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Skagway Music Makers
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
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Two unlikley musicians find each other in Skagway Alaska and produce a song that is the title track for an award winning movie

  • Added: Aug 27, 2004
  • Length: 14:35
Early Morning Delivery
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
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On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, a trucker drives through the night to make an early-...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 01:50
Cops and Firefighters
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
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On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, a police officer and a firefighter talk about the la...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WBFO, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 3
Construction Night Shift
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, construction workers count the time-and-a-half pay a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KISU, Delta College Public Radio, Here and Now, WBFO and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 7
RN Documentary: Theater in the Rubble
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Torn Lives - Stories from the Holy Land
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For more than a decade, Dutchman Jan Willems has been staging plays for Palestinian children, providing a much-needed outlet in desperate times. (2...

Bought by KVNF, WHQR, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 10, 2004
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 3
Sawlady
From: Noah Reibel
Series: Playing for Change
Caption: PRX default Piece image
a light profile of a subway musician

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 1
Alaska Beckons
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Disillusioned with their teaching jobs in California, Ray takes a job at a one room school house in Alaska and their adventure begins.

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 14:04
  • Purchases: 1
Alaskan Native Culture
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Raymomd claims his birthright and shares his personal journey and native history.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2004
  • Length: 20:40
OCCANEECHI POW WOW
From: Keith Weston
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sound rich piece from annual Native American Pow Wow

Bought by KLCC and KSUT


  • Added: Jul 23, 2004
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 2
Fran Rehfeld--Almost 100 years old in NYC
From: Mona Iskander
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An extraordinary New Yorker who lives alone as her 100th birthday approaches

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Jul 09, 2004
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: The Girl At The Window
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A producer’s quest for the artist who painted a picture left to her by her grandmother.

Bought by WHQR, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 06, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
PART 4: The Family List
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Elmer Picket lost fourteen of his family members to cancer

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, WYSO, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 4
Don't Take The Colors Apart
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Amerasian Playwright Velina Hasu Houston learned early on to have pride in her identity through her African American father and Japanese mother.

Bought by KVSC, WESM 91.3 FM, KUER, KVSC, KUT and more


  • Added: May 17, 2004
  • Length: 26:09
  • Purchases: 17
Memorial
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Every 100 days, Roberts saves the phone messages of her mom who passed away two years ago as a living memorial.

Bought by WHFR, Prairie Public, Room Tone Selects, WTJU, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: May 02, 2004
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 28
RN Documentary: Searching for Fuel and Other Tales from Zimbabwe
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Zimbabwe in Crisis
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The political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe is making life for ordinary people impossible.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2004
  • Length: 29:11
We Were On Duty
From: Richard Paul
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An oral history of the survivors of the September 11th attack on the Pentagon

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, North Country Public Radio, KERA, WAMU, 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2004
  • Length: 53:37
  • Purchases: 46
Joey's Phone Call Home
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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Joey, an incarcerated teen, calls home.

Bought by The Story, Remix Radio, WYBC, YouthCast, Space Gallery and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2004
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 6
RN Documentary: A Conversation with Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A conversation with aboriginal musicians Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Gays in the Military - 10 Years of Don't Ask Don't Tell
From: Dave Adox
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Gay service members talk about life in the military under the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy

  • Added: Mar 29, 2004
  • Length: 04:18
The Ring and I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania
From: WNYC
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"The Ring and I" is a story about the love affair between hundreds of thousands of people and one, colossal, controversial and awe-inspiring piece ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRVO Public Media, WMNR, KHNS, KCRW and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2004
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 32
A Family Yarn
From: Rupa Marya
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In the wake of NAFTA, a family of woolen mill workers in Maine salvages their livelihoods by returning the industry of yarn-making to the home.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, PRX, KFAI Minneapolis, WBST and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2004
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 13
The Valentine 1955
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Youth Epiphanies
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Society's problem with race relations is played out between 2 little girls on Valentines Day, 1955.

Bought by KLCC, PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WNCU, PRX Lovesick Stream and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2004
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 13
Alzheimer's: Losing a Mind
From: WHYY
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The latest information about Alzheimer's and the impact on families.

Bought by WPSU, WFUV, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 29, 2004
  • Length: 59:37
  • Purchases: 3
The Breast Cancer Monologues
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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A one-hour documentary special intricately woven from interviews, readings and original music about how breast cancer has affected the lives of wom...

Bought by WJSU, KVSC, KWIT, KPVL, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2004
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 16
Josh's Diary, Part 2: First Kiss
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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In Josh's second diary, he packs his tape recorder for his first summer away from home. "What I have here is an envelope on which this girl Nicole ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, and WYBC


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 18:11
  • Purchases: 4

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