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Runaway
From: Homelands Productions
Series: World Views
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A single mother and her two teenage daughters tell the harrowing story of the girls' descent into an underworld of drugs and homelessness.

Bought by PRX Remix and KGLT


  • Added: Apr 10, 2007
  • Length: 34:20
  • Purchases: 2
Thomas Lynch
From: WDET Detroit Public Radio
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funeral director and writer waxes poetic

  • Added: Feb 07, 2007
  • Length: 03:45
Elijah Haunt
From: Carolina Wheat
Caption: Elijah's Fan Dance, Credit: Ulla Johnson
A mother asks her 8yr old son what kind of ghost he would be if he were to suddenly die.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:33
The Wedding
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Wanting to make mother happy.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:02
The War on Contraception, and Where It Will End
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The war on contraception, and where it will end.

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: May 31, 2006
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 1
Manhattan
From: Song and Memory
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A sad ending for a childhood hamster set to the tune of Manhattan by Rogers and Hart

Bought by WORLDcompass.org and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 17, 2006
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 2
Remember the Time
From: Song and Memory
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Remember the Time by Michael Jackson provides a soundtrack for Pascall's memory of being disciplined by his cousin.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Letter
From: Western Folklife Center Media
Series: What's in a Song
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Music historian Bill C. Malone recalls his family gathering around their first radio to listen to old country songs like "The Last Letter."

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WMPG, and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 3
The Good I Could Have Been
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Adrienne's mother grew up unloved and unwanted at an Indian residential school but Adrienne won't let her mother use that as an excuse for raising ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KSUT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 12:40
  • Purchases: 2
My Lobotomy
From: Sound Portraits
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One man's quest to uncover the hidden story behind the lobotomy he received as a 12-year-old child.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2005
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 15
James J. Cathey Obituary
From: KRCC-FM
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Soldier obituary

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 07, 2005
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 1
Convicting Chevie Kehoe
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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A new inquiry into a notorious murder case that asks: Were the wrong men convicted of this crime?

Bought by Audible and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 59:26
  • Purchases: 2
Finding My Place
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A memoir piece about overcoming depression and finding hope

Bought by KVSC, KVSC, and KUT


  • Added: May 07, 2005
  • Length: 22:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Day at the Fair
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A day of surprises in small town Ohio

  • Added: Dec 16, 2004
  • Length: 06:14
Outside the Dying
From: Conrad Bishop
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Dramatization of a journal of a woman whose husband is dying of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), and the aftermath.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 22, 2004
  • Length: 21:23
  • Purchases: 1
The Arrangements
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A sister reminds her accusing brother who held the household together when the mother was abusive and alcoholic in their growing-up years. The sco...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Blizzard
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A mother explodes at the dinner table. But she's in a surreal world where her explosion means nothing: "It's ok, Mom, you're not nearly as crazy ...

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: Jun 14, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
Chicken House
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A child wonders why his grandfather has been made to live alone in a converted chicken house. Dad: It's not a chicken house!

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: Jun 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1