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The Mental Health Challenges of Refugees

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Ddepression or schizophrenia are a particular problem for refugee populations in the United States. They often come from war torn nations, fresh fr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPVL, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Feb 23, 2011
Length: 08:19
Purchases: 4

The Guardian's Science Weekly: Christmas at the Large Hadron Collider

From: [redacted] [redacted]

Caption: Shutdown screen at Cern, Credit: Andy Duckworth

As the Large Hadron Collider goes into hibernation for the winter, producer Andy Duckworth visits the Atlas experiment at Cern, Geneva, to ask, wil...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jan 21, 2011
Length: 24:18
Purchases: 1

Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair: A Granddaughter's Search for the Truth

From: Radio Diaries

Caption: Bridgette McGee holds a photo of her grandfather, Credit: Teri Havens

In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KUT, WRPI, KUOW and more

Added: Oct 12, 2010
Length: 22:59
Purchases: 8

The 100 Year Legacy of the Big Burn

From: Amanda Loder

Caption: The Aftermath of the 1910 Big Burn, Credit: US Forest Service

Evergreen Documentary: About a hundred years ago, one of the largest wildfires in US history taught Americans to fear flames. The Big Burn of 1910...

Added: Sep 02, 2010
Length: 29:04

Hurricane Katrina - Drowning Inside a Locked Cell

From: Jamie Dell'Apa

Caption: Terry was eventually evacuated onto this highway ramp

Terry's cell at Orleans Parish Prison became a drowning cage as the flood waters from Hurricane Katrina rose almost to the ceiling. As his drowned...

Bought by WDSE, PRX Remix, and WMNF

Added: Aug 21, 2010
Length: 03:16
Purchases: 3

Ghost Schools

From: Seattle Globalist

Primary education is compulsory in Pakistan, and the country has a large public school system. But many of these schools are just marginally functi...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WBEZ

Added: Aug 20, 2010
Length: 06:45
Purchases: 2

Expanding the Northwest Detention Center

From: Seattle Globalist

Caption: Northwest Detention Center, Credit: Alex Stonehill

April 16, 2009 - On any given day, 30,000 people are being held in detention centers across the country. With plans to expand the Northwest Detenti...

Added: Aug 20, 2010
Length: 08:36

Carol Bradley, author of Savie Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Journalist Carol Bradley has written about many aspects of animal welfare, including horse slaughtering, rodeos, animal hoarding, and animal cruelt...

Bought by 'The Sea' and Yellowstone Public Radio

Added: Jul 22, 2010
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Crawford Texas After the Bush Years

From: KUT

Crawford, Texas became the adopted home of George W. Bush during his presidency. But the small town west of Waco has undergone some big changes si...

Added: Jul 06, 2010
Length: 03:25

Going Local: The Ins And Outs Of "Washingtonian-ness"

From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The Newcomer's Guide to Washington

Paris has its Parisians, Boston its Bostonians. What does it take to be/become a Washingtonian?

Added: May 18, 2010
Length: 07:04

Natural Child Birth: There will Always be Three Now

From: Katy Sewall
Series: Experience Natural Child Birth

Caption: Newly born, Max Ferrer, with his parents Nicole and Sean, Credit: Katy Sewall

When it comes to giving birth in America, less than 1% of couples choose a "natural birth;" that is a birth with no drugs - and little to no medica...

Added: May 14, 2010
Length: 17:14

Medical Translation in a City of Immigrants

From: Sarah Kramer
Series: Interpreting Health: Language and Cultural Barriers for Immigrants at NYC Hospitals

Caption: Interpretation Sign, Credit: Sarah Kate Kramer

One out of four New Yorkers doesn't speak or understand complex sentences in English. But at some point in their lives, every one of them will need...

Bought by KVNF and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: May 02, 2010
Length: 08:15
Purchases: 2

Warlock

From: War News Radio

Caption: An Iraqi holds up his non-functioning phone., Credit: Associated Press

From Signal Interrupted, on April 30, 2010. War News Radio reports on a new device that's interrupting communications in Iraq.

Added: Apr 30, 2010
Length: 06:31

Inside and Out

From: WBEZ

When we run out of ways to deal with a troubled child, often that child ends up in prison. In Illinois, thousands are incarcerated every year. We i...

Bought by WKCC, WTIP, and KUNM

Added: Apr 28, 2010
Length: 53:58
Purchases: 3

Are childhood mental illnesses related to strep?

From: Julianne Hill

This two-part series examines the debate by world-class scientists if a connection between tics, Tourette's, obsessive-compulsive disorder and ext...

Added: Mar 26, 2010
Length: 20:30

Creative Commutes

From: David Schultz

Caption: Slugging at the Pentagon is just one of the ways people in the Washington region develop their own methods of avoiding traffic-clogged highways., Credit: David Schultz/WAMU

Traffic congestion in the D.C. region is at an all-time high. That's forced many to get creative with their commutes.

Added: Mar 14, 2010
Length: 06:03

No Brother of Mine

From: Todd Melby

Caption: Most sex offenders like Michael are released back into society. What then?, Credit: Diane Richard

“No Brother of Mine” offers an unflinching look at U.S. sex offender policy that reaches beyond the headlines and into the lives of real people. Re...

Bought by PRX Remix, WNIJ, WGBH Radio Boston, WNYC, Louisville Public Media and more

Added: Mar 01, 2010
Length: 59:30
Purchases: 17

Madoff Whistle-Blower: ‘No One Would Listen’

From: Curt Nickisch

Caption: Harry Markopolos has written a book about his futile decade-long effort to expose Bernie Madoff and the world's largest Ponzi scheme.

Harry Markopolos tried for nearly ten years to expose Bernard Madoff and the world's largest Ponzi scheme, but it didn't do any good. Why didn’t a...

Bought by KPIK-LP, Remix Radio, KUT, KUOW, and EconomyBeat Podcast

Added: Feb 26, 2010
Length: 13:13
Purchases: 5

Storefront Library

From: Mark Saldaña

In Boston's densest neighborhood, the Chinatown Storefront Library converted a vacant commercial space into a thriving community center. And then i...

Bought by XRAY.fm and YouthCast

Added: Feb 17, 2010
Length: 13:44
Purchases: 2

The Local Aftermath of Bush-Era Workplace Immigration Raids

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

We go to Postville, Iowa and Laurel, Mississippi--two communities where the largest workplace immigration raids happened in 2008.

Bought by KUOW

Added: Jan 20, 2010
Length: 14:53
Purchases: 1

Diary of a Mad NYC Cyclist: A Newsical

From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series

lifelong cyclist/broadcast journalist, Paul Fischer, on the pleasures and pitfalls of city biking. I'll take you road-biking in Central Park, where...

Bought by KMUN and Marfa Public Radio