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Immigrant Families Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In a special collaboration between “Feet in Two Worlds,” we hear the story of an immigrant family torn apart after an immigration raid in Phoenix, ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Oct 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
SURVIVORS: Solitary Confinement in America's Prisons
From: Claire Schoen
Caption: Robert King Wilkerson spent 29 years in solitary confinement., Credit: Terry Foss
In this half-hour radio documentary, "survivors" of solitary confinement paint a picture of what it looks, sounds and feels like to live for years ...

Bought by KMUZ, KOSU, KGNU Community Radio, KUT, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
A Shortcut Back To 1969 -"The Lunar Module"
From: Peter Bochan
Caption: Buzz Aldrin Apollo 11
50th Anniversary Mix of man's trip to the moon which began on July 16th, 1969

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, XRAY.fm, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Jul 16, 2009
  • Length: 12:13
  • Purchases: 4
Michael Jackson- Remix
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: The King of Pop
A tribute mix to the "King of Pop" who changed and shocked the world over his short fifty years in front of us all.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2009
  • Length: 28:23
Civil War Re-enactors
From: Jake Warga
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A non-narrated portrait of a small group of Civil War buffs re-dedicating a Union veteran's grave in Oregon and reflecting on when our nation, as w...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Catskill, Prairie Public, New Hampshire Public Radio, KISU and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2009
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 11
Freedom: A Cross-Generational Examination of the Costs of War
From: Searsport Speeper
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Veterans' stories presented and reflected on by students.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2009
  • Length: 33:48
Making Contact: Survivors of Solitary Confinement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hakeem Shaheed
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine...

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Daran Kravanh
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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After experiencing the horror of the Khmer Rouge experience, Daran Kravanh credits an accordion that appeared on a stump in a forest with saving hi...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:59
The Dogs (and a turtle) of Katrina
From: karen oberdorfer
Caption: And Cats of Katrina, too.
A first time pet rescuer's tale: blended with music and interviews with volunteers and returning residents to New Orleans just after the hurricane.

Bought by WLPR , KGNU Community Radio, WUAL, KVSC, KSJD and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 29:57
  • Purchases: 7
A Horse Named "Buckwheat"
From: Rogi Riverstone
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
"Not Fade Away"- Buddy Holly Anniversary Special
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Buddy Holly
A ninety minute documentary about Buddy Holly and the Crickets, celebrating his life & music, on the anniversary of "The day The Music Died".

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and KGLT


  • Added: Jan 23, 2009
  • Length: 01:24:23
  • Purchases: 4
A Shortcut Through 2008
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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A hour-long retrospective of the past year, including the historic election of Barack Obama* mixed with the sounds, music and major events of 2008.

Bought by KUT-HD, Marfa Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWIT, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2009
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 10
Mothers and Sons
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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a sonic memorial to the healing power of art

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, KTNA, NPR Illinois, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2008
  • Length: 26:44
  • Purchases: 10
A Shortcut Back To Dallas (1963)
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas. This pro...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KVMR, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 10, 2008
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 3
Music from the Underground
From: Anton Foek
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The discovery of art in the New York subway system

  • Added: Aug 26, 2008
  • Length: 35:12
Dennis Wilson: Pacific Ocean Blue
From: Joyride Media
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Exploration of Dennis Wilson's solo album "Pacific Ocean Blue" and rare, unreleased "Bambu" sessions.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: May 27, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
A Shortcut Back To 1968
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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1968-The 50th Anniversary Mix

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Radio Catskill, KGLT, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 15, 2008
  • Length: 37:32
  • Purchases: 4
A Shortcut Through 2007
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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An hour-long retrospective of the year 2007

Bought by Remix Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Radio Catskill, Marfa Public Radio, KWIT and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2007
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 11
Bridges over troubled waters (4:50 edit)
From: John Ryan
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Winner, 2007 PRNDI award for Best News Series

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Sounds of Change in Downey, California
From: David Kates
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In many areas of Southern California, the primary language at home is no longer English. David Kates looks at one such community and what a largel...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 07, 2007
  • Length: 11:20
  • Purchases: 1
Intro: Badak Zaatar?
From: Jessica Dheere
Series: The Sound of Bomblets
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Introduction to a multisegment series on cluster bomb victims in Lebanon

  • Added: May 22, 2007
  • Length: 10:00
A Shortcut Through 2003
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Fight Them!
A look back at the year--2003

  • Added: Jan 02, 2007
  • Length: 59:44
A Shortcut Through 2006
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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An hour-long retrospective of the year 2006

Bought by KGLT, KUT, KVMR, North Country Public Radio, and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Dec 22, 2006
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 5
What Comes Next?: Jews & The Afterlife
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
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When it comes to life after death, you get 5 Jews... you get 50 opinions.

Bought by Iowa Public Radio and Audible


  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 18:04
  • Purchases: 2
Kawthoolei
From: Outer Voices
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Along the Thai-Burma border, we meet the women peace activists working in the midst of the world's longest running civil war.

Bought by KUER, WUFT, WGBH Radio Boston, KWIT, KUER and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2006
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12