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"Are you with him?": Massachusetts small business challenges "boys club" reputation of music stores
From: Shannon Lambert
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This Northampton, Mass., music instrument store became a worker co-op in April 2019. Part of its mission in this new era? To change the infamous re...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 06:56
Grief and Mystery Special Part Two
From: John Floridis
Series: Montana Public Radio Special Programs - Related to Musician's Spotlight
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This program explores the collaboration between author, teacher and activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician, songwriter and singer Gregory Hoskins....

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 1
Grief and Mystery Special Part One
From: John Floridis
Series: Montana Public Radio Special Programs - Related to Musician's Spotlight
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This program explores the collaboration between author, teacher and activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician, songwriter and singer Gregory Hoskins....

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 1
New Beginnings
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I got shot two times, and i walked out of Shock Trauma three hours later. It was made clear to me that my work wasn't done.

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
Every day, I wake up and I feel like a queen.
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Kearra is an audio ray of sunshine

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 1
So Good To Not Feel Alone
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Community residents, longshoremen, small businesspeople, tribes and environmentalists got together and stopped a massive oil by rail terminal in Va...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KRZA, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Sashay Selections
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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What you want for your brother, want for yourself.

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 1
Born in a Tornado
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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You can’t help it if you were born in a tornado. You’re going to have to learn how to fly.

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Finding Diana
From: Travis Sanderson
Caption: Aber Diana on her boda, Credit: Travis Sanderson
Boda Bodas are motorcycle taxis in Uganda. They are an inexpensive and efficient way to get around. Everyone takes them, but only men drive them. A...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 15:19
Una Isu: a ​Ñ​uu Savi warrior resisting through hip hop
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
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As indigenous people from Mexico migrate to California, their languages and cultures are threatened. One indigenous trilingual rapper based in Fres...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 21:37
  • Purchases: 1
Bridge of Hope
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Our mindsets are not just similar, but almost like we’re reading from the same book… and actually we are.

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
Two teens overcome bullying
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Why do kids bully? And what moves them to stop?

Bought by WMPG and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 30:58
  • Purchases: 2
We Are Telling Our Stories
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Melanie and Emane (Houda’s mother) at the potluck where they first met in August, 2016, two weeks after Houda’s family arrived in Tucson.
Episode 3: Houda begins to describe her family’s journey from Aleppo to Tucson.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
Absence Shadows Our Hearts
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Houssam, Houda’s father, holds his newborn granddaughter Shooq in Jordan two days before the family left for America.
Episode 2: We begin to introduce you to Houda’s family.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 03:10
Live from the USS Bataan - at Sea
From: WCWP
Series: Taking Care of Business with Richard Solomon
Caption: Helicopter Landing, Credit: Richard A. Solomon
Arriving on a Super Stallion Helicopter in the Atlantic Ocean, Richard Solomon meets the crew of the USS Bataan (LHD-5) and is granted behind the s...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
NEA Jazz Moments with Advocate Wendy Oxenhorn
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Wendy Oxenhorn says "musicians and their records have saved our lives time and time again. We owe them the services they need to age well."

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 10
Blood Isn’t Always Thicker Than Water
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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When Abby was born, her mother knew she couldn’t keep her. Luckily for Abby, a loving family had been looking for a child just like her. Julia Hitz...

  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:13
How Do You Say Anne Frank in Tigrinya?
From: Israel Story
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In a makeshift library in Ethiopia, Yikealo Beyene – an Eritrean refugee – made an unlikely friend. Her harrowing tale stayed with him as he fled h...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 13:59
  • Purchases: 1
Before You Do This
From: vanessa lowe
Caption: Toby Hawkins
This piece was produced for the 2nd Annual KCRW 24-Hour Radio Race, by Vanessa Lowe and Kent Sparling. It made it to the top ten finalists out of ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:09
The Farmers Inn
From: Evan Johnson
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A story about the value of a different kind of "sharing a meal" and a small North Dakota town’s unusual effort to save its only café. Like a lot of...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:50
Let There Be Light
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy
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For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Failure is Not an Option
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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Is playing basketball worth the sacrifices this high school student he has to make?

  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
The beat boy of Murray
From: Baskhaus
Caption: Cool Dude, Credit: Joe Duncan
Three-year-old beatboxer Edward never knew he was part of such a dynamic audio community. Listen as he explores his own sound. Hear more at baskhau...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:11
PPW 06: Judith, Spoon, and Elmo
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: Prison Poetry Workshop
Judith Tannenbaum taught poetry in prisons across the United States and intensively at San Quentin and other California prisons through Arts-in-Cor...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 18:09
  • Purchases: 1