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From: The Nocturnists
Series: Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest

We all arrive at the gateway to medicine carrying baggage from our past. How does this baggage impact the way we experience shame in our profession?

Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 17

From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour

The fourth chapter of the series, Carbon Valley.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)

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

E's Barbershop Lounge

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

This barbershop built my character. I started off sweeping floors. I own the shop now.

Bought by PRX Remix

Therapy for a Therapist

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

If you're a good listener, you'll probably be a damn good therapist

Bought by PRX Remix

So Good To Not Feel Alone

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

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.

The Mexican Chefs at Zorba's Greek Restaurant

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

It's hard to come here as an immigrant. You leave everything behind.

Bought by PRX Remix

Patapsco Mart

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

I smile, even when it hurts.

Bought by PRX Remix

Certified Master Clock-Maker Mark Mitchell

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

I try to avoid dropping things.

Bought by PRX Remix

Garland

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

Painting, landscaping, demo work, dish washer... I'm available.

Bought by PRX Remix

Tracey Brown

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

I repossess autos, boats, motorcycles, things of that nature. It’s rough. I’m just the messenger.

Bought by PRX Remix

Cedar Grove

From: Catherine Moore

Caption: Ye Must Be Born Again, Credit: Roger May

Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...

Bought by WMMT

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

Two lives, two philosophies, and a History Channel special collide as a relationship is forged with Iron Age techniques.

NEA Jazz Moments with Advocate Wendy Oxenhorn

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

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

The Dive

From: Liz McArthur
Series: The "Get to Know Me" occasional series

My brother Thomas recounts a diving accident he lived through early in his career as a commercial diver.

PEI Cradle on the Waves Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: The Jollimores raise mussels., Credit: Charles McGuigan

We return to Prince Edward Island where we’ll spend the next half hour with a father and daughter who produce what PEI has come to be known for the...

Bio-hackers Grow Their Own Ink

From: Britt Wray

What does it mean to live in a world where biotech is done for and by the people? How long might it be until we are all growing our own ink, laund...

Bought by PRX Remix

Working: Then & Now

From: Radio Diaries

In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more

Natrese Thomas, Police Dispatcher

From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life

Behind drawn shades in a brightly lit room downtown, dispatchers for the Los Angeles Police Department answer 9-1-1 calls and send officers to thei...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Eric Jones, Custodian

From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life

As dawn breaks, birds serenade Eric Jones, who crosses a church parking lot in his baggy jeans, jangling an oversized key ring. The plastic wheels ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Project #9

From: Joanne DeVault

This is a story of one city, one global company, one mother and one American dream.

Don Fidel

From: American Student Radio

Don Fidel, an immigrant to the United States, opened a staple restaurant in Chicago, but for his family, it was more than restaurant.

The Mark of a Blacksmith

From: JP Davidson

Caption: Bob Jordan with his anvil, Credit: JP Davidson

Bob Jordan has a 3000-degree forge in his garage. He’s a blacksmith with over 40 years of experience – including work with German, Italian and Nort...

Bought by PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Russell and Eric: ATV Rollover

From: Helen Murphy-Robinson
Series: Agriculture Safety StoryCorps

Russell Zacharison tells the story of how he got pinned down by his ATV for eight hours out in his pasture.

Denver Voice

From: Julia Tashjian King

Follow a newspaper vendor through his day selling papers and changing his life.

PRX - Pieces for Format: Documentary

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