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Mother Mine: September Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece we hear four people from around the world talking about their mothers and who they are because of their mothers. From a mother in Bos...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMPG, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Ajmal Achekzai
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Ajmal Achekzai reflects on escaping Afghanistan as a child, returning as a U.S. Marine, and his fears and hope for the future of its people.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 1
Part One: Iryiel Cochran
From: Jason Klarl
Series: Guatemalan Connections
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Iryiel Cochran shares her story about growing up as a Guatemalan adoptee in northern Colorado and searching for biological family in Quetzaltenango...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 18:21
Life During COVID
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: unhappy masked man, Credit: https://snappygoat.com/free-public-domain-images-man_depressed_hoodie_unhappy/rbaXF2P4I275TeGAlqcCb1xcuuBZmgLxsv7PXwyGPcX1.html#,0,0.73b9015dfe5a5122dd72979ddbb7ad50a2964544
The COVID 19 pandemic has transformed all of our lives in some way. But some are feeling the impacts more than others. Take healthcare workers, for...

Bought by Radio Catskill, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps Griot: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Willie Edwards Jr. died in 1957. He was killed by Klansmen who told him to either jump off a bridge or be shot., Credit: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts
Malinda Edwards talks to her sister Mildred Betts about the murder of her father, Willie Edwards Jr. at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in 1957.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
August Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece we hear from 4 people around the world talking about their mothers, and how their mothers have shaped them. From a mother whose strug...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, RadioStPete Florida, and WMPG


  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Mother Mine: July Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece we hear from 6 people across the globe talking about their mothers and who they are because of their mothers. From a mother who never...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMPG, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:36
  • Purchases: 3
Mother Mine: June Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece we hear five people talk about their mothers, and how their mothers have shaped them. From the expectations their mothers had that th...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMPG, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 26:38
  • Purchases: 3
The Perks and Pitfalls of Multiethnic Family Life
From: Diana Opong
Caption: Diana Opong & Kristin Leong, Credit: Photo by Jessica Peterson & Keri Zierler
Race and Identity at Home is a narrated public radio audio feature exploring parenting in multicultural families with Kristin Leong and Diana Opong...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 17:47
A Box of Photographs
From: Paula Nelson
Caption: The negatives reveal the truth beyond the memory., Credit: Paula Nelson
A rich, intimate story of family, childhood memories, and rediscovering old photographs and the stories that connect them.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 16:36
  • Purchases: 1
Smokin' Joe talks about "Just Be Kind" series remembering Max Graham
From: WTIP
Series: The Scenic Route
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Smokin' Joe Scarpellino is a longtime musician and event organizer in the Twin Cities music scene. He calls in to the Scenic Route to talk about th...

  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 08:40
StoryCorps Griot: Jade Rone and Stacia Parker
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Jade Rone talks to her foster mother, Stacia Parker, about the early days of their relationship and the journey that brought them closer together.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Historias: Carmencristina Moreno and Rosemary Selzer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Carmencristina Moreno and her sister, Rosemary Selzer, remember their father, songwriter Luis M. Moreno, and the bittersweet legacy he left behind.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Self Evident: Hate Goes Viral
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sojung Yi, Charlie Wang and Melissa Borja, Credit: Self Evident
Two incidents of anti-Asian hate — the beating of an elderly grandfather in a San Francisco park and the harassment of a mourning son in a New York...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Blue Dress
From: Katie Semro
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This piece is an emotional account of having a child with Autism.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KKRN, KGUA, KWMR, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 15, 2021
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 5
Tell Saki - Part II
From: Israel Story
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In Part II of this tale, Yochai Maital brings the kind of war story we rarely hear – that which begins once the fighting ends. On October 8, 1973, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 47:57
05 “Grace in the Face of Discomfort” [Kristi’s Story]
From: Gautam Gulati
Series: SUPERHUMANS
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
What would it look like for you to live your life with grace? This SUPERHUMANS story shows us how to experience loss with Grace. Kristi opens up a...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 36:40
2021-02-03: The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Revealed And Exacerbated Societal Inequities , 1/28/2021
From: West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Series: Inside Appalachia
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Black and Latino populations have suffered higher infection rates. People working low-income jobs are more likely to be considered essential — and ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
GN_4.24_GrandmaKnowsBest
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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One man's Grandma becomes a social media icon for humerous advice.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Free In My Mind: Surviving Incarceration Through Music
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Two Minnesota musicians, Amanda Weber and Natalie Pollard, are starting what is thought to be the first re-entry choir in the U.S. Pollard shares t...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 2
Drunken Noodles
From: Walker Raigh
Series: Scratch & Sniff
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Walker meets up with a close friend at a favorite Thai restaurant to get her advice on the latest situation in her relationship with Trent.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 05:00
Episode 21: Plenty of Times When We Get Home with Kayla Williams
From: Justin Hudnall
Series: Incoming
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Army linguist and intelligence specialist Kayla Williams has authored two books that unveil not only her own service, but offer a fearlessly unapol...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:09
Episode 16: We Gotta Get Outta This Place with Doug Bradley
From: Justin Hudnall
Series: Incoming
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On this episode of Incoming we talk with Doug Bradley, Army veteran and author of We Gotta Get Outta This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War....

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
Episode 7: The Abyss Also Gazes – Andrew Szala, Rolf Yngve, Gill Sotu, Elizabeth Washburn and Dan Lopez of Combat Arts
From: Justin Hudnall
Series: Incoming
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Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. – ...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
The Fallen of 2020
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This year on making contact, instead of our normal end of year show commemorating movement leaders we've lost, and highlighting their work, we reme...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:59

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