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Not in Anyone’s Backyard, pushing back on landfill expansion
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Penobscot Nation lives on the river that shares their name. Just upstream from their island reservation is Juniper Ridge, Maine’s largest landf...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 23, 2017
  • Length: 13:04
  • Purchases: 2
Refinery Healing Walks
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Refinery Healing Walk, Credit: Isabella Zizi
We’ll meet Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow and environmental and indigenous leader Isabella Zizi. In this piece, Zizi talks about how ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 23, 2017
  • Length: 11:16
  • Purchases: 3
NEA Jazz Moments with Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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"You can play notes, but if you don't put anything in the notes, that's what it is...just notes." - Pharoah Sanders.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 11
Life of the Law Episode #68: Thorpe's Body
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The body of legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe rests in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania...but some members of his family say he should be dug up...

Bought by KPIK-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 24:46
  • Purchases: 2
The Man who Named 'Earth Day'
From: Reid Frazier
Caption: Julian Koenig, who coined 'Earth Day'., Credit: Photo Courtesy of Sarah Koenig
Who came up with the name 'Earth Day'? It turns out, a legendary Madison Avenue ad man named Julian Koenig. He was responsible for some of the most...

Bought by KMXT, WSLR, KUOW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 7
Babies on Demand: Reproduction in a Technological Age
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: In vitro fertilization (IVF) in progress. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 40:27
Space, Stars and Satellites (Version One)
From: Shawn McCullough
Series: 10 Min Sound Byte
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Songs related to Space, Stars and Satellites

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Voices on the bus: the people who depend on AC Transit
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Long-time AC Transit rider Walter Davis gets off the bus at 14th and Market in Oakland., Credit: Isabel Angell
East Bay bus agency AC Transit doesn’t have the ridership or wide-reaching reputation of BART or San Francisco’s Muni. But about 100,000 people tak...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:31
Mikaila Stinar: "When people look at me, they don't see soldier. They just see a girl."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
Caption: Mikaila Stinar, far left, Credit: contributed photo
Mikaila Stinar served in Iraq from 2010 to 2011 with Echo Co. 145th BSB attached to the 1-163rd Infantry Battalion. Her unit provided convoy securi...

Bought by KALH, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 3
Stripped Away: This Teen Finds Her Family Homeless
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Up until she was a teenager, she lived in comfort. What she didn’t see coming was the moment when she lost everything. Find out why her world turne...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 3
NEA Jazz Moments with KEITH JARRETT
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2014 NEA Jazz Master, Keith Jarrett. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn about ...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 15
Culturology: Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People - Hour Two
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People
This is the second installment of Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People. Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, WGZS, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 6
Christi & Christopher: A Mother and Son Story
From: University of Montana Journalism
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Christi was a pregnant teenager who gave up her baby for adoption and then changed her mind. The story from there goes places no one saw coming. Pr...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 07:28
The Python Challenge
From: casey schelhorn
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Two first time radio producers travel to the Everglades intending to tell the story of a state-sanctioned Python hunt, but end up telling an altoge...

Bought by KGOU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 09, 2013
  • Length: 15:34
  • Purchases: 2
NEA Jazz Moments with Eddie Palmieri
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, EDDIE PALMIERI. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn about...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, WICR and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 12
Genesis Gardens
From: Jenna Creech
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An intern from Genesis Gardens talks about her time working on farms and her current activity working on a farm with the homeless.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
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
Making the Grade: Motivation
From: Larry Berger
Series: Making the Grade
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High School students from Pittsburgh Public Schools discuss what motivates them to succeed, and what examples they look to for guidance.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 03:24
Melissa Gets a Life Coach
From: Sean Rasmussen
Series: Happy
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Ever wonder what a Life Coach does? Before Melissa started with a Life Coach, she was stuck in a dead-end restaurant job. Now she is successfully f...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 09:15
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
JazzStories: Electric Kulintang - Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Susie Ibarra
“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, 90.5 WSNC, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 4
Tenderness And Joy
From: Cornelis van den Hoeven
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 15:33
Peer Research Success
From: Cornelis van den Hoeven
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 08:57