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After seeing ads for home DNA tests on TV, John decided to give it a try. Just spit into a cup—what did he have to lose… or gain?
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 13:23
The story of one woman with PTSD and her efforts to re-train her brain so she can live a new life.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WDBM, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 08:47
- Purchases: 4
The face of homelessness is changing, in ways that are not easily addressed by any one group or agency. More people have resorted to living in th...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
In sickness and in health, as long as we both shall live. We’ve all heard wedding vows before. They are the promise that we will commit to our spou...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 07:36
- Purchases: 1
Karla Helbert is many things. An accomplished writer and veteran therapist. Wife, mother, artist. A seeker, too. Libertine in matters spiritual. A...
- Added: Nov 04, 2016
- Length: 27:06
Abbie Waters lived in Richmond, Virginia and attended Holton Elementary School. She had survived a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. F...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 27:28
Abbie Catherine Waters was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 26:25
Elisheva and Amaris,
mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way...
- Added: May 13, 2016
- Length: 26:51
Live Art,
sponsored for the past three years by the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC), is the only program of its kin...
- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 27:38
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
Charmed lives lack for something. If you’re born in a state of nirvana or somehow privileged as a member of the elect, what’s the point? It’s only ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2015
- Length: 26:07
Live Art, sponsored by the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC), is the only program of its kind in the country. It’s th...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 25:38
Hair loss is taboo and the measures people take to replace hair are rarely mentioned out loud, but for Richard Theodore on Cape Cod, hair replaceme...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 04:47
- Purchases: 3
Art teacher and glass sculptor Rolanda Scott was first diagnosed with breast cancer years ago, but she kept teaching and for the longest while surv...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 28:20
Sometimes art can ease your pain, maybe even save your life. And the medium you started working in sometimes becomes another form all together.
Rol...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 25:30
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
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:22
- Purchases: 2
Sassy and sagacious Gloria, 85, shares stories of being in both a conventional heterosexual marriage and a long-time same-sex relationship.
Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 12, 2014
- Length: 10:37
- Purchases: 2
This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 54:59
This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 27:22
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
Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 07:27
- Purchases: 3
Brain injuries have been in the news a lot lately - with soldiers and sports heroes suffering from acquired brain injuries, science and the public ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KDNK, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 06:32
- Purchases: 4
Being diagnosed with a disease is hard enough. Imagine living hours away from the closest place you could receive treatment.
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 05:24
How did a nice girl with a degree from Princeton University end up as a globetrotting... clown? Meet Christina Gelsone -- and her husband, Seth. Th...
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 08:37
