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Daily Life in the House of Girls
From: Marlo Mack
Series: How to Be a Girl
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What is daily life like when your young son becomes your daughter? Marlo Mack explains what it's like to have a transgender kindergartener.

Bought by XRAY.fm, WCPN, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 4
OutCasting 0022x – Being in a binational same-sex relationship before marriage equality
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: The Goodman family, Credit: The Goodman family
Before it was declared unconstitutional, the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) caused many binational same-sex couples to either break up or ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Family Tree
From: Israel Story
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Yoshi Fields and Dina Kraft tell the story of Amir, the 27-year-old fruit of a Jewish-Arab love triangle, who has been navigating between cultures,...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2022
  • Length: 46:12
My grandmother's recipes
From: Sarah Mashman
Caption: Toni Burnett Rands at the Dark Mofo Winter Feast, Credit: Toni Burnett Rands
The process of cooking a dish connects Toni Burnett Rands to her ancestors. She recalls cooking with her grandmas and how power can be found throug...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
This "Bad Child" Became a Judge With a Passion for Justice, Poetry, and Decency
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1.5, Episode 3 Retried Judge Calvin Johnson was a lot of firsts, including the first elected African American judge in New Orleans. Johnso...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 11:51
Defying the Odds, This Young Woman Recovers From a Childhood Police Trauma
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1.5, Episode 1 Being mistreated by the police, or seeing a family member mistreated by the police is traumatic, and it can cause lasting pr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 10:59
  • Purchases: 1
A SUDDEN LOSS - A Memorial To Lives Lost To COVID-19 (59:00 / 54:00 / 29:00/ plus optional 2nd hour)
From: Paul Ingles
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Popular public radio hosts, past and present, read short eulogies to just some of the tens of thousands lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the las...

Bought by Hawaii Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KAAD-LP, Boise State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 42
S2 Ep 7: Helping family members of people with addiction
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: True Hope Community Church.
At a book group meeting, women went around the circle and introduced themselves. They found out that nearly everyone there had a son addicted to he...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:42
BONUS: How Shannon got off drugs
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
Caption: Shannon McCarty on April 26, 2018 before all her teeth were pulled., Credit: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
For Shannon McCarty, two things were crucial in her recovery: connections and timing. It started with timing – a key encounter just when she wanted...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 30:30
Maxine A Voice From The Past
From: Glen Lasley
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This Is The Voice Of Maxine Who Past Away In 2008

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1: The Run
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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In 1971, David Alexander went for a run in Central Park and started talking to a stranger. For our first episode of This Is Love, a story about wha...

Bought by American Voices and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 2
#1 Pax Bill
From: Regina Revazova
Series: Cab Talks
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Pax Bill tells the driver his story

  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 04:53
Good Intentions: A Story of Cross-Racial Adoption
From: Brenna Daldorph
Caption: The Purdy family pose in Winchester, Massachusetts in 1984 when all four kids were in high school. From left, Kristen, Ron, Jessica, Hoãng Stephen, David and Pamela Purdy., Credit: Photo courtesy Pamela Chatterton Purdy
For more than forty years, Reverend David Purdy and his wife Pamela saw themselves as the heroes in their own story – white people who were civil r...

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


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 14:10
  • Purchases: 3
Stripped Away: This Teen Finds Her Family Homeless
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Up until she was a teenager, she lived in comfort. What she didn’t see coming was the moment when she lost everything. Find out why her world turne...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 3
Life-Threatening Allergies
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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What does it take to raise a child with a severe food allergy?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:12
Starving for Perfection
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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Listening to Chloe (a 16 year old) play the violin is listening to an inspired, emotional, and technical artist. But Chloe doesn’t agree. Focused...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2012
  • Length: 07:37
Moving Out/On
From: Shannon Geis
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Producer Shannon Geis deals with moving out of her childhood home in Nebraska for good and the memories of her father that still haunt the property.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 20:22
Irish Famine: Orphan Girls
From: Siobhan McHugh
Caption: Famine Memorial Dublin, Ireland
The story of 4,000 orphan girls sent to Australia from Ireland after the Great Potato Famine of 1845-9, told by their descendants.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 42:26
I'll Heal in Time by Jillian Suarez of Radio Rookies
From: YouthCast
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As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches this week, a lot of people feel a sense of fatigue--some just aren’t interested in looking back. And one...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
  • Length: 07:51
  • Purchases: 1
Adoption Ritual
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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When Katie Perkins adopted 10-year-old Tajenae out of foster care, they created a ritual to mark the occasion.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 2
Conrad and Evelyn
From: Aileen LeBlanc
Caption: Conrad, Evelyn and Buhg
Aileen LeBlanc tells a very personal story of her friends Conrad and Evelyn who fell in love in older age.

  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 18:25
Birth, Birth, Rebirth
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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As Tom recovers from a traumatic brain injury, he and his wife welcome newborn twins into the world.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bracelets of Grace: The Vietnam War Story of Major Stanley Horne
From: David Berner
Caption: Bracelets of Grace: The Vietnam War Story of Major Stanley Horne
It's been 40 years since the very first POW-MIA bracelet was made and distributed. The iconic bracelets had a humble beginning at the height of th...

Bought by WHFR, RadioFreePalmer, KUAC, WMPG, KVSC and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 21
The Right To Die
From: Anton Foek
Caption: The right to Die, Credit: unknown
In this audio piece the audience visits the Netherlands and listens to a way of dying in dignity. We tell the story of how the Dutch may have found...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2009
  • Length: 24:45
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