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This hour features three intimate stories that grapple with the messiness and the triumph of existing as a person, from the outside body to the ins...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 36
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Let’s go rambling with Ambrose Bierce on this new episode of Desert Oracle Radio. We shall get a few travel tips, too, in case we want to stop off ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Yes, Beethoven composed while he was deaf. But more astonishing is the fact that he changed the course of Western music in the process.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2019
  • Length: 24:10
Caption: Melissa Dueñas' dad in Donovan Correctional Facility in the early 1990s., Credit: Photo courtesy of Melissa Dueñas
Melissa Dueñas’ dad went in-and-out of jail and prison her whole life. Whenever he was locked up, they would keep in touch by writing letters. She ...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 04, 2019
  • Length: 16:19
  • Purchases: 1
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A limited series podcast produced by graduate students at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Calif...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 01:15
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One of the most common forms of trafficking is labor trafficking. In this episode, Re:Work Radio brings you the story of Lester Ramos and his journ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A harsh visit to the desert of the Bible: a place of banishment and horror, where ostriches and demons dance in the abandoned cabins.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In a time when women couldn't even vote, she wielded incredible power, blazing her own trail to unrivaled fame and fortune. So why don't we remembe...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2018
  • Length: 14:33
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In the summer of 2013, I traveled a six hundred miles, and 200 years into the past to spend nine days living and working aboard the U.S. Brig Niaga...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 10:04
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When you look into the eyes of someone who’s Bi-Polar, it’s like looking at a hurricane from space. You can see the swirling mass, but the real ho...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WABE, The Story, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Kismet
In “Palm Treo”, Brittany and Eric talk about the secret parties that the RA’s at Howard University were throwing in 2005. Their podcast “For Colore...

  • Added: May 24, 2017
  • Length: 23:32
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“A Time for Heroes” As the children prepare to fight the coming of the white rabbit, and the community struggles with how to protect our sons and ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 31:54
  • Purchases: 1
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“Down the Rabbit Hole” This happened in early October just a few weeks ago in a small coastal town. A boy named Fox, age ten, went missing from hi...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 30:40
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If you have been listening to the news since the highly contagious, Draco Incendia Trychophyton or “Dragonscale” began to spread, you know what kin...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 21:26
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What happens when your religious faith and sexual identity directly contradict one another? Josh Tranen lived with this contradiction for years. Ev...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 17:43
Caption: Miguel del Aguila, Credit: Donna Granata
Three-time Grammy nominated Uruguayan-born American composer, Miguel del Aguila, shares insight into his most recent lauded composition, Concierto ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ingrid Tischer, director of development, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF) and Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong, Credit: Alice Wong
Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong asks, how do people with disabilities who rely on personal assistance negotiate their relationships with ...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:33
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
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What does it feel like to be an outside in the middle of a national crisis? A Japanese-Canadian perspective on the earthquake and tsunami that shoo...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 22:37
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Do you know that feeling you get when you’re about to leave a place? Like you’re seeing it all for the first time? That all the sounds and sights ...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2016
  • Length: 22:59
Caption: How does one get to the 19th floor?
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
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This ancient, raw soup is easier than you think.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:58
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This Minorcan gin tells us quite a bit about the island's history and culture.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2016
  • Length: 05:57
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Growing up, my family played a lot of music. We also performed... mostly funerals. The driving force behind it all? My dad. So, in order to better ...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:53
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This seasoned pork sausage has a flavor as rich as its history.

  • Added: Jan 08, 2016
  • Length: 04:44