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John LaFratta is a defense attorney in both civil and criminal cases. Over the years he has represented clients charged with every conceivable crim...
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 27:47
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...
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 24:53
We continue with the stories of five brave women—Terry Menefee Gau, Melissa Gray, Kathi Shiff, Mary Carpenter and Didi Tremblay—who like so many ot...
- Added: Oct 16, 2022
- Length: 27:31
Many rites of passage are a source of much joy and anticipation, but some – such as the one Tanya Huyard observed at Jerusalem’s “pacifier tree” –...
- Added: Aug 21, 2022
- Length: 08:14
Dark Winter Nights Executive Producer Ryan Peterson tells the wild story of how he found his birth parents.
- Added: Sep 23, 2021
- Length: 29:00
“Everything can change just like that.” That’s what Jane says. But there is no snap of fingers. This is the preamble to a story she’s retold a hun...
- Added: Mar 13, 2021
- Length: 27:43
Host Rick Brewer learns the details of a family secret. The story of how his parents met.
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 17:28
An audio documentary about the parent-led fight to reform New York City's child welfare system.
- Added: Jul 21, 2020
- Length: 39:13
It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a lib...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 20:41
- Purchases: 1
Producer Jakob Lewis was born in a military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. At the time, his dad was stationed at a U.S. army base in Wölfersheim, ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 27, 2019
- Length: 29:24
- Purchases: 1
Karla Helbert is many things. An accomplished writer and veteran therapist. Wife, mother, artist. A seeker, too. Libertine in matters spiritual. A...
- Added: Nov 04, 2016
- Length: 27:06
Abbie Waters lived in Richmond, Virginia and attended Holton Elementary School. She had survived a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. F...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 27:28
Abbie Catherine Waters was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 26:25
Elisheva and Amaris, mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way ...
- Added: May 07, 2016
- Length: 27:49
Today’s show is called Prelude to Summer. We end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and lo...
- Added: Apr 22, 2016
- Length: 22:10
We all live with the knowledge of our own mortality, but what about those who know more, how do you chart a course through the world when the end i...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 22:34
"I sat my kid down and said 'do you wanna be a girl?' And she said 'no, I am a girl'"
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 23:30
- Purchases: 1
Israel Story's Mother's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching tale you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are now avai...
Bought by WYSO, WVPE, WZEN.org, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WNYC
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
How do you proceed with your life when a family secret is revealed?
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 06:11
When my sister placed her baby for adoption, she and the adoptive parents developed an unexpected relationship.
- Added: Apr 02, 2014
- Length: 10:06
What does it take to raise a child with a severe food allergy?
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 05:12
A single mother and her two teenage daughters tell the harrowing story of the girls' descent into an underworld of drugs and homelessness.
- Added: Apr 10, 2007
- Length: 34:20
- Purchases: 2
Four bereaved mothers who first came together to share the pain and the tragic loss of their children tell the story of the 25 year-old organizatio...
- Added: Mar 19, 2007
- Length: 34:09
A teenage babysitter convinces his younger siblings that he's a werewolf who's going to kill them.
- Added: Nov 04, 2003
- Length: 14:02
- Purchases: 2
