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Caption: Sarah Silverman, San Francisco, CA 10/9/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Sarah Silverman talks silence, synchronicity, and cellulite.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 11:43
Caption: Jasmine Jurado (left) and Nurse Lopez, with baby Anais., Credit: Liz Mak
Nurse Family Partnership, or NFP, found that limited access to good parenting information, or role models, can present an even greater challenge to...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Elizabeth “Libba” Cotton’s “Freight Train” was the unofficial anthem of the 1960’s folk music revival. Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, and Jerry Ga...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 12:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Carlos Marques-Marcet, San Francisco, CA 6/24/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Carlos Marques-Marcet talks cracks, gender politics, and the language of sex.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 15:40
Caption: Brett Haley, San Francisco, CA 5/1/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Brett Haley talks loyalty, looking forward, and persuading a DP to work for free.

  • Added: May 16, 2015
  • Length: 08:22
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We take you to the Quick Quilting Capital of the World to see how one family’s YouTube videos are not just building a business—they’re rebuilding a...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Debika and Ronu
The end of year issues all over magazine stands in India all carry photo spreads of the icons we lost. Famous people from the world of politics and...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Dance company, Mind Over Matter , Credit: Allan Frias
About 25 members of the dance company Mind Over Matter, mostly women, are finishing their warm up. Dressed in comfy street clothes, they stretch wh...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 03:29
Caption: Sondra Celli discusses a dress design with Carol, Credit: Sondra Celli
Turn on the television at any hour, and you're bound to find a reality television show on. Many of these shows feature businesses - there are shows...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 07:39
Caption: Two of the new games at Hi-Life, Credit: Angela Johnston
Ellen Frankel slips the last of her quarters into the Medieval Madness pinball machine and wipes the sweat off her forehead. It’s her second game o...

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


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 4
Caption:  We can see that neurons fire when people complain of central pain, but still no one knows why. , Credit: Gerd Altmann
Cindey LeGeyt and Danielle Cellucci have fatigue and intense pain all over their bodies, and they believe they have a disease. But many people say ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Emily Ritz and Kacey Johansing are best friends. They were both in separate bands and living in Marin County when they decided to go on tour togeth...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The widows of Vrindavan
Some 60 widows in white saris from the town of Vrindavan made thier way to Kolkata for the festival of the Goddess Durga. Something many of them ha...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Mission specialists cheer at ISRO
India's Mangalyaan orbiter has reached Mars, but the mission means as much for the women of India as it does for science.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Victoria Reinsel and Charlene V. Smith, Credit: Laurie Riffe
Actresses talk about their favorite Shakespeare roles.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 09, 2014
  • Length: 20:24
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Coolie Woman book cover
But when it comes to women going out by themselves in India, Gaiutra Bahadur comes from a family where the bar was set pretty high. Bahadur's Grand...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
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A Roman Catholic Sister in her 80s who wrote “The Grace to Race, “ she’s the oldest person ever (man or woman) to finish an Ironman Triathlon. This...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 09:40
  • Purchases: 2
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Living a balanced life requires an early morning for KALW's executive news editor Ben Trefny. It takes getting up before 6am to prepare lunch, and ...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Nayomi Muneewara
Sandip Roy meets Oakland, CA author Nayomi Muneewara at one of the world's greatest literature festivals. Her new book is "Island of a Thousand Mir...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Eudora Welty, New Haven, CT, 1974, Credit: William Ferris
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 13:47
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Cassandra King, Credit: Tanner Latham
Bestselling novelist Cassandra King talks about her new book Moonrise as well as her writing relationship with her husband, famous author Pat Conro...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 20:07
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Lisa Fruchtman, San Francisco, CA 11/22/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Lisa Fruchtman talks simple pleasures, honoring the past, and warming up to cold.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 21:51
Caption: Voco performing live: April Guthrie, Moira Smiley, Sally Dworsky , Credit: Simone McSparran
VOCO sings folk music - but not the usual coffeehouse fare. It’s music that's steeped in generations of tradition, from far-off, tucked-away corner...

Bought by American Voices


  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Martha Shane and Lana Wilson talk fear, safety, and putting people before politics.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2013
  • Length: 13:41
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On a wide street full of work spaces, lined with cars and no trees in sight is the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center. It’s the one building on the ...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 07:30