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(Producer: Shea Shackelford) Happy 2006! Thanks for subscribing. We're looking ...

(Producer: Shea Shackelford) Happy 2006! Thanks for subscribing. We're looking forward to a year full of great sound + stories for you. One of our New Years resolutions here at Big Shed was to keep in better touch with you. So even...

Fork!

(Producer: Julia Cooksey) Fork is a superfun vox pop piece ...

(Producer: Julia Cooksey) Fork is a superfun vox pop piece from producer Julia Cooksey, exploring important questions of cutlery. If you're spending the holidays with family or friends, We hope this audio inpires you to take stock of their...

Mitchell the Christmas Moose

It's a video ... enjoy!

Carolina Roller Girls

(Producer: Emma Raynes) Roller derby was a popular sport in ...

(Producer: Emma Raynes) Roller derby was a popular sport in the 1960's, airing on T.V. and drawing crowds to see teams like the Bay City Bombers. The sport lost steam in the 70's, but recently, women's derby teams have been popping...

Liftoff!

(Producer: David Schulman) Every March, close to 500,000 Sandhill Cranes ...

(Producer: David Schulman) Every March, close to 500,000 Sandhill Cranes break their long migration with a stop along the Platte River in central Nebraska. For two or three weeks, they spend their days eating and dancing in the cornfields, and their...

Big Shed at Third Coast

(Producers: Jennifer Deer + Shea Shackelford) This is our first ...

(Producers: Jennifer Deer + Shea Shackelford) This is our first attempt at a remote report. So ... consider it a learning experience. Shea headed to Chicago for the always amazing Third Coast International Audio Festival, while Jennifer held down...

Back to School

(Producer: Eve Abrams) Eve interviewed kids entering junior high school ...

(Producer: Eve Abrams) Eve interviewed kids entering junior high school about their excitement and anxiety. I can't get over how serious they are. I love the kid who reflects how he spent his childhood playing, but now those days are numbered. ...

Crystal Dixon

(Producer: Liz Lindsey) For me this story began with a ...

(Producer: Liz Lindsey) For me this story began with a phone call from a stranger. I was at work readying a photographic exhibit to travel to the mountains of Lenoir, North Carolina. The exhibitâs subject was teenage pregnancy. The woman on the phone...

Passing the Banjo

(Producer: Jennifer Deer + Shea Shackelford) Joe Thompson, an 86-year-old ...

(Producer: Jennifer Deer + Shea Shackelford) Joe Thompson, an 86-year-old native of Mebane, NC, is perhaps the last African-American fiddler playing square dance music who actually grew up in this tradition. 28-year-old Rhiannon Giddens of Durham, NC,...

Sherri WoodâPassage Quilts

(Producer: Allyn Meredith) I interviewed Sherri Wood for my thesis ...

(Producer: Allyn Meredith) I interviewed Sherri Wood for my thesis project about the creative re-use of items that would otherwise be trashed, such as the material that Sherri works with from deceased persons clothing for the making of quilts. For my...