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Daily Life in the House of Girls
From: Marlo Mack
Series: How to Be a Girl
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What is daily life like when your young son becomes your daughter? Marlo Mack explains what it's like to have a transgender kindergartener.

Bought by XRAY.fm, WCPN, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 4
A Portrait in Little Saigon
From: Louis Frank
Caption: "Boston Little Saigon" written in shaded block letters.
An interview with Tam Le, owner of a Vietnamese restaurant in Boston, about the newest cultural district in the Massachusetts, "Boston Little Saigon."

  • Added: Apr 21, 2022
  • Length: 06:13
Getting Home
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
It’s not an uncommon experience to be unstably housed in this country. From Brooklyn to San Francisco, communities often turn to public libraries f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 24:46
  • Purchases: 2
Chris Yun at Eddie's Lunch
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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It has to be fresh. I cut the fish and sell the fish the exact same day.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
How Mexican are You? Rio's Mexican-American Culture Gap
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Caption: Rio and her Mom
Rio, faces a big identity question. "Am I Mexican? If so how Mexican am I?" Let's just say Rio was raised a bit differently than prior generations ...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:44
Frankie’s Diary, Part 2: Football
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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Frankie’s second Teenage Diary follows his season playing running back for the Valley Head Tigers. Recorded in 1997, Frankie documents his life as ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 16:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Decisions Project - 22 - Accepting Gay Father
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A teenage girl talks about learning that her father is gay and her subsequent decision to stay with him.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUT


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
A Horse Named "Buckwheat"
From: Rogi Riverstone
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
She's An Ironman
From: James Mills
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A first-year Ironman triathlete compares the event to being pregnant

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Nov 17, 2006
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Part five: Tanni Grey Thompson
From: Siobhan Mullen / David Lewis
Series: Get On With It
Caption: PRX default Piece image
the final part of our series looks at an athlete and mother

  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 10:04
LaPorte, Indiana
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Song/Story
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A Long Haul Production's "song story" about people whose portraits were taken by a LaPorte, Indiana photographer a generation ago.

Bought by The Story, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2006
  • Length: 13:12
  • Purchases: 3
Preg Test Day
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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On Heidi Redl's family ranch one of the most important days of the year is "preg test" day, when the vet comes and tells them how many of their c...

Bought by WTIP, Iowa Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUCB, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 12:45
  • Purchases: 5
To Give and To Receive
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Amanda Stewart and Jane McLean have lived very different lives: Jane volunteers to raise money for her local food bank and Amanda needs her local f...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 25, 2005
  • Length: 13:10
  • Purchases: 3
A physicist battles drug addiction
From: KEDM
Series: Overcoming Drug Addiction
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This two-part feature examines drug addiction from multiple perspectives—addict, counselor, parent and teacher—to provide listeners with a more com...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2005
  • Length: 09:18
Singing Sanitation Worker
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, a sanitation worker sings his way through a very lat...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, PRX Remix, WEKU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser) and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 21