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Circus Life: To Catch the Quad
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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A trapeze star of the 1920s, his present-day counterpart and a colorful supporting cast reveal the heartbreak and gritty reality behind the tinsel:...

Bought by KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, Audible, and WZBC


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 4
Circus Life: The Last Sideshow
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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What is it like on the other side of the peephole? The Half-Girl, the Snake Lady, the Fat Man and others share their experiences and surprising vi...

Bought by KPIK-LP, XRAY.fm, PRX Remix, WETA, and Audible


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 5
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
Making the Louisville Slugger
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works
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The art of hand turning a Louisville Slugger baseball bat

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Apr 12, 2004
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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
Stevie & Me/Reunions (by Design and by Surprise)
From: Barbara Bernstein
Series: Radio Tales For The Road
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Transformational journeys through time, space and memory

  • Added: Dec 02, 2003
  • Length: 58:36
Heartland Medicine
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Young doctors face challenges, provide total care, and live unconventional lives in rural Nebraska

Bought by WRNC-LP, WRPI, Audible, and WCQS


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
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
Little Odessa in Brooklyn
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One hundred years of Brighton Beach memoirs.

Bought by KUER, KFCF FM, Radio Catskill, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KVSC and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 12
The Maypole at Merrymount
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A long-forgotten conflict between the Pilgrim Fathers and a freethinking fur trader resonates with today's moral concerns.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WRPI, KTNA, Yellowstone Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 8
Mme. Blavatsky and The Colonel Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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The story of the woman responsible for America's love afair with spiritualism and her modern-day descendants.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Audible, KSFR, WFIU and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 6
Mme. Blavatsky and The Colonel Part Two
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story of the woman responsible for America's love afair with spiritualism and her modern-day descendants.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Audible, WFIU, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 5
Strip Club USA Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Strippers and club patrons talk about what draws them to America's thriving sex industry.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Audible, WZBC, and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
Strip Club USA Part Two
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Men and women, physically in the same place, inhabit different worlds.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Audible, WZBC, and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 4
The Prison Cure
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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 AIDS Highway
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The plight of Ugandan AIDS orphans

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, Public Interactive, WYSO, and WFUV


  • Added: Nov 02, 2003
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 4

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