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"It's something we can do."
From: Katie Semro
Series: Transmission Times: Radio Diaries During COVID-19
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Audio diaries from around the world giving us a glimpse into daily life during the pandemic. In this piece, among other things, we hear about peopl...

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: May 11, 2020
  • Length: 12:26
  • Purchases: 1
"Coping comes in waves"
From: Katie Semro
Series: Transmission Times: Radio Diaries During COVID-19
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Audio diaries from around the world giving us a glimpse into daily life during the pandemic. In this piece, among other things, we hear a blackjack...

Bought by KGUA and KWMR


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 10:19
  • Purchases: 2
"Lost my first friend to the virus"
From: Katie Semro
Series: Transmission Times: Radio Diaries During COVID-19
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Audio diaries from around the world giving us a glimpse into daily life during the pandemic. In this piece, among other things, we hear about the "...

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 11:30
  • Purchases: 1
"It's quite interesting how life has altered."
From: Katie Semro
Series: Transmission Times: Radio Diaries During COVID-19
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Voices from around the world on how the pandemic is affecting life. In this episode, among other things, we hear about noticing springtime, having ...

Bought by KGUA and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 12:42
  • Purchases: 2
Sex Work and Hurricanes
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Storm Stories
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This episode of Storm Stories discusses the effects of climate-related disasters, in this case Hurricane Florence, on women in the transactional se...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 09:17
A home takes heart
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Storm Stories
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In this episode, two women tell us about losing their homes and communities and what they're doing about it.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 17:47
That isn't a lake
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Storm Stories
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When Jerry saw the picture of his home submerged in floodwater, he couldn't believe his eyes.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 09:24
  • Purchases: 1
Neighborhood Love
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Storm Stories
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When Cedric saw little being done to help one community in Wilmington during Hurricane Florence, he had to act fast.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 09:27
  • 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
Episode 116: Jessica and the Bunny Ranch
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In our last episode we spoke Cecilia Gentili, a trans Latina who worked for many years as an undocumented sex worker. Today, we get two more views ...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 38:34
Episode 115: Cecilia
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When Cecilia Gentili was growing up in Argentina, she felt so different from everyone around her that she thought she might be from another planet....

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 31:31
Haiti Untold
From: Round Earth Media
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HAITI UNTOLD New one-hour documentary from Round Earth Media January 12, 2019, will mark nine years since Haiti was struck by a devastating earthqu...

Bought by MPR News Stations, KUNM, WBST, KTNA, WNYC and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Alex not Amy-Growing up transgender in the rural West
From: Denise Dowling
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A 10-year-old boy's journey to legally and socially change his gender in his hometown in the Rocky Mountain West.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
The Homeless Day by Day Part 1 Reasons
From: KSFR
Series: Native American Homelessness by Harlan McKosato
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This part of Homeless Day by Day addresses the conditions along the way to being homeless.

Bought by KGLP and KRZA


  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 20:00
  • Purchases: 2
Clayton Williams
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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See all these blankets and quilts and stuff? I got enough in here to keep me warm.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
Nether
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I love my city, and I rep it to the death. But at the same time, I’m a white boy in a black neighborhood.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
Garland
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Painting, landscaping, demo work, dish washer... I'm available.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
Place and Privilege
From: Capital Public Radio
Series: The View From Here
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Sacramento is considered one of the most integrated and diverse cities in America. But neighborhoods in California's capital are changing, in part,...

Bought by KZYX, KUAF Public Radio, KVCR, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Oct 14, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 4: There's no glamour in a jailhouse wedding
From: KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Series: Off The Block
Caption: Elizabeth Wenkuna and her mother outside the jail, Credit: George Lavender
All prisoners have the right to marry, but there are lots of restrictions. You can't exchange rings or request a special ceremony, there's thick gl...

Bought by PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 3
Now We Have Fire: A Tale of Two Bladesmiths
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
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Two lives, two philosophies, and a History Channel special collide as a relationship is forged with Iron Age techniques.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 09:24
Change is Challenging
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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The summer before her sophomore year of high school, Audrey’s parents filed for a divorce. This momentous change affected her views on family, marr...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Secret Basketball Game That Desegregated Louisiana High School Sports
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Purple Knights pose on the court; Harold Sylvester is kneeling next to his coach., Credit: HAROLD SYLVESTER / AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER
In this episode, Laine Kaplan-Levenson discusses the first integrated high school sports contest in Louisiana between St. Aug and Jesuit--and talks...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:26
  • Purchases: 1
A Life Sentence: Victims, Offenders, Justice, and My Mother
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: The Transom Radio Specials
Caption: Samantha Broun with Ernest Preate , Credit: Associated Press
This is a story about a terrible crime and everything that followed. It’s an intensely personal documentary, but it extends into public life and in...

Bought by HowSound, WGBH Radio Boston, KTSW 89.9, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), WHYY and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 19
Life of the Law #75: UnDACAmented
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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In 2012 President Obama took matters into his own hands. His administration signed a memo addressing all branches of the Department of Homeland Sec...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 23:50

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