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A Transgender Childhood

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera

Growing up isn't easy - when you feel as if your mind is one gender, and your body another.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KGNU Community Radio, and PRX Remix

Added: Apr 25, 2011
Length: 03:03
Purchases: 4

Forest to Desert

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera

An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." Forest versus city / tree versus car / then versus now.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Apr 25, 2011
Length: 02:35
Purchases: 1

The Crane and the Straitjacket

From: KUOW

Caption: Joey Pipia , Credit: Frank Ross

A struggling magician, struck with crippling osteoarthritis, decides to risk everything for the stunt of his life--escaping from a straitjacket whi...

Bought by WEZU, PRX Remix, and KUT

Added: Mar 04, 2011
Length: 08:36
Purchases: 3

The Hackney Podcast: Writers on Walking

From: Francesca Panetta
Series: The Hackney Podcast

Caption: Writers on Walking, Credit: Shehani Fernando

We take four authors for a walk through the borough of Hackney In London. Sean Borodale's poem Notes for an Atlas guides us through, we rise early ...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Feb 05, 2011
Length: 22:13
Purchases: 1

Only For My King

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Benuel Esch grew up Amish in Lancaster Pennsylvania, but twenty years ago he started asking questions. Though he left to explore other paths, he fi...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, KUT, and KUOW

Added: Jan 13, 2011
Length: 07:44
Purchases: 4

Sing and I Will Hear You

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

In early 2010, Elaine McGillicuddy lost her husband to bone cancer. Elaine has created her own grieving process rooted in daily rituals. She is e...

Bought by WMPG, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Interfaith Voices, KUOW, and PRX Remix

Added: Jan 13, 2011
Length: 07:58
Purchases: 5

Dennis Wilson, December 28, 1983

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

Nearly thirty years on, a surprising good look for the "bad" Beach Boy.

Bought by KUT

Added: Dec 22, 2010
Length: 03:00
Purchases: 1

Restoring Old New York

From: Avishay Artsy

Caption: A still from the 1920 film "Manhatta."

The early American experimental film "Manhatta" gets a much-needed facelift.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Jul 28, 2010
Length: 06:53
Purchases: 1

Vito Acconci: The Architect Can Never Go Home

From: Gretta Cohn

Vito Acconci's work as an artist and architect often confuses the boundaries between public and private space. In 1964 Acconci saw a movie that wou...

Added: Jul 24, 2010
Length: 06:09

The First Memorial Day

From: Charles McGuigan

Caption: Tiffany stained glass window inside Blanford Church.

Memorial Day, a national holiday of remembrance, was first celebrated south of the Mason/Dixon line in Petersburg, Virginia at Blandford Church Cem...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KQAL, RadioFreePalmer, KUCB and more

Added: May 28, 2010
Length: 16:12
Purchases: 24

Blessed

From: Daniel Makagon

Audio documentary about blessing of the animals.

Bought by KUT

Added: May 12, 2010
Length: 11:24
Purchases: 1

Basque Radio

From: Addie Goss

Caption: Jean Cinquambre feeding his cows, Credit: Addie Goss

Through much of the last century, French and Spanish Basques herded sheep, alone, in northern Wyoming's mountains. For company, they listened to a...

Bought by WMMT and KVNF

Added: Apr 05, 2010
Length: 06:44
Purchases: 2

Something Left To Give

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

At 53, Dr. Bruce Churchill was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and KUOW

Added: Jan 10, 2010
Length: 07:03
Purchases: 4

Fiddle-icious

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Ordinarily, if you want to perform with an orchestra you have to have years of musical experience and you have to go through a rigorous audition pr...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and KUT

Added: Jan 06, 2010
Length: 06:42
Purchases: 3

Security in a New Homeland

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

John Yanga is a refugee from Sudan. He's trying to start a family farm in Maine, where he and his family of nine settled.

Added: Jan 06, 2010
Length: 06:58

Love Is Worth A Little Bit Of Pain

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Between 50 and 80 percent of American adults carry oral herpes, the virus that causes sold sores. Many people with oral herpes never show any symp...

Added: Jan 06, 2010
Length: 07:19

Farm To Fork Dinners Deliver More Than Food

From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho

Caption: Abby Carlson, Credit: Photo by Guy Hand

An evening at a farm to fork dinner delivers more than a good meal.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KUOW

Added: Nov 06, 2009
Length: 06:06
Purchases: 2

Amongst the Ruins

From: Avishay Artsy

Caption: The courtyard for the violently insane, New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, Concord, NH, Credit: Christopher Payne

A tour of the abandoned buildings and decrepit remains of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane proves that mental hospitals aren’t that scary af...

Added: Oct 29, 2009
Length: 07:34

Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor, Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John K. MacLellan

Jay Ipson and his family escaped Nazi persecution often by the skin of their teeth. But after liberation they had to contend with the Soviets. And ...

Bought by Remix Radio