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Your pet can now own a cell phone -- what's the world coming to? Year: 2004 Producers: Benjamen Walker

Voices in Your Head is an audio segment from Voci, a performance work Pamela Z created in 2003. Year: 2003 Producers: Pamela Z

The origins of Geekspeak lie in a 1995 artist residency Pamela Z participated in at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. Year: 2004 Producers: Pamela Z

Our Day Will Come explores the impact of R&B on America's civil rights movement, as well as the influence of the movement on popular music. Year: 2002 Producers: Lex Gillespie

Elsie Vaalbooi was the last speaker of !Auni, the ancient language of South Africa's first peoples. Producer Siven Maslamoney tells the story of how languages die and how Elsie's people have been driven to extinction. Year: 2003 Producers: ABC Ulwazi

For one month during the summer of 1996, producer Brenda Hutchinson drove her piano from New York City to San Francisco in the back of a U-Haul truck. Year: 2002 Producers: Brenda Hutchinson

An interview with a performance artist, whose "art" consists of consuming entire copies of the Oxford English Dictionary, Gray's Anatomy, and the King James Bible. Year: 2002 Producers: Gregory Whitehead

What if sounds could be frozen into ice cubes, then released upon their melting? Everyday movements and actions might become rich musical performances... Year: 2002 Producers: Gregory Whitehead

A cerebral yet refreshing exploration into the question "where do creative ideas come from?" Year: 2002 Producers: Gregory Whitehead

How to create a human brain -- from a bowl of mashed potatoes. Year: 2002 Producers: Gregory Whitehead

At one time "Diamond" Jimmy Roy owned half the businesses in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town just outside Pittsburgh. Year: 2001 Producers: Dan Collison

Documentarian Mary Beth Kirchner lived in a Chicago convent to produce this intimate portrait of aging Catholic nuns. Year: 2001 Producers: Mary Beth Kirchner

Esme Cordell shares a year's worth of classroom anecdotes and musings, culled from a journal kept throughout her first year teaching in Chicago. Year: 2001 Producers: Esme Cordell

The village of Alert Bay, on Canada's Pacific coast, is a study in paradox for the teens growing up there. They have a rich aboriginal culture, but live in grinding poverty. Year: 2009 Producers: Lindsay Michael Neil Sandell Teresa Goff

A wildfire swept through Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar, California in November 2008, destroying more homes, and displacing more families, than any California blaze in decades. Year: 2009 Producers: Frank Stoltze Queena Sook Kim

This week: an aural trip to one of the oldest cities in the world, an unconventional love affair, and a man who eats up all the books he reads (literally). Year: 2004 Producers: Jim Metzner Matthew Power Gregory Whitehead Julie Shapiro

This hour: we head back to high school. For better or for worse. Year: 2004 Producers: Jonathan Mitchell Julie Shapiro

This hour: karaoke as marital therapy, a man tries to cure his stutter, the weird world of Tupperware parties, and more. Year: 2004 Producers: Natalie Kestecher Emily Botein Dean Olsher Anne Penman Trisha Wilson Davia Nelson Nikki Silva The Kitchen Sisters Julie Shapiro

This hour: a woman investigates a secluded religious community, another secretly tapes her interactions with paint store owners, and yet another peels back the layers of "geek speak." Year: 2004 Producers: Brenda Hutchinson Jonathan Menjivar Dmae Roberts Damali Ayo Pamela Z Julie Shapiro

This hour: a man hand-delivers reading material to a war criminal, two people who've never spoken fall in love, and more. Year: 2004 Producers: Benjamen Walker Joan Schuman Michael Johnson Julie Shapiro

This hour: a retired child beauty queen recalls her youth and a young man revels in eating trash. Year: 2004 Producers: Roman Mars Matthew Power Julie Shapiro

This hour: producer Dmae Roberts grapples with the history and memories of her Taiwanese mother, a history of PTSD, and more. Year: 2004 Producers: Dmae Roberts Alix Spiegel Joe Frank Julie Shapiro

This hour: a few stories by author Rick Moody rendered in sound, plus a woman visits her friends' houses and talks with them about their books. Year: 2004 Producers: Rick Moody Julie Shapiro

This hour: we head to the south side of Chicago and Japan. Year: 2004 Producers: Dan Collison Elizabeth Meister Robin Hilton Julie Shapiro

This hour: a mysterious suitcase, basement bhangra, and more. Year: 2004 Producers: Gregory Whitehead Karen Levine Julie Shapiro