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Casper talks with us about coming to terms with health struggles.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 10:36
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Seventy five yar old Lynn tells the story of her Game Boy addiction

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to our first episode about Sheila, Episode 88: Cold Case, before you listen to this one. This episode contains descr...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 27:44
Caption: Some of Doris Kelly's handmade cards.
In the early 1930s, a boy played a prank on a girl. The girl, Doris Kelly Hall, swore revenge. What followed was over 70 years of harassing limeric...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2018
  • Length: 21:29
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“I keep saying ‘where’s the body? Kill someone,’” Marilyn Stasio told us. She reads at least 200 crime novels a year to determine which are worthy ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 23:58
  • Purchases: 1
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At the turn of the century, Carry Nation was “America’s foremost lady hellraiser” and “the apostle of reform violence.” In her own words, she was “...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 23:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer. When she came to New York twenty-one years ago to rehearse for a concert at Carnegie Hall, she never imag...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 14:09
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Bill and Becca have been together for 10 years. And, between the 2 of them, they’ve since had over 30 other partners. It’s no secret. They’re polya...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2014
  • Length: 07:40
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Nicole Raymondi (right)
Bobby speaks, on location, from Columbus Circle (the literal epicenter of New York City) with Nicole Raymondi, creator of Quotiful, an iPhone app, ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2013
  • Length: 36:58
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With jobs, chores, and family obligations, working mothers can lose themselves to their many commitments. A group of moms in Maine have a unique so...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 2
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A woman arms herself before leaving for work; an 18 year old girl spends three months in an Alaskan cannery; and that woman on the phone is not who...

Bought by KUAC, XRAY.fm, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Aspen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 6
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When Marcia Mello started busking, she was excited to pursue a life-long dream. But she's had to fight for her place on the street.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 10, 2012
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 2
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Every thing deserves a second chance

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:29
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A documentary on Adrian Chi Tenney, a female professional driver in Los Angeles, CA.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
Caption: Amy Boortz feeds rescue dogs at the school where she lives. , Credit: Mary Helen Miller
Amy Boortz bought a full-size school in north Georgia to live in with her family. They turned classrooms into bedrooms, and life was alright for a ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
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You may be surprised to learn that the vibrator (also known as woman's best friend) has been a staple of female health since the birth of electrici...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:13
Caption: Mary Quant, as styled by Vidal Sassoon
In this evergreen single-voice portrait, renowned hair designer Vidal Sassoon discusses one of his greatest artistic inspirations with charm and in...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
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For Katie West of Bath, Maine, laughter is not only a way of life but a tool for survival.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 2
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Confederate Civil War reenactors in Maine? The 15th Alabama is the largest Confederate Civil War reenacting group in the state.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 56:25
  • Purchases: 16
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Two women take a stand against their razors.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2009
  • Length: 10:18
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For a group of retired women in Maine, a garden grows more than just plants.

Bought by KZYX and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 2
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An unknown pastime to most, competitive model horse collecting is a serious passion for girls and women of all ages. But why?

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 20:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Adrian Boyes profiles Nancy Buirski, founder of the Full Frame Documentary Festival

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2007
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
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The story behind the word "mascara"

  • Added: Nov 24, 2006
  • Length: 03:05