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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
Vietnamese Homecoming Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Fishermen and their families escape from Vietnam to a new home in Louisiana and struggle to earn a living along the Gulf Coast.

Bought by WFHB, XRAY.fm, and Audible


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:07
  • Purchases: 3
Sunset Hall
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Leftist causes continue to invigorate residents of a Los Angeles retirement home for radicals.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, Audible, and KSFR


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 3
Lost in America
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Drug addicts, a prostitute and a blind woman recount their journeys through homelessness to a new life.

Bought by PRX Remix and Audible


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Hollister
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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On July 4, 1947 thousands of bikers roared into a small California town and changed our assumptions about America. A new investigation raises prov...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WRPI, KUT, PRX Remix, KALW and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
Brooklyn Oil Spill
From: Shia Levitt
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Shia Levitt looks at an oil spill from the 1950s has left millions of gallons of oil underneath the residential and commerical neighborhood of Gree...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1
Amy's Graduation
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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This is the story of Amy graduating from high school while incarcerated at the Long Creek Youth Development Center (LCYDC) in South Portland, ME. )

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2004
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Way it Looks from Here
From: Kerry Seed
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In a time of great economic uncertainty, Mel Clarrage, a legally blind vocational counselor, is looking for work.

Bought by WMPG, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUHB


  • Added: Feb 18, 2004
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 3
Alzheimer's: Losing a Mind
From: WHYY
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The latest information about Alzheimer's and the impact on families.

Bought by WPSU, WFUV, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 29, 2004
  • Length: 59:37
  • Purchases: 3
The Breast Cancer Monologues
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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A one-hour documentary special intricately woven from interviews, readings and original music about how breast cancer has affected the lives of wom...

Bought by WJSU, KVSC, KWIT, KPVL, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2004
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 16
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
Matthew and the Judge: Juvenile Court Diary
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Prison Diaries
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Radio Diaries gave both Judge Jeremiah, a Rhode Island juvenile court judge, and Matthew, a 16-year-old repeat offender, tape recorders in 2001. Ju...

Bought by KRCC-FM, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, PRX to iTunes, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2003
  • Length: 17:46
  • Purchases: 7
undocumented
From: Holly Kernan
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a day in the life of an illegal immigrant

Bought by 2SER FM 107.3


  • Added: Dec 08, 2003
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Sweetgrass Road
From: David Kattenburg
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Aboriginal wisdom and approaches to life

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, The Nature Podcast, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 07, 2003
  • Length: 54:49
  • Purchases: 3
Howard Dean: The Vermont Years
From: Vermont Public
Series: "The Home-State Record"
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One-hour documentary details Howard Dean's record as a long-serving governor of Vermont.

Bought by WKSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPBS, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 02, 2003
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
The Brandon-Ukiriguru AIDS Awareness Project
From: David Kattenburg
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Two communities -- one in Canada, the other in Africa -- working together to fight the AIDS pandemic through awareness

Bought by WFUV and Public Interactive


  • Added: Nov 25, 2003
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 2
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
The Prison Cure
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Sick kids behind bars and what happens when they get there: a Colorado youth prison sheds light on a national problem.

Bought by KPIK-LP, WSKG, PRX Remix, WRPI, and Audible


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 5
The Earth Chroniclers
From: David Kattenburg
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First in a series of narrationless documentaries on Earth and its environment

Bought by KGOU and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 20, 2003
  • Length: 55:32
  • Purchases: 2
Kids on the Street
From: David Kattenburg
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The lives of street kids in India, Uganda and Nicaragua

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Nov 09, 2003
  • Length: 27:20
  • Purchases: 1
If Kids Must Work
From: David Kattenburg
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Canadian NGOs are helping youth for whom working is a necessity of life

Bought by WKSU


  • Added: Nov 03, 2003
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 1
The Child Soldiers of Uganda
From: David Kattenburg
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Narrationless documentary about the plight of Uganda's child soldiers

  • Added: Oct 30, 2003
  • Length: 28:37
Democracy on the Reservation
From: KUNM
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New Mexico Native Americans discuss democracy; in comparison to traditional forms of self-governance and in terms of modern reality.

Bought by KRCC-FM and KSUT


  • Added: Sep 18, 2003
  • Length: 11:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Slow Path to Democracy in Rio Arriba County
From: KUNM
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In Rio Arriba County, democracy has a Spanish accent, a reminder that today's ways are the legacies of Spanish and Mexican explorers and settlers.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2003
  • Length: 11:58
Democracy on the Block
From: WFUV
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A music-filled, sound-rich tour of some of the quirky, idealistic and informal democracies that play a significant but understated role in American...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KPBS, KCLU, WBAA and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2003
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7

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