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In episode 1, "Don't Cut The Cord," you’ll get the lay of the land in the Big Bend— what it feels like to live in a place where getting care has al...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 53:30
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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
Caption: Matthew Decker, Credit: Shefik
Dreams - Matthew Decker is a recording artist from New York. He started his own label Matteo Mafia Records in 2012. His music is very different fro...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2021
  • Length: :59
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What's it like parenting during a pandemic? Imagine that you always assumed you would to live to see your baby grow up, but suddenly, because you w...

Bought by KGUA, KDNK, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Boise State Public Radio, WFHB and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2020
  • Length: 27:31
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Augostina Mallous, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Augostina Mallous was the reigning Miss New Jersey's Outstanding Teen 2017 through Miss New Jersey's Outstanding Teen Scholarship Pr...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 01:17
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The Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project, created and directed by the Carr-Petrova Duo, is designed to give voice and visibility, through music and fil...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2019
  • Length: 16:53
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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
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
Caption: Laura Aguilar at grad school, Credit: Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio
More than 3 million unauthorized immigrants live in California. This one-hour documentary tells stories of three immigrants from Mexico: a working ...

Bought by KQED, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KPBS, KVSC, KCBX and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 13
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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
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Video game critics say computer-generated play keeps kids glued to a screen. But at Createch Studio--a community center in St. Paul--staff are usin...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:26
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How do you save an important piece of your past while building your future?

  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 06:39
Caption: MOTHER: A PODCAST, Credit: Logo created by Justin Schnarr (justinschnarr.com/).
After Annie Cho gave birth to her son this spring, she struggled to make traditional Chinese "confinement" practices (hygiene rules + special postp...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 08:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rick Rayburn cares for his wife Marianne who has dementia., Credit: Andrew Nixon | Capital Public Radio
If you're not a caregiver now there's a good chance you'll become one, joining an estimated 66 million adults who make up the "backbone" of America...

Bought by KUER, KALW, KOSU, KQED, KZYX and more


  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 20
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
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When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:35
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How does a family function when living out of a hospital during a young child's illness?

  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 14:26
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Actor Sam Elliott perfectly reads passages from Twain's tribute to American boyhood. The program also includes commentary by Ken Burns, P.J. O'Rour...

Bought by KMUN, KREV-LP, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 6
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Bradley and Nicole are not allowed to know anything about their birth parents until they turn 18 because they are part of a closed adoption.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 05:47
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There is much debate amongst Christians in America about how to celebrate halloween. Increasingly churches are providing alternatives such as Trunk...

Bought by KTXK, WSLR, and WLPR


  • Added: Oct 26, 2009
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 5
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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
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The kid camera project started with a single family in the ninth ward and some donated disposable cameras.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2008
  • Length: 05:25
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In the absence of govenrment in the rebuilding process organizations like operation blessing have stepped in to rebuild.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2007
  • Length: 05:59
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12-year-old Hassan talks about his cluster bomb injuries from his hospital bed

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 07:30