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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
Anita Fineday is an Ojibwe Indian from the White Earth reservation in Minnesota. “Blood Quantum” is about how Anita reclaimed her Indian heritage a...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 29:29
A family living in Idaho during the early 20th Century test the limits of the Postal Service, when they send a very special parcel through the Post.
Bought by Boise State Public Radio
- Added: Sep 26, 2014
- Length: 06:09
- Purchases: 1
Winner of a Silver Trophy at the New York Festival 'World's Best Radio Awards' 2014, this startling but ultimately uplifting documentary is about t...
- Added: Sep 01, 2014
- Length: 27:55
Some exes live 15 minutes apart, but they drive more than an hour to exchange their kids through an organization in Brunswick, Maine. Home to Home ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 07:13
Lilly Pyle is a skilled hair stylist in Portland, but she's also skilled in combat training. She grew up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and as ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 08:06
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Strangers...a four-day old baby shows up with a few hours notice at the home of a gay couple. Complications ensue.
Bought by Public Radio for All, XRAY.fm, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: :00
- Purchases: 5
How do you build a strong family after a crisis?
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 05:32
In this last episode of Rachel’s series called “Outlooks", she asks kids ages 5-18 a simple, yet thought-provoking question. For students, parents,...
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 03:49
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 1
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
How do you proceed with your life when a family secret is revealed?
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 06:11
More babies are being born dependent on the opioid drugs their pregnant mothers were taking. Their condition, called neonatal abstinence syndrome, ...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 06:47
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...
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 54:03
- Purchases: 20
When my sister placed her baby for adoption, she and the adoptive parents developed an unexpected relationship.
- Added: Apr 02, 2014
- Length: 10:06
How does a toddler understand the differences between written words and pictures? Rebecca Treiman, professor of child developmental psychology, exp...
- Added: Apr 01, 2014
- Length: 10:00
Lupita Espinoza can often be seen pushing a stroller up one of those steep San Francisco hills that many of us try to avoid. She can’t avoid it, th...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 09:01
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
How do you cope when you find out at the birth - that your baby has Down Syndrome? What are the first steps that you take?
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 04:55
How is raising a little girl in the United States different from raising her in India? What happens when you move to America where expectations fo...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Feb 25, 2014
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
With budget cuts closing many Los Angeles school libraries, students told Hank Rosenfeld about their love of books and what they were currently re...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
How are modern grandmothers different from their predecessors?
What does grand-parenting looks like in our modern world?
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 05:34
For this special documentary, Dustin Dwyer spent six weeks in the fall following a group of third grade students at Congress Elementary in Grand Ra...
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 58:31
