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This I Believe Pledge Spot - Isabel Allende
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Fundraising spot from NPR's This I Believe series

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KJZZ, Colorado Public Radio, KTNA and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2006
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 11
Growing Up in a Coal Community
From: Appalachian Media Institute
Caption: Natasha Watts interviewing community members., Credit: Rebecca O'Doherty, Youth Radio
Growing up in a coal community, mining is a part of your everyday life. In light of the recent SAGO mine disaster Natasha Watts reflects on what i...

Bought by WGXC, WGBH Radio Boston, WXLV-FM, The Nature Podcast, and PRX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2006
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 5
It's Just A Job
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
Marissa's Grandma
From: Youth Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Marissa's ode to her Grandma

Bought by KVNF, WGXC, and PRX


  • Added: Dec 20, 2005
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 3
Home Planet: None So Blind: A Thanksgiving Story
From: Spokane Public Radio
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A plate full of homemade food, the gift of a Thanksgiving meal, connects a lonely, blind, old woman and the shy little girl next door.

Bought by WTIP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WHRV, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2005
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 19
You Must Be Ready
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Marianne Apostolides has always known there were things about her father’s past that were deliberately kept secret.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 13:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Cost of War
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Weeks after S. Spencer Scott interviewed Lavinia Gelineau about the loss of her husband Chris, a young soldier who was killed in Iraq, Lavinia hers...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KISU, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2005
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 18
Bringing The Work Into You
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Mike Luce builds a casket for his deceased mother.

Bought by PRX Remix, WORLDcompass.org, SALTcast Podcast, and American Public Media


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 4
Watching My Mother's Breath
From: Dale Short
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A gentle poem about the ending of a 90-year-old farm woman's full life

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
Alcoholic at Birth
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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Incarcerated youth producer, Zack, interviews his sister and grandmother to gain some insight on his own life and the life of his alcoholic mother.

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2004
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
The History of My Names
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An exploration of the power of names and identity

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Aug 23, 2004
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
A Cook's Notebook: The Plum
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A plum, a kitchen renovation and a marriage

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Aug 10, 2004
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Father's Day Tribute: Fix'er Up, Dad.
From: Joshua Kilpatrick
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A Father's Day Tribute to a Dad who love to fix things.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, XRAY.fm, KPIK-LP, WSLR and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2004
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 15
The Children of Logan
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The producer returns to her Philadelphia home and finds hope amid the ruins. The life and death of an inner city neighborhood.

Bought by WFUV and Audible


  • Added: Jun 04, 2004
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Miseducation of Josh Frank
From: Hillary Frank
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A teenager decides to give up his social life to play the trumpet.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2003
  • Length: 10:09
  • Purchases: 2
Roma and Son
From: Hillary Frank
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An eight-year-old boy talks about how writing essays to accompany his father's photographs makes him feel eerily old.

Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, WYBC, New Hampshire Public Radio, KGLT and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2003
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 6