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Crowned Eagle's Cataract Surgery
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Crowned Eagle-Rosey, Credit: Elleni Stephanou
Simon Thomsetts Crowned Eagle - Rosey, a 38 year old male, went completely blind due to catarax in both of his eyes. After a successful eye surgery...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 06:16
The Gift of Music
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The volunteer choral group, Evensong, specializes in singing the last music their audience will ever hear.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 09:23
  • Purchases: 3
Kids Needing Assistance Find A Helping Paw
From: Brian Bull
Caption: Mario Study with his service dog, Zen., Credit: Brian Bull, WCPN.
An Ohio program recruits prison inmates to train dogs to work with special needs children.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 05:14
Anna Halprin and the Planetary Dance
From: KALW
Caption: Anna Halprin explaining the Planetary Dance, Credit: Photo by photo by John Kokoska
Anna Halprin has influenced generations of dancers and artists with her unique integration of dance and healing work, as well as her use of perform...

  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 08:42
Bobby Hutcherson: Master of the vibes
From: KALW
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For nearly 50 years now, a jazz artist who now resides in Northern California has enjoyed a career as one of the great performers on the vibraphone...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 14:07
Stories from a Christmas Stocking
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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This holiday stocking is overflowing with a bounty of winter sounds and seasonal stories.

Bought by KREV-LP and KHNS


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 49:20
  • Purchases: 2
Encore Presentation of Broadway Star Lawrence Hamilton
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tin Roof Project Encore Presentations
Caption: Lawrence Hamilton
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton tells his own true story of his childhood in racially-divided south Arkansas. These encore presentations of our Tin...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jesus Freak
From: WHJE
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Following the life of a Christian teenager.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:43
Honoring Our Veterans
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The nation is losing 850 World War II veterans a day. One Virginia general is seeing that their sacrifice is remembered. Kelley Libby reports.

Bought by KENW, KHSU, KKWE Niijii Radio, Delta College Public Radio, and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Oct 07, 2011
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 5
Capturing place and time through sound
From: KALW
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KALW’s Martina Castro spoke with sound designer Christopher Hedge about how he came up with the sound design for “Life: A Cosmic Story,” the show r...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 2
Bless Me, Ultima: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima is about pride and assimilation, faith and doubt. This half-hour program includes readings by actor Cheech Marin a...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZYX, KMUN, KUPR low power FM, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 8
A Conversation with Rudolfo Anaya
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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A NEA Literature Fellow and renowned writer, Rudolfo Anaya talks about not only his acclaimed novel Bless Me, Ultima, but the influence of the oral...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2011
  • Length: 23:56
Tales from the South 028: Breast Cancer Awareness
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Special Breast Cancer Survivors Show: Kristi Moody decides to not take her doctor's advice, Penny Burkhalter is shopping for maternity clothes when...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The rebirth of a children's hospice
From: KALW
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Life can be scary for children caught in the family court bureaucracy, but even kids with intact families often face harrowing ordeals – that’s wha...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:28
The People Could Fly
From: Miles Tokunow
Caption: It's Superman!, Credit: by Dude Crush
This is a telling of Virginia Hamilton's American Black Folktale "The People Could Fly."

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioFreePalmer, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WSLR, WDBM and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
The Love I felt for You
From: Littleglobe
Caption: by Rayani Melo from Flickr
Esmerelda Gonzales-Munoz's "The Love I Felt For You" shares with us her story about love. Created during Youth Media Project's 2010 Summer Intensiv...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2011
  • Length: 03:20
'Tis the Season
From: With Good Reason
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It's time to rock around the Christmas tree.

Bought by WUFT, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KVSC, Panhandle Community Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2010
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 5
In The Spirit of Christmas
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Merry Christmas, Credit: Vincent Lock
Mike Whorf's "Kaleidoscope" guides us into the Christmas mood with a few musings on the spirit of the season.

Bought by WVRU


  • Added: Nov 30, 2010
  • Length: 48:22
  • Purchases: 1
Read, Read, Read!
From: Learning Matters
Series: Lessons from Haiti: Schools after the earthquake
Caption: Mackenton Louis reads to a group of kids at Lycee Toussaint L'Ouverture in Port-au-Prince, Credit: Judith Scherr/Learning Matters
A group of readers heads out to tent camps around Haiti to read to children displaced by the earthquake.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 07:52
Granite City Days
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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Summer in Minnesota means a few things: playing in the park, playing in the water and playing around at all the festivals scattered about Central M...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: 29:19
Commentator Guido on State Parks
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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From the start, the very concept of "State Parks" was an indicator of things that had already been lost...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 03:54
American Standards by the Sea - Show #537 HR1 (Three Segments)
From: Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook
Series: Dick Robinson's American Standards by the Sea
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Featuring music from The Great American Songbook - the golden era of American songwriting which took place from roughly the 1920s to the 1960s. T...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 55:19
Making of the Harvey Milk Bust at City Hall
From: Robynn Takayama
Caption: Bust of Harvey Milk
This segment offers a rare look at the sculpture in San Francisco's City Hall of civil rights leader and local hero, Harvey Milk; its sculptor; an...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 1
Calling All Cowboys Sample Show
From: charles engel
Caption: Chuckaroo The Buckaroo
Welcome to Calling All Cowboys. Ride the dusty high-desert each week with host, Chuckaroo The Buckaroo, as he explores western music, cowboy poetry...

Bought by KBBI Alaska and WEZU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2010
  • Length: 01:58:45
  • Purchases: 2
The Durango Roller Girls and Articulation, a space for art and learning
From: Kinsee Morlan
Series: This Small Town Life
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This story is a nod to Women's History month. Two small-town women with big ideas.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: 12:36