At one time “Diamond” Jimmy Roy owned half the businesses in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town just outside Pittsburgh. (more)

Everyone knows the riddle: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? And the answer: Practice, practice, practice. But what if you practice, practice, practice, and still don't get there? (more)

A master clock maker explains why he's devoted his life to the clocks we hang on our walls. (more)

One of the most remarkable marathon finishes in recent history was recorded in 2009 in Boston. There, Kenyan runner, Salina Kosgei had her sights set on the finish line, having traveled half way around the world to get there. (more)

Here's a love story that stretches across two decades, thousands of miles, and an international border. Rocio and Francisco are married but have kept their family together by living apart for the past 19 years. (more)

By now you've probably heard plenty of stories about "the transformation of a beleaguered Detroit" but we bet you've never heard one like Work in Progress. (more)

Learning the A, B, C’s of housekeeping. (more)

This hour: Hustlers. Some are straight-up con artists, and others are just doing what they have to do to get by. (more)

An awkward office interaction at a temp gig gets even more awkward. (more)

Two girls don't see eye to eye on what defines a bright future. (more)

This hour: foxes, rabbits, snakes, whales, birds, lambs, and dogs. (more)

More than 20 years ago, musicologist Ned Sublette attended the Missouri Auction School in Kansas City, and brought along his tape recorder. (more)

This hour: change. Some of us crave it, some of us avoid it at all costs. But whenever and wherever it happens, change creates fallout, intentional or not. (more)

"Without bread we are all orphans," says the sign that greets customers as they walk into Steve's Bread Shop in Portland, Maine. Meet Steve, who bakes bread in the most traditional way possible: by hand. (more)

Feuding co-workers in an auto parts factory conpsire to assemble the big one. (more)

Art museum security guards spend their days in uniform, speaking quietly or not at all, surrounded by works of irreplaceable art. (more)

This hour: a lobster diver in Honduras, a chocolate taster in France, a movie director in Nigeria, and other stories that reveal the workaday world in all its globalized complexity, one person at a time. (more)

This week: a worm digger in rural Maine, a remarkably effective citizen spy, and more. (more)

They play well together, but . . . (more)

Barch Levi Blum was born in late 2009 at Toronto’s Mt. Sinai Hospital. He lived for ten minutes. (more)