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Culturology: "Summer Nights, Summer Lights," an essay by Michael Forbes
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Michael Forbes
Bemidji area writer Michael Forbes recites his essay written in contemplation of Aurora Borealis, family, and home.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "My Mother Is Now Earth" by Mark Anthony Rolo
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "My Mother Is Now Earth" by Mark Anthony Rolo
Dan Sinykin is pursuing a Ph.D. in literature and currently lives in Bemidji. Dan recently read and reviewed Mark Anthony Rolo’s new memoir “My Mot...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 1
Krystal Goes Home
From: greg keener
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Radio 101 student Krystal Dean describes coming home to live with her family after spending seven years in a children's home.

  • Added: Sep 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:36
Remembering Barbara Jean by Patrick Presby of Blunt Youth Radio
From: YouthCast
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Pat remembers his step-mother, Barbara Jean, from the first time they met, to the last time he saw her. Though the 11 years in between were sometim...

Bought by WGXC and KUT


  • Added: Jun 28, 2011
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 2
Five Farms, Episode Two: Nurturing
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Series: Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Caption: Eddie Wise, Whitakers, N.C., Credit: Tom Rankin
Early summer is a time of long days on the family farm, perfect for nurturing crops and animals as they approach the peak of growing season. Nurtur...

Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, WEKU, KBGA 89.9 FM, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Peculiar Privilege and the Elegy
From: Littleglobe
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Ece Ergadöz, a Turkish student at the United World College, explores her relationship with her mixed ethnic roots.

Bought by WMNF and YouthCast


  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 2
Commentator Robert Saxton on Being a Hockey Dad
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Regular KAXE contributor Robert Saxton is a writer and is often referred to as "the minivan man," here's his essay about being a Hockey Dad (fyi: t...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 06:52
In Defense of Kwanzaa
From: Interfaith Voices
Caption: Melonyce McAfee
Kwanzaa is known as a pseudo-holiday, but when Melonyce McAfee and her family tried out, back in the early 90s, it turned out to be more meaningful...

Bought by WSLR, WJAB, WTIP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 5
A Musician's Life: Austin singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves
From: WXPN
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Slaid Cleaves may not be the most well-known Texas musician, but he does boast some influential fans, including novelist Stephen King and public ra...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: May 18, 2009
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Diabetes 101
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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The Alaska Teen Media Institute's Tiana Johnson is a 19-year-old teen who has had diabetes since she was five.

Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM


  • Added: Oct 16, 2008
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 1
Our Early Ancestors Might Have Reproduced With Chimps
From: The humble Farmer
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The final speciation occurred around 5.3 million years ago

  • Added: May 28, 2008
  • Length: :52
My Sister's Brain Cancer
From: Nanci Olesen
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a commentary by Nanci Olesen about her sister's brain cancer

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KXOT Public Radio, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 22, 2008
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 3
Peace.
From: Jenna Hammerich
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When you're raised by hippies, anything goes.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2008
  • Length: 12:26
  • Purchases: 2
Little Black Train
From: Nora Harrington
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Five Conversations on Death

  • Added: Dec 09, 2007
  • Length: 26:22
Stood There Ringing
From: Shiow-Jiau Yung
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A pregnant woman lets a bell say everything she can't.

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Table For Two (Empty Chairs)
From: ken girardey
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A non existent relationship between a famous father and his daughter.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 15:36
Beautiful, Painful Truth
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont
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Story of a man who must end a loving marriage when he comes to terms with his homosexuality.

Bought by KUT, KRCB 104.9, KUNM, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 10:10
  • Purchases: 4
Morning Stories, Time Will Tell
From: WGBH Radio Boston
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Morning Stories, Show Three expands on and samples from WGBH's popular Morning Stories podcasts, which contain stories from everyday people about a...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 21, 2007
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Going Back to College
From: Littleglobe
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The influence of my childhood experience with college on my current desire for a degree.

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network and WQJC


  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 2
Thomas Lynch
From: WDET Detroit Public Radio
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funeral director and writer waxes poetic

  • Added: Feb 07, 2007
  • Length: 03:45
In the Shadow of the Voting Rights Act
From: Kezia Simister
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While the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was an enormous victory, for a time it also meant more hardship for some African Americans in the South. Charmi...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2006
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 1
Speaking to My Heart
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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When Nikki became a mother of two at the age of seventeen she promised to leave her life of drugs and crime behind. It was a promise she couldn't k...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Remix Radio, YouthCast, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Nov 28, 2006
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 4
Taking a Life
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
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In this show, hunters talk about the experience of taking an animal's life

Bought by PRX Remix and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 2
Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu
From: Song and Memory
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The exhiled son of Ghana's former emir, king of the Muslim people, remembers the song his father listened to as he carried the burden of leading Gh...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUOW, KCUR, and KZYX


  • Added: May 15, 2006
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 4
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