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I was homeless and my life was trash. Then this Seattle family took me in
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: April Reyes (far left) with the family who took her in. From left to right: Mariya Manuel, Tanya Kim, Tamar Manuel and Alan Lee., Credit: Courtesy of April Reyes
For most people, family will always be family because you're blood. But in April Reyes' case, it doesn’t quite work that way. / This story won the ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 2
The Ghosts of the Gwangju Uprising
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: May 18 Memorial in Gwangju, Korea, Credit: May 18 Memorial Foundation
On May 18, 1980, the people of Gwangju, South Korea rose up for reunification and an end to U.S.-backed military dictatorships. Their actions chan...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Gary Koivu and Kim Koivu
From: StoryCorps
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Vincent Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman living near Detroit. On a June night in 1982, he and a group of friends went out to celebrate his wedding,...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 2
Pretty Shuai Episode 1: Single Ladies
From: Clay Baldo
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This series is about individuals in China. Episode one is about Single ladies and the pressures put on them by society.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2017
  • Length: 19:46
Curiously, Millennials Demand Inventive Names for their Wine
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program
Caption: The Wine Fellers
We discuss why Millennials demand Inventive Names for their Wine, Beer & Marijuana. We also discuss Cuban Wine (i.e., Rum) and Impulse Buy Fried C...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
The Asian-American Juggling Act
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Taiwanese American Hairol Ma struggles with finding her place in upstate New York., Credit: Anjani Iman
Westernized Asian-Americans across the United States struggle with finding their place in a seemingly divided country between white people and fore...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 1
Dragon Boats Strike Chord with Breast Cancer Survivors
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The Gathering Place DragonFlys Lifejacket , Credit: Elizabeth Miller
The Chinese cultural activity has become popular with breast cancer survivors as a way to build community and regain strength.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXXI Rochester, WBFO, WCPN, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 7
Buried memories of China's Cultural Revolution haunt a family
From: Bending Borders
Series: Between Homelands: Hope, Fear and Longing in America
Caption: A young Belinda Cai and her father., Credit: Belinda Cai
Belinda Cai knew only the outline of her father’s childhood in China's Cultural Revolution. Recently, when she asked her father for details, she wa...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 1
Korean Born Author Maija Rhee Devine
From: New Letters on the Air
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As part of Park University's Ethnic Voices Poetry Series at the Kansas City Public Library, Maija (May-jah) Rhee (ree) Devine recounts how her extr...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNJR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
How my dad escaped Vietnam at age 14, without telling his mom.
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: Quang Adam Nguyen, Angela's dad, holding the South Vietnamese and American flags. , Credit: Credit Courtesy of Quang Adam Nguyen
Angela Nguyen is going away to college and leaving behind everything she loves. Her dad did the same when he left Vietnam. But unlike her, he left ...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:49
Fallen Heroes of 2014
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Yuri Kochiyama, Credit: Bob Hsiang
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...

Bought by WNJR and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
From Child Soldier to Stylist
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Lilly Pyle is a skilled hair stylist in Portland, but she's also skilled in combat training. She grew up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and as ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 08:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Hang Family
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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How do you pass on the culture of a country you can’t remember? Three generations of the Hang family in Portland, Maine, try to reconcile memories ...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 3
Permission to Speak
From: Anna Sussman
Caption: Former Political Prisoner Win Maw plays a guitar he made in prison
As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. In this story, eigh...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KALW, KUNM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Vietnam Today
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ted Maloney, Director of Global Initiatives at Skagit Valley College talks with Dave about two recent trips to Vietnam; trips that included crawlin...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:12
WINGS #47-11 Muslim Divorce in India
From: WINGS Women's International News Gathering Service
Caption: Kalpana Pradhan, Kolkata, India
A chaotic system of divorce by folk beliefs and text messages may be nearing its end.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2012
  • Length: 28:44
Love Bombed
From: Bring Your Own
Series: Bring Your Own
Caption: Amy Allison Shipley Pictured with Dahn Yoga members
This story was the was voted the winner at Bring Your Own on June 6th, 2012. The theme that night was Undercover, where storytellers told of their...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 1
Lessons of Nagasaki
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hope for peace in Nagasaki. Atomic bomb anniversary, 2004., Credit: creative common flickr user: Marufish
The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Three days later, Nagasaki also fell victim. On this edition, w...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, KSFR, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 8
A Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her path-breaking books. [22:55]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 22:55
  • Purchases: 1
Remembrance: On Time And Distance
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Caption: Chu-Yin Lo Roberts
Dmae Roberts produced a special half-hour radio memorial on the 10th anniversary of her mom’s death. Remembrance: On Time And Distance is part memo...

Bought by KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Prairie Public, KVSC, and WBEZ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
The Fire This Time
From: The Tibet Connection
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Desperation leads to dramatic self-immolations in Tibet. Tibetan reporter Lhakpa Kyizom reports from Dharamsala, India.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:40
A Conversation with Amy Tan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author Amy Tan talks about her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, her relationship with her mother, and the art of writing.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 27:50
Would've Been the Mean Mommy
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
Caption: Cherlyn and her mom
A woman becomes a mom at the precise moment that her own mother decides to stop being a mother.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 20, 2011
  • Length: 12:03
  • Purchases: 1
Daran Kravanh
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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After experiencing the horror of the Khmer Rouge experience, Daran Kravanh credits an accordion that appeared on a stump in a forest with saving hi...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:59
A Day of Enlightenment
From: Voices of Our World
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We visited the Wat Mai Monestary for Burmese Buddhist monks in Bangkok, Thailand. During our stay we were able to talk directly to the monks about...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 28:02