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Caption: The Apartment at 5 rue Crespin du Gast
In this short audio document we'll visit a fascinating small museum which celebrates the legendary French singer Edith Piaf. We'll discover fascin...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A coal terminal in Eastern Kentucky., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
Can the Appalachian Mountains recover from centuries of mining? What will happen to the thousands of coal miners projected to lose their jobs in th...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Up to a million acres of strip-mined land have been de-forested., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.

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


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: A memorial at the location of Michael Brown's shooting in Ferguson, MO., Credit: Nick Jaworski
**A MUST-HEAR EPISODE FOR ANYBODY INTERESTED IN THE EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN FERGUSON, MO.** Nick visits the town of Ferguson, MO in the aftermath ...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Aug 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Some exes live 15 minutes apart, but they drive more than an hour to exchange their kids through an organization in Brunswick, Maine. Home to Home ...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:13
Caption: Bear from Uyak Bay, Credit: Alec Dunn
Moe Bowstern and Erin Yanke present a bear story from 1997 Alaska, with updates from the participants and observers, and from Alaska Fish and Game.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:18
  • Purchases: 1
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A Long Island mother faces immense challenges as she tries to educate her three autistic sons through New York's public school system.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 1
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again - legally - in 2008, mere months bef...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:24
Caption:  2013 Team Finals stage at the Cadillac Palace Theater, Credit: (TimeOut/Jeff Kroll)
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...

Bought by WJSU, KMXT, and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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Being diagnosed with a disease is hard enough. Imagine living hours away from the closest place you could receive treatment.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:24
Caption: Kalpana Pradhan, Kolkata, India
A chaotic system of divorce by folk beliefs and text messages may be nearing its end.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2012
  • Length: 28:44
Caption: Incarcerated mother in Decatur Prison’s Nursery Program and Reunification Unit. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Shannon Heffernan http://www.timeontheoutside.com/prison-nursery
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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Actor Ed Harris reads from one of his favorite novels, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath---an epic story about the Great Depression told through...

Bought by KMUN, KQED, KRZA, KUCB, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 5
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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
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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
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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
Caption: Comedian Mondli Mzizi., Credit: Courtesy Ekhaya Multi Arts Center
Mondli ‘Usher’ Mzizi is a young comedian who travels the country hosting ceremonies and entertaining through his comedy. A University of Natal Dram...

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 14:28
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Not THAT Martha Washington, but a 29-year-old Passenger Pigeon who spent her entire life in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. Of billions of birds f...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com, Credit: Shannon Heffernan
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next g...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 15:33
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 08:57
Caption: The streets of Abidjan, Credit: Carol Spindel
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
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast, Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 20:20
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 11:48