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Bonnie's Budget
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Bonnie has raised three daughters on less than twenty thousand dollars a year but according to Bonnie, she is anything but poor.

Bought by WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, and WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 08, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 3
Religious Interference
From: Eric Mack
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Local community broadcasters in Alaska are losing listeners to national religious broadcasters.

Bought by KZSC and KOPN


  • Added: Jul 01, 2005
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 2
Faith That Leads To Action.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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rabbi saperstein looks at the realtionship between church and politics.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 22, 2005
  • Length: 59:50
  • Purchases: 1
Oakland's Port - Community Friend or Foe?
From: Hana Baba
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A long feature on where millions of Oakland Port revenues go and why the ailing City of Oakland doesn't receive a penny of it.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 11:04
Poetry on Death Row - voices from inside
From: Arndt Peltner
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The voices from Death Row Inmates

Bought by XRAY.fm, Marfa Public Radio, and KALW


  • Added: Jun 10, 2005
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 3
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
From: Voices of Our World
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Kathy Golden talks in studio with Sister Helen Prejean, the author of Dead Man Walking and The Death Of Innocence plus a discussion with internati...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2005
  • Length: 28:00
Norman Mailer: a novelist in a time of war
From: Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism
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This talk of Norman Mailer's is a broadcast special from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

Bought by KUT-HD, KCPW Salt Lake City, WGBH Radio Boston, KCPW Salt Lake City, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 06, 2005
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
Challenges To American Foreign Policy In The Middle East.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Career ambassador Richard Murphy talks about the deterioration of U.S./Arab relations.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:00
America's Women: Four Hundred Years Of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates And Heroines.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Columnist Gail Collins says that women in colonial times had nearly as much freedom and even more power than they do today.

Bought by KZYX, Stan, KMUN, KDLG, and Maine Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 5
Backwoods Debaters Kick Butt
From: Shana Sheehy
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All 18 Whitestone high schoolers are on the debate team and they keep beating schools with thousands of students year after year after year.

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 1
Mea, Me, Mine
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Mea Tavares was born female. He’s spent the rest of his life redefining what it means to be male.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 08:49
  • Purchases: 1
Perpetual War, Perpetual Power
From: Craig Barnes
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Craig Barnes explores the Republican formula for perpetual war and the need for Democrats to restore America's traditional values of law, fairness ...

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: May 26, 2005
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 1
Consuming Desire
From: Todd Melby
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Enter the world of passionate collectors and compulsive shoppers to find out why people spent money on objects they don't need.

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WGBH Radio Boston, Marfa Public Radio, KVNF and more


  • Added: May 25, 2005
  • Length: 27:07
  • Purchases: 6
Convicting Chevie Kehoe
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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A new inquiry into a notorious murder case that asks: Were the wrong men convicted of this crime?

Bought by Audible and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 59:26
  • Purchases: 2
In Love with the Mob
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One hundred years of mob rule in Youngstown, Ohio.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Love and War
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Professional soldiers in Fort Benning, Georgia talk of the challenges facing themselves and their families as they prepare to go to war. Produced ...

Bought by KQAL, WFHB, KUAC, KSFR, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 16
The Rip & Read Blogger Podcast
From: Charlie Quidnunc
Series: The Rip & Read Blogger Podcast
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Today's Podcast

  • Added: May 19, 2005
  • Length: 10:53
Stephen Buhner - The Secret Teachings of Plants
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Stephen Buhner author of The Secret Teachings of Plants discusses how ancient and indigenous peoples learned about plants FROM the plants themselve...

  • Added: May 18, 2005
  • Length: 29:23
God's Politics
From: Voices of Our World
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Jim Wallis discusses how the politics of the religious right claim intimate knowledge of the Almighty?s intent. We also speak with Jesuit priest...

Bought by KUHB


  • Added: May 17, 2005
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Naturalist Pierre Arronax is on a mission to discover and destroy a mysterious beast terrorizing ships and soons finds himself at the mercy of the ...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: May 04, 2005
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Masaru Emoto - Hidden Messages in Water
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Dr. Masuru Emoto's work with water crystals show that our thoughts and words affect the physical world.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2005
  • Length: 29:14
RN Documentary: A Beginner’s Guide to the "Ode to Joy"
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Radio Netherlands looks at what inspired Beethoven to write one of the most universally loved pieces of classical music.

Bought by WMNR, KPIK-LP, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WEKU, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2005
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 6
Fighting With My Dad
From: Richard Paul
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A profile of a man who can't work with others

Bought by SALTcast Podcast, New Hampshire Public Radio, WMBR, WKSU, WSHU and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2005
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 6
Black Tension
From: Hana Baba
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A look at the sometimes tension-filled relationship between African immigrants and Black Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KISU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 10
A Pope, Yes. A Saint, No.
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A closer look at Pope John Paul II.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 02:20

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