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GN_4.05_Bare Necessities
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.
As economic gaps rise, students are often the most affected. In Utah, one school is finally taking a stand for less fortunate students.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
The Big Ponder #4: Anatomy of an Apology
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Katie Davis tells the story of an inadvertent provocation between two boys at a teen center in her Washington, D.C. neighborhood, the conflict that...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 24:52
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2: Entering the system
From: Rebecca Blatt
Series: Kids Imprisoned
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A child's arrest is the first official step into the juvenile justice system, but law enforcement practices push kids out of other systems that are...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2020
  • Length: 28:24
Anthony Clary : Acts of Love and Forgiveness, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: The Clarys on the front porch of their home in Blackwell., Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Anthony Clary grew up in the bricks. Buildings linear as Legos, lining block after block of city streets, stretching from Porter to Dinwiddie, from...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 26:58
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: BeInstrumental
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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The BeInstrumental Foundation is a nonprofit that provides educational opportunities, mentoring and financial resources for children to pursue thei...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2019
  • Length: 06:06
The Indifference Diaries, Part 2: Giving Three Million Dollars to Corporations While Maltreated Children Wait
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Maine's children receive grossly inadequate services from Child Protective Services. Three have been murdered or had a perpetrator convicted in Mai...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:52
Halloween: The Northside Witch Hunts
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Witch-hunts are curious phenomena, and thoroughly reactionary in nature. They generally begin with an inexplicable event of one kind or other—cows ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 26:55
Abbie Waters: The Habit of Being
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Abbie Waters
Abbie Catherine Waters was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 55:07
  • Purchases: 1
Megan
From: Alexander Yellen
Series: Tell Me Your Story
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Megan used to be afraid of monsters

  • Added: Nov 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:44
Road Trip: Local Kids Help with Hurricane Relief
From: KRCC-FM
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Springs kids head to Louisiana to help clean up

  • Added: Nov 22, 2005
  • Length: 10:23
Losing a Best Friend
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Short Features
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Producer Joe Bevilacqua chronicles the rise and fall of a longtime friendship.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 28, 2005
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 1
Mystery Train
From: Hillary Frank
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A teenage couple's date takes a turn for the worse when they run into a girl they know.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, and WZBC


  • Added: May 10, 2004
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 4