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West Memphis Free
From: Jerry Gaura
Series: #Dragonsbread
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An inmate struggles to find freedom through Magick while on Death Row.

  • Added: Oct 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:54
Part Three: Molly McKenzie
From: Jason Klarl
Series: Guatemalan Connections
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Guatemalan Connections Part Three: Molly McKenzie was adopted from Guatemala in 1992 by her two moms, now retired navy captains who provided her wi...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2021
  • Length: 19:47
James Aunquoe
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I finally started connecting the dots about who I was inside.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ayden
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Some people on the sidewalk said they saw what happened, and they called security and the police. And I remember one woman telling me, ‘You can rep...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #88: Clemency
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Since 2014 the department of justice and President Obama have been working to right the wrongs of the war on drugs. Through Clemency, Obama has com...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 15:28
The Darkroom
From: Annie Sinsabaugh
Caption: Peter Simon and his archives
In Peter Simon’s 50-year career, he’s photographed The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, and so much more. Now, at age 69, he’s thin...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #79: Sterilized
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Virigina State Colony for the Feebleminded
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 22:29
  • Purchases: 1
Unitarian Church Embraces Black Lives Matter Movement
From: Katie Klocksin
Caption: The Black Lives Matter sign at the Unitarian Church of Evanston, Credit: Katie Klocksin
The story of how members of the mostly white Unitarian Church of Evanston decided to take a stand in the Black Lives Matter movement.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2016
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 2
Alzheimer's: Slipping Away Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Alzheimer’s sucks an entire life away, bit by bit at first, almost imperceptibly. By degrees memories--short-term, and then long-term--begin to fad...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 27:30
Lindsay Ess : Becoming Whole
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Lindsay Ess was at the top of her form, doing what she knew how to do best. Fashion was her passion. She breathed it; she lived it. Modeling. Phot...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 50:17
The Life of Mattie River
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Mattie River
Mattie River looked like a puppy when we first found her. She was small and frightened, could barely stand on her own paws. Her wants seemed so ins...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 25:56
Sing and I Will Hear You
From: Carolyn Barnwell
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Elaine and Francis- a nun and a priest- fell deeply in love and left the Church so they could be married. Nearly 40 years later, on Jan. 3rd 2010, ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 1
A Transgender Childhood
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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Growing up isn't easy - when you feel as if your mind is one gender, and your body another.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KGNU Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 4
Sing and I Will Hear You
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In early 2010, Elaine McGillicuddy lost her husband to bone cancer. Elaine has created her own grieving process rooted in daily rituals. She is e...

Bought by WMPG, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Interfaith Voices, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 5
Security in a New Homeland
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
John Yanga is a refugee from Sudan. He's trying to start a family farm in Maine, where he and his family of nine settled.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:58
Love Is Worth A Little Bit Of Pain
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Between 50 and 80 percent of American adults carry oral herpes, the virus that causes sold sores. Many people with oral herpes never show any symp...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 07:19
Mothers and Sons
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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a sonic memorial to the healing power of art

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, KTNA, NPR Illinois, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2008
  • Length: 26:44
  • Purchases: 10
Shelf Life Radio 1: America's Number One Vegetable
From: Amy Conger
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Taking a potato plant to McDonald's; what will they say?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 09:30
Two Weeks
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Laurie Williams (aka Crow) is preparing to die in the next two weeks.

Bought by HowSound, SALTcast Podcast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 01, 2008
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 3
Saying Goodbye. . . Again
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A collection of the voices and sounds from the display of the AIDS Quilt in Portland, ME during National AIDS Day.

Bought by WFUV


  • Added: Feb 01, 2008
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 1
WWOZ Streettalk - Terence Blanchard explains "A Tale of God's Will: Requiem for Katrina"
From: David Kunian
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard talks about his latest work: "A Tale of God's Will: Requiem for Katrina"

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Nov 02, 2007
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
Talk About It: The Jewish Mourning Process
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
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Grieving for the deceased... and comforting the living.

Bought by Iowa Public Radio and Audible


  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 18:03
  • Purchases: 2
Back to Iwo Jima: Navajo code talkers return
From: Ashley Gross
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Four Navajo veterans return to the site of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KSUT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2006
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Fairbridge Farm School
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Four elderly Dutch people remember how as children recently liberated from the POW camps in Indonesia, they regained their childhood when they wer...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Story of a Yup'ik Eskimo rapper
From: Ashley Gross
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A sound-rich portrait of a young Yup'ik Eskimo man who uses rap music to work through his suicidal thoughts

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KSUT, and KCUR


  • Added: May 17, 2006
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 3