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Caption: Angelina McCall after graduating from nursing school in the spring of 2020. , Credit: Photo courtesy the participants
After Angelina McCall left her job at a Tucson ER, she wondered if she was cut out for nursing. Then a volunteer position on the US-Mexico border h...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Lan Cao lived through some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War before starting her life over in the United States. She tells her daughter w...

Bought by WEZU and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Feb 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 2
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Poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail reads from her three books: THE WAR WORKS HARD, DIARY OF A WAVE OUTSIDE THE SEA, and THE IRAQI NIGHTS. Pushed ou...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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What was your first bet? Matt Zarb-Cousin remembers his - because it led to a cycle of addiction that saw him flutter away over £10,000 in the book...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 23:27
Caption: Garth Mullins & Lisa Hale, Credit: Don Sawatzky
From the 19th century freak show to the East African black market in body parts to the modern cinema, the image of the albino has seized the popula...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Alison
A conversation with 'Alison', a South African woman at the center of one of the most infamous criminal trials in her country's history.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 1
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New Yorker correspondent Peter Hessler reports from the road in China on the human side of miracle growth and epic migration. Then, we meet poet Ch...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: David Cerny, Ruzovy Tank (Pink Tank), Credit: artlist.cz
Alena Hromadkova remembers the day that The Soviet Union invaded her country, Czechoslovakia.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2009
  • Length: 05:04