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Only For A While
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Natasha Fatah has always seen herself as a third parent for her autistic younger sister which makes leaving home for a career opportunity a very di...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 13:45
  • Purchases: 2
Don't Look Down
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Join Dan Newell as he scales a high-rise for another day of window washing.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 13:15
  • Purchases: 1
The Unit
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For most of us, our jobs are hardly a matter of life and death but that's exactly what Andrew McLaren deals with everyday.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 13:02
  • Purchases: 1
Once Is Lost
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Barbara Harrison puts her rocky relationship with her father aside to help him deal with Alzheimer's.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 14:15
  • Purchases: 1
Who Is Vern Nash?
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Thelon Oeming befriends a talented man who is constantly tormented by demon voices.

Bought by XRAY.fm and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 14:10
  • Purchases: 2
A House With Many Rooms
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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In this intimate and compelling memoir, Marti Em offers a rare glimpse into what it is like to live with multiple personalities.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 14:21
  • Purchases: 1
The Fall
From: Chris Ladd
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Skydiving can go wrong, terribly wrong, and that can even happen when the parachute opens. This piece chronicles the author's dive on assignment fo...

  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 21:55
My Body
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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This program looks at society's fixation with breasts -- a fixation that can be playful -- or downright painful.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 12:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Secret
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jarrod Livingstone was once officially dead for three minutes and his sister Carma wants to know what this experience was like.

Bought by HowSound, Vocalo.org, WBEZ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 4
Cracked Open
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Richard Handler shares his pungent insights into brain surgery, actually, his own brain surgery.

Bought by WBEZ and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 12:40
  • Purchases: 2
Because He Wants To
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jude Kelly confronts his friend Steven with the question: “If I can quit doing crack, why can’t you?”

  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 13:58
It's Like Riding A Bike
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For Christa Couture, the simple child's pleasure of riding a bike has eluded her until recently.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WBEZ


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 2
Coming Home
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jennifer Van Evra and Eric Denison discover together what make a house a home.

Bought by KUOW, WBEZ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 14:15
  • Purchases: 3
The Change In Farming
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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This story by Adam Goddard, a Toronto-based composer, is a celebration of the life and character of his grandfather.

Bought by WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, KCUR, KGLT, WMPG and more


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 6
He's My Brother
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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If your brother is a drug addict, what do you do?

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 12:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Magic of Falling Teeth
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Sharon Bar-David, guided by her seven-year-old daughter Leore, takes you into a magical world filled with wiggly teeth and tooth fairies.

Bought by XRAY.fm, KFAI Minneapolis, WBEZ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 13:15
  • Purchases: 4
My Dad's Records
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Kent Hoffman draws an intimate portrait of his late father through the memories triggered by an inherited record collection.

Bought by XRAY.fm, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WBEZ and more


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 14:04
  • Purchases: 7
A Voice Of Warning
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jade's voice speaks a loud warning to thousands of students.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WBEZ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 12:59
  • Purchases: 3
Crazy Like A Fox
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Darren O'Donnell describes a psychotic episode.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 12:15
  • Purchases: 1
He Just Can't Help It
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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According to 15 year old Marybeth Whalen, her younger brother has turned her life and the life of her family upside down.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 2
Vows
From: Catherine Girardeau
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An exploration of wedding vows that combines personal essay with documentary form.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KPFA


  • Added: May 04, 2005
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 2
Jamming 101: A Classical Violinist's Foray into Bluegrass
From: Catherine Girardeau
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A classical violinist sits in on a bluegrass jam.

Bought by KUER, KTNA, WYSO, WHQR, and Here and Now


  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 5
Joe Hotch Fishing Tales
From: Edward May
Series: Fishing Tales
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Joe Hotch is a Native Alaskan and shares how fishing has been a way of life for the Tlingit people.

Bought by KMXT and KSUT


  • Added: Mar 04, 2005
  • Length: 16:03
  • Purchases: 2
The Ones That Got Away
From: Michael Nutt
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is more or less a love story.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2005
  • Length: 07:40
RN Documentary: Adrift in Sri Lanka
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Marijke van der Meer was a tourist in Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit and recorded her experiences in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.

Bought by Central Florida Public Media


  • Added: Jan 27, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1

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