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Neighbors
From: andrew walsh
Caption: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, Credit: Andrew Walsh
What makes a good neighbor? Should neighbors be friends? Who was the worst neighbor you ever had?

  • Added: Sep 12, 2009
  • Length: 02:10
My Not So Sweet Home
From: Radio Rookies
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14-year-old Radio Rookie Krystle Monclova has been living in a group home in Manhattan since last summer. She never expected to wind up in "the sys...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 09, 2009
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 1
A Young Birder's Field Guide
From: Gretta Cohn
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Luke Seitz is a 14-year-old birder with a lot on his mind- life lists, nemesis birds, and how to balance his secret passion with the confusing worl...

Bought by The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Nov 17, 2008
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 1
Family: In Four Movements
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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...the flights of fancy, the follies, the letdowns, and the soft landings

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1
How Place Shapes Us
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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From Hawaiia, a tropical canvas.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
A Missile Base Called Home
From: Eric Molinsky
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A peace activist turns an abandoned nuclear missile base into his family home.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX to iTunes, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2008
  • Length: 09:43
  • Purchases: 3
J-Kronic- She's on It!!
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This piece is about J-Kronic's life, her struggles, her little boy!

  • Added: Jun 10, 2008
  • Length: 05:56
In Sickness & In Health
From: ANITA PALLADINO
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Humor, family

  • Added: Jun 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:27
Sly Crooner Episode #32 Mr. Lucky's Dad
From: Geoffrey Tozer
Series: Sly Crooner
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Mr. Lucky wants to get in touch with his father.

  • Added: May 06, 2008
  • Length: 28:30
Unleavened Alaska: Passover in the Last Frontier
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: Soundbites: A Series On Food
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When it comes to Passover, why is this state different from all other states?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPIK-LP, Louisville Public Media, KZYX and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2008
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 6
Peace.
From: Jenna Hammerich
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When you're raised by hippies, anything goes.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2008
  • Length: 12:26
  • Purchases: 2
THE POETS' CORNER-audiobook review
From: AudioFile Magazine
Series: Earshot!
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THE POETS' CORNER-audiobook review

  • Added: Mar 27, 2008
  • Length: 03:51
Sly Crooner Episode #10 The Bass
From: Geoffrey Tozer
Series: Sly Crooner
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A long journey ends where it started, back at home.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2008
  • Length: 28:30
Trespassing and Other Crimes
From: Briana O'Higgins
Caption: PRX default Piece image
11 Year-old entrepreneur.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2007
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 2
Peanut Butter Sandwich for Sylvia
From: Bria Dolnick
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The surprising wonder of routine in the making of a peanut butter sandwich

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
Jungians, Athabascans & Dream Stuff: An Interpretation of Dreams
From: Rebecca Sheir
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What's the real stuff dreams are made on? Depends whom you ask...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2007
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Corinne Colbert
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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In an age of bigger, faster, better, listener Corinne Colbert believes in settling for what you have.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KISU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KJZZ


  • Added: May 29, 2007
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 5
Undatable in the Country
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Series: Undatable
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How do you find love in the sticks?

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2007
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
Alternadad
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Hipster Dads, and why we should shun them.

Bought by KUSP


  • Added: Mar 16, 2007
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Wayne Coyne
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Rock musician Wayne Coyne believes happiness isn't coincidence, but something we make within ourselves.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, WBHM, and KJZZ


  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 4
Banana Pudding
From: Bria Dolnick
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Interviews with banana pudding lovers in North Carolina

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Feb 19, 2007
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 1
A Cook's Notebook: Pork Loin Roast
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
Caption: PRX default Piece image
a Sunday dinner

  • Added: Aug 28, 2006
  • Length: 02:24
Baby Jones
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Story Salon Live
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Michael Rayner, storyteller and professional juggler, reflects on the complex high of fatherhood.

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Aug 19, 2006
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
The 18th Annual Seagull Calling Festival
From: KUOW
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Uncanny seagull impressions make for good family fun on the Puget Sound.

Bought by WSHU and KZSC


  • Added: Aug 01, 2006
  • Length: 01:43
  • Purchases: 2
The Beams! Radio Fiction for Kids
From: Space Radio Productions LLC
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The first episode of a kids' "spacecast" focused on the wacky, outer space adventures of the fictional Beams family!

  • Added: Jul 22, 2006
  • Length: 31:25