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Young and determined: how a group of young men is reinventing Marin City
From: KALW
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According to the 2010 census, Marin City is now a median-income community. But a stigma and challenges remain. Marin City still has higher crime an...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2012
  • Length: 05:59
Miracle in Gray and White
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Neighbors investigate an apparition.

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
National History Day in St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack explores Revolution, Reaction, and Reform in History. This is the theme for t...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 27:16
Moments in Black History: Rosa Parks
From: N Lorde
Caption: Rosa Parks, Credit: Mindfully.org
In 1955 one woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man - in doing so she inspired a whole race to fight back against institutionaliz...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 3
Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, July 20, 2007
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Although she was physically tiny ... just four foot eleven ... we saw her on television living an outrageous sort of large life, an amazing roller ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Black History: Ossie Davis, February 4, 2005
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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One of our great actors. His mother called him by his initials R.C., but was mis-heard by the county clerk, so we knew him as Ossie.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Portrait of an Artist: a semi-regular series
From: KUT
Series: Portrait of an Artist-a semi-regular series
Caption: Tomas Q. Morin
Poet, Scholar and Artist Tomas Q. Morin talks about his life and career, and reads a few of his own works.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: 10:59
Rolanda Scott, The Art of Transformation, pt. 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Rolanda Scott, an art teacher and glass sculptor, has had one bout of cancer after another for the past eight years. When her time comes Rolanda's ...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:23
Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John K. MacLellan
Jay Ipson and his family escaped Nazi persecution often by the skin of their teeth. But after liberation they had to contend with the Soviets. And ...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:05
  • Purchases: 1
Finding Solid Ground 2008
From: Eve Troeh
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One-hour documentary **UPDATED for the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

Bought by WVAS, WMNF, WRVO Public Media, KMUN, KWIT and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2008
  • Length: 55:36
  • Purchases: 8
Aha Moment: The Heidelberg Project
From: Zak Rosen
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Jenenne Whitfield was a banker until she stumbled upon the Heidelberg Project

Bought by KUOW, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 3
So Many Straws! A Day on the Charles River Clean Up Boat
From: Paige Doughty
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Environmental issues are so complicated these days wouldn't it be nice if we could all stop talking about it and DO SOMETHING! Well, the folks who...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2007
  • Length: 07:02
The Beauty of Madness: The Art of the Mentally Ill
From: WFUV
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Meet a community of people with mental illness who are redefining themselves through art

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 25, 2007
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Salmonlands half-hour version
From: Barbara Bernstein
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Salmonlands is a journey into the land of salmon, why they are so significant to the culture and community of the Pacific Northwest, and what it wi...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: May 25, 2007
  • Length: 27:20
  • Purchases: 2
Blind Traveler
From: daniella ponet
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Pat, a blind activist and singer/poet, describes her life in New York City

  • Added: May 13, 2007
  • Length: 10:01
We Are Still Here: Voices of HIV+ Youth
From: Julia Applegate
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Voices of HIV+ Youth

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRUA, KLCC, 90.5 WSNC, and WFUV


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 5
Raider of the Lost Ark
From: Jake Warga
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Looking for the not-so-lost Ark and finding something else

Bought by PRX Remix, The Story, KUOW, and KUT


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 4
Being in the Woods
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
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Hunters describe experiences they have with wildlife while hunting in the woods

Bought by KMXT, WTIP, and KTNA


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 3
The Green Family
From: Sáša Woodruff
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Lifelong residents of New Orleans, the Green family shows the resilience and strength of those who lived through Hurricane Katrina.

Bought by WMNF, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 06, 2006
  • Length: 08:08
  • Purchases: 3
Peace, War, & Indifference
From: Andrew Reissiger
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One-hour, newscast compatible program that examines the possibilities of peace in our world today by looking at excerpts from important presidentia...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KQED, New Hampshire Public Radio, WHRV, WETA and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2006
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 6
Recognizing the Value Ourselves
From: Jefferey Sweeton
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A Southern, middle-aged farmer and a teenaged girl in Ohio paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of "the details" that "make us different, but the emotion...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2006
  • Length: 15:03
A Lion in the House -
From: Aileen LeBlanc
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A look behind the scenes of the new PBS documentary about families living with kids who have cancer. A Lion in the House airs on PBS June 21st, 22nd.

Bought by WYSO, WYSO, and WMUB


  • Added: May 30, 2006
  • Length: 28:12
  • Purchases: 3
Out on the Streets
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2003
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Award-winning stories of queer kids abandoned by their parents to the streets.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WAMU, WGDR, and KWCW


  • Added: May 27, 2006
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 4
How Did You Know When You Knew?
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2001
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How Did You Know When You Knew?

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 25, 2006
  • Length: 31:14
  • Purchases: 1
Nativity: one-hour version
From: Conrad Bishop
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A celebration of the wonder, joy, pain, and innate sacredness of childbirth.

Bought by KVNF and WNIJ


  • Added: Apr 10, 2006
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2