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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
A candidate for Wisconsin's 51st Assembly district remembers his son, Peter, who brought so much joy into his life.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 08:19
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
Heartbreak is a universal disease with no cure. Three men share the musical prescriptions that got them over the one who got away.
- Added: Feb 06, 2014
- Length: 02:46
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
More than 75 years ago Shenandoah National Park opened to the public for the first time. One of the most scenic routes in Virginia— Skyline Drive w...
- Added: Jun 09, 2013
- Length: 53:40
How do you thank someone who saves you from tragedy? This Vietnam veteran knows.
Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 05:40
- Purchases: 3
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
Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province of red sands and black mussels. Cradle on the Waves is what the aboriginal people--the MigMaw--called i...
- Added: Feb 13, 2013
- Length: 26:31
this week’s episode contains two parts. The first act is called Weather or Not. Act Two is titled Life Among The Immortals. They’re about my two s...
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 28:11
Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:08
Join hosts Devon and Cal for this first episode that follows the emotional journey of Female-to-Male transsexual Kyle Smith and his mother, Leslie,...
Bought by Wild Planet Radio
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 20:30
- Purchases: 1
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
College can be tough but students who are also mothers have to balance work with real-life home work.
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 10:00
The volunteer choral group, Evensong, specializes in singing the last music their audience will ever hear.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 18, 2012
- Length: 09:23
- Purchases: 3
The US has the highest per capita incarceration rate of any country. At the Maine State Prison, inmates are being taught skills to care for their ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 07:26
- Purchases: 2
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 ...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 55:07
- Purchases: 1
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
Jay Ipson, the youngest Holocaust survivor living in Virginia today, lived in an underground lair for six months during the Nazi occupation of his ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 59:14
