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Confessions of Teen Stripper
From: Holly Kernan
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commentator Sayyadina Thomas reflects on her days as an underage stripper

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXLV-FM, and East Village Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2004
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 3
Come On Down
From: New America Media
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A Chinese American's Words of Warning for South Asians looking for themselves in movies and TV.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Feb 10, 2004
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - "XXL"
From: Steven Rosenfeld
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Sound portrait profile of CD by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - "XXL"

Bought by KCCK


  • Added: Feb 10, 2004
  • Length: 13:41
  • Purchases: 1
Steve Forbert's "Any Old Time"
From: Steven Rosenfeld
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Sound portrait of Steve Forbert's CD of Jimmie Rodgers songs

  • Added: Feb 10, 2004
  • Length: 12:53
Dangling Woman
From: Susan Barrett Price
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A social reformer runs away from work, only to get stuck in the jungle treetops of Costa Rica.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KUHB, WYSO, and KZYX


  • Added: Feb 04, 2004
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 5
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
Cecilia Bartoli: In her own words
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
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One of the world's great operatic singers explores what it means to approach the human voice as an instrument -- like a trumpet or violin.

Bought by KVNF, PRX Remix, The Story, KGLT, Public Interactive and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2004
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 10
Carvings
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
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You're never alone in a hotel.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2004
  • Length: 03:03
Lang Lang: In his own words
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
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In a room across from Carnegie Hall, the exuberant young piano phenom demonstrates how he approaches a lovely Brahms Intermezzo -- and wonders whet...

Bought by PRX Remix, The Story, KMHD, KNAU, WKSU and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2004
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 7
Carla Cook: In her own words
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
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The Grammy-nominated vocalist talks about finding a place in jazz for funk, gospel, and pure joy.

Bought by WMPG, KMHD, KNAU, East Village Radio, WVPE and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2004
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 6
Family Vacation
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Your mom's got Van Morrison on repeat, she wants to talk "mother daughter trust," and there's still hundreds of miles left to go. Trapped inside a ...

Bought by KZYX, KSFR, PRX Remix, WMPG, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2003
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 6
Dad and Sam (Locked in Brotherhood)
From: Jay Allison
Series: The Life Stories Collection
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A short meditation on the relationship between my father and his mentally disabled older brother, Sam.

Bought by Prairie Public, PRX Remix, WJCT, Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2003
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 22
First Menstruation Stories
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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It's both terrifying and highly anticipated, and, as rites of passage often are, perhaps somewhat overrated. Blunt producer Ariel Adams set out wit...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2003
  • Length: 10:32
Thanksgiving story
From: Holly Kernan
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A refugee remembers his first Thanksgiving

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, WNCW, KRZA, WHRV, KHSU and more


  • Added: Nov 11, 2003
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 42
Cambridge Bay Soundscape
From: Victoria Fenner
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An interpretation of the soundscape of Cambridge Bay Nunavut

Bought by KTNA, WZBC, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 22, 2003
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 3
Summer With Kara and the Swing
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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A grandmother's quest to help her disabled daughter

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WTJU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2003
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 6
A Cook's Notebook: Beach Plum Jelly
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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An eulogy to a friend who made beach plum jelly

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Public Interactive, and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Oct 07, 2003
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 3
Sisters
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Three generations of sisters talk about their relationships

Bought by KZYX and WHQR


  • Added: Oct 04, 2003
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 2
Summer Camp
From: Geo Beach
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You might hike across a continent, find a forgotten friend, and discover summer camp could last forever. Geo Beach goes storytelling around the ca...

Bought by KPIK-LP and prpdstation


  • Added: Sep 09, 2003
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 2
Life Stories - Jobs: Teaching ("Educating Esme')
From: Jay Allison
Series: The Life Stories Collection
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The Diary of a First Year Teacher, "Educating Esme." One hour of a five-hour series of first-person portraits.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KUER, WFAE, KPIK-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 19
Life Stories - Families: Women and Children
From: Jay Allison
Series: The Life Stories Collection
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Three stories of young women - Concerning Breakfast, The Trapeze Artist, Alone Like a Stone. One hour of a five-hour series of first-person portra...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KUER, WFAE, HowSound, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 18
Letter from the Dead
From: Holly Kernan
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Commentary: a letter from a father, five years after his death

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KISU, KUT, and prpdstation


  • Added: Sep 06, 2003
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 4

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