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Social Work in a Pandemic
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Social workers are among the frontline workers with nurses, doctors, and police battling COVID-19, and most of them are women. Today we talk to Sar...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Sep 13, 2021
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: Taking Initiative
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we head over to South Toledo to hang out with the HIstoric South Initiative, an organization that is working t...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2018
  • Length: 06:12
2828 Story of a House Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Tip McClure of the Estate Experts., Credit: Charles McGuigan
this is the conclusion of 2828 Story of a House. It’s about a man named Leroy Basham who hoarded for several decades, and the people who dug throug...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 22:09
RDD: In with the Old, Out with the New
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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It's not surprising that Haley's last interview with the Casey-Pomeroy Bed and Breakfast, a house that has seen multiple renovations, has led the R...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 06:03
29,000 ft. Message of Hope: Sean Swarner's Story
From: BJ Smith
Series: The Social Impact Show
Caption: Mount Everest as seen from an aircraft from airline company Drukair in Bhutan. The aircraft is south of the mountains, facing north., Credit: Papa Lima Whiskey 2
An incredible story of a cancer survivor that goes on to do the impossible.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2015
  • Length: 34:49
I Am My Mother's Only Son
From: Trevor Keaton Pogue
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A mother, her son, and the food that keeps them together.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:12
Salty Lou’s Local Lobster
From: JP Davidson
Caption: Rob Martin, Cape Cod lobsterman, Credit: JP Davidson
A lobsterman and his girlfriend try to build the market for locally caught and processed lobster, in an increasingly global industry.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., PRX Remix, KUT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 5
Self Esteem
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Most men who work hard are very insecure.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:39
Who's Helping the Helpers?
From: Michael Falco
Caption: Children's Aid Society hosts a summer camp for youth every summer called Play Street. The economic downturn has put social services like this in jeopardy.
A new survey by the Human Services Council and Baruch College found that nonprofits across NYC face a severe crisis, as public/private funding cont...

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Sep 02, 2009
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 1
She Hired A Hit Man To Kill Her Husband
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Most of the men who run ads for hit man services are really undercover policemen. The woman we’re talking about here must have been incredibly stup...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2009
  • Length: 01:24
The Good Old Days
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
In 1945 any American who had any kind of job could buy a home.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2009
  • Length: 03:19
We Already Have $100,000 in That Bank
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Individual bank deposits are only insured by the federal government up to $100,000

  • Added: Feb 10, 2009
  • Length: 02:32
Keeping the Family in Farming
From: Ed Janus
Series: Milk on Our Boots: The Terroir of Dairyland
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The four Crave brothers refused to give up on farming as a way of life

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1