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This I Believe - Cecile Gilmer
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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NPR listener Cecile Gilmer of Logan, Utah, believes family includes much more than blood relatives.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KZYX, and KJZZ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 4
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
Home Planet: (Christmas) Mom's Secret Christmas List
From: Spokane Public Radio
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When my children ask what I want for Christmas, I give the the standard list: perfume, slippers and things like that. But I have a secret list.

Bought by WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2005
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 3
Home Planet: Dear Santa, Make it work again.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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A few minutes before midnight a little boy brings one of last year's gifts and places it under the tree. He wants to return it to Santa.

Bought by WRVO Public Media and WNIN


  • Added: Dec 03, 2005
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
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
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
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
Home Planet: A New (school) Year
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Essay by Cheryl-Anne Millsap. No matter what the calendar says, for some of us, the New Year begins in September.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2005
  • Length: 04:15
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
Home Planet: Scent Bonds Mothers to their Children
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Scent Bonds Mothers To Their Children essay by Cheryl-Anne Millsap

  • Added: Jul 07, 2005
  • Length: 03:13
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
Raising Grandchildren
From: Michael Spikes
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Monique reports on the emotional strains of raising a grandchild.

Bought by KUOW, PRX, Hawaii Public Radio, and WYSO


  • Added: Apr 29, 2005
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 4
A Conversation with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience
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A rare personal look into the life of a sitting Justice of the Supreme Court, her struggles against gender discrimination, antisemitism and severe ...

Bought by WDDE, KTSW 89.9, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCUR and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2004
  • Length: 53:48
  • Purchases: 38
Welcome Baby Max
From: B-Side Radio
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Getting to the birth of baby Max took Sarah Baughn on a surprising journey.

Bought by XRAY.fm and WFUV


  • Added: Nov 28, 2004
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 2
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
Health Insurance Dilemma
From: Vermont Public
Series: 10 in Their 20s
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A young mother weighs the costs of buying health insurance against the risks of living without it.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WMPG, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 11, 2004
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 4
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
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 - 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

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