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The Dive
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The "Get to Know Me" occasional series
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My brother Thomas recounts a diving accident he lived through early in his career as a commercial diver.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 08:51
169- Neighborhood's Edge
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Our knowledge of the solar system now includes many objects out near and past Pluto.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Another Day Older
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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In this show, you’ll hear from women of all ages, from five to eighty-five. They talk about how they imagine their lives will be, how their lives a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 16:02
  • Purchases: 1
Poster School
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Students at Lewiston High launched a town wide dialogue about race after the principal ordered to students to take down posters proclaiming “Black ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 3
Don't Knock It Till You Try It
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Tatiana Whitlock is a firearms instructor who believes in real world situational learning.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 08:57
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #56: Tipping the Scales
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states can prohibit judges from openly asking for money to pay for their judicial campaigns. Life of the Law'...

  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 24:30
The Beat: Kai' Leia McKenzie - "Untitled"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Schoolcraft Learning Community's middle school students read Inge Auerbacher's book 'I am a Star'. Inge Auerbacher was one of the very few childre...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:20
The Beat: James Siems - "Untitled (For Dan Siems)"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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James Siems is an eighth grader at Schoolcraft Learning Community in Bemidji. He likes crosscountry skiing and soccer. He recently wrote a poem ins...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 1
What do High Schoolers’ think about Affirmative Action?
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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A common topic among high schoolers when discussing the college application process and admittance is race. Listen to hear the opinions on affirmat...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:07
A Coping Mechanism
From: Joseph Jordan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two young men from Cape Cod make a documentary about heroin addiction in Massachusetts -- as a way of coping with their own recovery.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
What the Truth Costs: A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The truth can be our moral antidote, our moral medicine, the vitamin that- yes, if someone is trying to tell us that nine dollars and something is ...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
The Beat: Erin Lynn Marsh - "How Not To Fall In Love"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 01:55
The Beat: Sonja Kosler - "Sojourner's Place"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Sonja Kosler was born in Montana and lives now in Dent, Minnesota at the literal southwestern edge of KAXE,KBXE land. She's a member of the Lakes A...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 1
The Working Poor III: Bridget
From: WCPN
Series: The Working Poor
Caption: Bridget Gibbons and her belongings., Credit: Brian Bull, WCPN.
When you think of someone who's part of America's "working poor", you may picture a high school or college dropout. It's generally assumed that th...

Bought by KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Poor IV: Marilyn
From: WCPN
Series: The Working Poor
Caption: Marilyn Lombardo in her backyard., Credit: Brian Bull, WCPN.
For many senior citizens, the "Golden Years" are meant to be lived comfortably. One retires, takes things easy, maybe catches up with kids and gra...

Bought by KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 3
The Business with Bees
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
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An exploration of the causes behind honeybee population declines, featuring discussions with beekeepers and scientists.

Bought by WSKG, WNIJ, Boise State Public Radio, KSFR, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 57:48
  • Purchases: 12
Memories Down the Slope
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
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Victoria Gunning re-calls some childhood memories skiing in Bogus Basin, Idaho.

  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Experience 5
From: Estella Yu
Series: My Career Experience
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Yan Li, a graduate student at Duquesne University shares her experiences and changes in career as her family relocates to the US.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 06:27
The Beat: Charmaine Donovan "Natures Goodness"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Charmaine Donovan makes her living as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in the Brainerd area. She's a member of numerous regional and national writer...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:41
Kansas Native Robert Day
From: New Letters on the Air
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Regularly published in NEW LETTERS magazine, as well as in other journals and newspapers nationwide, Robert Day discusses his two most recent works...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 12: Lomax’s and Prison Poetry
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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Alan Lomax traveled the south visiting prisons and recording songs and interviews. Lomax was a great collector of folk music of the 20th century an...

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 09:21
  • Purchases: 3
Speaking Truth To Power in the Kingdom Called Home
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Those who grew up in the era of Richard Nixon knew a time when "The Kingdom" took an especially frightening aura of power and glory. One speaking t...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:39
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Why Not Mangle the Information If You Can?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "...as close as you can to the truth, that wild horse that once you catch..., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right and wrong. Today's Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks: Why not mangle,`distort the i...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 01:04
Waiting for Jim
From: Annie McEwen
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Jim is a young man who has everything in the world but direction.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 17:10
Why are elderly homeless sleeping in chairs at night?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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If you walk upstairs from the kitchen at Mother Brown’s drop-in center in the evening, you’ll find dozens of people sleeping in chairs. During the ...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 06:46

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