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Diana's Dog Habit
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Diana Linz has always had a connection with dogs. Being in the dog program at the prison helped Diana cope with being locked up.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 05:22
Operation Baby New Year Seeks 100,000 Diapers for Families in Need
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s installment of The Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, we find a little bit of light in the darkness as we hear about a volunteer drive...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2015
  • Length: 31:31
Three Weeks
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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An intimate conversation about the death of a child. What happens after the hardest thing happens?

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 31:27
This Heart of Mine - Sanjay Lal
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: Country Songs
Caption: Singapore Cowboy Sanjay Lal
This heart of his will never mend until he finds true love, and then, it will take some time, he knows that it's true, for his heart to get over you.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2014
  • Length: 03:02
Dancing Under Bar Room Lights - Sanjay Lal
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: Country Songs
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Dancing under bar room lights is a delight unless her dancing is with someone else. Music & Vocals by the Singapore Cowboy, Sanjay Lal.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:42
For Another You Love - Steve Klingforth
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: Country Songs
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The other person makes a triangle love.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 03:39
Helen Morley: A Blessed Nuisance
From: Grant Buhr
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Helen Morley was an unsung hero in a relatively unknown battle – the grassroots fight for mental health care in Chicago. Her deficits were often he...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:20
A Visit With a Free Black Women - Boston 1840
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious brings you an archived interview with Maria Stewart, as portrayed by scholar, Sandra Kamusakiri. Stewart was a free black woman who l...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Dianne Dettmann's "Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A Widow's Story of Love, Loss and Renewal
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Dianne Dettmann's new book chronicles a widow's journey through grief and to recovery.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 20:44
  • Purchases: 1
Lindsay Ess : Becoming Whole
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Lindsay Ess was at the top of her form, doing what she knew how to do best. Fashion was her passion. She breathed it; she lived it. Modeling. Phot...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 50:17
The Age of Innocence: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Actor Alfred Molina shines with masterful readings of excerpts from Edith Wharton's masterpiece. The screenwriter of Scorsese's film adaptation, Ja...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 5
Civil Disobedience: Personal Values Over Personal Freedom
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious hosts a conversation with Susan Crane, founder of Plowshares who will be discussing her lifetime commitment to ending nuclear prolif...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lindsay Ess, Becoming Whole, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Lindsay Ess is beautiful. Her skin is pale and void of a single freckle. She has mooning eyes, a fine, thin nose, crafted cheek bones, lips like ro...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2010
  • Length: 26:08
Bridget Ramasodi (South Africa's Promise)
From: My Lens Media
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Bridgette had to leave her home, South Africa in 1991, during one of the most dynamic periods in that nation’s history. She left just one year afte...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 29:24
Riot Boy
From: outLoud Radio at Youth Radio
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One boy's unlikely connection with the music of northwest feminists

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KFAI Minneapolis, WGDR, KUOW, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2008
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 6
Mothers and Sons
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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a sonic memorial to the healing power of art

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, KTNA, NPR Illinois, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2008
  • Length: 26:44
  • Purchases: 10
Shofar Blues by Melissa Goldman
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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Her third year in the competition, Melissa says this piece is about questioning Judaism. Melissa Goldman is 17 years old and was an individual fin...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:12
Comfort and Addiction
From: Amy Conger
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People speak candidly about food, comfort and compulsion

Bought by Vocalo.org and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2008
  • Length: 19:30
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: A Life of Ashes: Widows in India
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A personal journey of an Indian born producer of a widow to look at the situation of widows in India.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, KXOT Public Radio, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
Seeing Mary, remembering radiance
From: Nanci Olesen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
commentary from Nanci Olesen about Mary

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Dec 21, 2005
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
Long Time Home
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For singer Michelle Rumball "the voice" is the person so when she lost her voice, she lost her sense of who she was.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 21, 2005
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
She's Just Like Me
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Leah Rumack seeks out her mother's best friend to find out about the mother she never knew.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 14:30
  • Purchases: 3
My Body My Temple
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Women writers reading their own works about how breast cancer affects their body image

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KLCC, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Mar 30, 2005
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 4
Lesbian Couple Moving To Canada
From: Jim Williams
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A California lesbian couple has decided to leave the U.S. to try to find acceptance.

Bought by WGDR, KRCB 104.9, WBEZ, and KVMR


  • Added: Feb 26, 2005
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 4