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Her Speech
From: Jamie Courville
Series: Squirrels Stories
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Victoria is trying to get her life back after the removal of a brain tumor. She is getting a little better every day.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:58
Home to Home
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Some exes live 15 minutes apart, but they drive more than an hour to exchange their kids through an organization in Brunswick, Maine. Home to Home ...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:13
Raising Angel
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Jamie is pregnant and has nowhere she can go. She finds herself at Saint Andre Home, a modern day home for unwed mothers, where she awaits her four...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 2
Eva, Nanny
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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Eva fled to the U.S. from El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago. Since then, she’s cared for 11 kids – and mastered emotional calculus of ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
Haunting
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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October is full of ghosts, but in our show we will not be talking about little kids who wear white sheets.

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Raising Angel
From: Chloe Prasinos
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Jamie is pregnant and has nowhere she can go. She finds herself at Saint Andre Home, a modern day home for unwed mothers, where she awaits her four...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
Jack and Rose
From: Emma Miller
Caption: Gloria and Rose
Sassy and sagacious Gloria, 85, shares stories of being in both a conventional heterosexual marriage and a long-time same-sex relationship.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 2
Her Newborn In Withdrawal, A Young Mother Faces Her Own Recovery
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: Newborns in Withdrawal
Caption: Baby Jonathan, 10 days old, Credit: Kristin Gourlay
More babies are being born dependent on the opioid drugs their pregnant mothers were taking. Their condition, called neonatal abstinence syndrome, ...

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 06:47
Who Cares
From: Capital Public Radio
Series: The View From Here
Caption: Rick Rayburn cares for his wife Marianne who has dementia., Credit: Andrew Nixon | Capital Public Radio
If you're not a caregiver now there's a good chance you'll become one, joining an estimated 66 million adults who make up the "backbone" of America...

Bought by KUER, KALW, KOSU, KQED, KZYX and more


  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 20
The Hang Family
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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How do you pass on the culture of a country you can’t remember? Three generations of the Hang family in Portland, Maine, try to reconcile memories ...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 3
Teen Mom Reality
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:35
Stripped Away: This Teen Finds Her Family Homeless
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Up until she was a teenager, she lived in comfort. What she didn’t see coming was the moment when she lost everything. Find out why her world turne...

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


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 3
Parts of Speech
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Doug Harlow isn't afraid to use his voice. He works as reporter in Maine and churns out seven, sometimes eight, articles a week. Doug is a born com...

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


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 4
Class Dismissed
From: Capital Public Radio
Series: The View From Here
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This one-hour documentary takes an intimate look at the high school dropout crisis through the lives of three young people from California's Centra...

Bought by KALW, WITF, KZYX, WSKG, KALW and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 54:04
  • Purchases: 7
Ep. 001-Our Father
From: Jakob Lewis
Series: Neighbors
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Part One: The Story of Two Fathers, a priest and his actual dad, trying to out father one another. Part Two: A Review of Nashville's newest ingred...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2013
  • Length: 20:38
Life-Threatening Allergies
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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What does it take to raise a child with a severe food allergy?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:12
Alzheimer's: Slipping Away
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Frances Hilary McGuigan, Credit: Doug Dobery
This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2013
  • Length: 54:59
Special Education in NY Public Schools (Short Doc)
From: Katie Hiler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Long Island mother faces immense challenges as she tries to educate her three autistic sons through New York's public school system.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 1
Alzheimer's: Slipping Away Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Alzheimer’s sucks an entire life away, bit by bit at first, almost imperceptibly. By degrees memories--short-term, and then long-term--begin to fad...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 27:30
Teenage Diaries Revisited: Frankie
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries Revisited
Caption: Frankie in 2013., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
As a teenager, Frankie was a high school football star whose picture was in his hometown newspaper every week. Years after graduating, Frankie was ...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, PRX Remix, WJCT, and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 30:26
  • Purchases: 4
Missing Kim
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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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
Episode 1: Stealth in School
From: Callum Angus
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An interview with Female-to-Male teen Kyle Smith about his experience as a transgender high school student.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 20:30
Chapter 10 - A Turn in the Road
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard is caught between two philosophies of life: his father’s hard work ethic, which saw Richard’s responsibility to help meet the immediate exp...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 15:48
Ken Nerger
From: You're U.S.
Series: You're U.S.
Caption: Ken Nerger (Detail), Credit: Emile B. Klein
Surviving cancer, the economy and a haunted house.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 09:26
American Heaven
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: McBurney YMCA 2012
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18-year-old Radio Rookie Reporter, Danielle came from the Congo when she was 13 years old, leaving her mother and the life that she knew behind in ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 3

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