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Gender And The American Experience.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Historian Alice Kessler-Harris looks at women's rights then and now.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KQED, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jun 15, 2005
  • Length: 59:38
  • Purchases: 3
Dear Birth Mother
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Becoming a Mom
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After waiting for Mr. Right (who has yet to arrive) - and after years of fertility treatments - Suzanne, a single woman in her forties, decided to ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVSC, KMXT, HowSound, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 16
Jumping Off The Raft Without Dad
From: Nanci Olesen
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First person narrative about missing my dad.

Bought by KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, KTNA, and WKMS


  • Added: Jun 09, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 4
The Comeback
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Shaun Waters tells his story of fighting his way back to a normal life after a life-threatening brain infection.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 13:40
  • Purchases: 1
Only For A While
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Natasha Fatah has always seen herself as a third parent for her autistic younger sister which makes leaving home for a career opportunity a very di...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 13:45
  • Purchases: 2
Once Is Lost
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Barbara Harrison puts her rocky relationship with her father aside to help him deal with Alzheimer's.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 14:15
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: Going home
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Home. It's where we go for comfort, even when it no longer exists.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
The Secret
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jarrod Livingstone was once officially dead for three minutes and his sister Carma wants to know what this experience was like.

Bought by HowSound, Vocalo.org, WBEZ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 4
Coming Home
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jennifer Van Evra and Eric Denison discover together what make a house a home.

Bought by KUOW, WBEZ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 14:15
  • Purchases: 3
The Change In Farming
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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This story by Adam Goddard, a Toronto-based composer, is a celebration of the life and character of his grandfather.

Bought by WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, KCUR, KGLT, WMPG and more


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 6
The Magic of Falling Teeth
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Sharon Bar-David, guided by her seven-year-old daughter Leore, takes you into a magical world filled with wiggly teeth and tooth fairies.

Bought by XRAY.fm, KFAI Minneapolis, WBEZ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 13:15
  • Purchases: 4
My Dad's Records
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Kent Hoffman draws an intimate portrait of his late father through the memories triggered by an inherited record collection.

Bought by XRAY.fm, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WBEZ and more


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 14:04
  • Purchases: 7
He Just Can't Help It
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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According to 15 year old Marybeth Whalen, her younger brother has turned her life and the life of her family upside down.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 2
Finding My Place
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
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A memoir piece about overcoming depression and finding hope

Bought by KVSC, KVSC, and KUT


  • Added: May 07, 2005
  • Length: 22:00
  • Purchases: 3
Vows
From: Catherine Girardeau
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An exploration of wedding vows that combines personal essay with documentary form.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KPFA


  • Added: May 04, 2005
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 2
Jan On Jack
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Jan Kerouac delivering her own poem to Jack over his own poem 30 years previously.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, and KGLT


  • Added: Apr 21, 2005
  • Length: 06:34
  • Purchases: 3
Watching My Mother's Breath
From: Dale Short
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A gentle poem about the ending of a 90-year-old farm woman's full life

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: The Temporary Green of Spring
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Writer Cheryl-Anne Millsap reflects on the meaning of being "green."

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: Mar 11, 2005
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1
What a fellowship!
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
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A young man's visit to his Godmother's African-American Baptist church

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Feb 01, 2005
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Ode to Josephine - Memories of a Parallel Mother
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A personal odyssey into the producer’s childhood in Bombay India, where she remembers her ayah (nanny) Josephine.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 25, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Airline Travel and the Family
From: Bill Palladino
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First person essay on using air travel to go home for the holidays.

Bought by KVNF, KRCC-FM, KZSC, KUOW, and WOUB


  • Added: Jan 21, 2005
  • Length: 09:06
  • Purchases: 5
The eX Files
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2004
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The eX Files ? stories of gay divorce.

Bought by WCPN, KUT-HD, KQED, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 12, 2005
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
My Dad Died
From: Nanci Olesen
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Seven journal entries chronicling loss

Bought by KISU, WYSO, WUAL, and WKSU


  • Added: Dec 21, 2004
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 4
A Day at the Fair
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A day of surprises in small town Ohio

  • Added: Dec 16, 2004
  • Length: 06:14
Papa's Place
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A piece about a boy and his grandfather--and a life's work

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WYSO


  • Added: Dec 04, 2004
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 3

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