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The Things They Carry: Staff Sergeant Christen Cohen
From: Jake Warga
Series: The Things They Carry: U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan
Caption: Staff Sergeant Christen Cohen, Credit: Jake Warga
Part of a series that asks U.S. soldiers serving in Afghanistan what they have to carry around with them every day—from the physical to the emotion...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KZYX, XRAY.fm, KKWE Niijii Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 13
Rote Learning Versus Critical Thinking
From: Dona Fernandes
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The Supreme Council of Education (SEC) wants to teach Qatari History as a mandatory subject in all the private schools in Qatar, starting from the ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2012
  • Length: 08:33
The Great Race
From: Emma de Campo
Caption: Pete Stringer, approaching the finish of his 212th marathon. , Credit: Photo-Chambers
Pete Stringer loves to run. Really long distance. Since he began a running log in 1976, he's run over 80,000 miles in competitions and training. Th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
Melissa's Diary, Part 2: Raising Issaiah
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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This is Melissa’s second audio diary. Her son Issaiah is now one-year-old. “I’m a really selfish person…I want to be treated as the baby. I want t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 12:37
  • Purchases: 1
Namibia Road Trip
From: Jake Warga
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Come on a self-drive road-trip through Namibia and learn how tourism is helping to conserve wildlife, habitat, and culture. PRX exclusive, slated f...

Bought by KUOW, KUT, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 3
Making the Grade: Teachers
From: Larry Berger
Series: Making the Grade
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High School students from Pittsburgh Public Schools discuss the importance of effective teaching, and share stories about the teachers in their dai...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 03:54
Making the Grade: Self Esteem
From: Larry Berger
Series: Making the Grade
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High School students from Pittsburgh Public Schools discuss the importance of self esteem as it relates to a student's success.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 03:42
Making the Grade: Role Models
From: Larry Berger
Series: Making the Grade
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High School students in Pittsburgh Public Schools discuss role models (or lack thereof) in their lives.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 03:34
Changing Roles and Rules
From: Amy Gastelum
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Stef Adkins competes in his very first Drag Competition as Barbie Que, juggling issues of identity and boundaries.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 26, 2012
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 2
Busking In Vegas - The Journey Of Marc Drama
From: Samuel Robinson
Caption: Busking on Freemont Street, Credit: Ciaron Mullarkey
Competing with all the lights and noise - it takes a brave person to busk in Las Vegas - but armed with just an acoustic guitar and his lungs, Marc...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Baltimore, MD: Outsiders In
From: Al Letson
Series: State of the Re:Union: Season Three
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Baltimore is a city of many neighborhoods, of intense divides—racial, class, and otherwise-- not easily overcome. It’s a city bogged down by a repu...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WESM 91.3 FM, WRKF, KACU, WVTF and more


  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 20
Grey Areas
From: Dave Pickering
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This piece is called Grey Areas and it's about how close I am to my dad, in a literal sense, it's also a tribute to the the neighbour we buried in ...

  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Sounds of Landa Park
From: Victoria Campos
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Created for a Sound Landscape assignment.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:54
The Mark of a Blacksmith
From: JP Davidson
Caption: Bob Jordan with his anvil, Credit: JP Davidson
Bob Jordan has a 3000-degree forge in his garage. He’s a blacksmith with over 40 years of experience – including work with German, Italian and Nort...

Bought by PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 3
Holidays Moonwalk
From: Patrick Fosso
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Holidays Moonwalk is the new release by Golden Boy (Fospassin) the ultimate songwriter for the 21st century.Are you ready for holidays?

  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:52
9-11
From: Patrick Fosso
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Let's remember 9-11.More than 3000 children lost their parents in the tragedy.The destruction has caused damages to the economy at the global marke...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 1
Rude sea mammals
From: Paula Kahumbu
Caption: New born, Credit: Andrew Kahumbu
A team of Kenyans visit Horsey Sound on the Norfolk coast, England, to discover the joys and rude sounds of seals.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 05:18
Django Reinhardt (Gypsy Jazz Guitarist), May 16, 1953
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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A Gypsy, he never lived in a house or wore a suit until age twenty. At age 18, a late-night caravan fire left him with only two, useful fingers on ...

  • Added: May 10, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Tenzing Norgay (First on Everest), May 9, 1986
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Self-described as a simple mountain coolie, he became one of the world's foremost mountaineers and, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, the first ... ev...

  • Added: May 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Colored Musicians Club
From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York
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The Colored Musicians Club is one of Buffalo’s oldest music venues. Jazz giants from Count Basie to Billie Holiday played there, but even with the ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 07:24
Voicemail Retrieval
From: Mariel Fiedler
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Me trying to retrieve a voicemail message and failing to remember the password... until I finally get it.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 02:59
First Hand Account in Getting a DUI
From: Vince Workman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A brief interview with someone who experienced what its like getting a DUI early in life.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2009
  • Length: 04:52
World Trade Organization Demonstrations Seattle 1999
From: KUOW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Excerpts of KUOW-FM's live coverage of the WTO demonstrations.

  • Added: Sep 28, 2009
  • Length: 16:08
Economic Storm Hits Norfolk Island
From: Jake Warga
Caption: Lisle Snell at Island Fish Fry, Credit: jake Warga
Norfolk Island, Australia, is a small rock in the middle of the South Pacific, but not immune to the global financial crisis.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2009
  • Length: 04:31
Active Voice Radio: Rick Steves PBS Travel Host speaks about Marijuana
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Rick Steves at NORML 2007, Credit: NORML Foundation
Rick Steves is a popular PBS Travel Host and has authored dozens of travel guides. Here he speaks passionately about marijuana reform at the NORML ...

Bought by KSFR and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Aug 31, 2009
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 2