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StoryCorps: Angelina McCall and Matt McCall
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Angelina McCall after graduating from nursing school in the spring of 2020. , Credit: Photo courtesy the participants
After Angelina McCall left her job at a Tucson ER, she wondered if she was cut out for nursing. Then a volunteer position on the US-Mexico border h...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
Family Meal
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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This Thanksgiving, meet the people who run Central Library's café and get a peak into their kitchen on the Library's third floor, where fourteen st...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 12:41
GN_5.03_CountingOnCrows
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
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A theme park in Western France has come up with an unprecedented solution to deal with trash on their grounds. They’ve enlisted the help of a crew ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Invisible Workers, Laboring in the Shadows
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Woman waiting to cross the border into Morocco carrying imported goods from Spain , Credit: Thalia Beaty and Maggy Donaldson
Millions of people around the world work in jobs that aren’t formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. On thi...

Bought by KALW, WCPN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Dive
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The "Get to Know Me" occasional series
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My brother Thomas recounts a diving accident he lived through early in his career as a commercial diver.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 08:51
Crossing Over
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Master mason Victor Ayala, Credit: CharlesMcGuigan
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:06
Kremlin to Kremlin
From: With Good Reason
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In the 1930’s, many African-American artists and intellectuals traveled to the Soviet Union, seeking a society free of class and racism. Joseph Roa...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 03:24
Hello Buffalo
From: Israel Story
Caption: Dubi tending to his water buffalo.
Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 17:03
In the male world of mechanics Only Girls can fix your car
From: Sarah Elzas
Series: Wo/men's work
Caption: Car mechanics Aurore and Melina at the Only Girls garage, Credit: onlygirls-auto.fr
Car mechanics tend to be male. A Paris-area garage is trying to change that by hiring women to appeal to women.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1
Woodburn, The Most Diverse Town In Oregon
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Caption: Luis & Luisa Quintero of Luis' Tacqueria in Woodburn, OR, Credit: Photo by Richard Jensen
Throughout the West, historic discriminatory laws have excluded people of color from settling and owning property. Because of that, many Western st...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 2
Growing Pains at The World's Largest Co-op?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Mondragón Corporation includes everything from banking to bike factories, nano-technology to rabbit farming. Its a corporate dream—but this cor...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 09:43
Making it Our Business: Co-ops on the Rise
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ariizmendi Fourth Street, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
The global economic situation is causing more people to consider worker owned businesses. We go from Chicago, where workers are trying to take over...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Detention in the City of Destiny
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: GEO Guard at the Northwest Detention Center, Tacoma., Credit: Alex Stonehill
In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:19
  • Purchases: 1
Living in Limbo
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: Gabriela Cubillos prepares tamales in her home. , Credit: Eroyn Franklin
In our final segment, producer Jessica Partnow follows the story of one family living in immigration limbo in Auburn, Washington.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, XRAY.fm, KISU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 6
Up All Night
From: Seattle Globalist
Caption: Ali Jaffri, Credit: Alex Stonehill
Jessica Partnow takes us through a night in the life of Ali Jaffri, a professional telemarketer in Lahore, Pakistan.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KCRW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 3
Shipbreaking Worker
From: Homelands Productions
Series: WORKING
Caption: Babu Hussein, Credit: Jashim Salam
Sandy Tolan profiles a 13-year-old laborer at one of Bangladesh's giant shipbreaking yards.

Bought by 'The Sea', Connecticut Public (WNPR), WBEZ, PRX Remix, and PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Aug 07, 2009
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 5
Runner
From: Homelands Productions
Series: WORKING
Caption: Salina Kosgei, Credit: Stevie Mann
Jon Miller profiles the little-known Kenyan woman who won the 2009 Boston Marathon by less than one second.

Bought by 'The Sea', WXDU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 07, 2009
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 5
Banker
From: Homelands Productions
Series: WORKING
Caption: Brandon Davies, London, England, Credit: Robin Hunt
Sean Cole profiles an international banker living in London, both before and after the world banking crisis.

Bought by 'The Sea', WBEZ, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 21, 2009
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 5
Electronics Recycler
From: Homelands Productions
Series: WORKING
Caption: Vicky Ponce, Mexico, Credit: Magdalena Gonzalez Othon
Ingrid Lobet profiles a woman who joined a group of unemployed middle-aged women to open an electronics recycling plant in northern Mexico.

Bought by 'The Sea', WABE, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNIJ, HCC Radio The Dragon and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2009
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 10
A Day in the Life of Nadeem Awan
From: Seattle Globalist
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This story follows a day in the life of Nadeem Awan, a child laborer and student in Karachi, Pakistan.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2009
  • Length: 05:22
Human Smuggler
From: Homelands Productions
Series: WORKING
Caption: Alidad, Pakistan, Credit: Gregory Warner
Gregory Warner profiles a Pashtun man who smuggles Afghan refugees over the mountains into Iran.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, and Remix Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2009
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 4
Marriage Broker
From: Homelands Productions
Series: WORKING
Caption: Hang Nga, Vietnam, Credit: Kelly McEvers
Kelly McEvers profiles a Vietnamese woman who works for a marriage agency that matches Korean men with Vietnamese brides.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, WBEZ, KUOW and more


  • Added: May 27, 2009
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 7
Circus Performer
From: Homelands Productions
Series: WORKING
Caption: Svitlana Svystun, England, Credit: Robin Hunt
Sean Cole profiles a Ukrainian dancer who performs with in a Russian circus that tours the UK.

Bought by XRAY.fm, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, and Remix Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2009
  • Length: 06:32
  • Purchases: 4
Labor Inspector
From: Homelands Productions
Series: WORKING
Caption: Leandro Carvalho, Brazil, Credit: Petra Costa
Sandy Tolan profiles a member an anti-forced labor SWAT team whose job is to free slaves working in Brazil's iron, cattle and sugar cane industries.

Bought by WRPI, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, WBEZ, and Remix Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2009
  • Length: 07:57
  • Purchases: 5
Miner
From: Homelands Productions
Series: WORKING
Caption: Fidele Musafiri, DR Congo, Credit: Thomas Rippe
Gregory Warner profiles a freelance miner in the lawless eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Bought by WRPI, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: May 27, 2009
  • Length: 07:51
  • Purchases: 6