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Caring Relationships: Negotiating Meaning and Maintaining Dignity

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Alana Theriault, disability benefits counselor in Berkeley, California and Alice Wong, Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow, Credit: Alice Wong

Whether you’re a paid home care provider, or rely on personal assistance to meet your daily needs, or a family member caring for a loved one, the n...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVAS, and WRIR

Added: Apr 08, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

The 19th Floor

From: Greg Barron

Produced by two-time Peabody Award winning feature producer, Greg R. Barron, “The 19th Floor” is a light-hearted little “ditty”, an acoustic ariett...

Added: Feb 24, 2016
Length: 12:53

Curling is good in Stanley, Idaho

From: Sergio Anthony Gonzalez

Caption: Curler Lee Banville prepares to sweep in front of the stopne in hopes that the unpredictable outdoor ice doesn’t throw the stone too far off course. Banvile plays for the “Rocks int eh KettleHouse” out of Missoula, Mont. , Credit: Photo Credit: Sergio A Gonzalez-Gonzales

The Sawtooth Outdoor Bonspiel holds renown for being the only outdoor bonspiel in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The ice is bad, the c...

Added: Feb 09, 2016
Length: 05:06

Bike on Bike. Body on Body. Mallet on Mallet.

From: Sergio Anthony Gonzalez

Two wheels, a ski pole with attached pipe and six steely grins. 3-2-1 Polo! Once in a lifetime happens three nights a week at the University of Mon...

Added: Dec 02, 2015
Length: 01:20

The Elusive Neighborhood Cop

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Increasingly, police don’t live in the neighborhoods, or even the cities they patrol. But is that a problem? Law enforcement agencies around the ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR

Added: Nov 24, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Invisible Workers, Laboring in the Shadows

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Woman waiting to cross the border into Morocco carrying imported goods from Spain , Credit: Thalia Beaty and Maggy Donaldson

Millions of people around the world work in jobs that aren’t formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. On thi...

Bought by KALW, WCPN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR

Added: Oct 16, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 4

The Oldest Greenhorn - 1 Hour Radio Program

From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Oldest Greenhorn

Experience the adventure, joys and perils in a greenhorn wrangler's account of the 40th annual Sombrero Ranches "Great American Horse Drive". Eight...

Added: May 27, 2015
Length: 01:00:00

Philippine Squatters Use Their Political Weight to Win Permanent Homes

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Squatters' settlement along a Manila, Philippines waterway , Credit: Aurora Almendral

Reporter Aurora Almendral visits one squatter settlement in the Philippine and finds out how one community leveraged their political power into hom...

Bought by WRIR

Added: Mar 06, 2015
Length: 09:15
Purchases: 1

Music for Animals

From: Britt Wray

Caption: Black Prairie plays a concert for 52 wolves at Wolf Haven sanctuary in Washington State., Credit: Carli Davidson

There's a music industry for pets out there. But what kind of music do animals like? A woman who studies how non-human creatures go mad throws conc...

Bought by ABC, KVNF, 'The Sea', New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE and more

Added: Jan 10, 2015
Length: 08:23
Purchases: 6

When Ground Zero was known as Radio Row

From: Radio Diaries

For more than four decades, Radio Row it was the largest collection of radio and electronics stores in the world. Then in 1966 the stores were cond...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix

Added: Nov 18, 2014
Length: 13:55
Purchases: 4

Forging a Path from Metal

From: Christopher Mosson

Made in the Transom traveling workshop: Welding large metal structures takes its toll on an aging sculptor. What's an artist's retirement plan?

Added: Oct 27, 2014
Length: 03:59

Wake up and Smell the Story: Sniffing out Health and Sickness

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: Illustration of a nose., Credit: Wikimedia Commons

If you asked people which of their senses they most feared losing, they'd probably say sight or hearing. But what about the ability to smell? We ex...

Bought by WTJU

Added: Sep 25, 2014
Length: 43:58
Purchases: 1

Songs Used In Commercials (Version One)

From: Shawn McCullough
Series: 10 Min Sound Byte

This episode discusses songs that have been used in ad campaigns (i.e. Commercials)

Added: Sep 06, 2014
Length: 10:00

Teachings From Turtle Island - Hour Five

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History

This is the fifth installment of Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People. Teachings From Turtle Island is a series of ten progr...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio

Added: Jul 08, 2014
Length: 58:15
Purchases: 1

Not Just a Ride Home

From: Katie Klocksin

Michael Powell is a train driver for the Chicago Transit Authority. He captivated me for years with his chatty speeches over the train's speakers. ...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: May 16, 2014
Length: 03:05
Purchases: 1

The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: May 14, 2014
Length: 15:54
Purchases: 1

Pumpkin Chuckin'

From: JP Davidson

Pumpkins are baked into pies, turned into soup, and carved into jack-o-lanterns. But there's another use for these autumnal gourds - they're the ke...

Added: Apr 30, 2014
Length: 05:10

Teachings From Turtle Island - Hour Four

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History

This is the fourth installment of Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People. Teachings From Turtle Island is a series of ten prog...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle

Added: Nov 13, 2013
Length: 59:06
Purchases: 3

Bike on Bike. Body on Body. Mallet on Mallet.

From: University of Montana Journalism

Two wheels, a ski pole with attached pipe and six steely grins. 3-2-1 Polo! Once in a lifetime happens three nights a week at the University of Mon...

Bought by KSKA

Added: Sep 16, 2013
Length: 01:20
Purchases: 1

Savoring the Salty Ritual

From: Sara Brooke Curtis

Visceral journey into a restaurant kitchen.

Added: Jul 11, 2013
Length: 02:59

The Cart Men of Catalina

From: Alexander Ward

Caption: A golf cart for towing golf carts, Credit: Alex Ward

Golf carts are the primary vehicles for residents in Avalon, CA. This is about the guys that make them go.

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Jun 26, 2013
Length: 05:21
Purchases: 2

Culturology: "Finns In Minnesota: The First Minnesota Finns" by Britt Aamodt

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology

Caption: Harvey Barberg of Cokato Stands By the One-room Cabin Where Ancestors Spent Their First Winter

For the past year, Northern Community Radio has been running a mini-series on Minnesota Finns. This is our last segment and perhaps ironically -- o...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Jun 13, 2013
Length: 09:31
Purchases: 3

Heygate Heaven

From: Chris Wood

Caption: View of the Shard from the Heygate Estate, Credit: Chris Wood

A documentary montage of soundscapes and voices from Elephant and Castle, London, UK the site of Europe's largest urban re-generation project. The ...

Added: Jun 12, 2013
Length: 46:19

Ring Them and Fling Them

From: Gerald Zahavi

Caption: Gordon Howard in conversation with a Blue Jay, Credit: Gerald Zahavi

A profile of two master bird banders (and their trainees) who converge every May on the Crown Point State Historic site along the shores of Lake Ch...

Bought by WRPI and WRPI