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Seattle's Ellis Island
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: Many Uch at the Airport Way Detention Facility., Credit: Eroyn Franklin
An imposing brick building on Airport Way at the edge of the International District housed detained immigrants from 1931 to 2004. It was once known...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Rwandan Genocide
From: Arndt Peltner
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In the evening of April 6th 1994 the plane of the Rwandan president was shot down. This sparked the genocide that nearly killed one million people

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 14:39
Veterans Speak Out: Winter Soldier
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In March 2008, hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans gathered for "Winter Soldier": to talk about what they saw and did in combat, and diff...

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jun 20, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Making Room For Shenandoah National Park
From: Jesse Dukes
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500 families were displaced from their homes to make space for the Shenandoah National Park

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2008
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 6
The Sad Demise of the Passenger Pigeon
From: Long Haul Productions
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The passenger pigeon was once the most common species in North America - now it's extinct. A look at how the bird disappeared.

Bought by KUOW, PRX Remix, The Nature Podcast, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 4
WWOZ Street Talk-A Dollop of History
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
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Alarming trends in school lunch outsourcing and a lack of home cookng has caused deep concern for the future of New Orleans culinary traditions.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 17, 2007
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
Crime and Redemption: A Wise Guy's Tale
From: Aaron Henkin
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A gangster-turned-informant reflects on his life of crime and his quest for redemption

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 11, 2007
  • Length: 49:36
  • Purchases: 1
Bluma Shapiro: Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bluma Shapiro is a grandmother of four... and a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 15:25
C'est la Guerre
From: David Grimes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Musical setting of quotes from Lyndon Johnson, William Fulbright and Wayne Morse regarding the War in Vietnam.

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Oct 30, 2006
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
From: Philip Graitcer
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The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot was the closest thing to a race war ever known in Atlanta

  • Added: Sep 25, 2006
  • Length: 06:47
The Silent Generation: From Saipan to Tokyo
From: Helen Borten
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The final year of World War II in the Pacific, told by men who came back and kept silent about the harrowing ordeal that changed their lives.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WVTF, WITF, WABE and more


  • Added: May 03, 2006
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 34
My Lobotomy
From: Sound Portraits
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One man's quest to uncover the hidden story behind the lobotomy he received as a 12-year-old child.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2005
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 15
RN Documentary: Zeeland '53
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus: Living With Water
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Recreation of the disastrous 1953 flood in the southern Dutch province of Zeeland during which more than 1800 lives were lost.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio and WRPI


  • Added: Sep 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Leaving a Mark - The story of an Auschwitz survivor
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Eva Schloss is the “posthumous step sister of Anne Frank”. She tells her own story of how she survived 2 years in hiding, 9 months in Auschwitz an...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Jul 05, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Short History of Music as a Weapon
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From Scottish bagpipes to Metallica, this radio essay takes listeners on a short tour through the history of music as a weapon.

Bought by Raven Radio, KGUA, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2005
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 11
"109 on 9/11"
From: Esther Regelson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
"109 on 9-11" tells the tale of 109 Washington Street, a tenement building located two-and-a-half blocks south of the World Trade Center.

Bought by KQED, KCUR, WNIJ, WLRN, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2004
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 8
The Valentine 1955
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Youth Epiphanies
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Society's problem with race relations is played out between 2 little girls on Valentines Day, 1955.

Bought by KLCC, PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WNCU, PRX Lovesick Stream and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2004
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 13
Hollow Victory
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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A David and Goliath battle against a mining technique that blows off mountaintops, buries streams and destroys communities in the hollows of West V...

Bought by WAMU, KGNU Community Radio, WRPI, KFAI Minneapolis, Audible and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 7