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The Emotion Roadmap: How to deal with the emotional challenges of aging parents
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Mom Mike and Chuck
Are you beginning to recognize that your parents are no longer able to live independently. Are they struggling with remembering people, events, dat...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2011
  • Length: 45:10
Living with Hypochondria: The Real Costs of Imagined Illness
From: Karen Brown
Caption: Sheila Murphy
Woody Allen made hypochondria famous as a source of self-deprecating humor, but this clinical condition can be seriously debilitating for individua...

Bought by PRX Remix and Jazz 91.9 WCLK


  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
A Hug on the Way Home
From: Julia Barton
Caption: Constance Carman says goodbye to a soldier., Credit: Julia Barton
When U.S. soldiers come back home on leave, they fly through a few central airports. For soldiers headed west of the Mississippi River, that airpor...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KPVL, Troy Public Radio, Delta College Public Radio, The Story and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 7
Veteran Voices: military mom shares her story of separation and service
From: KALW
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The U.S. military is changing. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has been repealed, more women are serving, and the structure of military families is changin...

  • Added: May 25, 2011
  • Length: 05:37
Groundhog and Mirror
From: Ronan Kelly
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Jane O'Connor is a young woman from Dublin whose mother was a big fan of the film Groundhog day. The irony of her beloved film choice was that when...

Bought by KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 11:28
  • Purchases: 5
The Mental Health Challenges of Refugees
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
Debt Settlement Gossip and Personal Finance Advice
From: Steve Rhode
Series: Get Out of Debt Guy Show
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New developments in the field of debt settlement this week and personal finance advice.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
Sex Ed Debate
From: Emilie Ritter Saunders
Caption: Opponets of the new curriculum hold up signs during a recent school board meeting , Credit: Emilie Ritter
A new sex education curriculum is creating a controversy in the Rocky Mountain town of Helena, Montana

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1
Child Obesity - Part One -- The Clinical Approach
From: Karen Brown
Series: Child Obesity -- A Community's Response
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One health center in Holyoke, MA addresses the 50 percent rate of overweight and obese children in this predominantly low-income, Puerto Rican comm...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 4
Immigrant Families Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In a special collaboration between “Feet in Two Worlds,” we hear the story of an immigrant family torn apart after an immigration raid in Phoenix, ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Oct 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Te estoy buscando….
From: Asociacion de Radios y Programas Participativos de El Salvador (ARPAS)
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Son 3 historias enlazadas por su finalidad: encontrar ese ser querido que se marcho en la búsqueda del Sueño Americano, y de quien a la fecha se d...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:40
Recession Complicates Divorce for Some Couples
From: NPR Economic Training Project
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The recession has certainly changed the way many of us live our daily lives: second-guessing that impulse purchase at the mall, perhaps opting for ...

Bought by EconomyBeat Podcast and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
Turning to a Mediator to Break Up in Tight Times
From: NPR Economic Training Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Even the business of love is being hit by the recession. Or, actually, the business of... the break-up. As fights over finances, layoffs and fore...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 2
War News Radio: Military Families Against the War
From: War News Radio
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From "The Struggle at Home" July 10, 2009: War News Radio reports on military families who oppose the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Jul 14, 2009
  • Length: 05:22
WNR: The Shadow of a Man
From: War News Radio
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From "Drying Up," June 26, 2009. War News Radio reports on the tangle of issues surrounding temporary marriages in Iraq.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2009
  • Length: 07:24
Surviving Cancer
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Older, middle and younger generation guests compare their thoughts on surviving cancer

  • Added: Jun 21, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Too Early For Late Father
From: Jay sapir
Series: HiPapaDays
Caption: Sapir's Hotel - 3 Generations
This piece is part of a quartet series called HiPapa Days. DAD DAYS ARE EVERGREENS- Any day the nature of the piece fits the news of the day or ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2009
  • Length: 08:30
Goddaddyo
From: Jay sapir
Series: HiPapaDays
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An underclass perspective from street level attempts to fuse real scene actualties with rhythmic rap lyrics and music bed.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2009
  • Length: 03:24
Surge in Baghadads
From: Jay sapir
Series: HiPapaDays
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An American soldier's song of fear, fatigue, and failure in the Iraq war.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2009
  • Length: 03:01
Why Our Father
From: Jay sapir
Series: HiPapaDays
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This should be the lead piece from HiPapa Days

  • Added: Jun 11, 2009
  • Length: 02:46
Neither Here Nor There: Bhutanese Refugees in the U.S.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thousands of Nepali speaking refugees from Bhutan are coming to North America. Correspondent Adelaide Chen takes us on a journey with these new arr...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -6: Rosewood Reborn (1923 --
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: Rosewood survivor Minnie Lee Langley
It began on New Years Day 1923, when a white woman in a small Florida (saw-)milltown claimed that a black man had attacked her. By the week's end, ...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 59:31
  • Purchases: 1
Sexual Assault
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Three generations discussing the impact sexual assaults have had on each of their generations.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2009
  • Length: 01:18:35
A Crisis in Primary Care -- the Massachusetts Health Care Experiment
From: Karen Brown
Caption: Dr. Dan Levy, who left his private practice, Credit: Karen Brown
Health care reform in Massachusetts has led to a dramatic increase in the number of people with health insurance. But there’s an unintended consequ...

Bought by KRUA and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 26, 2009
  • Length: 05:39
  • Purchases: 2
Veterans and the Economic Downturn
From: KLCC
Caption: Veteran Larry Severs and his wife Pam.
This story looks at the plight of veterans during the economic downturn through the experience of an Oregon family.

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Jan 05, 2009
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1

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