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The Madam Next Door

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

There’s a small town in Idaho where prostitution was practiced openly—in effect, decriminalized. The practice was tolerated, even embraced, until 1...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, KUNV, KKRN, and KPVL

Added: Mar 06, 2015
Length: 53:56
Purchases: 5

Career Cruising Down Memory Lane

From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2012

On today's show hosts Caitlin and Farhan are hitting up Seattle's current job scene as they hear advice from KUOW journalists, childhood career dre...

Added: Jan 15, 2015
Length: 11:19

StoryCorps: James Taylor and Darlene Lewis

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Darlene Lewis, who helps former inmates find employment, interviews James Taylor about his life after prison.

Bought by Public Radio for All, WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU

Added: Jan 09, 2015
Length: 02:14
Purchases: 5

Bio-hackers Grow Their Own Ink

From: Britt Wray

What does it mean to live in a world where biotech is done for and by the people? How long might it be until we are all growing our own ink, laund...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jan 06, 2015
Length: 07:15
Purchases: 1

Deception Detection

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

A single lie could cost a job – or a life – as it turned out for Eric Duncan, the Ebola “Patient Zero” in Texas. What if there was a way to accurat...

Bought by KENW and WXDU

Added: Oct 31, 2014
Length: 02:37
Purchases: 2

StoryCorps: Phil Mortillaro and Philip Mortillaro Jr.

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Phil and Philip Mortillaro, a father-and-son locksmith team, talk about the family business.

Bought by WTJU and WEZU

Added: Oct 22, 2014
Length: 02:16
Purchases: 2

Amy Brooks, Deli Waitress

From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life

Amy Brooks serves Jewish favorites (matzoh ball soup, pastrami, you name it) in a historic LA deli.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Jul 29, 2014
Length: 03:59
Purchases: 1

Willie Sanchez, Flower Seller

From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life

Willie Sanchez sells flowers in bulk in downtown LA.

Added: Jul 29, 2014
Length: 01:58

Emotionally Leaning in to Life: A Program for Women with Women #1 Lauri Rich

From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel

This is the first of the series of shows for Women with Women. Lauri Rich was my first guest and she addressed the question "Can a woman have it al...

Added: Jun 05, 2014
Length: 46:22

Woodburn, The Most Diverse Town In Oregon

From: Dmae Lo Roberts

Caption: Luis & Luisa Quintero of Luis' Tacqueria in Woodburn, OR, Credit: Photo by Richard Jensen

Throughout the West, historic discriminatory laws have excluded people of color from settling and owning property. Because of that, many Western st...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm

Added: Jul 02, 2013
Length: 06:18
Purchases: 2

Crossing Over

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...

Added: Mar 30, 2013
Length: 28:06

StoryCorps NTI: Clairene Terry and Raul Bravo

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Clairene Terry and her former student Raul Bravo

Raul Bravo tells his former high school automotive teacher, Clairene Terry, how she inspired him to stay in school.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WEZU, WTJU, KMUD, KUOW and more

Added: Mar 27, 2012
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 6

StoryCorps NTI: John Byrne and Samantha Liebman

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Teacher John Byrne talks with his former student, Samantha Liebman, about coming out to his students.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW

Added: Jun 30, 2011
Length: 01:50
Purchases: 2

The Vendor's Hustle

From: Matt Rogers

There are ten thousand street vendors in New York City, that magnet for the world's poor and America's hopeful; some licensed and some not. Vendors...

Added: May 11, 2011
Length: 48:34

The Life and Death of the Infernal Noise Brigade

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

The Infernal Noise Brigade debuted at the Seattle WTO protests in 1999. Jill Friedberg from KBCS in Seattle has their story.

Bought by WXDU

Added: Sep 08, 2010
Length: 08:26
Purchases: 1

Marching for Change: Street Bands in the U.S.

From: Making Contact

Caption: The Infernal Noise Brigade in downtown Seattle., Credit: http://www.andrewstern.net/

We look at how political marching bands are stirring up public spaces; from the streets, to supermarkets to your facebook feed.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KVSC

Added: Sep 08, 2010
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

Profile on Blind Artist, Charles Blackwell

From: Robynn Takayama

Caption: Charles Blackwell teaching at LightHouse for the Blind

Blind since a hiking accident in 1971, Charles Blackwell has not let his disability prevent him from becoming a vibrant visual artists. In this seg...

Bought by KUOW

Added: Apr 19, 2010
Length: 03:03
Purchases: 1

Retro Product Proves Recession Proof

From: Todd Bookman

A family business named Sarah's Hat Boxes is surviving the Great Recession, despite selling a product more befitting an era defined by the Great De...

Bought by WILL and KUOW