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Taming the Snake
From: KUOW
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This documentary takes a graphic look at the reality of IV heroin addiction.

Bought by KVNF, KDUR, WMPG, KFAI Minneapolis, and KLCC


  • Added: Jun 10, 2004
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 5
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
Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse
From: Sound Portraits
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LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman's exploration of the murder of Eric Morse, a five-year-old who was pushed to his death from a 14th-floor window by tw...

Bought by KUT, KUT, KUT, Remix Radio, and KUER


  • Added: Jun 09, 2004
  • Length: 40:14
  • Purchases: 5
Ghetto Life 101
From: Sound Portraits
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The audio diaries of LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, two young boys living in one of the most notorious public housing projects in America.

Bought by HowSound, KFAI Minneapolis, SALTcast Podcast, Remix Radio, KUER and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2004
  • Length: 31:06
  • Purchases: 8
One Heart for Kids
From: Don Fass
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A yearly 60-minute special on the unmet needs of youth here and around the world

  • Added: Jun 08, 2004
  • Length: 59:00
The Imaginary Village
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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The Imaginary Village is a story about the meaning of "home" for three generations of Palestinians living in refugee camps.

Bought by PRX Remix, KZYX, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 05, 2004
  • Length: 18:06
  • Purchases: 3
Internal Combustion
From: paul overton
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A short symphony in pistons and rings.

Bought by KGLT, KGLT, East Village Radio, and KVNF


  • Added: Jun 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:22
  • Purchases: 4
The Children of Logan
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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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
Power Kiting
From: Sylvia Maria Gross
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Fitness Instructor is flown by a kite on Rockaway Beach in Brooklyn.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 02:45
Miracle On The Streets
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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A profile of life on the streets for homeless youth told through the experiences of 21-year-old Miracle Draven.

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jun 01, 2004
  • Length: 17:35
  • Purchases: 1
Behind Barbed Wire
From: Adam Allington
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A small farming community in northern Maine reconnects with it's history as a WWII POW camp

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 1
PART 5: We Were Considered Expendable
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Downwinder about experiences of radioactive fallout in the 1950s

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, WYSO, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 4
PART 4: The Family List
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Elmer Picket lost fourteen of his family members to cancer

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, WYSO, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 4
PART 3: A Patroitic, Non-Questioning Population
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Downwinder talks about how her brother died from nuclear fallout

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, WYSO, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 4
PART 2: The Son of a Bitchin Bomb Went Off
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Sheep farmer experience Dirty Harry nuclear test

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, WYSO, WZBC, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 5
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
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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
Mami Basketball
From: Sylvia Maria Gross
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Cultural collisions on a basketball court in the South Bronx.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 06:26
  • Purchases: 1
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
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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
Broadway Memories
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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From a riot in 1849 to today’s regulars at Barrymore’s Bar, how a street became the universal symbol of live theater.

Bought by PRX Remix, Audible, and WFUV


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 3
Nightfall in Chester County
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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In Pennsylvania farmland that was the first stop on the Underground Railroad, a strike by Mexican mushroom pickers polarizes a Quaker community.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, WRIR, KMUN and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 16
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

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