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Across the US, fewer than half of all public schools have a nurse available to kids all day, every day, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Founda...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
Caption: Amanda Harrinauth on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, your show host on this episode of Making It Work, we will chat with undergraduate student, Amanda Harrinauth, about her exper...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 19:36
Caption: Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Science Director at the Greater Good Science Center and co-instructor of The Science of Happiness, Credit: Liz Mak
U.C. Berkeley is known for its world-class scientists, in disciplines like physics, chemistry or biology. But just a few blocks away from campus, y...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 08:48
  • Purchases: 1
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All the world's a stage, and it's full of smaller stages. We have interviews with two interns who have found their own stages. Kaitie Marshall disc...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:58
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Today's show looks at people coming together to hone another language.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 11:22
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Yams simmering for fufu in Togo, West Africa, Credit: Carla Seidl
The first Simmer episode features an interview with Malawi Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and songwriter Dr. Jack Allison and an investigation of t...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
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Professor André de Quadros believes that music is for everyone, including prison inmates. Here, he shares his moving experiences teaching in two Ma...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Eighteen-year-old Tatyana Martinez turned to writing poetry as a young girl to cope with big changes in her life. Over time, her poetry evolved int...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 04:38
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TraVaughn Hicks has been making music since he was a young boy and his rapper uncle would record him singing on his songs.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 04:36
Caption: Roger Alvarez (L) and his former teacher Antero Garcia (R).
Antero Garcia (R) talks to his former student Roger Alvarez (L) who dropped out...

Bought by WEZU, KERA, KMUD, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Reporter Joanne Mar takes us to a middle school in San Francisco that took a chance and moved away from zero-tolerance discipline. The decision has...

Bought by Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 10:19
  • Purchases: 1
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The American Robin is one of the more common birds found in North America, yet there is more to Robins than just eating worms.

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Jun 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Michael Powell is a train driver for the Chicago Transit Authority. He captivated me for years with his chatty speeches over the train's speakers. ...

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  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 1
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My Dad never wanted to be a hero. Survival was the only option.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:01
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Inocente, the subject of the Oscar-winning short doc of the same name, talks about the importance of art in her life. [8:18]

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Destination DIY producer Jaymee Cuti goes to "bee school" to learn what's new in the 4,000 year old hobby of beekeeping.

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 21:46
  • Purchases: 2
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The picture of Indiana University is painted by students' audible vignettes.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 16:39
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Tony Lucero is a Mexican American professor at The University of Washington. In this piece, Professor Lucero tells us how he came to be an educato...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2013
  • Length: 08:28
Caption: Jonathan Brown
This story is about a high school teacher in New Orleans who looks back on his shenanigans as a student, and how teaching helps him grow.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Eddy Wijngaarde, Credit: unknown
In een exclusief gesprek met Hennah Draaibaar, een van de eigenaars van The Back Lot, een multi media bedrijf in Suriname, vertelt zij hoe samen me...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2013
  • Length: 20:09
Caption: Maria in Mangalia, Credit: Anton Foek
Maria is a young and vibrant woman from Mangalia in Romenia and doing her international studies about European integration in Maastricht, Holland.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2013
  • Length: 14:33
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John Cruitt speaks with his former third grade teacher, Cecile Doyle, about how she helped him through his mother's death.

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
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Linda Hernandez remembers growing up as one of the few Latinos in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 3
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Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a birth chart by an interested skeptic. Hidden from him for years, he attempts to reconcil...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 10:04

  • Added: Dec 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1