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Episode 5: A Private Life
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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Nino and Drew kept their relationship a secret for more than 40 years. And then, they decided to do something that forced them into the spotlight.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, PRX Remix, and HowSound


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 22:50
  • Purchases: 3
Sarah Zaske, ACHTUNG BABY & Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, THE DEEPEST WELL
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Sarah Zaske about what the Germans can teach us about raising kids. Her book is Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Rai...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Linda & Dean Tonto Cox
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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"We never had tepees. We had houses, just like everybody else did."

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
Bring It On! - June 05, 2017
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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Tonight’s guest, David Neville, tells us about his successful participation on the reality TV show “American Grit.” While we peek inside the TV sh...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2018
  • Length: 56:18
Halitosis Gene
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Researchers sniff out a bad breath gene.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Dec 30, 2017
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
FAIR-MINDED RAVENS
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: Researcher Jorg Massen with hand-raised ravens., Credit: (Photo courtesy of Jorg Massen)
Ravens, like humans, remember who has treated them fairly.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 23, 2017
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Maureen
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Sparx is a rat terrier Chihuahua, and he doesn’t let people get too close to me, I think for fear that they’re going to hurt me. He’s a good boy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Lynne and Greg Houston
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Greg Houston (left) and Lynne Houston (right)
Many StoryCorps conversations touch on love, work, and death. But when Lynne Houston and her husband, Greg, sat down for their interview, they cove...

Bought by WEZU and WOUB


  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Francine Anderson
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Francine Anderson
Francine Anderson grew up in rural Virginia during the 1950s. It was the Jim Crow South and “Whites Only” signs punctuated the windows of many busi...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
107: One Hundred Percent Jersey Girl
From: The Mortified Podcast
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Find out why you should never mess with Maria. The diaries of a rebellious Jersey Girl growing up in the 80s. The Mortified Podcast is a proud memb...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2017
  • Length: 25:08
StoryCorps: Dawn Sahr and Asma Jama
From: StoryCorps
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One night, in October 2015, Asma Jama went out for dinner with her family at an Applebee’s restaurant in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. Asma, who is Somal...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Marfa Public Radio, and WEZU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 66: Bully
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Skidmore, Missouri is a very small town. In the ’70s, there was only one bar, one grocery store, and one bully. Ken McElroy was so ruthless and int...

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 27:10
Public Policy Brakes on Procreation? Travis Rieder #207
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Efforts to date are falling far short of achieving the greenhouse gas reduction needed to avoid catastrophic climate disruption. Bioethicist Travis...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Moral Basis for Small Families: Travis Rieder #206
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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With human activity disrupting the climate, do we have a moral imperative not to have children, or to have only one child? Bioethicist Travis Riede...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KTRL, and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Mar 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
AMOS 17.074: Single Fish Female Seeks Good Father, 4/13/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Single Fish Female Seeks Good Father

  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
J.D. Vance, author of "Hillbilly Elegy"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews J.D. Vance about his bestselling memoir.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Jessica Almy Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that food manufacturers pay supermarkets hefty prices to have their products placed in strategic supermarket locations? Join Food Sleu...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
AMOS 17.023: Parenting Styles and Bullying, 2/1/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Parenting Styles and Bullying

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Deafness & Brain Structure
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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The brain architecture for processing sound is the same in deaf people as in hearing people.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KSFR, KENW and more


  • Added: Nov 27, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Waiting Game
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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For high school seniors, college applications are the number one priority. Every class, club, activity, sport, grade, and standardized test score w...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Youth and the Prophet - We Are Conjurors of Our Own Fate
From: Ethical Programs Distribution, LLC
Series: A Question of Ethics - The Youth and the Prophet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The images we carry around in us and project around us shape our life. In this way, we control our destiny and conjure up our own fate.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2015
  • Length: 14:44
The Turner Girls
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
Series: Kind World
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Jen Turner had always wanted to be a mom. But when she developed macular edema, an eye disease, doctors warned her that pregnancy could result in p...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Andy Downs and Angelia Sheer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Andy Downs (L) and Angelia Sheer (R)
On October 4, 1971, George Giffe, a 35-year-old Tennessee man suffering from mental illness hijacked a charter plane at gunpoint from the Nashville...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 2
Parents Don't Have Roommates
From: Caitlin Pierce
Series: Borders
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Megan is excited to go on her class field trip to the county courthouse. But while she's there, she finds something that she's tried hard to keep s...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:39
Lucy Puts Friede to Rest
From: Caitlin Pierce
Series: Borders
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Lucy has a business planning and leading pet funeral ceremonies. When her dog Friede dies, she leads her ceremony.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 11:29

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