All Pieces for Helen Borten

 
Circus Life: The Last Sideshow
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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What is it like on the other side of the peephole? The Half-Girl, the Snake Lady, the Fat Man and others share their experiences and surprising vi...

Bought by KPIK-LP, XRAY.fm, PRX Remix, WETA, and Audible


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 5
Hollister
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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On July 4, 1947 thousands of bikers roared into a small California town and changed our assumptions about America. A new investigation raises prov...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WRPI, KUT, PRX Remix, KALW and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
Heartland Medicine
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Young doctors face challenges, provide total care, and live unconventional lives in rural Nebraska

Bought by WRNC-LP, WRPI, Audible, and WCQS


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
The Prison Cure
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sick kids behind bars and what happens when they get there: a Colorado youth prison sheds light on a national problem.

Bought by KPIK-LP, WSKG, PRX Remix, WRPI, and Audible


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 5
Strip Club USA Part Two
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Men and women, physically in the same place, inhabit different worlds.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Audible, WZBC, and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 4
Strip Club USA Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Strippers and club patrons talk about what draws them to America's thriving sex industry.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Audible, WZBC, and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
Mme. Blavatsky and The Colonel Part Two
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story of the woman responsible for America's love afair with spiritualism and her modern-day descendants.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Audible, WFIU, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 5
Mme. Blavatsky and The Colonel Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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The story of the woman responsible for America's love afair with spiritualism and her modern-day descendants.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Audible, KSFR, WFIU and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 6
The Maypole at Merrymount
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A long-forgotten conflict between the Pilgrim Fathers and a freethinking fur trader resonates with today's moral concerns.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WRPI, KTNA, Yellowstone Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 8
Little Odessa in Brooklyn
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One hundred years of Brighton Beach memoirs.

Bought by KUER, KFCF FM, Radio Catskill, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KVSC and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 12
Hollow Victory
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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A David and Goliath battle against a mining technique that blows off mountaintops, buries streams and destroys communities in the hollows of West V...

Bought by WAMU, KGNU Community Radio, WRPI, KFAI Minneapolis, Audible and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 7

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