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David Hudson Superman Has Arrived Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: David Hudson, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
David Hudson had been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:11
(Almost) Like Any Other Mom
From: Michelle Dahlenburg
Caption: Producer Michelle Dahlenburg with Joe DePrang
Joe DePrang knows that embracing his new identity is what's right for him, but worries about how it will affect his two young children.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 2
Making Sense: Deaf Children and the Choices Their Parents Face
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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Nine out of ten deaf babies are born to hearing parents, who know almost nothing about deafness or the science of language. But they have to learn ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 1
Third Grade Audio Podcast #2: Lakeview Pantry
From: David Green
Series: Third Grade Audio - Service Learning Podcasts
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The third graders of "Third Grade Audio" made two Service Learning podcasts. Each one is about a social service organization which is working to he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Third Grade Audio Podcast #1: Reach Out and Read
From: David Green
Series: Third Grade Audio - Service Learning Podcasts
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The third graders of "Third Grade Audio" made two Service Learning podcasts. Each one is about a social service organization which is working to he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #34: Finding My Parents
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Producer Jakob Lewis was born in a military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. At the time, his dad was stationed at a U.S. army base in Wölfersheim, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:24
  • Purchases: 1
You Don't Know Jacek
From: Matthew Alvarez
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Jacek Zuzanski is a Polish Puppeteer. He left a successful life in Europe behind, and chose the path less traveled by bringing Polish Puppetry to t...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2019
  • Length: 04:42
The Big Pond #27: Welcome to Motherland
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Three women, two countries, one shared experience: Motherhood. From giving birth to receiving support – our producer Melissa Gerr looks at the role...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 24:46
  • Purchases: 3
World in Progress 02/05/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The reality for many children in Chicago’s notorious West Side is a short life in the fast lane. Gangs, drugs and crime are...

  • Added: May 01, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Anthony Clary : Acts of Love and Forgiveness, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: The Clarys on the front porch of their home in Blackwell., Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Anthony Clary grew up in the bricks. Buildings linear as Legos, lining block after block of city streets, stretching from Porter to Dinwiddie, from...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 26:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #15: American Sports in Germany
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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“German baseball” may sound like an oxymoron, but the Bonn Capitals have successfully maintained a leading position in the German baseball league f...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 18:52
That’s Entertainment with Jonathon Austin, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jonathon Austin, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Jonathan Austin is a North Side Richmonder who began juggling when he was just 12-years old. Two years later he performed his first professional gi...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 23:44
That's Entertainment with Jonathan Austin Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Jonathan Austin, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Jonathan Austin is a North Side Richmonder who began juggling when he was just 12-years old. Two years later he performed his first professional gi...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 27:02
A Lungful of Diesel Exhaust is No Way to Start the School Day
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Our aging US fleet of diesel school buses exposes kids to toxic fumes, inside and out. Twin Rivers Unified School District is one of the first in t...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WRGY


  • Added: Sep 19, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Dispossessed, Chapter 10; Wolftown, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jones Mountain cabin
It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in ...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 26:43
Mister Rogers-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Fred Rogers
There has never been a better time to visit Mister Rogers Neighborhood and this mix reminds of his mission with clips from the new documentary "Won...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:55
  • Purchases: 1
Alex not Amy-Growing up transgender in the rural West
From: Denise Dowling
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A 10-year-old boy's journey to legally and socially change his gender in his hometown in the Rocky Mountain West.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
Hidden in Plain Sight: Sensory Processing Disorder
From: Benedict Carrizzo
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Documentary on a developmental affliction called "Sensory Processing Disorder."

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 24:44
Marching for Their Lives without Thoughts and Prayers
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Darian Wyatt., Credit: Charles McGuigan
At High Noon, March 24, there was a showdown of sorts at the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. As the bell in the clock tower near ninth and Fra...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 2
Tongue Terror
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Stories of children getting their tongues stuck to metal things in winter.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
124: Saved by the Bo
From: The Mortified Podcast
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Just like a real-life Zach Morris, a teenager in the 90's writes his own episode of Saved By The Bell and tries to get it on the air.  Listen to th...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2018
  • Length: 20:07
Ayden
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Some people on the sidewalk said they saw what happened, and they called security and the police. And I remember one woman telling me, ‘You can rep...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
Syniya
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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My advice for kids, for losing someone you love: Just remember the good times, and remember those big hugs and big kisses you always got.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Provost Guard in New Orleans taking up Vagrant Negroes. (1974.25.9.190), Credit: The Historic New Orleans Collection
It was June. It was hot. Kids were out of school, keeping busy outdoors. Parents were inside. Kind of like how it is now, except it was 146 years ago.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:15
  • Purchases: 1
Grandmothers Matter
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Some surprisingly controversial theories of human longevity. 

  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 18:06

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