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Living the Word with Patricia Gould-Champ, Part i

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Reverend Patricia Gould-, Credit: Charles McGuigan

Reverend Patricia Gould-Champ, a woman affectionately referred to as the Queen Mother, which, in her case, is not a petty, royal appellation. Rathe...

Return of the Native with Bill Shanabruch, Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Bill Shanabruch leads Conservation Landscaping Workshop.

Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...

Return of the Native with Bill Shanabruch Part 1

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Bill Shanabruch, Credit: Charles McGuigan

As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...

Nico Cathcart: A Contemporary Renaissance. Part 2 (Conclusion)

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Nico Cathcart working on a mural on Lakeside Avenue, Credit: Charles McGuigan

It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...

Nico Cathcart: A Contemporary Renaissance. Part 1

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Nico at the unveiling of her three-story mural, A New Dawn in Hopewell, Virginia., Credit: Charles McGuigan

Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...

Policing the Police with John LaFratta Part 4 (conclusion)

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: John LaFratta, Credit: Charles McGuigan

John LaFratta didn’t start practicing law until he was in his thirties. He had studied business and English literature as an undergraduate, and wor...

Policing the Police with John LaFratta Part 3

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

John LaFratta is a defense attorney in both civil and criminal cases. Over the years he has represented clients charged with every conceivable crim...

Covid Remembered Part 1

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: The Arthurs performed from their front porch in Bellevue., Credit: Charles McGuigan

The Covid shut down occurred almost four years ago to the day. This piece includes On the Front Lines, with a guy by the name of Leigh Carter, a nu...

Abigail Spanberger: Defending Her Country Yet Again

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Abigail Spanberger, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo

Abigail Spanberger swore an oath at age twenty-four “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and d...

Lost in Immigration

From: Mateo Schimpf

Some things are temporary.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more

Black Love

From: The Stoop

From our words, to dance, to the everyday sounds that surround us, we explore the special ways we express and feel the love..

Bought by KALW, WFSU, KVCR, WGBH Radio Boston, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more

Policing the Police with John LaFratta

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

John LaFratta didn’t start practicing law until he was in his thirties. He had studied business and English literature as an undergraduate, and wor...

Post-Roe America preview: Conversation with Alison Block, MD

From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America

Caption: The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America series, Credit: Nicole Xu

After the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision in June 2022, Dr. Emily Silverman spoke with Dr. Alison Block – a family medicine physician, abor...

The House, Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: The House, Credit: Catherine Rose McGuigan

Kimberly had talked about her house as if it was a person, her best friend as she put it. Stephanie saw her house as a metaphor for her life, falli...

Ghostly Encounters of a Third Kind Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: ILLUSTRATION, Credit: by Doug Dobey

More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.

Slava Ukraini with Frank Pichel Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Frank transporting his first group of Ukrainian passengers. , Credit: Frank Pichel

In the first part of this story we heard from Uliana Bazar who, with her husband, Matthew Propert, left their home in Ukraine five hours before th...

Friendly and Not So Friendly Ghosts

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: The Houlihans, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo

This week we encounter the supernatural with Beth and Chris Houlihan.

Post-Roe America: 3. Trust Women

From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America

After the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, many states in the middle of the country severely restricted abortion – but Kansas stood out as an except...

Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.

Slava Ukraini with Uliana Bazar Part 1

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Self portrait., Credit: Uliana Bazar

Four years ago, Uliana Bazar, along with her spouse, Matthew Propert, left their home in the United States and flew to Ukraine, the land of her bir...

Post-Roe America: 2. The Canary

From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America

When SB 8 passed in September 2021, Texas clinicians experienced a “Dobbs before Dobbs” effect, almost nine months before the rest of the nation. W...

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Post-Roe America: 1. The Day Roe Fell

From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America

When the U.S. Supreme Court hands down the Dobbs decision, clinicians rush to decipher its implications.

Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WYAP

City Singers: Seeing the World Through the Lens of Music

From: Charles McGuigan

Basil Smith, one of the prime movers behind this choir of children called the City Singers, talks about the transformative nature of music, an impa...

Against The Grain

From: Things That Go Boom

In this fall special from from Things That Go Boom, Inkstick Media, and PRX: how Indigenous knowledge is challenging the military industrial complex.

Bought by KCBX, KUOW, WXXI Rochester, Northwest Public Broadcasting, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more

GLOBAL ISSUES come to BURNING MAN

From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man

As the media portrays 2023's Burning Man as a hellscape, THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man revists the work of a group of Burners at the 2019 event. ...

Bought by KFCF FM, WVTF, Nevada Public Radio, KUNM, WGBH Radio Boston and more

Beyond a Song: Brian Kalinec (Part 2)

From: ISOAS Media
Series: Beyond a Song

Beyond a Song host Rich Reardin talks with Houston, Texas-based singer/songwriter Brian Kalinec.

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