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So Far From Care Episodes 3 & 4
From: Marfa Public Radio
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In episodes 3 and 4 of So Far From Care, "What We're Capable Of" and "She's Not Here," you’ll hear about what it’s like to live even further out th...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:30
So Far From Care Episodes 1 & 2
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: So Far From Care
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In episode 1, "Don't Cut The Cord," you’ll get the lay of the land in the Big Bend— what it feels like to live in a place where getting care has al...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 53:30
Daily Life in the House of Girls
From: Marlo Mack
Series: How to Be a Girl
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What is daily life like when your young son becomes your daughter? Marlo Mack explains what it's like to have a transgender kindergartener.

Bought by XRAY.fm, WCPN, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 4
Mother Mine: December Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece we hear people from Qatar, China, the Philippines, and the US talk about who they are because of their mothers.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMPG, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 10, 2021
  • Length: 26:20
  • Purchases: 3
Mother Mine: October Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece we hear four people from around the world talking about how their mothers have shaped them. From Brazil to Kenya to New England we he...

Bought by WMPG and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
August Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece we hear from 4 people around the world talking about their mothers, and how their mothers have shaped them. From a mother whose strug...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, RadioStPete Florida, and WMPG


  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Mother Mine: June Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece we hear five people talk about their mothers, and how their mothers have shaped them. From the expectations their mothers had that th...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMPG, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 26:38
  • Purchases: 3
Mother Mine: May Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece six women talk about their mothers, and who they are because of their mothers. From the the secrets they never told their mothers, an...

Bought by WORT, Prairie Public, RadioStPete Florida, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Deployment on the Homefront
From: Ears Adrift
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In this episode, we'll talk to a few spouses about their experience of a deployment.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 03, 2020
  • Length: 09:10
  • Purchases: 1
Broadcast Special: Parenting During the Pandemic
From: Katie Semro
Series: Transmission Times: Radio Diaries During COVID-19
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What's it like parenting during a pandemic? Imagine that you always assumed you would to live to see your baby grow up, but suddenly, because you w...

Bought by KGUA, KDNK, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Boise State Public Radio, WFHB and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2020
  • Length: 27:31
  • Purchases: 13
S2 Ep 1: Help young people grow up healthy
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Friday Lunch Club having ice cream. , Credit: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
The best ways to prevent young people from getting addicted don’t necessarily focus on the drugs themselves (forget “Just say no.”) Research shows ...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:58
James Aunquoe
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I finally started connecting the dots about who I was inside.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #99: Shaken
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Babyland
Eighteen-year-old Tonia Miller was accused of shaking her baby to death. A jury in Michigan convicted the young mother of second-degree murder and ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 30:58
Out of the Blocks: 4700 Eastern Ave (mini version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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4700 Eastern Ave: One block. Everybody's story.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 20: Gil From London
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Karen Miller met a man named Gil Harper on Facebook. They started flirting. The flirtation grew more serious. Eventually, they planned to meet in r...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 25:13
  • Purchases: 1
Becoming An Advocate
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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What does life look like after experiencing major trauma?

  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 11:00
A Survivor Story
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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What does life look like after experiencing major trauma?

  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 21:09
Raising Angel
From: Chloe Prasinos
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Jamie is pregnant and has nowhere she can go. She finds herself at Saint Andre Home, a modern day home for unwed mothers, where she awaits her four...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
Who Cares
From: Capital Public Radio
Series: The View From Here
Caption: Rick Rayburn cares for his wife Marianne who has dementia., Credit: Andrew Nixon | Capital Public Radio
If you're not a caregiver now there's a good chance you'll become one, joining an estimated 66 million adults who make up the "backbone" of America...

Bought by KUER, KALW, KOSU, KQED, KZYX and more


  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 20
Teen Mom Reality
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:35
Class Dismissed
From: Capital Public Radio
Series: The View From Here
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This one-hour documentary takes an intimate look at the high school dropout crisis through the lives of three young people from California's Centra...

Bought by KALW, WITF, KZYX, WSKG, KALW and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 54:04
  • Purchases: 7
Half My Family Is Illegal
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: Coming Up in 2011
Caption: Staten Island 2011
"At some point when I was growing up I admit I was mad at my parents for coming here. I was mad that they had to work so hard, that we had to wait ...

Bought by KDNK, KSFR, KUOW, Vocalo.org, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 5
Heidi Portrait
From: Jamie Courville
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Heidi was adopted from Iran when she was three years old and raised in blue-blood Virginia. She will never be able to find her biological mother, b...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 4
My Mother's Disease
From: Radio Rookies
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17-years-old Vikky Cruz struggles to cope with her mother's illness, a rare genetic disease called neuroacanthytosis, and the ways it's taken over ...

Bought by Vocalo.org and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 09:37
  • Purchases: 2
Flatline Days
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The story of being bipolar and being a mom.

Bought by KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, SALTcast Podcast, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 5