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A schoolmaster's departure from a boy's boarding school sets off a chain of devastating revelations.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KMUN, KWMR, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 34
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An inmate struggles to find freedom through Magick while on Death Row.

  • Added: Oct 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:54
Caption: Tony Lindsay, Credit: Shefik
Change - Tony Lindsay is a producer and director, known for "Where Hearts Lie" (2016). The film features such notable actors as Clifton Powell ("Ra...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2022
  • Length: 01:42
Caption: Queen Mother Imakhu
Queen Mother Imakhu's rendition of the African American folktale about a group of mystical enslaved Africans who escaped their oppression by regain...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2022
  • Length: 08:35
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Jacob Wheeler talks about his book Between Light and Shadow and some of the nuances of Guatemalan adoptions. (English, 14 min.)

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 14:20
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Iryiel Cochran shares her story about growing up as a Guatemalan adoptee in northern Colorado and searching for biological family in Quetzaltenango...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 18:21
Caption: Jim Ledbetter, The Old Trapper , Credit: Jim Ledbetter
The Old Trapper is a true story about frontier living, isolation, and benevolence. It is a poetic audio documentary and its style is fragmentary, i...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2021
  • Length: 27:14
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This piece explores what life might feel like from a tree’s perspective.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Walker meets up with a close friend at a favorite Thai restaurant to get her advice on the latest situation in her relationship with Trent.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 05:00

  • Added: Sep 05, 2020
  • Length: 20:37
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Apartheid’s insidious effect on the family of an American diplomat in South Africa.

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, KCRW, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 25
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Hospitalist Peter Barish recounts an intense, intimate moment with a patient.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 36:02
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"Catch And Release" and "Man vs. Machine" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Tonia Hanson had a secret. But when a private river r...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Chasing Love profanity edited version. A poetic exploration of the notion of romantic love, and the way it drives lives and societies.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 59:42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Playwright Eric Ulloa with his first interview subject, Joanie, Credit: Eric Ulloa
In the aftermath of the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, actor and writer Eric Ulloa went to Newtown, Connecticut and asked the re...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
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When you have nothing, where do you turn for warmth and comfort? Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" strikes a match and in the brief...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 09:24
Caption: The Lake Superior Project, Credit: Logo by Lauryl Loberg
The Maple Hill Cemetery is a small cemetery outside of Grand Marais, Minnesota. It's a lovely place, located high on a hill overlooking Lake Superi...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Peter Simon and his archives
In Peter Simon’s 50-year career, he’s photographed The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, and so much more. Now, at age 69, he’s thin...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Inmate Melody Williams interviews fellow prisoner Aimee Wissman about her heroin addiciton. For Aimee, who is an artist, heroin was a way to emulat...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:50
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Diana Linz has always had a connection with dogs. Being in the dog program at the prison helped Diana cope with being locked up.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 05:22
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You might have the wisdom of the ancients, but when stuff really hits the fan...even you might need some help. From PRX and NPR, Snap Judgment prou...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Snap Judgment
Sure they want to take your picture, have your autograph... but for all the wrong reasons. On the next Snap Judgment, from PRX and NPR, we proudly ...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
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Poet Hadara Bar-Nadav refers to many works of art in her 2012 collection THE FRAME CALLED RUIN, while in her 2013 collection, LULLABY (WITH EXIT SI...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Snap Judgment
When we are disparaged, ridiculed, attacked our natural response is a flight to safety to family, to friends, to tribe. But what if there's nowhere...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
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When you mention T.S. Eliot and then refer to texts like The Waste Land or his magnum opus The Four Quartets you generally elicit discomfort, anger...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 31:33