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A crunchy-granola environmentalist professes a love for New Jersey.
Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 11, 2004
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 2
An elderly woman has been notified that her ex-husband has died. Her friend makes the mistake of extending sympathy.
- Added: Jun 09, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A mother dreams of impulsively dropping everything and treating herself to an afternoon of roller skating -- but it's a dream.
- Added: Jun 08, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A couple celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary with simple love and humor.
- Added: Jun 08, 2004
- Length: 01:37
- Purchases: 2
Faye, who has tried marriage four times, now sees her favorite bar as her family: It's happier and safer.
Bought by WQJC
- Added: Jun 08, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
A man and a woman communicate through the medium of a board game, briefly wondering, "Is there more to life than this?"
- Added: Jun 05, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Added: Jun 05, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
On the verge of love-making, a couple quarrel about taking out the garbage. The only solution: divorce.
- Added: Jun 04, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A mother and daughter offer individual visions of who is "family." To Mom, it's only her daughter; to her daughter, it's the world.
- Added: Jun 04, 2004
- Length: 01:38
Two devoted criminals attribute the longevity of their marriage to teamwork and strong family values.
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
"How many couples could say on their first anniversary that they've solved all their significant problems?"
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A daughter rebels against the bland life her mother has led, while the mother sees it from a very different perspective.
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
A man calls his mother to tell her he can't bring his family home for the holidays, but ends up talking himself into it.
Bought by KMXT, WEZU, WRVO Public Media, WQJC, WKSU and more
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
- Purchases: 6
Two brothers sort through the attic after their mother's death, coming into contact with memories through the Christmas wrappings she preserved.
Bought by WKSU
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
A suburban couple plan to go out for the evening, but every option is fraught with danger -- they stay home behind locked doors.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A single parent reassures her small child there's no shame in being illegitimate -- but the child is asking something entirely different.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
Mom finally allows her child to go out and play in the mud if he promises to keep clean.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A harried father tries to coach his small child to open a locked bathroom door.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A grown daughter rages at the immaturity of the parents who abandoned her but is chastised by the grandmother who raised her.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
Mother and daughter quarrel over the writing of the obligatory "thank you note," while Dad tunes out.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A woman is stuck in the attic and sends a note down on the cat's collar, hoping to be rescued by her sleeping husband -- who misinterprets it in a ...
Bought by WQJC
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
Dad proudly teaches his small child to read "walk" and "don't walk", then crosses against the light.
Bought by KISU
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
A middle-aged divorcee going out on a date is grilled like a teenager by her elderly father.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
- Added: Apr 23, 2004
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 2
Old coots reminiscing about wars and police actions of words. . . and steam, geothermal and nuclear-powered doorbells they have known. . .
Bought by The Prairie Star and WCOM
- Added: Mar 24, 2004
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 2
