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Sarah Jones explains her mixed feelings about video games.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Meet Annika, a 16 year old actress who appeared in the movie JOBS as Steve Jobs' (Ashton Kutcher's) daughter. Annika shares many behind-the-scenes ...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2013
  • Length: 07:34
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
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Two wheels, a ski pole with attached pipe and six steely grins. 3-2-1 Polo! Once in a lifetime happens three nights a week at the University of Mon...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 01:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Ben Westlie graduated from Bemidji State University in 2006 with a BFA in Creative and Professional Writing. He's published three chapbooks of poet...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:09
Caption: Working a math problem at Mooresville Middle School in North Carolina, where each student gets a laptop., Credit: Stephen Smith
Learning with a personal tutor is one of the best ways to learn. But hiring a tutor for every student was never a realistic option, until now. Can ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KMXT, KOSU, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: PM was one of the North Side witches., Credit: Catherine McGuigan
Witch-hunts are curious phenomena, and thoroughly reactionary in nature. They generally begin with an inexplicable event of one kind or other—cows ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 26:55
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Follow Sierra on her progressive college journey as she realizes that finding the right college is as difficult as Goldilocks finding the right bo...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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Kimmy couldn't believe that she was getting college info packs in the mail as a 9th grader. Having just transitioned to high school from middle sch...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
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La' Trisha Dillon has to confront the financial consequences of a serious relationship coming to an end. In doing so, she's pushed to her limits.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:18
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Rebecca Lee has lived with a brain injury since shortly after birth. Throughout her life many people have helped her with the resulting physical a...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 3
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Auveed & Mateen's Excellent Adventure: A story about two cousins and a luthier.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 31, 2013
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Organic Path: Two teens explore an unusual vocation that inspires new options for their future.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:33
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A time capsule documentary of two siblings dealing with autism.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., PRX Remix, SALTcast Podcast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 4
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Ideal for broadcast late-Summer / early- Fall, this new 1-hr. documentary from Humankind examines the epidemic of high anxiety among secondary scho...

Bought by WVTF, WSKG, KRCB 104.9, KUAF Public Radio, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 24
Caption: Juan holds a photograph of himself from 16 years ago., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
16 years ago, Juan reported on his life as a recent Mexican immigrant living in poverty in Texas. In his new diary, Juan takes us on a tour of the ...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Marco Perez stands in the front yard of his home in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles.
A high school senior in Los Angeles struggles to balance his courage and his fears of being undocumented.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:38
Caption: Frankie in 2013., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
As a teenager, Frankie was a high school football star whose picture was in his hometown newspaper every week. Years after graduating, Frankie was ...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, PRX Remix, WJCT, and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 30:26
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Students compare their budgets on iPads, Credit: jaorswwa.org
A look into a new state-of-the-art financial literacy program for teens.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:42
Caption: Melissa in 2013., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
Listen to Melissa's teenage and grown-up diaries in this podcast episode.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 39:30
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On May 23, the Boy Scouts of America voted to lift its ban on gay youth members. The ban on gay adult leaders still stands. This program looks at...

Bought by KVSC, KVSC, WXDU, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Rachel comes full-circle. She goes from being a college student to be a stripper and then back to starting all over again.

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 18:57
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A guy backpacks through 50 countries in 5 years. We hear his story.

Bought by KQED


  • Added: May 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Harlan Twins, Credit: Chaz Mottinger
The music of Pittsburgh's own rockers, The Harlan Twins, rings true, "I can't be blue in Bloomfield."

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:33
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Feeling depressed and alone in Europe and with family problems at home, Darlene thinks the solution is to visit a drug house in Amsterdam. But some...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:06