Featured Work
Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
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
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
Re:sound #169 The Ghosts of Vietnam Show
This hour: hauntings of war, ethereal recordings, and other ghosts of Vietnam.
- 2013
- 57:31
- Christina Egloff
- Jay Allison
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Katie Mingle
The Golden Room
Dreams, black holes, a special door, a golden room...
- 2014
- 06:26
- John Jacobs
- Julie Shapiro
Re:sound #83 The Going Up Show
This hour: climbing, flying and facing your fears.
- 2008
- 58:29
- Roz Bluett
- Arielle Lasky
- Sarah Boothroyd
- Roman Mars
The Glass Piano
At the tender age of 23, Princess Alexandra Amelie of Bavaria (1826-1875) was observed awkwardly walking sideways down the corridors of her family palace.
- 2012
- 30:07
- Deborah Levy
- Kate Bland
The Ghosts of Fire Island
Fire Island, only sixty miles from New York City, has long served as a safe and vibrant mecca for gay men and women. But in the early 1980's, the haven faced a new and lethal threat.
- 2014
- 25:00
- Myke Dodge Weiskopf
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
Ghetto Life 101
In 1993, LeAlan Jones (age 13) and Lloyd Newman (age 14) collaborated with public radio producer David Isay to create an audio diary of life on Chicago's South Side.
- 1993
- 30:20
- David Isay
The Gods of Times Square (INC)
Times Square teems with people -- hardened New Yorkers and wide-eyed tourists, commuters and shoppers, theater-goers and merchants, prostitutes and policemen.
- 1994
- 0
- David Isay
- Richard Sandler
Gravitation and Other Graces
Part documentary, part rumination, and part fairy tale.
- 2016
- 26:11
- Stephanie Rowden