for The Promised Land
Shirley Sherrod's name was thrust into the headlines in 2010 when she was fired from her post at the United States Department of Agriculture, accused of anti-white bias.
- 2016
- 45:26
- Tina Antolini