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Helen Morley was an unsung hero in a relatively unknown battle – the grassroots fight for mental health care in Chicago. Her deficits were often he...
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 06:20
As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. In this story, eigh...
Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KALW, KUNM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
In June of 1880, a series of extraordinary events began to unfold that sent a man most of the country agreed was completely unqualified to be presi...
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 15:33
A young boy escapes to a foreign country by himself, on foot, with no money or passport. When he grows up, he sets himself on fire, and lives to te...
Bought by XRAY.fm, Louisville Public Media, KOSU, and Aspen Public Radio
- Added: Nov 16, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
Through the voices of mental health care consumers/activists, this story briefly explores some of the impacts of, and responses to, the closing of...
- Added: Oct 07, 2012
- Length: 21:19
The story of Elena Fonseca, a remarkable women from Montevideo, Uruguay. Elena was a diplomats wife who lived in a number of countries before retur...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 10:01
- Purchases: 1
A documentary exploring the effects of being a refugee on identity and personal relationships.
- Added: Apr 19, 2012
- Length: 51:59
On Valentine's Day, more than 400 students and parents from across Pennsylvania held a rally for public education at the State Capitol. This action...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 04:26
- Purchases: 1
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
Mixed marriages - family fatwas and ruptured romance due to religious bigotry in Australia, told through compelling personal stories.
Winner, GOLD ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 53:20
Jay Ipson, the youngest Holocaust survivor living in Virginia today, lived in an underground lair for six months during the Nazi occupation of his ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 59:14
In this news feature, Arts and Cultural Heritage producer Jeff Carmack visits with Justin Michael, Executive Director of the Green Band of St. Clou...
- Added: May 20, 2011
- Length: 27:00
A short story from a Egyptian perspective who lives in The USA and visited his parents in Egypt just before The Revolution on January 25, 2011.
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 05:21
Part two of “The Journey: From the Third World to Middle America” by KVSC News Director Chris Duffy takes a look at the Somali population in St. Cl...
- Added: May 11, 2011
- Length: 31:47
Part one of “The Journey: From the Third World to Middle America” by KVSC News Director Chris Duffy takes a look at the Somali population in St. Cl...
- Added: May 11, 2011
- Length: 28:25
Writer and radio commentator Carol Spindel visited the Ivory Coast last November as the country took a step towards democracy with a historic elect...
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 59:01
A unique audio retrospective...A Shortcut Back through the 20th Century is an impressionistic glance back at the last one hundred years, featuring ...
- Added: Jan 01, 2011
- Length: 59:36
Chris Weller, host of Fret Knot Radio Hour, spends an evening with Larry Gibson in his cabin on Kayford Mountain in the heart of coal country. Gibs...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 32:46
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
Malaysia is a country that does not distinguish between illegal migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. What's worse, refugees from Burma have recen...
- Added: Aug 10, 2009
- Length: 01:00:00
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
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
In November, 24 Grinnell College students piled into a bus for an 18 hour ride down to Columbus, Georgia to protest the School of the Americas.
- Added: Feb 02, 2009
- Length: 18:23
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
This piece resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness and irreparably damaged nerves as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 05, 2008
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 1
