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The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com, Credit: Shannon Heffernan

A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next g...

Added: Mar 30, 2011
Length: 29:00

Not Quite Nutcracker (and way better than christmas carols)

From: Emily Corwin

Set to the entire score of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet, Vanessa White's The Slutcracker is a wholesome kind of raunchy...

Bought by WFHB, KUT, and KUT

Added: Nov 23, 2010
Length: 21:14
Purchases: 3

Talk of the Town

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

This is a story about finding forgiveness and acceptance in a small town.

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, PRX Remix, The Story, KUOW, and WMPG

Added: Jun 07, 2010
Length: 11:29
Purchases: 5

54 Years

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

The nation's last sardine cannery in Gouldsboro, Maine closed its doors in April 2010. Lela Anderson worked at the cannery for fifty-four years.

Added: Jun 03, 2010
Length: 07:46

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

For Katie West of Bath, Maine, laughter is not only a way of life but a tool for survival.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and SALTcast Podcast

Added: Jun 03, 2010
Length: 05:31
Purchases: 2

The Black Experience

From: West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Dr. Della Taylor Hardman made it her mission to talk to influential and promising African Americans inside and outside of West Virginia. Her interv...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WDDE, WJAB, KWMR, WEMU and more

Added: May 27, 2010
Length: 01:57:00
Purchases: 10

CHICK/LIT

From: Inez Tan

This feature explores the global subculture of Slash fiction, a genre of fan fiction where pop culture/media fans write stories about their favouri...

Added: Apr 11, 2010
Length: 31:38

Home Alone

From: Radio Rookies

Krystle loves her mom very much and she feels guilty about how hard her mom has worked to provide a good life for them, but Krystle sometimes wonde...

Bought by The Story, KUT, and KUOW

Added: Apr 07, 2010
Length: 07:27
Purchases: 3

Giving Women The Vote

From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan

Caption: Votes For Women!, Credit: Library of Congress

2010 was the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave American women the right to vote. Women got the vote, in part, because of a promise ...

Bought by WWNO, KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Hark!, WSGE and more

Added: Mar 18, 2010
Length: 05:02
Purchases: 9

Reality Check

From: David Schultz

Caption: Carolyn Parham, Credit: SpeakeasyDC

A mother of two faces a life-altering crisis when, just a few months out of rehab, a $5,000 check appears in her mailbox.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUOW

Added: Feb 28, 2010
Length: 05:52
Purchases: 3

Weberdance: An Audio Portrait

From: Chris Engles

Caption: Weberdance, Credit: Chris Engles

Audio portrait of a dance company in Boston, MA.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Feb 07, 2010
Length: 05:29
Purchases: 1

Only I Can Now

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Deb Dunn’s second love, after her husband, was teaching marine biology. But about five years ago, she had to give it up.

Added: Jan 19, 2010
Length: 05:30

Reenacting Like They're Related

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Confederate Civil War reenactors in Maine? The 15th Alabama is the largest Confederate Civil War reenacting group in the state.

Bought by WMPG

Added: Jan 06, 2010
Length: 06:29
Purchases: 1

Into The Woods

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Georgette Kanach loves to hunt, fish, hike, and do almost any activity that involves being out in the woods. It’s the place where she grew up, and ...

Bought by PRX Remix, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Jan 06, 2010
Length: 05:45
Purchases: 3

Family, Derby and Nothing Else

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Maine Roller Derby skated into Portland, Maine and called the city home in 2006. Roller derby is a fast-paced full-contact sport played on skates.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Jan 06, 2010
Length: 05:56
Purchases: 1

Citizen Synforose

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Maine has one of the most diverse immigrant populations of any state in the country. Synforose Rugema came to America as a refugee from the Congo i...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Jan 06, 2010
Length: 04:42
Purchases: 3

It's Right For Me

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Alice Loesch has lived through a century that has seen some of history’s most sweeping changes in the lives of women.

Bought by WTIP, Delta College Public Radio, KSFR, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more

Added: Jan 06, 2010
Length: 06:46
Purchases: 10

Hot Lunch

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

For many, the term "lunch lady" conjures an image of a grouchy woman in a hair net, who's just as scary as the unidentifiable food she's serving.

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, SALTcast Podcast, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Jan 06, 2010
Length: 04:55
Purchases: 4

Lindsay Ess, Becoming Whole, Pt. 1

From: Charles McGuigan

Lindsay Ess was a fashion model, a designer, a stunning beauty. And then at the age of twenty-four, just two years ago, doctors had to cut off both...

Added: Jan 05, 2010
Length: 27:39

This can go on forever

From: Big Shed Audio

Caption: This polaroid of Joel was given to Carol by her social worker when the adoption process was completed., Credit: Photo courtesy Carol Brobeck.

When Carol was 20, she gave her baby boy away for adoption. Twenty years later, the son, Joel, came looking. The two tell their story of reunion.

Bought by American Voices, KUT, SALTcast Podcast, KCRW, PRX Remix and more

Added: Dec 15, 2009
Length: 10:25
Purchases: 8

The Cutting Place

From: Lu Olkowski
Series: In Verse: Women of Troy

A documentary poem about DJ Guerin, who’s 32, with 7 kids.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio, and Remix Radio

Added: Nov 03, 2009
Length: 05:03
Purchases: 5

Just a Girl

From: Lu Olkowski
Series: In Verse: Women of Troy

A documentary poem about an afternoon spent with Billie Jean Hill at the Flag Day parade in Troy, New York. Billie Jean is a 25-year-old woman with...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio, BBC Americana and more

Added: Nov 03, 2009
Length: 04:59
Purchases: 6

In the Office of Temporary Assistance

From: Lu Olkowski
Series: In Verse: Women of Troy

A documentary poem about an afternoon that poet Susan B.A. Somers-Willett spent with Billie Jean Hill at the New York State Office of Temporary Ass...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio, EconomyBeat Podcast and more