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A Burden to be Well: Sisters and Brothers of the Mentally Ill
From: Karen Brown
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Sound-rich documentary about the effect of mental illness on "well" siblings

Bought by KPVL, PRX to iTunes, WCQS, KXOT Public Radio, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
Scenes From a Transplant/Special
From: Long Haul Productions
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One woman's fight against cancer to save her life for her and her family.

Bought by KMXT, WVPE, Jefferson Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio, and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jun 25, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Love, War, and PTSD
From: Karen Brown
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A young couple tells the story of married life after war -- and it's not pretty.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Third Coast International Audio Festival


  • Added: Apr 23, 2007
  • Length: 11:13
  • Purchases: 2
Mom's Good Move Special
From: Long Haul Productions
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An hour-long special about starting over late in life.

Bought by KUNM, WSKG, PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2007
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
My Mother's Story
From: Teresa Goff
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A group of Vancouver actors gets together to try and fit the lives of their mothers into 1000 words or less. The project is called My Mother's Sto...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and WKSU


  • Added: Apr 11, 2007
  • Length: 21:10
  • Purchases: 2
Crossing East Music Featre: Violinist Aishu Venkataraman
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Profile of 13-year-old prodigy and her musician family

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 08, 2007
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: The Music of Lutes and Harps
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
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The first generation of children born under China?s one-child policy have reached adulthood and have their own, new views of family life.

Bought by WFUV


  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Rut
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
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Listeners drop in on a conversation between father and son hunting partners, Rupe and Joe LaRock, who talk about the annual breeding cycle of male ...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:18
  • Purchases: 1
Queer Queers
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2000
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two woment that don't fit in the box of Queer

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WGDR, Spokane Public Radio, KWCW, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: May 28, 2006
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 5
Patrick's Loyalties
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2000
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Patrick returns to help his estranged father die of AIDS

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 28, 2006
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 1
Becoming a Man
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2000
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Two transgender stories from Joan Schuman

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWCW


  • Added: May 25, 2006
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2
Patrick's Loyalties
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2000
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Patrick's Loyalties

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWCW


  • Added: May 25, 2006
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 2
Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Early history of Hawaiians settling along the West Coast

Bought by KREV-LP, KLCC, KSUT, and KUOW


  • Added: May 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: Not Enough Tears
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Rajani Thiranagama was a doctor, a teacher and a committed human rights who was shot in 1989 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Her daughter was 11 years old. ...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Apr 13, 2006
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: The Walker
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A documentary about walking; its benefits and cultural history.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, KRZA, KFAI Minneapolis, WFUV and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
Nativity: one-hour version
From: Conrad Bishop
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A celebration of the wonder, joy, pain, and innate sacredness of childbirth.

Bought by KVNF and WNIJ


  • Added: Apr 10, 2006
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
Crossing East: Brides & Children - Program Five
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Stories of Asian brides of American servicemen and adopted Asian children. THE ACTUAL SHOW LENGTH IS 59 MINUTES. THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSIONS OF THIS...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCPN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCPN, KQED and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
RN Valentine's Day Special
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Radio Netherlands the Dutch international series presents Long Distance Love ? two tales of transatlantic romance to warm up your Valentines day.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KMXT, KUT, KUNM, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Winner of the Peabody award, MEI MEI, A DAUGHTER'S SONG is the personal story of cross-cultural and cross-generational conflict produced by Dmae Ro...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, PRX Remix, The Story, SALTcast Podcast, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2005
  • Length: 26:35
  • Purchases: 17
Yesterday and Forever December Special
From: Helen Engelhardt
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Documentary composition featuring six widows in remembrance of Lockerbie tragedy - on 17th anniversary

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KRPS, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 17, 2005
  • Length: 24:31
  • Purchases: 4
HEART-to-HEART Pgm I: Beyond Pain
From: Claire Schoen
Series: HEART-to-HEART: Caring for the Dying
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It is possible for almost everyone to be pain free at the end of their lives

Bought by WDCV, Audible, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 28, 2005
  • Length: 01:06:33
  • Purchases: 3
HEART-to-HEART Pgm II: Children Sometimes Die
From: Claire Schoen
Series: HEART-to-HEART: Caring for the Dying
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We expect that children will get sick from time to time. But we don't expect them to die.

Bought by Audible and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 28, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:39
  • Purchases: 2
Dear Birth Mother
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Becoming a Mom
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After waiting for Mr. Right (who has yet to arrive) - and after years of fertility treatments - Suzanne, a single woman in her forties, decided to ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVSC, KMXT, HowSound, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 16
Love and War
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Professional soldiers in Fort Benning, Georgia talk of the challenges facing themselves and their families as they prepare to go to war. Produced ...

Bought by WFHB, KMUN, KQAL, WFHB, KUAC and more


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 18
Becky Nash Fishing Tales
From: Edward May
Series: Fishing Tales
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Becky Nash knows about rearing children on a fishing boat, watching them grow up to be fisherman and losing one to the sea that helped rear them.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2005
  • Length: 14:51

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