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Top of Mind - Teen Mental Health
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Teen mental health in America is getting worse. What role do medication, sleep and social media play?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, RadioStPete Florida, KMXT and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
Constant Wonder - Shared Solitude: The Life-Changing Epiphanies of a Children's Writer
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Before he became an acclaimed children's writer, Douglas Wood often felt like a failure. A letter from a famous wilderness guru changed all that.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
Constant Wonder - A Normal Childhood with Down Syndrome
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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An anthropology professor makes unexpected discoveries about his profession and himself when his second child is born with Down Syndrome.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 52:48
Top of Mind - How to Talk About Abortion
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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How to talk about abortion - and why it's crucial that we do, even if there's no chance we'll change our minds

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
Songs of the Doomed
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Looking down the barrel at 2024, from our perch in the High Desert. Mojave thunderstorms, the strange maxims of the ancient temples, Christmas-tree...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
The House, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: The House, Credit: Catherine Rose McGuigan
Kimberly had talked about her house as if it was a person, her best friend as she put it. Stephanie saw her house as a metaphor for her life, falli...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 24:53
The Apple Seed - Bill Harley's "The Best Candy in the Whole World"
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Grammy-winning storyteller Bill Harley tells us a story about candy that makes a teacher exclaim, "This is the best candy in the whole world!"

Bought by KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, KKRN, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Constant Wonder - The Dust Within Us
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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A mixed Lakota family works for generations to heal old wounds and make sense of a conflicted heritage.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 2
The Apple Seed - The Big Red Beet
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On today's episode you're going to hear an old story about a big red beet and a farmer who has to try and pull it from his garden. Join us!

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, and WVPE


  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 4
The Apple Seed - The Strongest Thing in the World
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode of the Apple Seed you'll hear from Lyn Ford, an old folktale about a boy in search of the strongest thing in the world. What will h...

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, and WVPE


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Apple Seed - Karma
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On today's hour of storytelling, we hear of that suspicious force some believe in, called "Karma." Listen to hear what goes around and in turn, wha...

Bought by KTXK, KSJE, and WVPE


  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 54:57
  • Purchases: 3
The Apple Seed - Broken Things to Mend
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” some might say. But what if it is broke, and we don’t know how to fix it? Today’s Apple Seed episode explores “b...

Bought by KSJE and WVPE


  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 2
Anthony Clary : Acts of Love and Forgiveness, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: The Clarys on the front porch of their home in Blackwell., Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Anthony Clary grew up in the bricks. Buildings linear as Legos, lining block after block of city streets, stretching from Porter to Dinwiddie, from...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 26:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Dispossessed, Chapter 10; Wolftown, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jones Mountain cabin
It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in ...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 26:43
Mindfulness Calms Students Before School
From: WCPN
Series: StateImpact Ohio
Caption: Congressman Tim Ryan with Inner Explorer co-founder Laura Bakosh , Credit: Mark P. Urycki
Non-religious meditation appears to lower stress and behavioral problems. Gets support from Congressman Tim Ryan

  • Added: Mar 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
On Lake Erie island, 'school bus' is a plane
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Cecilia Glauser (l) Max Schneider (r) on their plane ride to school, Credit: Margaret Thompson/ideastream
Life for students on Lake Erie's Middle Bass Island is different - starting with the morning commute to school.

Bought by WVBI-LP, WMUK, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WKSU and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:36
  • Purchases: 6
Ferdinand, The Misunderstood Bull (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In 1936, just as the Spanish Civil War was beginning, an instantly successful and highly controversial children’s book arrived on the bookshelves. ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 1
Four Year Old's Heart Set on Career at ESPN
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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My four-year-old brother represents the meaning of a true sports' fanatic. When he's not at preschool or taking a nap, you can typically find him o...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 04:08
The Chicken Whisperer
From: Andrew Davis
Series: Claim Your Fame
Caption: Andy Schneider hosted a lecture and book signing of "The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens" on Sunday at Tractor Supply Co. Schneider is the host of an internet radio show called "Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer" and the editor-in-, Credit: Katie Bell, the Missourian
Andy Schneider IS the Chicken Whisperer. He doesn't profess to talk to chickens, but he does know everything you need to raise backyard poultry AND...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 09:16
  • Purchases: 1
BOYHOOD -- Richard Linklater Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Richard Linklater, San Francisco, CA 7/17/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Richard Linklater talks risks, rewards, and the world of ideas.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2014
  • Length: 10:44
Birth Mother
From: Chemda KATG
Series: What's My Name
Caption: Mariah in the hospital with Leo.
Writer Mariah MacCarthy talks about placing her newborn with adoptive parents.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:39:14
Author Anthony Swofford and Getting Past Fame and Fortune
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anthony’s latest book, “Hotels, Hospitals and Jails” describes his life after the pluses and minuses of the fame of "Jarhead." In that book he chro...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat : Dallas Crow - "The Aesthetics of Gravity"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Dallas Crow's work has appeared in Tar River Poetry and Poet Lore. His book, "Small, Imperfect Paradise," is due out from Parallel Press this year....

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
INTRUDERS -- Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Juan Carlos Fresnadillo talks secrets, nightmares, and making the darkness visible.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 11:18
An alternative take on the K through 12
From: KALW
Caption: The openness of Brightworks school reflects the founder’s vision for education: honor thy creative impulses.
On a typical day at Brightworks, a private school in San Francisco’s Mission District, students are welding, listening to indie music, and writing ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 13, 2012
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 3