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On today’s show : can a robot really stop loneliness for sick kids? We talk to a researcher behind a novel blood test that detects the early signs ...

Bought by KRZA and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 08, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Marni and Jim Family, Credit:  Marni Corrigan
When one or both parents are incarcerated the family is also incarcerated and are adversely affected in profound ways that exacerbate existing stru...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KUNM


  • Added: Dec 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Saunie Wilson with grandchildren
Saunie Wilson of Pine Ridge Reservation of the Oglala Lakota, works at the Wolf Creek School and talks about using culture to support students.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Investing not only involves money. Investing in our community around us also provides us benefits. Hear this great feel good news piece on foster k...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:32
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It's the first day of school in Oconee County near Athens, Georgia. The library's children's storytime is missing a few kids who boarded a school b...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:18
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When I was twelve years old, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, four years later, mom and I reflect on how cancer brought us closer toge...

Bought by WHFR, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: AIDS awareness painting in Chimoio, Mozambique. , Credit: Courtesy of Flickr user Ton Rulkens.
Thirty years ago an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence. Today, sophisticated drug cocktails known as highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 38:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Special friends, group hugs, someone to talk to – it all sounds idyllic, but Rosalyn George describes how, for girls at primary school, friendship ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 18:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Are our kids happy with who they are? Do they want to change something about themselves even at the young age of 5? Listen to the answers of kids...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:42
Caption: Pam McKissick Without Reserve, Credit: Auction Network Productions
This episode is about "Therapy Dogs in the Courtroom" but it’s much more than that. It’s the story of changing the system from within, leveling the...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 49:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mariah in the hospital with Leo.
Writer Mariah MacCarthy talks about placing her newborn with adoptive parents.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:39:14
Caption: "Orphan Train" by author Christina Baker Kline
In the last half of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries unwanted children from east coast cities were the cargo of what were ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 17:09
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron." by Mary Losure
Mary Losure began her wandering career path backpacking in the mountains of California and Oregon and kayaking in the Prince William Sound in Alask...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 19:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jayne Freeman
Bobby speaks with Jayne Freeman, a Childbirth Educator certified through the CEA/MNY (Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York). J...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:28:13
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Hay más de 10 millones de mexicanos sin nacionalidad en su propio país, pero Be Foundation trabaja para darles una identidad y que tengan un regist...

Bought by KDNA Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Butterfly Dreams
Author Melissa Ann Winter and Illustrator Peggy Fox join Heidi Holtan and John Bauer to talk about their children's book Butterfly Dreams. The book...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 12:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Julia Maki
Deer River native Julia Maki talks with Heidi Holtan about her book "My Mom Hunts Submarines." Julia discusses seeing the world as a anti-submarine...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 12:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Professor Michael Wessells of Columbia University takes us beyond war news. What are the true stresses faced by people in war zones and refugees? B...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 11:31
Caption: Henry Winkler, Credit: Photo Credit: Richard Jensen
Actor Henry Winkler didn't know he had dyslexia till his oldest son was diagnosed with it. Winkler was 31 at the time. He has become the author of...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2010
  • Length: 06:32
Caption: Cochineal Bug
You can't help but love insects when you listen to Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins. In this short piece he explains the natural history of the Coc...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:37
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Perfect Pitch, Autism, and Savants. Is there a music connection? Therapist Susan Rancer, RMT shares her experiences.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2009
  • Length: 29:03
Caption: Children explore the river's wildlife, Credit: Brian Mohan
Clearwater acts as a model for letting children be active and interactive with nature on the Hudson River. Welcome aboard

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:46