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Romantic Red Love, But Not in Sweden
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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With the couple next door constantly fighting and my friends failed marriages in good memory I started to wonder why Sweden seems to fail in loving...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Glass, Not Glitter
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Neighbors of the Murrah Federal building recall the 1995 bombing that altered the life and culture of Oklahoma City.

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 2
Miracle in Gray and White
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Neighbors investigate an apparition.

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Olympic Games: Who Wins?
From: Making Contact
Caption: Torch Blocked at Downtown East Side, Credit: AMANDA ZEIDERS / Pittsburgh Indymedia
The Olympic Games have grown into a multibillion dollar industry. But with that growth comes concerns about the negative effects of the event on t...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4
Baring It All: My First Time At A Nudist Resort
From: Chion Wolf
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WNPR producer Chion ("khy-own") Wolf visited Solair Family Nudist Resort in Woodstock, Connecticut to fully experience, for the first time, life as...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUT


  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 2
On the Other Side of the Myth: A Conversation with Michelle Alexander and Tim Wise
From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow
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This second installment in the series titled Bringing Down the New Jim Crow features the first ever dialog between legal scholar Michelle Alexander...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KFOK-LPFM, and WDSE


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
When All Else Fails
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Preppers are a unique group of people united by the belief that they must prepare for future catastrophes.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 1
Life After War
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound
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Refugees coming to the US have just a few months to find a job and a place to live. And they are 10 times as likely as the general population to su...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
Starting Over at Sea-Tac
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound
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New refugees have to juggle a lot. There's finding housing, getting kids enrolled in school; often there's learning English. And there's finding a ...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 08:10
Little Mogadishu
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound
Caption: Trudy's Bar, Credit: Alex Stonehill
King County is home to one of the country's largest populations of Somalis. They've been fleeing since the Somali government collapsed in 1991. The...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:45
Steampunk among the steam trains
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Steampunk among the steam trains: lifestyle/fashion event celebrates a past vision of the future. Amy Clark brings us a conversation with Richard R...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 05:39
  • Purchases: 2
Painting from the Ashes
From: Sarah P. Reynolds
Caption: Kevin King painting in his studio, Credit: Sarah P. Reynolds
Kevin King is a painter. His paintings aren't controversial, but his medium is.

Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 4
Food Sleuth Radio, Maria Rodale Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Maria Rodale, CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc., and author of “The Organic Manifesto. Maria...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Just a Sample
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Questions surface about brain harvesting in Maine.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 3
Buffalo Creek Disaster Remembered
From: WMMT
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This Sunday, February 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. The disaster occured when the da...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 08:53
  • Purchases: 1
Iraqi Kurdistan, Parts One & Two
From: War News Radio
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Parts One and Two of Amy DiPierro's series on economic development, poverty, and inequality in Iraqi Kurdistan. These previously released segments ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 22:43
2/9/12 Food Sleuth Radio: Megan Westgate on the Non-GMO Project
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Megan Westgate, Executive Director of the Non-GMO Project. Do you agree that consumers have...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
2/2/12 Food Sleuth Radio: Filmmaker Jeremy Seifert on Food Waste and GMOs
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Jeremy Seifert, documentary film maker. Learn about Seifert’s film about the tragedy of Am...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
A Conversation with Stanley Nelson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Stanley Nelson discusses his award-winning documentary Freedom Riders. [29:39]

Bought by WNJR and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 2
Lynne Cox - Open Water Swimmer: The Greatest Athlete You've Never Heard Of
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Lynne Cox - Open Water Swimmer: - She is an author, advocate, adventurer, motivational speaker, and athlete extraordinaire, Lynn Cox.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
The Fight of the Century: Ali - Frazier I
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Two undefeated heavyweight boxing champions capture the imagination of a polarized America on March 8, 1971.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
Who Controls Black Women's Bodies? (encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rally in support of the Ohio Prevention First Act, Credit: creative commons Flickr user ProgressOhio
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Humankind: Rubin Carter's Hurricane
From: Humankind
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Memorialized in a Bob Dylan song and an Academy Award nominated Denzel Washington film, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was a successful prize fighter, wh...

Bought by WEZU, WOUB, NPR Illinois, RadioFreePalmer, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 28
HEALing Energy: Engineer aims for a global renewable energy plan by 2012
From: SQRadio
Caption: Mark Jacobson, Credit: Sheri Quinn
Stanford University Engineer Mark Z. Jacobson is trying to convince the world that his energy plan based soley on renwables: wind, water, and solar...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 31:08
Public Comment Periods and Government Bodies: is this microphone working?!
From: Civic Commons
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
When it comes to public comment periods, school board and city council meetings are just plain weird.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:30

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