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Growing Up in a Fundumental Religion
From: Hannah Leigh Myers
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A look at the ways, both health and unhealthy, that people integrate an upbringing in a fundamental religion into their adult life. Interviews with...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 1
Tongvan woman reconnects with the homeland she never left
From: Bending Borders
Series: Between Homelands: Hope, Fear and Longing in America
Caption: A Ti’at Society member paints a red ocher detail onto Moomat Ahiko’s side., Credit: Stephanie Case
Native Tongvan woman Cindi Alvitre lives on her ancestors' land in the Los Angeles basin, but in a completely different world. So she follows a viv...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:12
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
Snap 614: Godsend, 6/4/2015
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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You might have the wisdom of the ancients, but when stuff really hits the fan...even you might need some help. From PRX and NPR, Snap Judgment prou...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
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
Incredible by Modern Standards
From: WWNO
Series: Katrina: The Debris
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New Orleans is a weather town. As hurricane season begins, hear the most emotional federal weather bulletin ever written. Plus, more on how the Nat...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 17:53
  • Purchases: 1
Part 1 of 2: Annette Lee Hosts the Native Skywatchers Workshop at the Stearns History Museum
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In the latest installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, we are all made of stars as we look to the sky for part 1 of 2 about the Nati...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2015
  • Length: 31:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Rough Draft Diaries EP 5, Koop’s Nine Months
From: Haley Taylor
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries
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After graduation, getting a job is a necessity, getting a job you love is a luxury, and learning to be happy in either is the challenge. In this ep...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
141-Sailing the Cosmos
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Planetary Society is testing and deploying a small satellite to explore the use of solar sails in space.

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


  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Double Bass
From: WDCB
Series: MusicHeads with Patricia Barber
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Patricia Barber is joined by Jazz Double Bassist Patrick Mulcahy and Classical Bassist Andy Anderson to explore the floor of music, the Double Bass...

Bought by KMUW and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
134-Recycling Spacecraft
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A number of malfunctioning spacecraft have been reprogrammed so that they can produce useful results.

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


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Fractured Map In My Ceiling: Moriah Erickson
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words featuring Moriah Erickson of Duluth reading her poems "Perfusion" and "The L at 4:24 AM."

  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: :00
Drowned
From: Sean Callahan
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Inspired by an Old Spice commercial as a kid, Kieran Burke always wanted to be a surfer. But learning proved difficult with no one to teach him.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 04:39
Snap 504: Pariah, 3/12/2015
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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What if they really ARE out to get you? On the next Snap Judgment, we proudly present "Pariah."

  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
Snap 606: Proof, 3/5/2015
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
Caption: Snap Judgment
People think they know everything, but when you are about to put everything on the line, there is no room for error. On the next Snap Judgment, fr...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
Body of Water
From: Veronica Simmonds
Caption: http://bodyofwater.ca/, Credit: Rebecca Roher
An ode to urban lake swimming

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of De-Extinction
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Will the woolly mammoth face another day?, Credit: Tyler Ingram
A group of scientists are now trying to bring extinct animals - like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon - back to life, in a movement called D...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 3
The Beat: Ben Westlie - "The Run"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Ben Westlie graduated from Bemidji State University in 2006 with a BFA in Creative and Professional Writing. He's published three chapbooks of poet...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 01:53
The Rough Draft Diaries EP 1, Introducing Negative Capability
From: Haley Taylor
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries
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In this first episode, you’ll be introduced to your host,Haley Taylor, as she starts to navigate her way through finding a job and getting used to ...

Bought by WRFA-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 2
Love For Sale...
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: DECEMBER 2014
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...And Other Essays is the book's title, by author Clifford Thompson who reads a passage here. Observations with wit about life and people, from m...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
97-A Large Strange One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The discovery of a small cold world far from Earth.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Camino de Santingo
From: WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Host Peter Kreten welcomes to the Program Sister Kathy Thornton, RSM. Sister Kathy is a Sister of Mercy and recently completed the Camino de Santin...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2014
  • Length: 30:19
Poetry for Halloween (October 31, 2014)
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Scary poems and ominous music for Halloween.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 53:17
Football: Reforming the Brain
From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself
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A new study connects football in younger players to possible behavioral changes. And one high school cancels the rest of the football season becaus...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 10:03
A Citizen's Guide to the Difference Between the Truth and "Gotcha" in "Gotcha politics"
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:45

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