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Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 3
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Lucinda Marker and her husband, John Tull, talk about being diagnosed with bubonic plague in 2002.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 3
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In this episode you can find out how the term "no fault divorce" came about, we talk about Family Courts, Domestic Violence charges, Parental Alien...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:10
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In this episode Al Letson and guest producer Lu Olkowski visit a tiny town in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents hav...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Louisville Public Media, WNYC, WKMS, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2012
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 59
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BOSTON - A Massachusetts prison inmate calling his or her mother on Mother's Day could pay as much as $.86 a minute. In some states, a collect call...

  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 02:30
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PHOENIX - It's National Nurses Week, and just as pioneering nurse Florence Nightingale tended to wounded soldiers, nurses today also are on the fro...

  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:06
Caption: At least one house on nearly every Butler County street has a sign like this displayed on its door, Credit: Abby Diss
From buyers to sellers, foreclosures have effected everyone in Butler County's housing market

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 02:52
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Colorado's warm spring may be lowering heating bills - but higher costs in other areas mean some Coloradans still are struggling to make ends meet....

  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:44
Caption: Foreclosed House in Hamilton, OH, Credit: Abby Diss
The Foreclosure listing firm Realty Trac shows Ohio had the 11th highest rate of home foreclosures in the country in 2011. And nowhere were the num...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:18
Caption: Whitney Young HS Slam Poetry Team
To Save a Monster is a team piece performed by the poets of the Whitney M. Young Magnet High School Slam Poetry Team: seniors Essie Linzy, 18, and ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:02
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A true story told live in London. Radcliffe lost his home, his job and his wife in 24 hours. An uplifting tale on drug addiction and redemption, fr...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 13:42
  • Purchases: 1
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It’s called a gang injunction. A controversial crime tool strategy that some people say should be illegal, and others say is a necessary last reso...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 13:36
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In southern Sudan, the vote for independence is over. Early results from last week’s referendum show people voted overwhelmingly in favor of seces...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 03:28
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People in Northeastern Brazil continue to face heavy rains and flooding which have already displaced more than 100,000 people in Pernambuco and Ala...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 03:44
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“According to an FBI report… every nine seconds a woman in America becomes a victim of domestic violence. In Butler County, Ohio federal stimulus ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2010
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: supporters at the Somerset County Courthouse 12/14/09, Credit: Chris Goldstein
John Wilson faces first degree felony charges usually used against cocaine kingpins. Now he faces up to 35 years in state prison for having 17 mari...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
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With the economy in crisis, American families once considered middle income are now living on the edge. Some have lost their homes. And some of t...

Bought by WMNF and Michigan Radio Economy Special


  • Added: Dec 02, 2009
  • Length: 10:33
  • Purchases: 2
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A recent college grad discusses her new start -- the one she was supposed to have post-school and that she looks forward to after she moves out of ...

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Nov 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 1
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A look at a project bringing healthy food to low income neighborhoods in Oakland, California.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:45
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In a special collaboration between “Feet in Two Worlds,” we hear the story of an immigrant family torn apart after an immigration raid in Phoenix, ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Oct 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Parents in some countries have to leave their children with relatives in rural areas and go to cities to find work. Sometimes they’re the people w...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 25, 2009
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 2
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Rosenthal discloses how he handled a diplomatic flap with Barbra Streisand, what he thinks of media critics (not much)and takes on Hillary Clinton...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2009
  • Length: 35:11
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Does what now passes for morality have anything to do with a person’s ability to excel in his profession?

  • Added: Jun 25, 2009
  • Length: 02:35
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Youth Radio's Luis Sierra describes his father's decision to return to Mexico after decades in the United States because of the economic crisis.

Bought by Vocalo.org and WMNF


  • Added: Jun 02, 2009
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Georgine DiMaria 4/20/09 Philadelphia, Credit: C. David Freitag
MS Patient Charles Kwiatkowski and Miss NJ 2006 Georgine DiMaria speak about their personal experience and advocacy for medical marijuana in New Je...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: May 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1