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Memoir Cafe: Episode 25
From: Gary Smith
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In this 25th episode of Memoir Cafe, women write about reacting to the events around them.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 30:33
Poem for Today, March 17 2005
From: Gordon McDougall
Series: Poem for Today
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Poems about betrayal in love by John updike and Sir Thomas Wyatt

  • Added: Mar 10, 2006
  • Length: 04:00
It's Just A Job
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Veronica McNally reflects on life and work on her daily walk to her job at Pantheon Guitars in Lewiston, Maine.

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WYBC


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 3
Death Qualified
From: Alison Freeland
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A woman describes being on a death penalty jury in North Carolina.

Bought by KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 19, 2005
  • Length: 15:51
  • Purchases: 3
Graduation Story
From: Terin Mayer
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Emily Schwing is graduating out of sync, and without pomp and circumstance, but why should you care?

  • Added: Nov 25, 2005
  • Length: 05:31
Home Planet: None So Blind: A Thanksgiving Story
From: Spokane Public Radio
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A plate full of homemade food, the gift of a Thanksgiving meal, connects a lonely, blind, old woman and the shy little girl next door.

Bought by WTIP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WHRV, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2005
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 19
Test of Faith
From: KEDM
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In the buckle of the Bible Belt, a priest and a teenager reflect on faith in God after the hurricanes.

Bought by BSR Radio and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Oct 06, 2005
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 2
"And Never The Twain Shall Meet"
From: Carmody Wilson
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Tim Hildebrand is just a regular, devout,church-going Baptist who is looking for the right girl to share his faith...and his bed.

Bought by KOPN


  • Added: Jun 25, 2005
  • Length: 08:15
  • Purchases: 1
Bringing The Work Into You
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Mike Luce builds a casket for his deceased mother.

Bought by PRX Remix, WORLDcompass.org, SALTcast Podcast, and American Public Media


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 4
Watching My Mother's Breath
From: Dale Short
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A gentle poem about the ending of a 90-year-old farm woman's full life

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
My Body My Temple
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Women writers reading their own works about how breast cancer affects their body image

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KLCC, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Mar 30, 2005
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 4
1989 Joanne Kyger - Springtime Adonis Poem
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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One of the few Beat-era women writers reads her work

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 4
A Cook's Notebook: The Madonna's Eyes
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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A comtemplative essay about art and taste.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2004
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
Riverside Drive
From: Jenny Asarnow
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A man sits looking at the Seekonk River

  • Added: Oct 01, 2004
  • Length: 02:39
A Cook's Notebook: The Plum
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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A plum, a kitchen renovation and a marriage

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Aug 10, 2004
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
"Out of the Ashes: Teatro la Fenice"
From: Angela Taylor
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"Out of the Ashes: Teatro la Fenice" is a feature on the tragedy and triumphant return of this iconic Venetian opera and music house.

Bought by WHQR


  • Added: May 25, 2004
  • Length: 17:14
  • Purchases: 1
The Future is San Francisco
From: New America Media
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Comment on the Gay Marriage Issue in San Francisco

  • Added: Mar 05, 2004
  • Length: 05:01
Surviving Church
From: Bruce Gerstman
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Two people who joined Jim Jones's cult, The People's Temple, and got married 20 years after the Jonestown Massacre.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2003
  • Length: 10:22