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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
Misfire
From: Sarah Varney
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"Misfire" is an experimental sound piece that blends 1940s Dr Pepper radio ads, original violin music and sounds of thirst and thirst quenching.

Bought by WZBC, East Village Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 26, 2004
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 3
"And I Walked..." Stories from the Border
From: Ann Heppermann
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"And I walked" combines voices of border crossers, U.S. Border Patrol, and the haunting words of author Charles Bowden to highlight the plight of t...

Bought by PRX Remix, The Nature Podcast, Western Folklife Center Media, WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2004
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 7
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 WRGY, WJSU, KVSC, KWIT, KPVL and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2004
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 17
Present Progressive
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Intimate, documentary-style radio play about the author's experiences as an English teacher in the North of France - never broadcast in the US.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2004
  • Length: 29:21
X-Town
From: Sean Cole
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This is a short documentary about people who lived in four Massachusetts towns that were destroyed to make way for a reservoir.

Bought by Room Tone Selects, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KGLT, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2004
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 8
A Small Southern Town: The Nation's Capital In Slave Times
From: Richard Paul
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Dramatization - largest mass-escape of slaves in Amer history - PROMOS ATTACHED

Bought by WJAB, WAMU, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX to iTunes, WRPI and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2004
  • Length: 54:10
  • Purchases: 29
Washington Goes To The Moon PART 1
From: Richard Paul
Series: Washington Goes To The Moon
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The politics behind the Apollo Program

Bought by WCPN, KVCR, MPR News Stations, WXXI Rochester, WITF and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2004
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 44
A Day In The Life Of A Vice Principal
From: Richard Paul
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The 1,000,001 things that fill the day of an inner-city vice principal.

Bought by KUOW and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jan 04, 2004
  • Length: 24:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Passion for Art
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
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A documentary about how art making can build community

Bought by KVNF, KUOW, WYSO, WHQR, and WFUV


  • Added: Jan 01, 2004
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 5
Barber Shop-Short Version
From: Richard Paul
Series: People Who Work
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Keeping community alive along an aging business strip that's either all the way down or well-on-its-way-up.

Bought by KUOW, KUHB, and WBFO


  • Added: Dec 27, 2003
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 3
Healthy Babies
From: Richard Paul
Series: People Who Work
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The van that's keeping babies healthy one mother at a time.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUHB and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2003
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 7
Aerobics Instructor-Short Version
From: Richard Paul
Series: People Who Work
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The hardest working man in body biz

Bought by KZSC, KUHB, and WBFO


  • Added: Dec 22, 2003
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 3
California
From: Jeff Brown
Series: The American State Songbook
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Do you know your state song?

  • Added: Dec 15, 2003
  • Length: 03:21
Melissa's Diary, Part 1: Teen Mom
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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Melissa didn't mean to get pregnant. After 12 years of living in the foster care system, she's trying to build the family she never had. "The funny...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, Remix Radio, PRX to iTunes, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 10
Juan's Diary, Part 1: Looking at the Rio Grande
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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Juan crossed the Rio Grande illegally into Texas four years before he first recorded with Radio Diaries. At the time of his original diary, Juan an...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WJCT, KSFR, PRX Remix, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 24:32
  • Purchases: 9
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
The Tongass National Forest Part One
From: Guy Hand
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The wet and wild nature of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the largest intact temperate rain forest in the world.

Bought by PRX to iTunes, The Nature Podcast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 3
The Tongass National Forest Part Two
From: Guy Hand
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The contentious legacy of logging on Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the largest intact temperate rain forest in the world.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 13:56
  • Purchases: 2
Josh's Diary, Part 2: First Kiss
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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In Josh's second diary, he packs his tape recorder for his first summer away from home. "What I have here is an envelope on which this girl Nicole ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, and WYBC


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 18:11
  • Purchases: 4
Jeff's Diary: Halfrican
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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Jeff Rogers first recorded his Teenage Diary back in 1998 when he was a self identified 'halfrican.' He was thinking more and more about race and b...

Bought by KSFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Georgia Public Broadcasting, KGNU Community Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 35:20
  • Purchases: 21
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
Homeschooling Dance Party
From: Hillary Frank
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Hillary Frank goes to a homeschooling dance party to investigate the social skills of teens who don't spend much time around their peers.

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KOOP, WUAL, WHQR, and WGCU


  • Added: Dec 08, 2003
  • Length: 08:49
  • Purchases: 5
Selma Koch, Bra Saleswoman
From: Radio Diaries
Series: New York Works
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94-year old Selma Koch runs the Town Shop, one of New York's last old-style bra fitting shop.

Bought by KUT, KUOW, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, PRX to iTunes and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2003
  • Length: 07:39
  • 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

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