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Hacking your hearing aid to implanting NFC tags into your hands -- we are now in the age of DIY Bio. We dive into the growing underworld of body mo...
- Added: Apr 07, 2016
- Length: 18:22
Thirty-six-year-old twins Carol Enoch and Katy Panek are physically identical in every way but one: Katy was born without ovaries. She never menstr...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUER
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 10:29
- Purchases: 3
A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist. But in 1979, young India Wood di...
- Added: Mar 31, 2016
- Length: 58:59
This story explores Michelle Obama's early life, expectations surrounding her ascendency as First Lady, and the impact she will leave on the office...
Bought by WWNO, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WHCP-LP Cambridge, WTJU, CI Dolphin Radio and more
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:33
- Purchases: 12
Deje Rene Carr has basically reached the status of local music legend in Pioneer Valley. The catch, she's still in high school.
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 05:57
As a young woman in the 60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in Chicago. She spent 43 years sketching everyone f...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 24, 2016
- Length: 17:21
- Purchases: 1
This episode of ARRVLS chronicles one woman's journey to find solace and happiness in the wake of tragedy. A story about faith and the legacy of su...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 30:04
The image of the Mississippi Delta the public usually gets is one of poverty-- or of cotton fields. But, on a search for women like her grandmother...
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 25:16
- Purchases: 2
Debby Wurster is having a ball at her new home in a retirement community. She's got a full calendar of activities, she's making new friends, and......
Bought by Wisconsin Public Radio
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 1
Elizabeth “Libba” Cotton’s “Freight Train” was the unofficial anthem of the 1960’s folk music revival. Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, and Jerry Ga...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 12:12
- Purchases: 1
Access to water has been declared an international human right, but it may be increasingly difficult to enforce. This episode explores how countrie...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 20:03
Daphne Shaed talks about what it's like to be a woman with a penis.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 11:49
Margarita Monsalve operates a sewing circle in Torrance, California, where unaccompanied migrant girls from Central America find a strong community...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 05:13
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 03:45
Karen Miller met a man named Gil Harper on Facebook. They started flirting. The flirtation grew more serious. Eventually, they planned to meet in r...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 25:13
- Purchases: 1
Israel Story's Mother's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching tale you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are now avai...
Bought by WYSO, WVPE, WZEN.org, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WNYC
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer. When she came to New York twenty-one years ago to rehearse for a concert at Carnegie Hall, she never imag...
- Added: Mar 08, 2015
- Length: 14:09
At an extremely early age, Shavit Ben-Arie became the leading expert on the female members of the Israeli parliament and in many cases, he became t...
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 21:25
There’s a whole lot more than recipes in Toni Tipton Martin’s cookbook collection… It contains a surprising culinary history of African Americans i...
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 22:28
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
Two of the only human inhabitants of the Everglades live just off Loop Road less than a mile before it links back up with Tamiani Trail. Their comp...
- Added: Dec 26, 2014
- Length: 26:16
Cindey LeGeyt and Danielle Cellucci have fatigue and intense pain all over their bodies, and they believe they have a disease. But many people say ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 22:32
- Purchases: 1
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.
- Added: Nov 13, 2014
- Length: 04:16
After Annie Cho gave birth to her son this spring, she struggled to make traditional Chinese "confinement" practices (hygiene rules + special postp...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 1
