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The Urge to Travel
From: Mark Kwak
Series: Lights On
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A guy backpacks through 50 countries in 5 years. We hear his story.

Bought by KQED


  • Added: May 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 1
Hitchhiking to Amsterdam
From: Sean Rasmussen
Series: Radio Docs
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Feeling depressed and alone in Europe and with family problems at home, Darlene thinks the solution is to visit a drug house in Amsterdam. But some...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:06
Moving Beyond
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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"I am a Christian, I am a mom, a wife, a homemaker, a leader, a knitter, a quilter… I’m lots of things. Accepting the label felon was really hard."

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 1: Stealth in School
From: Callum Angus
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An interview with Female-to-Male teen Kyle Smith about his experience as a transgender high school student.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 20:30
The Fifty Shades Caper
From: Sean Rasmussen
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True (and humorous) story about Mark and Eric who find a stack of brand-new copies of Fifty Shades of Grey, just sitting on the sidewalk.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 06:48
Terminal
From: Meghan Roguschka
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A story about a place some people think of as "home."

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 13:22
How to Run Away to the Circus
From: Mary Harris
Caption: Seth Bloom, Rehearsing, Credit: acrobuffos.tumblr.com
How did a nice girl with a degree from Princeton University end up as a globetrotting... clown? Meet Christina Gelsone -- and her husband, Seth. Th...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 08:37
Laughter Yoga Clubs
From: Sean Rasmussen
Series: Happy
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In this episode of Happy producer JP Davidson drops into a Laughter Yoga Club. The first one started in the mid-90s in Mumbai. Now there over 8000 ...

Bought by Radio Catskill and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 30, 2012
  • Length: 08:38
  • Purchases: 2
The Red, White, and Blue Bus
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.

Bought by KALW, The Story, KUT, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Gray Wisteria of Gilman Terrace
From: Katherine Perry
Caption: Gilman Terrace
When we bought our dream fixer-up home on Gilman Terrace, my husband and I knew that it came with sad past--but we weren’t prepared, when we unlock...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Abbie Waters: The Habit of Being
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Abbie Waters
Abbie Catherine Waters was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 55:07
  • Purchases: 1
Manohar and Vera, a Love Story; or, Bus 390
From: Mark Munger
Caption: Manohar and Vera, Credit: Kathryn Munger
Manohar, from Agra, and Vera, from Sao Paulo, meet on a mysterious bus when a lady falls on M. The rest is slight distrust and love.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 1
Civil Rights Activist Edward Harden Peeples, V: Born To Be A Racist
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 55:38
Any Other Name
From: Will Dean
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Names are important signifers, but they are also very mutable. This piece focuses on the slipperiness of names: how their meanings can change, why ...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 57:44
Newspaper Funeral
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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When a neighborhood newspaper folds, the publisher creates a unique ritual to mark its passing.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:42
Where in the World is Don Gamble?
From: peter stock
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In the late 1990s, crack environmental consultant Don Gamble checked out of his comfortable east coast professional life...and disappeared. Ten yea...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 02, 2011
  • Length: 21:42
  • Purchases: 1
Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, January 3, 1923
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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While many of the most-told love stories are fairy tales, hers was real and it changed YOUR life.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Spam: Drugs All Half Price And Legal
From: Van Gunter
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Where does Spam email come from? Why won't it stop? Why does the text read like the author was hit on the head with a baseball bat?

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Apr 30, 2010
  • Length: 12:23
  • Purchases: 1
I've Never Dreamt Such Things In My Life
From: Van Gunter
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Real dreams. Original music. Bottle of wine. Turn on, tune in, drop out.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2010
  • Length: 13:04
Biloxi Stabbing
From: Jeff Forester & Jeremy Lerman
Caption: "Biloxi Stabbing," Produced by Jeremy Lerman & Jeff Forester
Biloxi, Mississippi, 3 a.m. The attackers advanced from the dark. The violence was sudden, intense. Forester's cheek, nose and two ribs were brok...

Bought by KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 15:28
  • Purchases: 3
It's Not Funny Anymore: Comedy in the Recession
From: Maria Bartholdi
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They say comedy is serious business. But in this economy, it can be downright depressing.

Bought by EconomyBeat Podcast, Remix Radio, and WILL


  • Added: Mar 14, 2010
  • Length: 18:10
  • Purchases: 3
Life Between Two Worlds: The Culture of Online Gaming
From: Nathan Bender
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A medium length audio documentary that discusses the impact of online gaming on today's society through a 'This American Life' style of storytelling.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2009
  • Length: 21:39
Mind on the Brain
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A personal look at Traumatic Brain Injury.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, SALTcast Podcast, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 4
Besides Life Here
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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What happens when the most important event in your whole life is something no one believes?

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, XRAY.fm, WMPG and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 8
Protesting the School of the Americas
From: Gretel Carlson
Series: Listen Hear
Caption: Placing flowers and crosses at the fence, Credit: Leigh Kunkel
In November, 24 Grinnell College students piled into a bus for an 18 hour ride down to Columbus, Georgia to protest the School of the Americas.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: 18:23