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Dear Z
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
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A love letter to a super-horse.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, PRX Remix, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, KUT, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 30, 2011
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 5
MA-193 Food: What's Eating Me
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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For over a century, U.S. farmers have strived for quantity of food. Quality, though, is at least as important.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:26
MA-192 Dolphin Dreaming
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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Sleeping in a cave along Australia's West coast, I could hear, but not join, an ancient corroboree.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:28
Mini-Meta-Mouse-umentary
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2007 Third Coast ShortDocs: Dollar Storeys
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Mousetraps and other intersections between human beings and mice.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
January's End
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Harrods' at Night
The end of January in London sees the Harrods' sale end, the world news and a new Taxi Driver on the road

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jan 28, 2011
  • Length: 09:28
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Barbara Jean
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Pat (left) and Joshua Presby
If Pat could tell his late step-mother, Barbara Jean, one thing, it's that he probably should have listened to her advice.

Bought by YouthCast and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
A Letter, Returning
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Curley Dog Cafe, Credit: Walter Murch
There is always looking when returning to a place that is loved for memories sake as well as what it means to us today

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 09:14
  • Purchases: 1
'Til Death: Love, Marriage and Valentine Sweethearts
From: Rosemary Langford
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Is marriage forever? Sometimes it can seem like it. This short, fully-produced audio essay describes the tension between loving and LIVING WITH tho...

Bought by KPIK-LP and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 2
Despite Budget Cuts, Youth Meet Their Own Needs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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When the City of Oakland cut their after school homework help program, High school senior Nora Rose started volunteering at her library to help fil...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:18
A Young Scholar vs. the Recession
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thomas McCall, a 20-year-old student-athlete and father-to-be, was already struggling to make it in the American job market. Courtney Supple produc...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:39
Issues of Intimacy
From: Heidi Lang
Caption: Typical cuddle party
Psychologists have studied how touch provides comfort to humans for a long time. It turns out we need physical contact to survive. But our culture ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 15, 2010
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 1
Shower of Love- A Valentine's Day Story
From: Jill Marcus
Caption: Newlyweds & cat - circa 1977
Valentine's Day, 1977 was our first together as a young couple. We thought we were soul mates, but how well did we really know each other? The gift...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2010
  • Length: 05:16
Gap Year - Ailin Conant
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
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Ailin takes a year in Europe and becomes a matador. Kind of.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 09:36
  • Purchases: 1
Hard Times - Craig Taylor
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
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Moving into an apartment in Camden, Canadian Craig Taylor can't help but feel the past coming to get him...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 07:57
The Love Boat
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
Caption: Gigi at the Canal Cafe Theatre, London
A true love story for those who have loved, lost and then gone on a cruise to forget... if only she hadn't picked the same cruise as her ex.

Bought by PRX Remix and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 11:15
  • Purchases: 2
21. France Was Years Ahead
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry
Caption: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry, Credit: Brittany Jencks
In 1962 France was years ahead of the U.S. in ecological awareness and energy conservation, before the word "ecology" was even used in either count...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 05:34
Wood Cutting Trip
From: Laura Spero
Caption: Women and Girls gathering wood in Kaskikot, Nepal, Credit: Laura Spero
An American gal accompanies a raucous group of neighbors down the mountain to cut firewood in rural Nepal.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2010
  • Length: 04:05
A Few Good Women
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Gardeners on the ground, Credit: Beatrice Murch
From the philanthropic women of Washing to DC to a group of international environmentalists in Buenos Aires, A few good women can make a difference...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1
Sonari is Mixed
From: Ayana Contreras
Caption: sonari, as a child.
What is "The Black Experience"?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 3
Kostaman Reporter's Notebook
From: World Vision Report
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Just call it snowboarding for Haiti. That’s one of the offshoots of this year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The games provide an international ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 03:41
Blue Collar Babysitter
From: Eric Winick
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A portrait of Mike Butler: Irish-American tannery worker, avid gambler, and, in the eyes of three young boys growing up in suburban Massachusetts ...

Bought by The Story, KUT, and WILL


  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 11:35
  • Purchases: 3
Following Phish before the internet (3:30)
From: Lydia Wilson
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As the Phish reunion tour wraps up, a Phish-head fan reflects on following the band before the internet. (3:30 version)

  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:33
Following Phish before the internet
From: Lydia Wilson
Caption: Phish playing Hampton Coliseum in VA, Credit: http://yamar2001.wordpress.com
As Phish reunion tour wraps up, a Phish-head fan reflects on following the band before the internet.

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 05:35
  • Purchases: 1
In Praise of Nurses
From: Janet Robbins
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An appreciation of the nursing profession

  • Added: Oct 14, 2009
  • Length: 03:59
Same Song, Same Chair: Fifty Years Later
From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes
Caption: Spencer Moore, Credit: Jon Lohman
A masterful songster recorded by two folklorists, fifty years apart.

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTIP, and WAMU


  • Added: Sep 16, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 5

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