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Conversations 102: Andrew Westoll
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Andrew Westoll
A conversation with Andrew Westoll, who worked in a sanctuary for 'retired' chimpanzees: former pets, circus animals or subjects for medical resear...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 15, 2012
  • Length: 53:26
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Daniel Ross
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Daniel Ross talks about being a volunteer firefighter while serving time in a minimum security prison.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 4
UnFictional: My So Called Guru
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Two stories about healers and teachers who do not have the best interests of their students in mind.

Bought by XRAY.fm, KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 04, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Changing on the Inside
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The US has the highest per capita incarceration rate of any country. At the Maine State Prison, inmates are being taught skills to care for their ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 2
Episode # 8 - Castaway: Michele Arcand
From: Jeff Wax
Series: Desert Island Discs
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Our castaway is Michele Arcand. A poet, activist and one of the driving forces in the Portland independent music scene. Michele is sui generis. ...

  • Added: May 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:22:59
Everyday Carry
From: Erica Kramer
Caption: Indian George at his forge
George Rebello has been making knives in his workshop in New Bedford for fifteen years. Normally it takes him two weeks to make a custom creation. ...

  • Added: May 26, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
Dancing with Many Voices
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this toe-tapping news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack explores Dancing with Many Voices, a multi-discipline dance perfor...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2012
  • Length: 26:10
Interview with Author Wayne Quist
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Interview about Quist's novel God's Angry Man, the true story of a Minnesota boy orphaned at age seven during te Greaat Depression and indentured a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 17:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Emperor's New Onesie
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
Caption: For many months, this is the only dress Violet would wear. Joyce washed it every night in the sink., Credit: Joyce Slaton
A woman spends a month at home with her naked two-year-old daughter, trying to figure out why she won't wear clothes.

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 14:16
  • Purchases: 2
Mount Pleasant Riots: 20 Years Later
From: Emily Berman
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Washington D.C. hadn’t seen a disturbance like this since the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and there hasn’t been anything like it si...

  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 07:04
Anorexia Nervosa
From: Jordyn Ownbey
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This piece was produced to inform the US about the overwhelming number of people who suffer from eating disorders.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: :30
Do You Hear The People Sing - edited, incl. interviews
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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At 1:00 p.m. on the 13th day of protests in Madison, Wisconsin, hundreds of singers and instrumentalists suddenly burst into song. The "Les Miserab...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2011
  • Length: 04:55
How did Rwanda become the world's cleanest developing country?
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Umaganda 2009 with Rwandans and US Embassy personnel, Credit: US Embassy -- Kigali
Today we go to Rwanda to see how the population spends the last Saturday of every month. And how those Saturdays have created surprising moments of...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 2
The Early Bird Fishing Guide
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
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Conversation with our early bird fishing guide Jeff Sundin. August 5th, 2010

  • Added: Aug 05, 2010
  • Length: 13:21
Virtuoso Voices - Zuill Bailey (Group Therapy)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Zuill Bailey, Credit: Lisa Marie Mazzucco
The Bach Suites for Solo Cello are revered by cellists. Many call them their "Bible." One of those Bach Bible-toting cellists is Zuill Bailey. He...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: :21
Bridget Ramasodi (South Africa's Promise)
From: My Lens Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bridgette had to leave her home, South Africa in 1991, during one of the most dynamic periods in that nation’s history. She left just one year afte...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 29:24
A Crazy, Convoluted Journey: Getting Water to Tucson
From: Terrascope Radio
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Tucson, Arizona, lives on water from the Colorado River, which is hundreds of miles away and half a mile downhill. This is the story of how it gets...

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, KDNK, WMPG, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 4
A Horse Named "Buckwheat"
From: Rogi Riverstone
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
Meal Ticket: My Lunch with Marlon Brando
From: Eric Winick
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A young doctor questioning his choices. A cinema icon. The conversation changed them both.

Bought by KPIK-LP, KMUZ, PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2008
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 7
Hospice Chronicles
From: Long Haul Productions
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Long Haul Productions follows two hospice volunteers as they visit their first patients.

Bought by Raven Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, KERA, WVPE and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Don't Drive Like My Brother
From: Jonathan Menjivar
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story of one man in desperate need of a job.

Bought by WJCT, PRX Remix, The Neighborhood, KUT, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2005
  • Length: 15:10
  • Purchases: 5
RN Documentary: The Jewish Genealogist
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Jonathan Groubert speaks with Dutchwoman Petje Schroeder a Jewish genealogist in the Polish city of Lodz.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2005
  • Length: 29:29
Lost & Found Sound: Hour One
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Lost & Found Sound
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Lost & Found Sound is an eclectic gathering of stories both historical and entertaining, woven together with lyrical sonic transitions, surprising ...

Bought by WITF, Marfa Public Radio, KOSU, PRX Remix, WFUV and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2004
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 11
Warren Upstairs
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A woman reveals her terror when her recently-retired husband is suddenly in poor health.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
Phone Message
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The adult daughter hasn't called; the parents are desperate; but at least there's a message on the machine.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:38