Kind World
Series produced by 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
Stories about the profound effect one act can have on a life.
Stories about the profound effect one act can have on a life.
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18 Pieces
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Sasha Chanoff was in his mid-20s when he faced an urgent decision unlike any he’d encountered before — and more than 100 lives depended on it.
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 07:49
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Max Evans lived on the streets of Boston, making his bed between two jersey barriers each night.
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- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 04:23
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Janne Vanessche and her boyfriend were fighting. The argument was over something trivial, but, to an outsider, things may have looked serious. When...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 04:01
By her estimates, Sister Sue has handled over 2,000 bond cases. And she has no intention of slowing down. Produced by Zack Ezor.
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- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 04:10
- Purchases: 2
Nearing the end of her hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, Brittany Goodson began to panic. Days of unrelenting rain had soaked her gear, and hypother...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 05:36
As Parkinson’s disease worsened for Bernard Michaels, his family took him on a final trip to Europe. Early in the trip, a slip landed him in the ho...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 05:36
- Purchases: 1
Jen Turner had always wanted to be a mom. But when she developed macular edema, an eye disease, doctors warned her that pregnancy could result in p...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 05:36
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Everything seemed to be going wrong in Maureen Festa’s life. Her mother was dying, her marriage was ending, she had to move out of her home, and fa...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 04:04
Dr. Ferenc Jolesz’s kidneys were failing fast. The estimated wait time for a cadaver transplant was five to 10 years. He didn’t have that kind of t...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 04:04
Michael Tambone lost his mom in middle school and took to skipping mother/son events. Then Frances Schmitz stepped in. Produced by Zack Ezor.
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 05:04
Emily Proctor was in tears at the airport. She had missed a connecting flight on her way to Florida, to visit her best friend in a time of need. Th...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 03:49
When Maureen O’Rourke’s father was dying, she vowed to stay with him until the end. But days turned into weeks, and Maureen found herself utterly d...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 04:23
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Shelagh Gordon was another name in the obituaries, a woman who had died suddenly of a massive brain aneurysm at the age of 55. But something in the...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 06:56
When Ron Jones got to know a young couple who were struggling, he made the decision that money alone would not be enough to make a difference in th...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 05:11
When Scott Widak became terminally ill, his nephew took to Reddit, asking the online community to send letters to his uncle with Down syndrome. Sco...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 08:57
Karim Alagha worked for 25 years at a gas station in Cambridge. He was known for being immensely loving and deeply empathetic: a sort of "gas stati...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 06:10
Reverend Nathan Detering tried an experiment with his congregation — “reverse offering,” where instead of members donating money to the church, the...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 04:28
It was Shirley Dygert's first time jumping from a plane. When everything went wrong, skydiving instructor David Hartsock determined that there was ...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 08:29
- Purchases: 2
