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A man gets in his car and leaves his life behind.
- Added: Jul 09, 2011
- Length: 03:15
When U.S. soldiers come back home on leave, they fly through a few central airports. For soldiers headed west of the Mississippi River, that airpor...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KPVL, Troy Public Radio, Delta College Public Radio, The Story and more
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 05:10
- Purchases: 7
A single mom decides to marry her best friend before his deployment to Iraq.
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: 03:43
A teenage girl talks about learning that her father is gay and her subsequent decision to stay with him.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUT
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 2
Special Breast Cancer Survivors Show: Kristi Moody decides to not take her doctor's advice, Penny Burkhalter is shopping for maternity clothes when...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Arriving at her family's storage space in Syracuse, NY, a Brooklyn-based writer and mom is surprised to find the contents far more plentiful and si...
- Added: Jun 23, 2011
- Length: 15:20
- Purchases: 3
It's Crunch Time this week; sharing stories of the times you were late or just barely made it as we get through the Crunch Time of our summer fundr...
- Added: Jun 20, 2011
- Length: 02:46
In 2009, Carla took in a beautiful 8-month-old baby boy named Julian after he and his 2 siblings were taken from their parents by CPS. The parents ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2011
- Length: 30:00
Many young students are not able to get the sleep they need each night. Avinash Patel, a student at Susan B Anthony middle School in Minneapolis ha...
- Added: May 14, 2011
- Length: 01:00
Minnesota has one of the highest disparities among races in their schools. Christina Kolar talks to Minneapolis School Board member Carla Bates abo...
- Added: May 12, 2011
- Length: 04:12
Stories about children and the fine line between reality and fantasy, myth, and even truth. Told in front of a live audience each week at Starving ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A man reluctantly decides to sever ties with his father.
- Added: Apr 28, 2011
- Length: 04:08
Travel offers new experiences; some more pleasant than others. Dottie Lou Norwood shares an unusual nightly ritual, Brittany Edwardes escapes schoo...
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Twenty-four-year-old Sokhom Mao was one of California’s foster kids. He’s one of the few who went on to college – in 2010, Mao graduated from San F...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 10:43
After having her first child, a woman experiences heart failure and is told she has less than a 50 percent chance of surviving another pregnancy. T...
- Added: Feb 22, 2011
- Length: 13:44
- Purchases: 2
Khotan was born in Iran but fled at the age of 13. Shortly after she left, her father was executed, her mother was imprisoned and their home was ra...
- Added: Feb 04, 2011
- Length: 25:20
When Nicole when 28 weeks pregnant, she discovered she had a cancerous mass in her neck, which was immediately removed. Further testing showed Stag...
- Added: Feb 04, 2011
- Length: 25:34
Me trying to retrieve a voicemail message and failing to remember the password... until I finally get it.
- Added: Jan 21, 2011
- Length: 02:59
Growing up with and raising a family member with Down Syndrome.
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
- Added: Jan 19, 2011
- Length: 07:28
- Purchases: 1
"IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK: Inside Youth Speak Out" is a poetry series drawn from testimonial writings by the youngest members of America's prison ...
Bought by WGDR
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 14:58
- Purchases: 1
A personal reflection on the stakes of becoming the godfather to my best friend's first child.
- Added: Dec 25, 2010
- Length: 09:59
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
No matter who you are, each one of us has a story and you can never be sure of what is true about someone until you get to know theirs. This is Le...
- Added: Nov 02, 2010
- Length: 04:31
A local sewing group is making a difference for women who are forced to start over...
- Added: Oct 18, 2010
- Length: 05:11
New developments in the field of debt settlement this week and personal finance advice.
- Added: Oct 17, 2010
- Length: 28:30
