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  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 57:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Providing free music education to children who have had music education cut from their public schooling.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 2
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After two kids and more than ten years of marriage, Jenni and Sarah were lying in bed one night when Sarah shared she was a woman born in a man’s b...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:47
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This Native Fest Art Series shares the interviews provided by the artists that shared their talents and background with the community of Nett Lake,...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2021
  • Length: 05:00
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Our work in the correctional facilities in New York City didn't stop during the pandemic. We talked with the Justice Initiatives team at BPL to hea...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 26:38
Caption: Troop 19 addressing Teaneck City Council
Small town environmentalists and a dozen girl scouts won the first local bag ordinances in New Jersey, sparking the strongest state plastic ban in ...

Bought by WFHB and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The third graders of "Third Grade Audio" made two Service Learning podcasts. Each one is about a social service organization which is working to he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
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The third graders of "Third Grade Audio" made two Service Learning podcasts. Each one is about a social service organization which is working to he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: The reality for many children in Chicago’s notorious West Side is a short life in the fast lane. Gangs, drugs and crime are...

  • Added: May 01, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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Our aging US fleet of diesel school buses exposes kids to toxic fumes, inside and out. Twin Rivers Unified School District is one of the first in t...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WRGY


  • Added: Sep 19, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Documentary on a developmental affliction called "Sensory Processing Disorder."

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 24:44
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Some surprisingly controversial theories of human longevity. 

  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 18:06
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Second Grade students from Portland, Oregon's Beverly Cleary Elementary School tour us around one of the sites from the famed author's childhood ho...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 10:19
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Presenter Mark Baker, speaks with members of two of Ireland’s contemporary circuses, Fossett’s, Ireland's National Circus and Circus Gerbola, to di...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 27:56
Caption: Babyland
Eighteen-year-old Tonia Miller was accused of shaking her baby to death. A jury in Michigan convicted the young mother of second-degree murder and ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 30:58
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Jim Henson would have been 80 years old on September 24, 2016. Learn the story of his career and short life.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:00
Caption: Teachers in Chicago doing "lesson study," a teacher improvement practice borrowed from Japan., Credit: Emily Hanford
This documentary what it would take to improve American teaching on a wide scale. We meet researchers who are trying to understand what makes teach...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Prairie Public, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Nicole Rocke and daughter., Credit: Leticia Miranda
This show takes a look at issues within the foster care system in the U.S. from the high rate of teen pregnancy to the alarming use of psychiatric ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: AIDS awareness painting in Chimoio, Mozambique. , Credit: Courtesy of Flickr user Ton Rulkens.
Thirty years ago an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence. Today, sophisticated drug cocktails known as highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 38:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Learning to swim in Bangladesh, Credit: Mike Hally
Winner of a Silver Trophy at the New York Festival 'World's Best Radio Awards' 2014, this startling but ultimately uplifting documentary is about t...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 27:55
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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
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How does a toddler understand the differences between written words and pictures? Rebecca Treiman, professor of child developmental psychology, exp...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Caption: Here, the kids line up outside Congress on their first day., Credit: Credit Dustin Dwyer / Michigan Radio
For this special documentary, Dustin Dwyer spent six weeks in the fall following a group of third grade students at Congress Elementary in Grand Ra...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 58:31
Caption: Promotional picture from the Video Project , Credit: Image by: http://www.videoproject.com/roomtobreathe.html
At overcrowded and underfunded public schools across the country high suspension rates are exacerbating existing achievement gaps. Often, chaos in ...

Bought by KHNS


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • 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