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The Beat: Francine Sterle - "After Visiting a Nature Conservancy Volunteer""
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Francine Sterle is the author of 2006 book "Nude In Winter," which was a finalist for the LA Times Book of the Year. She has also published two oth...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
Latitude News Podcast #3 - Black in China
From: Latitude News
Caption: Jo Bai and her fellow English teachers in Yuyao, China.
Jo is African American. Jo lives in Yuyao, China. Jo gets a lot of attention.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 13:14
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Edith Green and her granddaughter, Chaya
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Edith Green tells her granddaughter, Chaya, about being a survivor of gun violence.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
Nicole Beaulieu: Leech Lake Tribal College Ulumnus Profile
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Ojibwemowin
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Nicole talks about being positive effects of being challenged and the family friendly environment at LLTC. Nicole also touches on the importance of...

Bought by KSRQ and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 2
WorldCanvass: Slavery and Gender
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:05
A Conversation with Crime Writer, Laura Lippman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Laura Lippman talks about crime fiction, journalism and the social novel. [30:30]

Bought by KPIP-LP and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 30:12
  • Purchases: 2
An Artist in the White House?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Imagine if you can, an artist instead of a politician in the White House. Radio Curious teams up with TUC Radio’s Maria Gilardin for a visit with S...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
The Life We Chose
From: Prairie Public
Series: Essays from the Veeder Ranch
Caption: Jessie Veeder (Scofield)
Reflections on the joys and challenges of ranch life.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:47
Texas Music Matters featuring Janis Joplin
From: KUT
Series: Texas Music Matters
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Texas Music Matters revisits an award-winning documentary honoring "The Queen of Rock and Roll and Psychedelic Soul" Janis Joplin. Join Kris Kristo...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, Marfa Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 57:31
  • Purchases: 3
Yamamoto's Waves
From: Sofia Saldanha
Series: The Wapping Project Podcast
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"A silk dress with a bamboo crinoline hangs upside down over a lake in the center of a former power station. The dress' reflection, distorted by a ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 09:42
  • Purchases: 1
Conrad and Evelyn
From: Aileen LeBlanc
Caption: Conrad, Evelyn and Buhg
Aileen LeBlanc tells a very personal story of her friends Conrad and Evelyn who fell in love in older age.

  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 18:25
Don't Make Me Be Your Miracle
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
Caption: Owen, the miracle baby, with colic and reflux
After having her first child, a woman experiences heart failure and is told she has less than a 50 percent chance of surviving another pregnancy. T...

Bought by HowSound and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2011
  • Length: 13:44
  • Purchases: 2
New England Poetry Hour - Helen Vendler & Keith Waldrop
From: Open Source
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It's a New England poetry hour, starting with Amherst's Emily Dickinson by way of Helen Vendler, the closest of close readers of poetry, and ending...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Piece of My Heart: The Story of Janis Joplin
From: KUT
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Winner of the Grand Trophy 2011, International Radio Festivals! An intimate reconsideration of Janis' journey from a tiny Texas refinery town to t...

Bought by KCNP, Prairie Public, WRGY, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCPN and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2010
  • Length: 57:31
  • Purchases: 20
Only I Can Now
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Deb Dunn’s second love, after her husband, was teaching marine biology. But about five years ago, she had to give it up.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 05:30
Citizen Synforose
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Maine has one of the most diverse immigrant populations of any state in the country. Synforose Rugema came to America as a refugee from the Congo i...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 3
Blood Mysteries
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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The lunar/blood cycle governs many types of creation

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:42
"Hush"
From: Elizabeth Austen
Caption: What Sound Does It Make, Credit: Concrete Wolf Press
Poet Erin Malone reads “Hush,” a poem sparked by watching her son discover the power of naming what he sees. The poem prompts KUOW’s literary produ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 06:13
This I Believe - Dr. Alicia Conill
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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As a doctor and patient, Alicia Conill has learned that listening is an important part of healing.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WEZU, WEZU, Iowa Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 5
Lisbeth Scott - Biomusique
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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Former classical pianist that found her gift in her voice, and is using that gift as the vocal part of the group Biomusique. Lisbeth has a extensiv...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2009
  • Length: 22:34
I'm Relatively Human
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Marty Hagglund had it all. He had a loving wife, a beautiful home, and a great job. Then, Marty threw it all to the wind to realize a deep-seated, ...

Bought by KUOW, KVNF, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 3
Write of Passage
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Youth Epiphanies
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I wrote a novel in grade school. Then I threw it away. Childhood gives way to adolescence.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:56
Wrong Moment for Silence
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Youth Epiphanies
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Not being able to speak up to say the right thing at the right moment: a scene from high school

  • Added: Sep 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:27
This I Believe - Sara Miles
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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By expanding her idea of communion, writer Sara Miles has found new ways to share food with others.

Bought by WEZU and WEZU


  • Added: May 07, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 2
This I Believe - Carole Chabries
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Attempting to have a baby led Carole Chabries to appreciate the complexities of the human body.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: May 07, 2008
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 3