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September 8th, 2004
All Available Boats: Harbor Voices from 9/11
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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Documentary on harbor workers who evacuated Manhattan on September 11, 2001.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WLRN


  • Added: Sep 08, 2004
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Grad Student Discos for Dollars
From: Hillary Frank
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A grad student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago pays for his living expenses by disco dancing on the street.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, KUOW, PRX to iTunes, KGOU and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2004
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 6
Sounds Like Yesterday
From: Aaron Henkin
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Gene Leitner remembers (and relives) the Golden Age of radio every day of his life.

Bought by Audible, WCFM, WHQR, WZBC, and WUAL


  • Added: Sep 08, 2004
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 5
September 4th, 2004
Das Fuhrer Clean
From: Robert Nowak
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A satire that gives the BEST and most inventive use for the Patriot Act.

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Sep 04, 2004
  • Length: 13:12
  • Purchases: 1
Coming Home
From: Robert Nowak
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is a satire on President Bush's specious claim to be compassionate.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2004
  • Length: 12:21
Presidents' Day
From: Robert Nowak
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is a satire targeting President Bush's inability to use the English language.

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: Sep 04, 2004
  • Length: 09:39
  • Purchases: 1
Gethsemane II
From: Robert Nowak
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Gethsemane II is a satire on President Bush's religious pretensions.

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Sep 04, 2004
  • Length: 09:13
  • Purchases: 1
September 3rd, 2004
A Man on Horse Back
From: Claes Andreasson
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Hollywood makes few Westerns, but the genre is still loved

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, KZSC, and WHQR


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 4
Another Lousy Day
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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A critically-acclaimed story detailing one man's quest to find the author of two diaries from 1960 and 1961 that he found in a thrift store.

Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, WYBC, and WYSO


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 17:36
  • Purchases: 4
Movin' Out the Bricks
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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A year in the life of Catherine "Coco" Means, as she leaves her long-time home in a Chicago public housing development and moves to her first priva...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KGNU Community Radio, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 27:46
  • Purchases: 8
The Port Chicago 50: An Oral History
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series
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The story of the worst homefront disaster of World War II -- an ammunition explosion that killed more than 300 men -- and what happened to the 50 A...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVMR, WORT, KVNF and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 25:12
  • Purchases: 26
Maxey's Mansion
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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Alva Maxey-Boyd, now in her nineties, defied race covenants, urban renewal bulldozers, and two Mayor Daleys in a seven-decade battle to get and kee...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WFUV, WLUW, and WYSO


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 25:07
  • Purchases: 5
House of Pain
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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Public housing residents scramble to figure out where to go next when their Chicago public housing high-rise is slated for demolition. It's all p...

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 2
Bible Salesman
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series
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Former door-to-door Bible salesman Jim "The Rabbit" Baker, featured in the classic 1969 Maysles Brothers film Salesman, explains the secrets of his...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WYBC, KSUT, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 5
"Diamond" Jimmy Roy
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series
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Once, Jimmy Roy owned half the businesses in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town just outside Pittsburgh. Braddock's decline paralleled Jimmy's. B...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 19:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life on the Outside
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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Two mentally ill and homeless repeat offenders attempt to break the cycle -- one that for years has spun from jail, to psychiatric hospitals, to th...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and CKMO


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 3
Mom's Good Move
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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Peg Collison documents her move from San Mateo, California - where she'd lived for almost 35 years - to a retirement community in Davis, California...

Bought by WCBU and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 37:09
  • Purchases: 2
Meet Me at Unity Playlot
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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After a battle erupts over whether to allow kids to play basketball in a scruffy Chicago park, neighbors rally and defeat the machine-backed alderm...

Bought by The Story, PRX Remix, and KVNF


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 15:08
  • Purchases: 3
When All Else Fails
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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"When All Else Fails" is a first-person account of a man undergoing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock (Award Winner:...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 21:19
  • Purchases: 2
Huntsville Prison Blues
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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Every day, more than 150 men are processed, paroled and released from the Walls Unit in Hunstville, Texas, a small conservative town home to nine s...

Bought by PRX Remix and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 09:32
  • Purchases: 2