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Being Black In Blue: A Profile Of A Police Officer
From: Emily Corwin
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Nashua, NH Police Sergeant, Lakeisha Phelps is one of two black police officers on a force with 176 police officers, in one of New Hampshire’s most...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Orthodox
From: Jonathan Hirsch
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What happens when your religious faith and sexual identity directly contradict one another? Josh Tranen lived with this contradiction for years. Ev...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 17:43
Disillusionment
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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He's been a womanizing petty criminal. A revolutionary marxist. An ex-con bank robber. A spiritual teacher. This week on ARRVLS, we go on a journey...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2016
  • Length: 26:10
Out of the Blocks: 600 Deepdene (full version)
From: Out of the Blocks
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600 Deepdene: One block. Everybody's story.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 48:30
Out of the Blocks: 600 Deepdene (mini version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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600 Deepdene: One Block. Everybody's story.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Magic Door
From: Gianluca Tramontana
Caption: Producing at the Magic Shop, Credit: Gianluca Tramontana
An inside look into the closing of one of New York City’s last iconic recording studio where David Bowie, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, The Ramones, Blond...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Swan Diving
From: Sophia Steinert-Evoy
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How do you process a suicide during adolescence?

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 07:40
Sex at Vassar
From: Sophia Steinert-Evoy
Series: oversharing
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Is it possible to have a healthy relationship with sex at Vassar?

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 06:24
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
The Darkroom
From: Annie Sinsabaugh
Caption: Peter Simon and his archives
In Peter Simon’s 50-year career, he’s photographed The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, and so much more. Now, at age 69, he’s thin...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Melody in Isolation
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Melody William's spent the first 18 months of her life sentence in lock-down.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:55
Tinder: Finding Mr. Right Swipe
From: Corey Johnson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Trials and tribulations of electronic love

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:47
Dying Words: The AIDS Reporting of Jeffrey Schmalz
From: Kerry Donahue
Caption: Jeffrey Schmalz
Twenty-five years ago, New York Times reporter Jeffrey Schmalz ended up in the middle of one of the biggest stories of our time: He had AIDS. His w...

Bought by Central Florida Public Media, WNYC, WVTF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WGTE Public Media and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 91
Episode 13: The Girl Who Dug Up Dinosaurs
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist. But in 1979, young India Wood di...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
Full Circle
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: r wilde
An inmate talks about how her incarceration has brought her mother around in a full circle: remembering how her mother visited her father in prison...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:32
Monacan Voices Promo #2
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: Native American Heritage
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:30 Promo for the full length program

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: :31
Movements
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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Do you know that feeling you get when you’re about to leave a place? Like you’re seeing it all for the first time? That all the sounds and sights ...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2016
  • Length: 22:59
Elton John: Wonderful Crazy Night
From: Joyride Media
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Sir Elton is back with his core band for an album of happy rock and roll songs.

Bought by KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KISU and more


  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Olivia Block: the room I was in
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
Caption: Olivia Block gathering audio in Chicago
The work of composer and sound artist Olivia Block has been described as "distinctive and individual" by The New York Times. She is happy enough wr...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WUNC, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 3
Charlie Mylie (Walking The Border)
From: Matt Hodapp
Series: Paris of the Plains Podcast
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Borders separate us, but they also define us. Creating your identity means defining what you are in relation to what you are not. This episode is a...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 29:31
USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor Leonard Brown
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
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Leonard Brown, USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor, aA native of Pittsburgh's Beltzhoover community, Leonard Brown (b.1934) reflects o...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
E06 / Heal Maisy Heal
From: Sarah Hoyles
Series: Pet Sounds
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Maisy is a shop dog in Toronto, but she had to take time off -- a sick leave. To battle her cancer, her humans traveled with Maisy to seek treatmen...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 27:43
47 Will: I Was A Teenage Media Mogul
From: The Mortified Podcast
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This special episode of Mortified features the story of a closeted teenager who escapes the bullies at school and retreats into his bedroom where h...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 34:43
Erika Wright (Growing The Troostwood Garden)
From: Matt Hodapp
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Community gardens have been a source of food stability and financial savings for Americans since the 1800’s. One of the first Kansas City gardens t...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 09:00
Maritime Medley - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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A Song Story is a mini-history of a time, a place, an individual and a song. It's a personal experience, rising from memory every time we hear a ce...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2016
  • Length: 06:50

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