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Caption: Josina Manu Maltzman, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Josina Manu Maltzman
How can a profession in the building trades lend itself to the craft of writing? And what does building a house have to do with social justice orga...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 05:53
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Two Minnesota musicians, Amanda Weber and Natalie Pollard, are starting what is thought to be the first re-entry choir in the U.S. Pollard shares t...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Tanya Benson, Credit: Tanya Benson
Feature story about a woman squatting in an abandoned house in Detroit with her family of five.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
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In this piece, the *brand new* Emmy Award-winning Jacobs discusses the art of music supervision and shares stories from her work on four projects i...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 09:23
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She gave up her dream of being a Portuguese pop star to become a social worker. Now she finds that her day job has made her a better singer.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A Dangerous Things kit, Credit: Alison Bruzek
Hacking your hearing aid to implanting NFC tags into your hands -- we are now in the age of DIY Bio. We dive into the growing underworld of body mo...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2016
  • Length: 18:22
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Deje Rene Carr has basically reached the status of local music legend in Pioneer Valley. The catch, she's still in high school.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 05:57
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Across the US, fewer than half of all public schools have a nurse available to kids all day, every day, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Founda...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
Caption: MOTHER: A PODCAST, Credit: Logo created by Justin Schnarr (justinschnarr.com/).
After Annie Cho gave birth to her son this spring, she struggled to make traditional Chinese "confinement" practices (hygiene rules + special postp...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 08:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Emily Ritz and Kacey Johansing are best friends. They were both in separate bands and living in Marin County when they decided to go on tour togeth...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The widows of Vrindavan
Some 60 widows in white saris from the town of Vrindavan made thier way to Kolkata for the festival of the Goddess Durga. Something many of them ha...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
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Producer Erica Hellerstein takes us on a journey to identity through an ancient medicinal practice known as “curanderismo”.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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On October 22nd our 29th castaway was DAWN MCANDREWS, the Artistic Director of The Theatre at Monmouth. Dawn is an accomplished director, producer,...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:35:31
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Volunteers in New Hampshire explain why they're pitching in to re-elect President Obama, and how independent-minded voters across the state are put...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
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Analysis and exploration of current issues surrounding the conflict in Darfur.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
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Day Job is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:10
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In the early 1960's Leslie Gore's songs spoke to adolescents. With the British invasion, Gore lost her appeal to the teen set but she continued m...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 19, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Music icon Ani Difranco says she unconsciously wrote the same song over and over until she realized she was carrying old family wounds.

Bought by WGDR, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Womemories Host Bernadette Cahill talks with Shelley Graff

  • Added: Apr 18, 2007
  • Length: 09:59
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A pioneer of Texas rhythm and blues tells her story

  • Added: Feb 06, 2007
  • Length: 09:55
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Amy Rigby sees herself as a mild mannered woman unless of course, she's writing a song or performing in front of an audience.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Oct 16, 2006
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Candye Kane muses about her love of music and how she was able to support her art and young son by working in the sex industry

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, KVNF, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 16, 2006
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Poetry by Jacob C. Norman set to music.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2005
  • Length: 09:48
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Hairdresser converts to Islam and discusses the dilemma of "covering up her moneymaker."

Bought by Interfaith Voices, KXOT Public Radio, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 3