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Finding Out
From: Susan Goldberg
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Susan's mother died of breast cancer on Mother's Day in 2004. She carried a genetic mutation that made her susceptible to the disease. After years ...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2006
  • Length: 20:11
Youth and Sexism
From: KPFT
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Youth explore the issue of sexism.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2006
  • Length: 06:58
Queer Queers
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2000
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Two woment that don't fit in the box of Queer

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WGDR, Spokane Public Radio, KWCW, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: May 28, 2006
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 5
Becoming a Man
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2000
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Two transgender stories from Joan Schuman

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWCW


  • Added: May 25, 2006
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Not Enough Tears
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Rajani Thiranagama was a doctor, a teacher and a committed human rights who was shot in 1989 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Her daughter was 11 years old. ...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Apr 13, 2006
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Nativity: one-hour version
From: Conrad Bishop
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A celebration of the wonder, joy, pain, and innate sacredness of childbirth.

Bought by KVNF and WNIJ


  • Added: Apr 10, 2006
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
It's Just A Job
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Veronica McNally reflects on life and work on her daily walk to her job at Pantheon Guitars in Lewiston, Maine.

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


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 3
Tsim Txom: Domestic Violence in Hmong Society
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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A look at domestic abuse in Hmong culture

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 01, 2006
  • Length: 29:42
  • Purchases: 1
Fisherman's Wife
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jackie Hannam fell in love with a fisherman and so far their life together is often a life apart.

Bought by WTIP and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 2
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
A Colonel's Daughter
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Makiko Ishihara of Toronto travels to her childhood home in Japan to face some difficult memories.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KCUR, and WETA


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 3
Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Winner of the Peabody award, MEI MEI, A DAUGHTER'S SONG is the personal story of cross-cultural and cross-generational conflict produced by Dmae Ro...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, PRX Remix, The Story, SALTcast Podcast, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2005
  • Length: 26:35
  • Purchases: 17
She's Just Like Me
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Leah Rumack seeks out her mother's best friend to find out about the mother she never knew.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 14:30
  • Purchases: 3
Yesterday and Forever December Special
From: Helen Engelhardt
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Documentary composition featuring six widows in remembrance of Lockerbie tragedy - on 17th anniversary

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KRPS, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 17, 2005
  • Length: 24:31
  • Purchases: 4
Bonnie's Budget
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Bonnie has raised three daughters on less than twenty thousand dollars a year but according to Bonnie, she is anything but poor.

Bought by WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, and WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 08, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 3
Dear Birth Mother
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Becoming a Mom
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After waiting for Mr. Right (who has yet to arrive) - and after years of fertility treatments - Suzanne, a single woman in her forties, decided to ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVSC, KMXT, HowSound, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 16
Anna on the Homefront
From: Whit Richardson
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An intimate look at a wife of a National Guard member deployed to Iraq

Bought by KHNS, KZYX, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, The PRX Podcast, KTUH and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2004
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 11
Three Women
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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A Chicana, African American and Romanian talk about their breast cancer.

Bought by KUER, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUCB


  • Added: Oct 19, 2004
  • Length: 08:44
  • Purchases: 3
Babyquest
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Becoming a Mom
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Babyquest is the story of a single woman in her mid-40s that has been trying for two years to get pregnant using a variety of methods. Team Long Ha...

Bought by PRX Remix and WFUV


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 13:08
  • Purchases: 2
Cathy, 16, Mom
From: Sarah Elzas
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Enter Cathy's world of toddlers, diapers and high school parenting classes...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Vocalo.org, 90.5 WSNC, Littleglobe and more


  • Added: May 21, 2004
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 10
Memorial
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Every 100 days, Roberts saves the phone messages of her mom who passed away two years ago as a living memorial.

Bought by WHFR, Prairie Public, Room Tone Selects, WTJU, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: May 02, 2004
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 28
Matching Outfits Not Included
From: Hillary Frank
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Two elderly sisters, who are not twins, dress exactly the same, eat all the same food, and go everywhere together.

Bought by WJCT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser) and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2003
  • Length: 10:24
  • Purchases: 9
Summer With Kara and the Swing
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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A grandmother's quest to help her disabled daughter

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WTJU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2003
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 6
Life Stories - Memory
From: Jay Allison
Series: The Life Stories Collection
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Five stories linked to memory

Bought by KUER, WFAE, HowSound, WFAE, KOSU and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2003
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 16
Life Stories - Families: Women and Children
From: Jay Allison
Series: The Life Stories Collection
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Three stories of young women - Concerning Breakfast, The Trapeze Artist, Alone Like a Stone. One hour of a five-hour series of first-person portra...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KUER, WFAE, HowSound, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 18