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The Gift of Music
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The volunteer choral group, Evensong, specializes in singing the last music their audience will ever hear.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 09:23
  • Purchases: 3
My Saints Alive
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A man whose wife died of breast cancer manages to find love again. But then he learns the woman who will be his second wife is diagnosed with breas...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass (excerpt): Nov 2009, The Man Who Cured Clubfoot: Dr. Ignacio Ponseti
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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200,000 children are born each year with the deformity of clubfoot. Dr. Ignacio Ponseti's non-surgical cure has treated thousands and allowed them...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 23:59
Feature Report - I’m Too Young For This @#!%
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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John D. Shearer is an artist from Indiana that won his battle over a rare form of brain cancer. His multi-media show entitled “I’m Too Young For Th...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 09:37
Since November
From: Daniel Gross
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Just after Thanksgiving, one of the members of the band Girlyman was diagnosed with leukemia. It shaped their lives and their music. Here's their s...

  • Added: May 28, 2012
  • Length: 12:35
Episode 3: A Poet's Tree
From: Astoria Sojourner
Series: Handmade Radio
Caption: "Whispers" Tendrilic wires > Reaching for infinity > Connect me to you, Credit: Eric Bishop 2012
In celebration of National Poetry Month, 12 poets are featured with their original works. Stori Sojourner stitches the poems together to create the...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 25:10
  • Purchases: 1
Introduction
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Series: 20 questions
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An introduction to the new series 20 Questions

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 03:15
Deep River: The African-American Choral Spiritual
From: WFIU
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From the days of slavery 150 years ago, the African-American spiritual grew out of the earliest days of Black America. Over time, spirituals sprea...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and WJSU


  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
A Nurse Remembers: Thumbelina, a Green Dress, and the Little Girl With Red Hair
From: Emma Deans
Caption: Lorelle Pelletier
There are some people who simply know how to tell a story. They can recount experiences with such vivid detail that the listener feels instantly tr...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 16:37
Story-Tell Lib by Annie Trumbull Slosson
From: Roy Trumbull
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These are original stories told by a badly crippled 13 year old girl to her friends and neighbors.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:03:10
The Peace of Nature: Our Forest Connection
From: Kevin Boucher
Caption: Autumn's colors give many people peace., Credit: Photo by Kevin Boucher
In our 21st century society we are bombarded by man-made and sometimes not so pleasing sounds. To escape this acoustic overload, many people escap...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 2
Big Collage
From: Erin Cisewski
Caption: Greta in her studio
Director of the Big Collage Art Collective, and industrial/punk musician Greta Ribb is a Cape Cod artist down to her core. Her work is as emotional...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2011
  • Length: 04:50
StoryCorps Griot: A.P. Tureaud Jr. and Steven Walkley
From: StoryCorps
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A.P. Tureaud Jr. tells his friend Steven Walkley about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953.

Bought by WEZU, KUOW, and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
Helping Homeless Veterans, A Family Affair
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
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Rachael McDermott and her dad, Jim Diana, volunteer their time helping homeless veterans. Rachael works for career services for Harvard and helps...

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 1
Best of the Best: The 2011 Third Coast Festival Broadcast and Promo
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
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The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour pr...

Bought by Prairie Public, KERA, WEZU, KOSU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 58
Bono on His Dad's Final Days Before He Died of Cancer
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I’d go and usually have a pint of Guinness and a chaser to steady my nerves. Then I'd go to the hospital and I'd sleep beside my father." - Bono. ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 01, 2011
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 2
The 2011 PRPD Benediction by Jay Allison: "Invitation"
From: Atlantic Public Media
Caption: Jay Allison, Credit: Sue Johnson
The benediction given by award-winning producer and station founder Jay Allison at the 2011 PRPD Conference is being praised as a highlight of the ...

Bought by KUT, WGBH Radio Boston, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 51:26
  • Purchases: 4
Remembering 9/11: Internet Co. Keeps Founder's Spirit Alive
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Daniel Lewin's portrait greets visitors in the main lobby at Akamai's corporate headquarters. The company co-founder died aboard American Airlines Flight 11 on 9/11., Credit: Jesse Costa
Daniel Lewin, the co-founder of a Boston-area Internet company, died trying to stop the terrorist attack aboard American Airlines Flight 11 on 9/11...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 08, 2011
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 047
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
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Stories show us that with every ending, there follows a beginning...whether we want either to happen or not. Kate Knable watches her brother get st...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Vets' Healing Journeys To Vietnam (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Two United States Vietnam Veterans talk about their journeys back to Vietnam to meet their former enemies and try to heal themselves of Post Trauma...

Bought by KUAC, KUOW, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
Taking Action
From: War News Radio
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Hear stories of human trafficking survivors in post-war Iraq.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:13
To Kill A Mockingbird: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Featuring commentary by actor Robert Duvall, playwright Horton Foote, NEA Jazz Master David Baker, and Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, among ot...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 19
A Conversation with Gary Giddins about Louis Armstrong
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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And I think to myself, what a wonderful world! That voice! That smile! That golden trumpet! Jazz writer Gary Giddins on the incomparable Louis Arms...

Bought by Prairie Public and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 32:17
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Amy Tan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author Amy Tan talks about her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, her relationship with her mother, and the art of writing.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 27:50
The poet Sonia Sanchez
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Sonia Sanchez broke literary ground during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.

Bought by KENW, KISA Digital Studios, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3

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