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OCD often goes misdiagnosed and misunderstood … and if left untreated, can impact platonic, intimate and familial relationships in challenging ways.
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Humans are the only animal to produce emotional tears. Asking questions about this behavior can help us better understand how we live our lives.
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Between the ages of 40 and 70, more than half of all people with penises will deal with some form of erectile dysfunction. While that experience ca...
- Added: Jan 10, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Many incarcerated people are also parents. Their children navigate social stigma and barriers to staying in contact with their loved ones.
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 58:23
In this digital age of flawless, perfect, poreless skin, dealing with adult acne can be incredibly isolating. Two skinfluencers and a photographer ...
- Added: Dec 14, 2023
- Length: 58:23
Complex PTSD describes the existence of long-term trauma. An artist, a therapist, and a researcher seek to unravel the nuances of C-PTSD, while sti...
- Added: Nov 16, 2023
- Length: 58:23
"All we want to do is leave." Anietra and Ian basically went into survival mode to find a way out of India. As the first episode mirrored a scen...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 24:00
We celebrate National Poetry Month with Mark Doty as he discusses his work, including FIRE TO FIRE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, winner of the 2008 Nati...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 13, 2020
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 1
Leonard Slatkin talks about the DSO
- Added: Feb 13, 2020
- Length: 05:22
This week’s episode begins to explore the intersections of borders, documentation, and incarceration. We look at the history of U.S. immigration po...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Dec 15, 2016
- Length: 29:11
- Purchases: 1
Patrick Dorey sends us his Song Story about a time in his life when, with the loss of his Mom, he began to question who he was.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 05:19
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Short Description: MEMOIR about her soldier son who committed suicide. She talks about writing non-fiction and her earlier elegiac book, EMBALMING...
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 29:00
The 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry, Alice Friman's other honors include the Ezra Pound Poetry Award for her third book, ZOO. In t...
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Sandip Roy listens back to the music of Manna Dey.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 19, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
Recently the Park Street rape victim did something almost unthinkable in India. She revealed her identity.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 30, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
This week, our stories are all about turning points, as our writers move from innocence to knowledge, their lives forever changed. Stories by Sarah...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Spoken word. It's poetry it's hip-hop and increasingly, it's the chosen means of expression for today's youth. On this edition, to celebrate Nation...
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 29:01
This week's stories are about the impact of special people in our lives, whether they are central to our lives, on their way to the other side, or ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2012
- Length: 29:00
A new generation is telling their stories of overthrowing corrupt regimes. And in the digital age, their lessons can spread more quickly than ever ...
- Added: Sep 20, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Stories show us that with every ending, there follows a beginning...whether we want either to happen or not. Kate Knable watches her brother get st...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Lives can change in the flash of a moment: Helen Austin never sees the face of a stranger who saves her life, Susan Toone's life changes with one l...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Winners of the Arkansas Literary Festival share their winning stories: Jill Duvall visits an asylum, Wyatt Jones stands on the edge and tries not t...
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- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Humility and gratitude: Arthur Paul Bowen watches as his uncle must let his aunt go, Joanna Seibert travels to the other side of the world to give ...
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 28:30
