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Disaffected Patriots
From: 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
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An exploration of the religious and political views of flea market dealers.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2006
  • Length: 08:46
American Jews in the IDF: One Day at the Border Crossing
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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An IDF soldier detains a Palestinian family at a border crossing and comes to an epiphany.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2006
  • Length: 09:56
Shamans
From: Allan Coukell
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In Mongolia, the word's oldest religion is changing

Bought by KTNA, KUCB, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 31, 2005
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 3
Schnartzenholler
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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It's not Christmas. It's not Hannukah. It's Schnartzenholler! When Emily Pearlman was a child her Jewish father and Christian mother created thei...

Bought by KISU, KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTJU, KSJD and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 18
Finding My Ma
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
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This is a piece about meeting someone I thought I already knew.

Bought by KUOW and WBEZ


  • Added: Nov 21, 2005
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 2
Comfort Food
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
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In this amusing piece Adrian Boyés plunges into the mysteries surrounding comfort food.

Bought by WXLV-FM, PRX, KUCB, WNKU, KUOW and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2005
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 6
Bringing home the bones
From: Allan Coukell
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Indigenous people re-bury their stolen ancestors

Bought by KLCC, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KSUT, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 5
Lost In The Stacks
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For researcher Andre Picher, the library is a noble place, a place full of potential, discovery and wonder.

Bought by WMPG, WTIP, and WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 11, 2005
  • Length: 13:15
  • Purchases: 3
Finding Love in a Nevada Brothel
From: Western Folklife Center Media
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Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center explores the loves and life of a legal Nevada brothel, Donna’s Ranch.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KRCC-FM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and KGLT


  • Added: Jun 17, 2005
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 4
Red Dress
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Anna Camilleri swore that she would do something to end the abuse that was taking place in her family.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 13:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Story of a Nation
From: Freedom Radio Project
Series: Palestinian Refugee Youth Radio
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Aysar interviews one of the Deheisheh refugee Camp survivors of the 1948 Naqba (Catastrophe).

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 30, 2005
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Secret
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jarrod Livingstone was once officially dead for three minutes and his sister Carma wants to know what this experience was like.

Bought by HowSound, Vocalo.org, WBEZ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 4
Cracked Open
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Richard Handler shares his pungent insights into brain surgery, actually, his own brain surgery.

Bought by WBEZ and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 12:40
  • Purchases: 2
In a Bubble
From: Hillary Frank
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Four teens talk about what it's like to be quiet in school.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Remix Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMPG, East Village Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 8
A Beginner's Guide to Hitchhiking
From: Jonathan Mitchell
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the pros and cons of hitching a ride

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Remix Radio, KGLT and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2005
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 7
City X
From: Jonathan Mitchell
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A history of the mall, as told by an anonymous city

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, KUOW, PRX to iTunes, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2005
  • Length: 22:33
  • Purchases: 16
RN Documentary: Gamers
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Gamers explores the unique voice of a large, extended community who breakthrough “normal” social barriers and communicate through the game.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
Neil Feather's Musical Chop Shop
From: Aaron Henkin
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If a musical instrument and a household appliance were thrown together into a particle accelerator, Neil Feather's music would be the result.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: Nov 03, 2004
  • Length: 10:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tokyo "All Aboard" Melodies
From: Andy Raskin
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Melodies heard on Tokyo train platforms.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, KUT-HD, KTNA and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2004
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 7
The Gathering - A Modern Thanksgiving Story
From: Barbara Simmons
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Reimagining the original Thanksgiving story

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KMUN, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2004
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 42
The Tomato and The Big Apple
From: Alwine van Heemstra
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People in New York City are all interconnected and part of a bigger whole.

Bought by WYBC and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 02, 2004
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 2
For the Blood Is the Life
From: Julia DeBruicker
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Goat killing chronicles homegrown ingenuity in the mountains of Appalachia

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: Apr 02, 2004
  • Length: 09:44
  • Purchases: 1
Present Progressive
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Intimate, documentary-style radio play about the author's experiences as an English teacher in the North of France - never broadcast in the US.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2004
  • Length: 29:21
A Small Southern Town: The Nation's Capital In Slave Times
From: Richard Paul
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Dramatization - largest mass-escape of slaves in Amer history - PROMOS ATTACHED

Bought by WJAB, WAMU, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX to iTunes, WRPI and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2004
  • Length: 54:10
  • Purchases: 29
Stevie & Me/Reunions (by Design and by Surprise)
From: Barbara Bernstein
Series: Radio Tales For The Road
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Transformational journeys through time, space and memory

  • Added: Dec 02, 2003
  • Length: 58:36

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