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Pawn queens: Tales and treasures from women pawn shop owners
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet women in the pawn industry: Sandy Meier, owner of Pawn Queen in Wethersfield, CT, and Lauren Kaminsky, founder o...

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
GN_4.25_All Dolled Up
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Perfection is overrated. Artist Kay Black creates custom dolls that reflect imperfections as true, one-of-a-kind beauty.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
The Apple Seed - Mother's Day Special 2021
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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We here at The Apple Seed practice Mother’s Day in the way that feels most meaningful and natural to us - through stories. Join us for tales from D...

Bought by WVPE, KCNP, KSJE, KTXK, KUHF and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 6
Ann Savoy: The Américaine
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Ann Savoy
Ann Savoy is a lot of things: a musician, scholar, mother, and world traveler. She took the scenic route from Virginia to South Louisiana in the m...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
StoryCorps: Caroline Dezan and Maria Rivas
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Caroline Dezan and Maria Rivas at their StoryCorps interview in Fresno, California on April 4, 2014., Credit: Courtesy Caroline Dezan.
Maria Rivas cared for her ailing mother over the last six years of her life, but she remembers her as anything but fragile while talking to social ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Marfa Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WHRV


  • Added: Sep 26, 2019
  • Length: 02:05
  • Purchases: 4
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Lighting the Way and Inspiring Hope in the World of Blood Related Cancers
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Lighting the Way and Inspiring Hope in the World of Blood Related Cancers. Woman of the Year 2018 and 2019 Candidate s...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 27:54
  • Purchases: 1
Peggy Lee, The Singer-Songwriter
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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Miss Peggy Lee (born May 26, 1920) was more than a pop star: she was also a world-class songwriter in the male-dominated world of jazz. On this Aft...

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Our Dreams Untangle Our Days
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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Dreams untangle our days. According to some theories, they give us a chance to work through in our sleep some of the threats and stresses of our da...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
Mother Leila
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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This mother’s Day I was thinking about a very particular mother. Not mine but a woman named Leila Seth. Leila Seth was the first woman to top th...

  • Added: May 17, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1556 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11/24/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Two Blue Note sessions set the tone, Stanley Turrentine and Hank Mobley for our post-bop voicings. Two brand-new releases follow from trumpeter/voc...

Bought by WMOT, WYAP, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
StoryCorps: Idella Hansen and Sandi Talbott
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Idella Hansen (left) and Sandi Talbott (right)
Two big rig truckers with more than 9 million miles in the driver’s seat between them discuss friendship, adventures, and why they’ll never retire.

Bought by PRX Remix, WMUU-LP, WGUC/ WVXU, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Donna Engeman and Nicole McKenna
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Nicole Engeman (left) with her mom, Donna Engeman (right)
Donna Engeman shares stories about her husband, Army Chief Warrant Officer John Engeman, who was killed 10 years ago while deployed in Iraq.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:06
Reflections on Charmstrings
From: Mark Head
Caption: Prince Charming Arrives with the 108th Button, Credit: Edward L. Ott 1896 sketch, with Illustrator Overlay
Mary Leonardson was a button fanatic traveling around the world roughly between the 1920s to the 1950s meeting up with various button clubs to coll...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 12:24
Love Letters to Mom from College
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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What would college students say to their mothers on Mother's Day, since many students can't be with her?

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
Nonagenarian Duo Shows Rushing To Marry Not Always A Bad Idea
From: Rebecca Sheir
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Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy is 93. Girl is 90. True story.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 03, 2015
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 3
Two Doves
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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Julie had never planned to be a mother. When her partner of ten years suffered a near fatal stroke and moved back home with his family, she found h...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 10:58
  • Purchases: 1
Life in a New World
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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As a little girl my mom always felt different because she was living in a world where she was the minority. Coming to a new country was not easy, b...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
Across The Sea - Jim Whitman
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: Country Songs
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"Across The Sea" - Lyrics, Music, Vocals by Jim Whitman. Produced by Larry W Jones, Kingwood Kowboy.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:35
"States of Grace:"  Difficult to Imagine - Impossible to Comprehend
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Helen Cohen and Mark Lipman, directors and producers of “States of Grace," a film about Dr. Grace Damman, a physician who...

  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
Song Story S0.E2 - Sarah Donner's "Signs of Life" (pre-season sneak-peek)
From: Eric Ginsberg
Series: Song Story
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Song Story features songwriters telling the true stories behind their original songs. This pre-season sneak-peek features singer/songwriter/creativ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2014
  • Length: 10:06
A Dog's Life
From: Gail Isaacson
Series: Radio Essays
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The heartbreaking account of losing my black lab, named Samba, to Cancer and how my yellow lab, Maggie May, changed our lives.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:07
NEA Jazz Moments with Lorraine Gordon [second installment]
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Three more short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, LORRAINE GORDON. In this batch, we learn about when Lorraine met Monk, her early days in...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, KBEM, WRTI, KCSM and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 12
Rad Dads!!!
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Fathers…and mothers…on fatherhood and how it’s changing. Traditional ideas about what a dad is supposed to be are slowly disappearing, but what wil...

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KZYX, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
My Mother
From: Fusion Youth Radio
Series: FYR Season 2
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Staff Reporter Kenya, speaks about the significant role her mother has had on her life.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: "Tea Pots" an essay from Anne Dunn
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Anne Dunn
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KHSU


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:13
  • Purchases: 3