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Radio 586 AZ Roots 09-09 to 09-18-20 show 368
From: KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
Series: Radio 586 AZ Roots
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Guitar Jazz No. 8 hosted by Desert Doug, our go-to in Arizona when it comes to jazz guitar. This week Doug spins wax by Chuck Wayne, Dennis Budimir...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2020
  • Length: 57:59
You Have To Have Another Life, Depending On You, To Make Sure They're Taken Care Of
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2018 Martin Middle School Stories
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Destiny, Sharnay, and Jacob interview their mothers about teenage motherhood.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 10:19
I Think Those New Laws Are Very Unfair
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2018 Martin Middle School Stories
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Spanish teacher Martha Ross shares her experiences as a migrant from Guatemala to the U.S. and helping immigrant students and their families.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 09:34
California Innocence Project: The Wrongful Incarceration of Your Child - episode 5
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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Charles Miles talks about the wrongful incarceration of his son.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
Muskrat Trapper
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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Barry Forbes talks about hunting, trapping, and a life lived on Route 116.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 13:51
How Black Lives Matters Got An Anthem
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Minneapolis singer Jayanthi Kyle grew up listening to songs of the civil rights movement. As police-involved killings of African-Americans gave ris...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Wilson Matthews and Jeanne Yeatman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Wilson Matthews (L) and Jeanne Yeatman (R)
Flight nurses Wilson Matthews and Jeanne Yeatman talk about their work aboard emergency response helicopters and their attempts to save a child who...

Bought by WTJU and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 2
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1478 (Hour 1 & 2) - 05/28/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Fixing Musical malfunctions like a mechanic, germinating in the workshop and in the grooveyard. Paying particular tribute to a giant of our music B...

Bought by KPVL, WVBI-LP, WOUB, and WYAP


  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Nicholas Heyward, Sr.
From: StoryCorps
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Nicholas Heyward Sr. remembers his son, Nicholas Jr., a 13-year-old who was playing with a toy gun when he was killed by a police officer in Brookl...

  • Added: May 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:40
Beauty in Transition
From: Matt Leibowitz
Caption: In the van, Credit: Nicola Benizzi
Report on the "Beauty in Transition" mobile hair salon.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 04:01
Aaron Leeder Compositions2
From: Aaron Leeder
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stream and download available at http://aaronleeder.bandcamp.com/album/variations-on-a-shell facestogether.com

  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 04:58
"A Blessing" by James Wright
From: Tully McLoughlin
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Reading from James Wright's “A Blessing” from Above the River: The Complete Poems and Selected Prose. Copyright 1990 by James Wright.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:19
A Conversation with Writer, M. Evelina Galang
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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M. Evelina Galang's work spans generations with her writing of young Filipina-Americans and the surviving World War II "comfort women." [22:15]

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KZUM, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 22:16
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Rogelio Martinez and Lisa Moya King
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Rogelio Martinez talks to his former dance teacher, Lisa Moya King, about how she helped him through abuse at home.

Bought by WEZU and KMUD


  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 2
Living Downstream
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sandra Steingraber , Credit: www.livingdownstream.com/
Renowned biologist Sandra Steingraber has made fighting environmentally induced cancers her life’s work. We hear excerpts of the documentary film,...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Sep 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Chuck
From: Eric Winick
Series: The Bittersweetness of God's Love
Caption: Chuck Piekarski, Credit: Janette Beckman
Chuck Piekarski, a baker/pastry chef at God's Love We Deliver in New York, came to his job after experiencing a personal tragedy -- and now he's gi...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:49
Visiting a Prison Nursery
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com/, Credit: Shannon Heffernan
What happens when a women gives birth behind bars? Usually those babies are sent home with family members or put into foster care. But some prison...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 14:25
  • Purchases: 4
Aha Moment: Underground Railroad
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: First Congregational Church of Detroit, Credit: http://www.the-ugrr.org/
Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
WUTB-Variation 5A -Quiet, Gentle Version
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 Aliana and Sophie reveal the w...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Mar 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 1
Studs Terkel: "And They All Sang"
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Commemorating the life of an American original...Studs Terkel.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 2
For Emmett Till by Dianna Harris
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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Her fouth year in the competition, Dianna says this piece is about Emmett Till's mother. Dianna Harris is 17 years old and was an individual final...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
Intersection by Demetrius Amparan
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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His second year in the competition, Demetrius says this piece is about fitting into all four of his races. Demetrius Amparan is 17 years old and w...

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network


  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 1
Coming home to The Waving Man
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Coming home from A. Broad past The Waving Man.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 07:48
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
Virtuoso Voices - Sharon Isbin (Fountains of Tarrega)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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It's one of those tunes you've heard a hundred times but never really caught the name. Guitarist Sharon Isbin introduces Memories of the Alhambra ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Sep 07, 2006
  • Length: :35
  • Purchases: 2