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Hard Time - Shaun Atwood
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
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A true story told live in London. As a trader, Shaun had it all - money, cars, women - until he got into dealing drugs as well as shares. This is h...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 09:50
The Things They Carried - A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (1990) is considered one of the finest books about the Vietnam War. But it's almost less about the war and m...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WKMS, KMUN, KUER, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
A Child's View of Domestic Violence by Valencia McMurray of MPR News
From: YouthCast
Caption: Valencia and her mother, Charlene, Credit: MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson
For fourteen years, a singular event has shaped Valencia McMurray's life: her mother, Charlene Sanders, was violently attacked by her father when s...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Aug 14, 2011
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 1
Planet Buddy
From: Graham Shelby
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Buddy was a sixteen-year-old bad boy who was experimenting with being good. I'd been a good boy my whole life and was ready to try being bad. Then ...

Bought by KUT and KUT


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Jon Brock and Glenny Brock
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Jon Brock tells his daughter Glenny Brock about being committed to Bryce Hospital, Alabama's oldest psychiatric facility, in 1965.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 2
Eyesore Opulence - Peter Hessler & Christian Wiman
From: Open Source
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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
How I Learned To Tell Time
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Notes From the Huntley Project
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The inability to tell time has forced six-year-old Jaybird to become an outlaw and to face a darkness that did not exist to him before now.

Bought by KMXT, KUT, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 26, 2010
  • Length: 57:48
  • Purchases: 3
Funny Thing, Being Mugged
From: Jake Warga
Caption: My glasses, Credit: Jake Warga
A personal story of being violently mugged

Bought by KUT, HCC Radio The Dragon, KCRW, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 19:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Art of Lightsey Darst
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: Lightsey Darst, Credit: Terese Tenseth
On this edition of Art Beat we feature Minnesota poet Lightsey Darst. Darst was visiting Winona State University Professor James Armstrong's class ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2010
  • Length: 31:07
Breaking the Bank
From: War News Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From "State of Privilege" 7/30/2010: War News Radio takes a look at how Iraqi politicians are filling their wallets while their country continues t...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 07:16
The Disappearance of Ammar al-Safar
From: War News Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From "State of Privilege" 7/30/2010: War News Radio investigates the 2006 kidnapping of Ammar Al-Saffar, an Iraqi deputy minister of Health.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 08:06
State of Privilege
From: War News Radio
Caption: The two highest earning Iraqi politicians: Prime Minister Maliki and President Talibani, Credit: Photo Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 28:58
August, 21st 1968
From: Joanna Stein
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
Not Ready for a Box
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A woman decides to kick her drug addiction.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 1
WUTB-Variation 4A - Night Fears
From: David Green
Series: We Used To Believe...
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When you were younger, did you ever believe something which turned out not to be true? How about recently? Producers Allison and Nina explore scary...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Mar 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
A Musician's Life: Kristin Hersh
From: WXPN
Series: A Musician's Life
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The singer-songwriter best known for her indie-rock band "Throwing Muses" talks about her unorthodox, and involuntary approach to making music.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Judge Personality, Not Looks
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
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Don't treat people like their nothing if they don't look like you

  • Added: Jun 09, 2008
  • Length: 02:06
Youngest of three
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
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This is my life

  • Added: Jun 06, 2008
  • Length: 01:45
"Price of Retribution" by Emanuel Vinson
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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The cycle of abuse occuring as clergy are indicted for sex abuse and media swarms the vicitms. This poet is a student at Morgan Park High School ...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:33
Watching My Cousin Sink Into Gang Life
From: Curie Youth Radio
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A teenager charts her beloved cousin's path toward gang life

Bought by Vocalo.org, KFAI Minneapolis, and SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network


  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 3
Girl Detectives-Expanded Version
From: Sue Mell
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The aftermath of a friend's murder and the search for resolution in the face of an unexplained death.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 25:53
  • Purchases: 3
two weeks to kill
From: David Weinberg
Caption: PRX default Piece image
My days at work in the perfume factory in Queens

  • Added: Jun 04, 2006
  • Length: 13:57
Remember the Time
From: Song and Memory
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Remember the Time by Michael Jackson provides a soundtrack for Pascall's memory of being disciplined by his cousin.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Between Friends
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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A secret shared between 10 year-old girls becomes evidence in a court case 20 years later. Jody Porter knows how important it was to share the burd...

Bought by Vocalo.org, KXOT Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 22, 2005
  • Length: 13:05
  • Purchases: 3
Painted Lady: Part Two
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Elizabeth once worked the strolls in Calgary and Vancouver as a heroin addicted prostitute. She tells us how she went from sex trade worker to socc...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1