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Encore Presentation of Tin Roof Project featuring Janis Kearney
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tin Roof Project Encore Presentations
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It's our encore presentation of our Tin Roof Project featuring Presidential Diarist Janis Kearney, reading her true story about her childhood in ru...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Elk Encounter
From: Prairie Public
Series: Essays from the Veeder Ranch
Caption: Jessie Veeder (Scofield)
Elk visit the ranch. Jessie and Pops sneak in for a close look.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 03:23
Wild Raspberries
From: Prairie Public
Series: Essays from the Veeder Ranch
Caption: Jessie Veeder (Scofield)
Jessie reflects on one of the simple joys of rural living ... the wild raspberry patch.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:21
The Life We Chose
From: Prairie Public
Series: Essays from the Veeder Ranch
Caption: Jessie Veeder (Scofield)
Reflections on the joys and challenges of ranch life.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:47
Nap Boot Camp
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
Caption: Kate at her "battle station," with Adelle at 4 months, Credit: Kate Bowman-Johnston
An exasperated mom decides that her daughter WILL nap in her crib by the end of the week.

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 16:20
  • Purchases: 1
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
Tales from the South 021
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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This week is about finding strength and confidence in big moments and in small. Darinda Sharp makes a famous correction, Holly Patton is shown kind...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tales from the South 027
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Annual Mothers Show: Amy Manning Burns is in the very first stages of becoming a mother, Ardee Eichelmann's newborn son cries in pain as the pain o...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tales from the South 017 with Janis Kearney
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Publisher and author Janis F. Kearney on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Linda Contes and Evelyn Williams
From: Rachel Falcone
Series: Housing is a Human Right Storytelling Project Vol. 1
Caption: Ms Evelyn Williams, Credit: Michael Premo
Two first-person stories about the struggle for home. With mounting hospital bills, Linda Contes and her husband struggle to make mortgage payments...

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  • Added: May 10, 2011
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 1
Nurse, Get the Handcuffs
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
Caption: One of the photos my dad snapped with his contraband camera, Credit: Richard Frank
A mother unexpectedly breaks down and apologizes to her 34-year-old daughter for not being able to breastfeed her.

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 14:24
  • Purchases: 1
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
Kittens Can Do it, So Why Can't We?
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
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A mom who finds breastfeeding stressful discovers that a machine helps her feel closer to her son.

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2011
  • Length: 11:53
  • Purchases: 1
Is Class Over Yet?
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
Caption: Liesl preps S for an Oliver + S photo shoot., Credit: Todd Gibson
A woman leaves her dream job to stay home with her baby, and then, out of boredom, starts sewing and unwittingly creates a new full-time job for he...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2011
  • Length: 14:16
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Barbara Jean
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Pat (left) and Joshua Presby
If Pat could tell his late step-mother, Barbara Jean, one thing, it's that he probably should have listened to her advice.

Bought by YouthCast and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
Heidi Portrait
From: Jamie Courville
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Heidi was adopted from Iran when she was three years old and raised in blue-blood Virginia. She will never be able to find her biological mother, b...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 4
Hair Rollers, Religion And Growing Up
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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Storyteller Jennifer Munro shares a childhood memory about her father and an overzealous neighbor.

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1
Natural Child Birth: "Is the Plan still the Plan?"
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Experience Natural Child Birth
Caption: The new baby, Avery Arena, Credit: Katy Sewall
It is good to have a birth plan. The one problem? The birth of a child can be unpredictable. Radio Producer Katy Sewall brings us the story of on...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2010
  • Length: 11:56
MA-143 Good Enough Mom
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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I've exchanged my Super Mom cloak for a Good Enough Mom sweatshirt.

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 04:47
Home Alone
From: Radio Rookies
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Krystle loves her mom very much and she feels guilty about how hard her mom has worked to provide a good life for them, but Krystle sometimes wonde...

Bought by The Story, KUT, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2010
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 3
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is... A Season of Unlikely Happiness, by Laura Munson
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Caption: Laura Munson, Credit: Heidi Long
Laura Munson is the author of 14 unpublished novels and one memoir, which was published almost immediately after she wrote it. This is Not The Stor...

Bought by KWMR, WFIU, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
It's Right For Me
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Alice Loesch has lived through a century that has seen some of history’s most sweeping changes in the lives of women.

Bought by WTIP, Delta College Public Radio, KSFR, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 10
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: Cold comfort
From: Spokane Public Radio
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This time of year, even when the spirit isn’t really there at all, we can decorate and party and shop ourselves into a state of manufactured joy. ...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2009
  • Length: 04:35
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: Some people
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Some people...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:38
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: If I ran the world
From: Spokane Public Radio
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If I ran the world

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:30

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