A Sense of Place

Series produced by Helen Borten

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A documentary series about the connections between people and places in America, presenting true stories as compelling as fiction, unforgettable characters and subject matter as fresh and provocative as the day's news.

A documentary series about the connections between people and places in America, presenting true stories as compelling as fiction, unforgettable characters and subject matter as fresh and provocative as the day's news.

"Evocative. What better way to experience and celebrate the nation's diversity of people and variety of landscape than by tuning in to Helen Borten's A Sense of Place?"
- The Los Angeles Times

"A superb concept for radio. timely, too, given the longing in America for community and connection."
- Bill Moyers

"A Sense of Place" won "Best Documentary Series" from the Unity Awards in Media at Lincoln University

Attached: two :30 series promos


Additional Files

22 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Fly Fishing in Montana
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: Me in Montana
An ancient pastime explored in the lives, lore and literature of anglers.

Bought by KISU, KRZA, KVSC, KSUT, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2009
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 13
House of the Lord
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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The history of a black church on an antebellum plantation and how it was saved from destruction.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KVNF, KUT, KDUR, WJAB and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2006
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 7
The Children of Logan
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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The producer returns to her Philadelphia home and finds hope amid the ruins. The life and death of an inner city neighborhood.

Bought by WFUV and Audible


  • Added: Jun 04, 2004
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Vietnamese Homecoming Part Two
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Conflict breaks out between the Vietnamese and Cajun shrimpers and the fate of both hangs in the balance.

Bought by WFHB, XRAY.fm, and Audible


  • Added: Jun 04, 2004
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Vietnamese Homecoming Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Fishermen and their families escape from Vietnam to a new home in Louisiana and struggle to earn a living along the Gulf Coast.

Bought by WFHB, XRAY.fm, and Audible


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:07
  • Purchases: 3
Summer Camp
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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From the mouths of kids and the memories of grownups comes a rambunctious portrait of a peculiarly American institution.

Bought by KISU, KSUT, KPIK-LP, KGNU Community Radio, KMUZ and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 24
Sunset Hall
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Leftist causes continue to invigorate residents of a Los Angeles retirement home for radicals.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, Audible, and KSFR


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 3
Lost in America
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Drug addicts, a prostitute and a blind woman recount their journeys through homelessness to a new life.

Bought by PRX Remix and Audible


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Broadway Memories
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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From a riot in 1849 to today’s regulars at Barrymore’s Bar, how a street became the universal symbol of live theater.

Bought by PRX Remix, Audible, and WFUV


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 3
Nightfall in Chester County
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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In Pennsylvania farmland that was the first stop on the Underground Railroad, a strike by Mexican mushroom pickers polarizes a Quaker community.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, WRIR and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 17
Circus Life: To Catch the Quad
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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A trapeze star of the 1920s, his present-day counterpart and a colorful supporting cast reveal the heartbreak and gritty reality behind the tinsel:...

Bought by KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, Audible, and WZBC


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 4
Circus Life: The Last Sideshow
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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What is it like on the other side of the peephole? The Half-Girl, the Snake Lady, the Fat Man and others share their experiences and surprising vi...

Bought by KPIK-LP, XRAY.fm, PRX Remix, WETA, and Audible


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 5
Hollister
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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On July 4, 1947 thousands of bikers roared into a small California town and changed our assumptions about America. A new investigation raises prov...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WRPI, KUT, PRX Remix, KALW and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
The Prison Cure
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Sick kids behind bars and what happens when they get there: a Colorado youth prison sheds light on a national problem.

Bought by KPIK-LP, WSKG, PRX Remix, WRPI, and Audible


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 5
Strip Club USA Part Two
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Men and women, physically in the same place, inhabit different worlds.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Audible, WZBC, and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 4
Strip Club USA Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Strippers and club patrons talk about what draws them to America's thriving sex industry.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Audible, WZBC, and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
Mme. Blavatsky and The Colonel Part Two
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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The story of the woman responsible for America's love afair with spiritualism and her modern-day descendants.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Audible, WFIU, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 5
Mme. Blavatsky and The Colonel Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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The story of the woman responsible for America's love afair with spiritualism and her modern-day descendants.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Audible, KSFR, WFIU and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 6
The Maypole at Merrymount
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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A long-forgotten conflict between the Pilgrim Fathers and a freethinking fur trader resonates with today's moral concerns.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WRPI, KTNA, Yellowstone Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 8
Little Odessa in Brooklyn
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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One hundred years of Brighton Beach memoirs.

Bought by KUER, KFCF FM, Radio Catskill, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KVSC and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 12

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