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The Big Test
From: Michigan Radio
Series: State of Opportunity
Caption: Here, the kids line up outside Congress on their first day., Credit: Credit Dustin Dwyer / Michigan Radio
For this special documentary, Dustin Dwyer spent six weeks in the fall following a group of third grade students at Congress Elementary in Grand Ra...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 58:31
Teen Mom Reality
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:35
The Imaginary Albino
From: Garth Mullins
Caption: Garth Mullins & Lisa Hale, Credit: Don Sawatzky
From the 19th century freak show to the East African black market in body parts to the modern cinema, the image of the albino has seized the popula...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
Julian's Dinosaurs
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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How does a family function when living out of a hospital during a young child's illness?

  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 14:26
The Last Amtrak
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
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From Los Angeles to Chicago, folk journalist Hank Rosenfeld finds Amtrak's Train #4, the Southwest Chief, full of adventure...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 08:30
  • Purchases: 2
Man Behind the Half Shell
From: Emma Morgenstern
Caption: Steve Lavigne in his shop, Shellback Artworks. Wells, Maine., Credit: Emma Morgenstern
In 1985, Steve Lavigne quit his job to help a friend draw an indie comic book. He never imagined that those comics, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:38
One in A Million
From: Homefront Chronicles
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Does anyone ever believe they could actually be… that one in a million? Twice?

  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
Building a Family - A Foreign Adoption Story
From: Homefront Chronicles
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Amanda and her husband were eager to start a family. They turned to foreign adoption, and couldn’t imagine the heartbreak, surprises and love that...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:35
On Stage at Riverview School
From: Vanessa Barchfield
Caption: John and classmate Taylor play Tony and Maria in West Side Story, part of Riverview School’s 2013 annual play. , Credit: Virginia Sutherland
The students at Riverview School are in most ways no different to teenagers at any other New England boarding school. They play soccer and run cro...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:50
Marcus the Magician
From: Tobin Low
Caption: Marcus the Magician teaches a classic trick to one of his students, Credit: Tobin Low
This story is about Paul Marcus Earle, who for many years had a day job in Pathology, but on nights and weekends became Marcus the Magician.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 1
Hospital Birth Stories
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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Hospitals advertise their birth centers with soft focus photos of dewy-eyed newborns and kindly nurses, but the reality of giving birth is somethin...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:31
The Long Game: Texas' Ongoing Battle for the Direction of the Classroom
From: Trey Kay
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"Long Game" is a new radio documentary about ongoing culture war battles over education in the Lone Star State.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WESM 91.3 FM, Louisville Public Media, KERA, WRPI and more


  • Added: Oct 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
What Would You Want Other Than Money?
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Follow Rachel as she progressively interviews kids ages 5-18 and asks them a simple, yet thought-provoking question. This is the first of four epis...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:16
Room To Breathe: From Chaos to Peace in the Classroom (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Promotional picture from the Video Project , Credit: Image by: http://www.videoproject.com/roomtobreathe.html
At overcrowded and underfunded public schools across the country high suspension rates are exacerbating existing achievement gaps. Often, chaos in ...

Bought by KHNS


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life-Threatening Allergies
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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What does it take to raise a child with a severe food allergy?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:12
208
From: Eoghan Hanlon
Caption: Sheila Hayes, holding two of 208 babies that she fostered.
This is a radio documentary - my first radio project - that I produced in 2011. It tells the story of my grandmother in Ireland, who fostered over ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Special Education in NY Public Schools (Short Doc)
From: Katie Hiler
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A Long Island mother faces immense challenges as she tries to educate her three autistic sons through New York's public school system.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 1
Captain Kangaroo's Box of Sound
From: Brett Barry
Caption: Photo of Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) reading as Hugh Brannum (Mr. Green Jeans) comes with a surprise cake to announce the fifth anniversary of the television program Captain Kangaroo., Credit: CBS Television
A box of sound effects from the Captain Kangaroo show opens the door to a bygone era of live television production. Interviews with key players on ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:50
  • Purchases: 1
Alzheimer's: Slipping Away Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
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This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 27:22
Alzheimer's: Slipping Away Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Alzheimer’s sucks an entire life away, bit by bit at first, almost imperceptibly. By degrees memories--short-term, and then long-term--begin to fad...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 27:30
The Land
From: Erin Davis
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Death traps by any American standard, adventure playgrounds are every child’s dream.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KGOU, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 5
Modern-Day Homesteaders
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Destination DIY profiles two families who live the DIY lifestyle every day by growing and making most of what they need.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 1
Lil' Poopy
From: Schuyler Swenson
Caption: Lil' Poopy
In Brockton Massachusetts, a ten-year-old rap star's career has got people talking. His story raises questions about parenting, race, and how a kid...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 31, 2013
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 1
Learning to Laughing Through The Pain
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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Since she was a little girl, Saphira's life has been structured around the limits of Cerebral Palsey. Pushing through physical and emotional pain, ...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
Christi & Christopher: A Mother and Son Story
From: University of Montana Journalism
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Christi was a pregnant teenager who gave up her baby for adoption and then changed her mind. The story from there goes places no one saw coming. Pr...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 07:28

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