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Great Expectations
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Making the transition from teenager to independent adult is hard enough… but without family support, it’s especially tricky. Lilia Fuquen reports ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 1
The Chief Chicken
From: Shana S. Weber, Ph.D.
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
Caption: the chief chicken, Credit: shana weber
Young Elliot, a 7 year old from Hopewell NJ, shares with us what it means to be the Chief Chicken of his little backyard flock.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 03:56
Melvin Majors Fathers And Children
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Melvin Major, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Fathers and Children is about a man named Melvin Major who became father to hundreds of young people. But he has no offspring.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 27:40
Kathleen’s Encore: Former Opera Singer Says 'Having It All Is Highly Overrated'
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: Kathleen Gillette and her family in the mid-1990s., Credit: Credit Courtesy of Kathleen Gillette
Kathleen Gillette has had a passion for singing for as long as she can remember. But after spending 15 years as an opera singer, her career began t...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:15
Day Job 10: The Window Washer
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Mike Notter of the Seattle bands Motopony and Hannalee cleans windows for a living, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 16:10
  • Purchases: 1
My Bi-partisan Family: A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: My Bipartisan Famiy, Credit: Susan Cook
I have a bi -partisan family. Maybe you do too. It makes understanding politics all the more difficult because sometimes people don’t agree. When ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:19
The Family Matriarch
From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Jessalyn, a student at Menlo Park High School in Minneapolis has a touching reminiscence in verse about her great grandmother, the matriarch of her...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 1
Adoption in America (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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With the success of TV shows like Modern Family and Parenthood, it’s clear that the way Americans think of family is starting to change. But Linda ...

Bought by WJCT and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Nov 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Adoption in America (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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With the success of TV shows like Modern Family and Parenthood, it’s clear that the way Americans think of family is starting to change. But Linda ...

Bought by WCNY and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Nov 25, 2013
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Reginald Mason
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Reginald Mason remembers growing up in Harlem with his mother during the 1970s.

Bought by WDBM, WVBI-LP, WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Tim and Keith Harris
From: StoryCorps
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Tim Harris, who has Down Syndrome, and his father, Keith, talk about starting their restaurant, "Tim’s Place."

Bought by WEZU and KALW


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
Acoustic Stories : Nathan Bergstedt : " Mere synapses firing? I think not."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Nathan Bergstedt is a writer from Grand Rapids. He is the Art and Education Editor for the Grand Rapids Herald Review. He is also responsible for T...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
Ernie's Green Free Tree
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Under Ernie’s Free Tree neighbors and passersby pick from the free pile, the last of Ernie Winger’s possessions—recycling, laughing, crying, rememb...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Food Memory Lane with Stephanie Plunkett
From: Carole Murko
Series: Heirloom Meals Radio
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Stephanie Plunkett, niece of Agnes Djaha, shares her part of the story of her syrian-lebanese food heritage.

  • Added: May 01, 2012
  • Length: 22:58
The Benefits of Equine Therapy
From: Bob Long
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A program in the greater Cincinnati area is offering therapeutic horseback riding opportunities to the disabled. We report on the impact this type...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 05:46
Food Memory Lane with Kathy Mangan
From: Carole Murko
Series: Heirloom Meals Radio
Caption: Kathy Mangan, Credit: Kathy Mangan
Imagine spending the summer of your youth on your grandparent's farm in the Catskills of Upstate New York. Kathy Mangan doesn't have to. She had ...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 27:48
FRIENDS WITH KIDS -- Filmmaker/Actor Jennifer Westfeldt
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Jennifer Westfeldt, San Francisco, CA 2/23/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jennifer Westfeldt talks romance, paradigms, and co-star Adam Scott's hair.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 10:09
Waking Up Together on Valentine’s Day
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Zen and relationships, plus the history of Valentine's Day cards. And, a singing Valentine.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WJCT, Troy Public Radio, and KRPS


  • Added: Feb 10, 2012
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 4
NEA Jazz Master Jason Marsalis
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Two Moments featuring 2011 NEA Jazz Master Jason Marsalis

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KBEM, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2011
  • Length: 07:29
  • Purchases: 13
My Dad's Favorites: An All-American Greatest Generation Playlist [59:00 / 54:00]
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Audrey Ingles, John Ingles Sr., Paul Ingles
Radio producer Paul Ingles sits down with his WW II veteran Dad to hear about the music his father feels has been essential to his appreciation of ...

Bought by KFSK, KUHF, KWSO, WRGY, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 47
A Cold Freezin Night (for Doomed Lovers)
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
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I said this is NUTS, and he agreed.

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Nest
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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It's one thing to make it to living in your nineties, and another to get to that age and still live independently at home. Bob and Terry Rohe have ...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WMPG, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 4
The Last Word on Fairs
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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A fair is so long so that you can get around to eat everything being offered. Eat your walleye on a stick, and then eat the stick because it's mad...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2010
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
Mary and Goldie
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What's For Breakfast
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We talk with KAXE members Mary the Kayak Lady and Goldie; starting with orange juice and pills, they moved on to mini-shredded-wheat-total-and-chee...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2010
  • Length: 19:51
Jill Jevne on Prophets and Revolutionaries
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Artist Jill Jevne of Jacobson, MN speaks with her husband Robert Jevne about her exhibition Prophets and Revolutionaries, on display through July a...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2010
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1