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A Dance Between Darkness & Light: My Struggle With Bipolar Disorder
From: A. Emily Ralph
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When you look into the eyes of someone who’s Bi-Polar, it’s like looking at a hurricane from space. You can see the swirling mass, but the real ho...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WABE, The Story, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 5
170429 The South - New Orleans Removes It's Confederacy Statues
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Chess Records' first release was a disastrous Tibbs Brother song expressing displeasure with the then recently deceased racist Mississippi Governor...

  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:08:20
When Your Hometown Leaves You - Racism
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: My Mentor, Mike Marley
When racism changes everything. A late night recitation on that teenage decision of what will be your identity in matter of your friend's racism...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 24, 2016
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 1
Interviewing Veterans (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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This Veterans Day, Americans will be marking one hundred years since the end of World War One, but there will be no veterans of that war present to...

Bought by Prairie Public, KENW, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 5
Orthodox: 6 Minute Version
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS: Short Versions
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A short form version of the non-narrated ARRVLS feature "Orthodox". What happens when your religious faith and sexual identity directly contradic...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 23:43
  • Purchases: 1
Jeffrey Toobin Reads Award-Winning Prison Essay
From: PEN America
Series: The Freedom to Write
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Author Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker reads "The Colfax Crew” an essay from the PEN Prison Writing Contest by Tim Boland of Minnesota Correctiona...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 10:55
Ep 18: Questionable Capitalism
From: Jim Sawyer
Series: Capitalism In Crisis
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What does equine capital in a Grandpa farm have to do with Turing Pharmaceuticals and its bid to raise the price of a life-saving drug by 50 times?...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2016
  • Length: 08:57
Bliss
From: Philip Armand
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Philip Armand accidentally falls into a vortex of Bliss, then the bliss hangs up.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2016
  • Length: 05:43
160604 Muhammad Ali Tribute
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Mike Marley with his old friend Muhammad Ali and Mike's former employer Don King.
Interrupting my Saturday night music radio show with some words about Muhammad Ali who passed earlier in the day. Ali's impact on me as an 8th gra...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 46:15
Choreography of Care
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ingrid Tischer, director of development, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF) and Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong, Credit: Alice Wong
Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong asks, how do people with disabilities who rely on personal assistance negotiate their relationships with ...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:33
This Moment is Worth It
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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When Thanksgiving arrived in 2008, Robert found himself struggling with a tangled mess of emotions. The economic crisis in the U.S., big changes at...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2015
  • Length: 31:20
The Refugee (fiction)
From: LN Lurie
Caption: PRX default Piece image
While hitch-hiking through Serbia, I met a refugee.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:01
S-k-o-p-j-e! The capital of Macedonia!
From: LN Lurie
Series: Where in the World is LN?
Caption: Alexander the Great
What would you do if you had 100Million Euros (or more!) to spend on a country? What would you spend it on? The leaders of Macedonia chose statues...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:58
FALL POEMS: "Wide Receiver" by Mark Halliday
From: The Poetry Foundation
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This contemporary poem gets into the mind of a wide receiver in the middle of a play.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 1
FALL POEM: "Sitting Outside at the End of Autumn" by Charles Wright
From: The Poetry Foundation
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The former U.S. poet laureate reads his poem about the end of autumn.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:17
(Don't) hurry up and wait... In Alaska
From: LN Lurie
Series: Where in the World is LN?
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I struggle with the "hurry up and wait" mentality. Alaska helped me get over this.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 09:47
Oh Very Young - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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Pat Zakaib's bitter-sweet memory of friendship lost and found spans decades as she shares a frustrating tale of her travels from Paris to Athens.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:01
In The Left Pocket, By My Heart
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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A story about the transformative power of loss. How one tiny life can become so large, that you begin to see it everywhere and in everything that y...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 20:02
  • Purchases: 1
On Stage: Making Art That "Matters"
From: Alison Jenkins
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Is live theatre still relevant? Why do I spend my summers doing family-friendly theatre in small towns?

  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:27
My Body, My Choice
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Katia Hauser explores the intricacies of teenagers having the legal right to make their own medical decisions.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
Schools Serving Students Dinner
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Los Angeles County's poverty line is almost at 20%, and the majority of these households have children. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LA...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
#4 Nothing to Lose
From: Megan Tan
Series: Millennial
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Why do we become our worst enemies when it comes to pursuing the things we actually want? I’ve been there. This is the origin story of making Mille...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 20:31
  • Purchases: 1
#3 Brunchies
From: Megan Tan
Series: Millennial
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Following your dreams is not always glamorous, especially when you could get stuck in "transition."

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 19:28
  • Purchases: 1
#1 Welcome to Millennial
From: Megan Tan
Series: Millennial
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The day you graduate college is suppose full of smiles, family pictures, and a sense of accomplishment. But what happens after that day when you pa...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, American Voices, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 3
#2 Living on "The Line"
From: Megan Tan
Series: Millennial
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Decisions. How do you know which ones will lead you to become the person you want to be in the future? And which ones may screw everything up?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 20:13
  • Purchases: 1

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