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Half a Life Time Ago
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Dancers at the march for the disappeared, Credit: Beatrice Murch
What was happening in the world thirty-three years and half a life-time ago?

  • Added: Mar 30, 2009
  • Length: 09:39
Small Town Life
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
Caption: CBC Radio's Outfront, Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91545223@N00/2743081060/">Benson Kua</a>
CBC Radio's Outfront presents five stories about life in a small town.

Bought by WRGY, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, WNJR, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2009
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 9
Love is a Many Splendored Thing
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
Caption: CBC Radio's Outfront, Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91545223@N00/2743081060/">Benson Kua</a>
CBC Radio's Outfront presents four stories that are all about love and longing, hope and despair.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNJR, WGBH Radio Boston, North Country Public Radio, KTNA and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2009
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 8
Parent and Child
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
Caption: CBC Radio's Outfront, Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91545223@N00/2743081060/">Benson Kua</a>
CBC Radio's Outfront presents four stories about children and parents.

Bought by KISU, KMUN, KUOW, WNJR, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2009
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 10
Obsessions, Magnificent and Otherwise
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
Caption: CBC Radio's Outfront, Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91545223@N00/2743081060/">Benson Kua</a>
CBC Radio's Outfront presents five stories that are all about obsessions- magnificent and otherwise.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Louisville Public Media, North Country Public Radio, KTNA, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2009
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 8
Humans and Animals
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
Caption: CBC Radio's Outfront, Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91545223@N00/2743081060/">Benson Kua</a>
CBC Radio's Outfront presents four stories that are all about the bonds between humans and animals- do we own them, or do they own us?

Bought by Louisville Public Media, North Country Public Radio, KTNA, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 27, 2009
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 5
The Great Outdoors
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
Caption: CBC Radio's Outfront, Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91545223@N00/2743081060/">Benson Kua</a>
CBC Radio's Outfront presents four stories that are all about fields and ponds, love and loss. In short- the great outdoors.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRNC-LP, KJZZ, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2009
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 11
Adham Atieh
From: World Vision Report
Piece image
The Nahr Al Bared refugee camp in Lebanon was built in 1949 as a temporary camp for thousands of Palestinians displaced by the creation of the stat...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2009
  • Length: 02:13
Adopting Fadi
From: World Vision Report
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In the Sudanese capital Khartoum, scores of babies are abandoned every year.That’s mostly because they are born out of wedlock, but sometimes becau...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2009
  • Length: 02:55
A Pill That Combats Obesity
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Corporate America has produced a pill that combats obesity

  • Added: Mar 26, 2009
  • Length: 02:32
It Was More Humane To Burn Them At The Stake
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
25 million or so people in Africa have died from aids and almost that many have the disease.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:11
Let's Really Punish Bernie Madoff
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Put him out on the speaking circuit for the next year and use his fee to make a token payment to the people he cheated

  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 02:14
From Boston to Berlin with college radio host Chance Dorland
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Series: Across the Ocean - the first Transatlantic Radio for kids
Caption: Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange
Ten´s of thousands of students from the States and Europe take part in exchange programmes every year. In this show, Radijojo's American intern a...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 18:44
Healthcare in America
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The company asked me to sign a release so they could bill my insurance company $220 for something one can buy on line for $19.95

  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
LEED Certification
From: Tom Niemisto
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LEED certified buildings are a model for a sustainable 21st century. Find out more and get involved.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:49
This I Believe - Kendra Jones
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Kendra Jones, an English teacher in Alabama, believes in toughness, steeliness and even meanness.

Bought by WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU, KUOW, and WBHM


  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 5
This I Believe - Dr. Alicia Conill
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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As a doctor and patient, Alicia Conill has learned that listening is an important part of healing.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WEZU, WEZU, Iowa Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 5
Grad Student on Full Fellowship
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You might think your daughter is doing well if she is dating a grad student on a full fellowship.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Alaa El-Saad
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Texas student Alaa El-Saad believes in wearing a hijab, a religious head covering for Muslim women.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KBGA 89.9 FM


  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 3
This I Believe - Tarak McLain
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Seven-year old Tarak McLain of Texas shares the 30 things he believes. Number one: life is good.

Bought by WEZU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WEZU, KBGA 89.9 FM, WUFT and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 6
This I Believe - Jim Haynes
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
Piece image
Jim Haynes believes in bringing people together—even total strangers—over Sunday dinner in his home.

Bought by WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 3
White Water Rafting
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You should know what you're doing before you go white water rafting.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: :29
Tibet's Unlikely Defender: A Chinese Journalist's Change of Mind
From: The Tibet Connection
Caption: Zhu RUi, Credit: Lhakpa Kyizom
Chinese journalist, Zhu Rui, on her transformation from critic of Tibetan society to one of its most passionate defenders.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: 06:45
Hike to George
From: Brad Horn
Caption: Backcountry Ranger George Durkee
The story of a hike to interview Backcountry Ranger George Durkee about his life in the middle of a national park.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, The Nature Podcast, and WILL


  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 3
Apple Travels
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Apple Blossom
February is the time to make new apple trees from old. Where have they come from?

  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: 09:58

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