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Sarah Silva’s Poem
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Sarah Silva, a poet also shares her poem “It was always going to be Customs & Border Protection.” to highlight all the pain and suffering that CBP ...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 03:10
Native American Relief Fund & I Mask Up Campaign
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Native American tribes and families are disproportionately affected by COVID-19...we speak to the president and CEO of New Mexico Foundation, JoAnn...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 55:58
And They Never Came Back: Life After Our Parents Have Died
From: melanie berzon
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A documentary of the effects of being left both motherless and fatherless at an early age.

Bought by KUER, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KISU, KUNM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 57:03
  • Purchases: 8
Through the Narrows
From: Chris Griffith
Caption: 6-year old Chootch and 3,500 year-old Elli, Credit: Bruce Silcox
Award-winning puppetry artists Shari Aronson and Chris Griffith of Z Puppets Rosenschnoz share stories of two characters from their own ancestry: a...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2020
  • Length: 51:51
Reset (episode 7)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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Explore what it looks like to fragment a forest, to drain a river, and to make a city unsafe for the humans that live there. Travel from the Black ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 44:41
  • Purchases: 2
Father's Day Special 2020
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Just in time for Father's Day, celebrate Dads with great music, poetry, and messages from kids to their fathers.

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, RadioFreePalmer, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Emotion Roadmap Dealing with Extremely Challenging Situations June 2020
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
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In the US we started the year with full employment, a great economy, and an election year. We had challenges but nothing like the pandemic and then...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 54:07
A SUDDEN LOSS - A Memorial To Lives Lost To COVID-19 (59:00 / 54:00 / 29:00/ plus optional 2nd hour)
From: Paul Ingles
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Popular public radio hosts, past and present, read short eulogies to just some of the tens of thousands lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the las...

Bought by Hawaii Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KAAD-LP, Boise State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 42
Sampler for A SUDDEN LOSS - Memorial Day Tribute to Those Lost to COVID-19
From: Paul Ingles
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NOT FOR BROADCAST: On this page is a programmers' audition sample of the program A SUDDEN LOSS which will be released for download on Wednesday, M...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KSJE, 90.5 WESA, WHRV, KWGS and more


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 15:13
  • Purchases: 8
To Save One Life is to Save Humanity
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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Houda knows a thing or two about having one’s life upended. About sheltering in place. This isn’t the first time she and her family have spent mont...

  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 04:35
Re:sound - The Family Ties Show
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2020 Re:sound Specials from Third Coast
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This hour, stories about family ties, love and loss.

Bought by KOSU, Troy Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Michigan Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
We May Be In This Together, But We're Not All in the Same Boat
From: Suzanne LaGrande
Series: We Are All In This Together
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Suzanne LaGrande interviews Leah Klass, creative consultant, mother of two, neighbor who works with asylum seekers.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 12:09
Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the inf...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Viral Shortcut
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Safe Social Gathering, Credit: Facemask Meeting 1955
A thirty minute Pandemic overview featuring the latest information, health warnings and preventative measures, mixed with music from a variety of m...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:16
The Orange Grove
From: Kate Madara
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Someone has to hold their hands very carefully underneath, to catch a tear inside a message in a bottle. Plus, a look at the sound triangles make.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 10:28
The Stradivarius of Singers: A Tribute to Leontyne Price
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Caption: Leontyne Price, Credit: Jack Mitchell
One of the most renowned and beloved singers of the 20th century, American soprano Leontyne Price rose to superstardom at a time when African-Ameri...

Bought by WVIA, WMNR, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 17, 2020
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 3
Shortcuts 2019-Tributes
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Still Hope, Credit: Daniel Johnston
Celebrating more of those that we lost in the past year with tributes remixed from the cutting room floor of 2019

  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:33
2019-12-29 Ken Taylor Tribute
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Remembering Philosophy Talk's co-creator, chief cheerleader, and guiding light, Ken Taylor.

Bought by WFHB, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
THE PAPER KEY
From: Kate Madara
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Anne’s whisper became a long silk thread, spun around a butterfly. Caterpillar all too eager to wrap it from inside its body around like a cocoon....

  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 11:08
FM Odyssey - Thanksgiving 2019 With Exclusive Version of Alice's Restaurant
From: FM Odyssey
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FM Odyssey takes you on a journey with songs that make you feel this time of year. From artists you know and some you forgot you know. Plus an excl...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KRCB 104.9, KDUR, and KHNS


  • Added: Nov 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:54:24
  • Purchases: 4
Novelist, Poet, & Memoirist Alan Proctor
From: New Letters on the Air
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We mark Veteran's Day with two interviews featuring Alan Proctor. His book, THE SWEDEN FILE: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN EX-PATRIATE, was named one of th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
DW Opera: Tannhaeuser from the Bayreuth Festival
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Caption: Scene from "Tannhäuser" at the Bayreuth Festival
The spellbinding performance from opening day of the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, with Valery Gergiev leading the Bayreuth Festival Orchest...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Nov 11, 2019
  • Length: 03:24:33
  • Purchases: 1
Tall Tales & Stories
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: We're Better Than This...
Heading into unknown territory with Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Robert Forster, Pam Grier, Christopher Walken, Sam Elliot, Timothy Olyphant, Keith Car...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:52
We Are Still Here - "Mir Zaynen Do!"
From: William Zukof
Series: The Western Wind Judaica Series
Caption: We Are Still Here!
The Holocaust Through Music & Memory; Sung by The Western Wind & Narrated by Danny Burstein and Jessica Hecht

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KWIT


  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
Amazing Gracie - Gracie's story, and "Forward" from the book.
From: Paul Messing
Caption: Amazing Gracie (cover)
The story behind the story of Three Dog Bakery, and how a dog with special needs brought all the elements together.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2019
  • Length: 02:00

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