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LiveHopeLove
From: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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Writer and Poet Kwame Dawes explores HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, produced by Outer Voices, in association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WSKG, KBRP Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2008
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 22
How much water do we use?
From: William S. Hammack
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A look at how a typical American uses water - a large percentage of which is imported from outside the US!

Bought by Real Estate Today


  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
Saving The Sierra
From: Catherine Stifter
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3 stories of rural America where unlikely allies have found common ground in dealing with urban development pressures

Bought by KUT-HD, KXOT Public Radio, WCBU, WVIK, KUER and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Secret Asian Woman
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Secret Asian Woman is a brief personal history of Mixed Race in America.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KUOW, KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Digital Diary: A youth anti-violence activist in the Philippines tells her story
From: UNICEF
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This story is free! Youth producer Cora Buala from the Phillipines, a youth anti-violence activist, reports her own story

Bought by WXLV-FM and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Oct 11, 2006
  • Length: 07:16
  • Purchases: 2
Leaving the Gay Ghettoes
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2003
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Stories of folks who have left the large urban gay centers for smaller cities, looking to start over...and what happens when they get there.

Bought by KRCB 104.9, WGBH Radio Boston, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KWCW


  • Added: May 27, 2006
  • Length: 58:42
  • Purchases: 4
Out on the Rez
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2002
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Out on the Rez: Stories From Gay Native America

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWCW


  • Added: May 25, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
How Did You Know When You Knew?
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2001
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How Did You Know When You Knew?

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 25, 2006
  • Length: 31:14
  • Purchases: 1
The Drought in Ethiopia - Responding to the crisis
From: UNICEF
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This Story is Free! Correspondent Dan Thomas visits Ethiopia to see the affects of the drought

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: May 16, 2006
  • Length: 14:21
  • Purchases: 1
A Map of The Sea
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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An award-winning documentary on the collapse of the Newfoundland cod fishery and its resounding effects on the local community.

Bought by HowSound, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland and more


  • Added: May 04, 2006
  • Length: 14:57
  • Purchases: 8
American Jews in the IDF: One Day at the Border Crossing
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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An IDF soldier detains a Palestinian family at a border crossing and comes to an epiphany.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2006
  • Length: 09:56
Vows
From: Catherine Girardeau
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An exploration of wedding vows that combines personal essay with documentary form.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KPFA


  • Added: May 04, 2005
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 2
The eX Files
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2004
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The eX Files ? stories of gay divorce.

Bought by WCPN, KUT-HD, KQED, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 12, 2005
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
Another Lousy Day
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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A critically-acclaimed story detailing one man's quest to find the author of two diaries from 1960 and 1961 that he found in a thrift store.

Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, WYBC, and WYSO


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 17:36
  • Purchases: 4
Movin' Out the Bricks
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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A year in the life of Catherine "Coco" Means, as she leaves her long-time home in a Chicago public housing development and moves to her first priva...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KGNU Community Radio, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 27:46
  • Purchases: 8
House of Pain
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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Public housing residents scramble to figure out where to go next when their Chicago public housing high-rise is slated for demolition. It's all p...

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 2
Mom's Good Move
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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Peg Collison documents her move from San Mateo, California - where she'd lived for almost 35 years - to a retirement community in Davis, California...

Bought by WCBU and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 37:09
  • Purchases: 2
When All Else Fails
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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"When All Else Fails" is a first-person account of a man undergoing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock (Award Winner:...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 21:19
  • Purchases: 2
Learning to Live: James' Story
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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The story of an ex-felon's transition from prison to the free world. James, who narrates, is 38 and has been in and out of prison all his adult lif...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUER, RadioFreePalmer, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 11
PART 5: We Were Considered Expendable
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Downwinder about experiences of radioactive fallout in the 1950s

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, WYSO, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 4
PART 4: The Family List
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Elmer Picket lost fourteen of his family members to cancer

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, WYSO, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 4
PART 3: A Patroitic, Non-Questioning Population
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Downwinder talks about how her brother died from nuclear fallout

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, WYSO, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 4
PART 2: The Son of a Bitchin Bomb Went Off
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Sheep farmer experience Dirty Harry nuclear test

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, WYSO, WZBC, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 5
Brooklyn According to Kalish
From: Jon Kalish
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Veteran public radio reporter Jon Kalish's 16-year journey into the Orthodox Jewish community of Brooklyn.

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KFAI Minneapolis, WXXI Rochester, WZBC, KPVL and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 9
Life Stories - Jobs: Teaching ("Educating Esme')
From: Jay Allison
Series: The Life Stories Collection
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The Diary of a First Year Teacher, "Educating Esme." One hour of a five-hour series of first-person portraits.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KUER, WFAE, KPIK-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 19