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Caption: Northern Uganda
"I escaped because of my friend. The three of us started planning while we were in south Sudan." Beatrice Ocwee Reporter Gladys Oroma continues ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 44:12
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In 2014, 16-year-old Wildin Acosta left Olancho, Honduras and traveled toward the U.S. border. When he arrived, he turned himself in to border patr...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 22:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Japanese Internment Camp, Credit: Densho Archives
As President Trump moves to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., we look at two moments where we found ourselves at a similar crossroads. First, th...

Bought by WCPN, KVNF, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to be Girls bills itself as the world’s first crossdressing academy. We spend time with its founder,...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: LePriest Valentine, Credit: George Lavender
Meet LePriest Valentine, who kept winding up in the only sanctuary he could find after getting out of jail: Skid Row.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 4
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In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A student hangs a flag outside the veteran’s center at Pasadena City College., Credit: Stephen Smith
The GI Bill of 1944 revolutionized the lives of millions of young veterans, America’s institutions of higher education, and American society at lar...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WHRV, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: A coal terminal in Eastern Kentucky., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
Can the Appalachian Mountains recover from centuries of mining? What will happen to the thousands of coal miners projected to lose their jobs in th...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Up to a million acres of strip-mined land have been de-forested., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.

Bought by WMMT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 3
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How long would your relationship last without a kiss or more than a kiss In America, only three states allow prisoners and their spouses or domesti...

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 17:48
  • Purchases: 2
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Two survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing confront their psychological bruises.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., PRX Remix, and HowSound


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 09:12
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Jane York and Nura Adam embrace at a meeting, Credit: Lisa Merrill, Bellevue WA
In Bellevue, Washington a group of women meet once a month to discuss their cultural differences and similarities. The conversations are transformi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Greg Auger's life was forever changed when he met the bat researching legend Don Griffin. This is the story of the two men, a pond, and what happen...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 08:05
Caption: An aerial view of North Beach Island where five cottages were demolished by the federal government.
In late 2011. the federal government decided to demolish five old seaside cottages on Cape Cod that were at threat of being washed away due to coas...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and other revolutionary movements across the world, the Occupy Wall Street movement has just entere...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 24:26
Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com/, Credit: Shannon Heffernan
What happens when a women gives birth behind bars? Usually those babies are sent home with family members or put into foster care. But some prison...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 14:25
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 15:33
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 08:57
Caption: A pastor at a Southern Sudanese church in a refugee camp in Kenya., Credit: Becky Palmstrom
As the newest country in the world celebrates, Becky Palmstrom travels to Kenya to hear the prayers and songs of the refugees waiting to return to ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:18
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast, Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 20:20
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 11:48
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast  , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony Kammerhofer
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 19:37
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony Kammerhofer
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2010
  • Length: 15:55
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast, Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony Kammerhofer
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 12:00
Caption: Northwest Detention Center, Credit: Alex Stonehill
April 16, 2009 - On any given day, 30,000 people are being held in detention centers across the country. With plans to expand the Northwest Detenti...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 08:36