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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
Resilience
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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Almost 100 years ago, a rogue geologist named Alfred Wegener proposed his theory of continental drift. It didn't matter that he was right. He was l...

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 57:20
  • Purchases: 2
Strangers (podcast): "Jenni Rowell: Life, Interrupted"
From: Lea Thau
Series: Strangers
Caption: Jenni Rowell
On this episode of Strangers... imagine waking up every morning and seeing a stranger in the mirror...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Public Radio for All, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 5
Strangers (podcast): "Cora Leighton: The Gift"
From: Lea Thau
Series: Strangers
Caption: Cora Leighton
On this episode of Strangers... a stripper and a tattoo artist have a fateful encounter.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Public Radio for All, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 4
MORNINGS
From: Sara Brooke Curtis
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Memories of my childhood mornings.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 1
ROOTS
From: Sara Brooke Curtis
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Exploring my lineage one eccentric elder at a time.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
Delivery
From: Teresa Goff
Series: The Grease Trails
Caption: Ooligan fish
Teresa Goff has been following an ancient network of trails used by the coastal First Nations to trade gleetna, or grease. Gleetna is made from ool...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 13:21
The Grease Trails
From: Teresa Goff
Series: The Grease Trails
Caption: A string of ooligan fish.
The Grease Trails, a centuries-old network of trails through Northwestern Canada, described as the cultural arteries of First Nations peoples. Once...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:37
The Last Man on the Mountain (Podcast)
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Radio Diaries Podcast
Caption: James Weekley, Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein
In West Virginia, people say that in the old days, communities turned into ghost towns when the coal ran out. Now they turn into ghost towns when t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 2
Teenage Diaries Revisited: Juan
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries Revisited
Caption: Juan holds a photograph of himself from 16 years ago., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
16 years ago, Juan reported on his life as a recent Mexican immigrant living in poverty in Texas. In his new diary, Juan takes us on a tour of the ...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 1
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
Chapter 25 - Starting a New Chapter
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
As seniors at Union Seminary, Richard and Jim are responsible for welcoming the incoming students through “round robins” hosted in the homes of fac...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 15:40
Chapter 12 - A Time to Live, A Time to Die
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard learns the value of a liberal education at the College of Wooster, where the study of science and religion are complementary. During Easter...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 25:00
Marcel Donaj
From: You're U.S.
Series: You're U.S.
Caption: Detain from Marcel's Portrait, Credit: Painting by Emile B Klein
With over 50 professions in his life Marcel, now homeless, lives with a camera, a dog and a passion for cars.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 06:31
Generous Mountain
From: Will Rogers
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The producer wrestles with inequality-related discomforts while he climbs Mt Kilimanjaro.

Bought by Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 10:35
  • Purchases: 1
UnFictional: Why I Ride the Bus
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Every waking moment of his life Carl Kozlowski is in a struggle just to stay awake. He's fighting narcolepsy, that chronic disorder rendering the s...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Randy Portrait
From: Jamie Courville
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Randy Kearse grew up in the Farragut housing projects in what is now the trendy DUMBO section of Brooklyn, New York. In the late 1980’s crack cocai...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
My Christmas Tale
From: Kai McMurtry
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A story of growing up and into the true spirit of Christmas.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2011
  • Length: 17:04
Coming of age "illegal"
From: MPR News Stations
Series: MPR News' Youth Series
Caption: Brenda, 19, walks through her Minneapolis neighborhood. She's been living as an illegal immigrant in Minnesota since she was 7 years old., Credit: MPR Photo/Jeff Thompson
When Brenda was 7, she was carried across the border from Mexico. Now 19, the Minneapolis teen wishes she could live and work legally in the countr...

Bought by WTIP, WGXC, KUNM, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and KSFR


  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 5
Crazy John
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c. 2000
Carmen Delzell was homeless for a couple of years in the early 1990's. This piece was produced in 1996, after she got on her feet and was living i...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KUT, KGLT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 4
Sealed
From: Colleen Kelly
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Sealed explores divorce and its lingering effects. Nearly two decades after their parents’ separation, four siblings reflect on its aftermath.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 22:22
  • Purchases: 1
The Theater of War
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Jason Robards, Jr. in THE DISENCHANTED on Broadway
In which David Pressman goes to war, suffers the consequences, and comes home to direct a hit play.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 1
Dad to Dad: A Preparation
From: Eric Winick
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In Fall 2009, as my wife entered the late stage of pregnancy, I asked several friends of mine who are recent or long-time dads for advice on becomi...

Bought by KSKA, KUER, WTJU, KZYX, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 13:46
  • Purchases: 7
Divorced Kid
From: American Public Media
Caption: "Divorced Kid" producer Sasha Aslanian at her own wedding in September 1999., Credit: Liz Banfield Photography
America's divorce rate soared in the 1970s. Thirty years later, kids who grew up in the divorce revolution look back at that experience, and descri...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGDR and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 31
Vaguer than Roots
From: Gilad Shanan
Caption: Gilad Shanan with his parents, Amir and Liat, and two brothers, Avner and Yoram, in Buenos Aires, 2008.
Home can have interesting definitions for the children of immigrants. Often the roots of the family tree are planted in distant soil, or have been...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2009
  • Length: 23:00