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In this installment of CARGOLAND, Lu Olkowski meets one man who embodies the spirit of the fast-fading waterfront. Morning sunlight streams through...
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 30:26
- Purchases: 3
My brother Thomas recounts a diving accident he lived through early in his career as a commercial diver.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 08:51
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:06
We return to Prince Edward Island where we’ll spend the next half hour with a father and daughter who produce what PEI has come to be known for the...
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 27:06
A warm, personal story about the lives and challenges of energy workers "behind the light switch."
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 16:49
Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 04:31
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 17:03
What does it mean to live in a world where biotech is done for and by the people? How long might it be until we are all growing our own ink, laund...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 16:10
- Purchases: 1
Behind drawn shades in a brightly lit room downtown, dispatchers for the Los Angeles Police Department answer 9-1-1 calls and send officers to thei...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 1
Eva fled to the U.S. from El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago. Since then, she’s cared for 11 kids – and mastered emotional calculus of ...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 02:59
At USA Recycling in East LA, a two-story yellow crane smashes cars, refrigerators and stoves into neat piles of wreckage all day. The mistress of t...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
In car-choked LA, riding the bus is a sign that you can’t afford your own wheels. But Joshua Salazar's overnight routes are often full of people be...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:58
As dawn breaks, birds serenade Eric Jones, who crosses a church parking lot in his baggy jeans, jangling an oversized key ring. The plastic wheels ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
Chi-town manufacturing hasn’t disappeared, you just have to know where to look for it.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 06:53
- Purchases: 1
Farmers in upstate New York enter a confession booth (ahem, van) and give anonymous answers to probing questions.
Produced for WIOX "The Farm Hou...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 04:55
- Purchases: 1
Throughout the West, historic discriminatory laws have excluded people of color from settling and owning property. Because of that, many Western st...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 2
Golf carts are the primary vehicles for residents in Avalon, CA. This is about the guys that make them go.
Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 05:21
- Purchases: 2
Chip Koser of Mashpee is a professionally trained chef who’s worked in a number of famous restaurants. But in recent years Chip has been spending l...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 31, 2013
- Length: 04:31
- Purchases: 2
Don Fidel, an immigrant to the United States, opened a staple restaurant in Chicago, but for his family, it was more than restaurant.
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 16:26
At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 28:06
A documentary on Adrian Chi Tenney, a female professional driver in Los Angeles, CA.
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 07:12
According to the 2010 census, Marin City is now a median-income community. But a stigma and challenges remain. Marin City still has higher crime an...
- Added: Aug 31, 2012
- Length: 05:59
