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HEART-to-HEART Pgm II: Children Sometimes Die
From: Claire Schoen
Series: HEART-to-HEART: Caring for the Dying
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We expect that children will get sick from time to time. But we don't expect them to die.

Bought by Audible and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 28, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:39
  • Purchases: 2
HEART-to-HEART Pgm III: Respecting Diversity
From: Claire Schoen
Series: HEART-to-HEART: Caring for the Dying
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Respecting Diversity looks at the influence of culture, race and religion on dying; how the assumptions behind "good end-of-life care" do not nece...

Bought by KMXT, WETA, Audible, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KALW


  • Added: Jul 28, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:45
  • Purchases: 5
Central America After the Wars Part Three - The Other Border, Community Radio & Peace-or-Pieces
From: Maria Martin
Series: Despues de las Guerras: Central America After the Wars
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After the peace, the other border and the medium is the message

Bought by KPFA, WSKG, KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2005
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 12
Central America After the Wars Part Two - Gangs, Women, A Look Back
From: Maria Martin
Series: Despues de las Guerras: Central America After the Wars
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Women, Identity, Youth, Gangs, Politics and Power

Bought by KPFA, WSKG, KUT, WLIU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2005
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 10
Central America After the Wars Part One - Downsizing Armies & A Tale of One Village
From: Maria Martin
Series: Despues de las Guerras: Central America After the Wars
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Have peace and democracy come to Central America?

Bought by KRZA, WSKG, KUT, WGBH Radio Boston, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2005
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 12
RN Documentary: Adams in Amsterdam Part 2 – Dearest of Friends
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Second in series of programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States of Am...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
RN Documentary: Adams in Amsterdam Part 3 – The Two Republicks
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Third in series of programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States of Ame...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
RN Documentary: Adams in Amsterdam Part 1 – A Poet in Your Pocket
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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First in series of three programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States ...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
Skywalkers of Akwesane
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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How the dangerous skill of high steel became a rite of passage for a Mohawk tribe.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WFHB, KMXT, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 26
Georgia Market Bulletin
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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A chronicle of rural life in Georgia unfolds between the lines of a farmers' newspaper.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Nancarrow and the Player Piano
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The life and work of a renegade composer who blazed a trail to the future by using an instrument that sounded like the past.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Stranger in Paradise
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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The strange life and haunting work of outside artist Achilles Rizzoli.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:25
  • Purchases: 1
In Love with the Mob
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One hundred years of mob rule in Youngstown, Ohio.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Worlds of Difference: Finding a Niche
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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A sound-rich documentary about the efforts of traditional societies to find a niche in the global marketplace, with stories from Peru, Canada, Scot...

Bought by KUNM, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, WPSU, WUMB and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2005
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 27
RN Documentary: Buffalo Nation Hour Long Special
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: Buffalo Nation/Pow Wow Hour Special
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Radio Netherlands producer Martha Hawley takes two looks at Native American culture in the form of the Revival of the Buffalo and the exploration o...

Bought by KZYX, WGDR, WGBH Radio Boston, WETA, KQED and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:11
  • Purchases: 8
Diversified Farming with Charles "Turkey" Goodin
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works
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a day in the life of a Kentucky farmer

  • Added: Nov 08, 2004
  • Length: 09:30
A Danger to Self and Others
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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"A Danger to Self or Others" documents everyday life inside the Chicago Cook County Jail's Mental Health Division - the largest provider of mental ...

Bought by PRX Remix and WYBC


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2
Nick's Diary: Home School to High School
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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15-year-old Nick chronicles a turbulent year in his life. “If you could give me any advice or give me some potion that would make people my age st...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, PRX Remix, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2004
  • Length: 17:48
  • Purchases: 10
Kentucky Dairy Farming and Kenny's Country Cheese
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works
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A day in the life of one of Kentucky's few remaining dairy farmers and his cheese shop

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Jun 10, 2004
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Children of Logan
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The producer returns to her Philadelphia home and finds hope amid the ruins. The life and death of an inner city neighborhood.

Bought by WFUV and Audible


  • Added: Jun 04, 2004
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Vietnamese Homecoming Part Two
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Conflict breaks out between the Vietnamese and Cajun shrimpers and the fate of both hangs in the balance.

Bought by WFHB, XRAY.fm, and Audible


  • Added: Jun 04, 2004
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
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
Summer Camp
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From the mouths of kids and the memories of grownups comes a rambunctious portrait of a peculiarly American institution.

Bought by KSUT, KPIK-LP, KGNU Community Radio, KMUZ, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 23
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
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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

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