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The Fair
From: Jason Rayles
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The fair is bright and nice and happy, and then the sun goes down....

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUOW, WNIJ, WBEZ, WZBC and more


  • Added: May 04, 2004
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 7
Jimmy & Jewel: A Love (?) Story [long version]
From: Jason Rayles
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A woman I had never met before handed me a rose at my grandfather's funeral.

Bought by KPFA


  • Added: May 04, 2004
  • Length: 15:58
  • Purchases: 1
Jimmy & Jewel: A Love (?) Story [short version]
From: Jason Rayles
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A woman I had never met before handed me a rose at my grandfather's funeral.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 03, 2004
  • Length: 10:52
  • Purchases: 1
Memorial
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Every 100 days, Roberts saves the phone messages of her mom who passed away two years ago as a living memorial.

Bought by WHFR, Prairie Public, Room Tone Selects, WTJU, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: May 02, 2004
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 28
Orphan Opossums
From: Worth Bishop
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Even killing a varmint has consequences.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2004
  • Length: 05:33
Crossing the River Lethe
From: Laura Jackson
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Coming to terms with my aging mother's dementia.

Bought by WKSU and WYSO


  • Added: Apr 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 2
My Father's Songs
From: Carl Hammerschlag
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Dr. H. is reminded about the songs of his tribe while practicing songs with his grandson.

Bought by WGDR and WCOM


  • Added: Apr 20, 2004
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 2
Profile of Sgt. Jim Johnson
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Spencer Scott interviews Sargeant Jim Johnson of the Maine National Guard as he departs for eighteen months in Iraq.

Bought by WXLV-FM, WMPG, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2004
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 3
Pre Adopt Mom
From: David Barasoain
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Woman who cares for babies before adoption.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WFUV


  • Added: Apr 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 2
Our Adult Prom
From: Sharon Glassman
Series: Radio Essays On Demand
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Former HS geeks -- Muslim, ex-Jehovah, gay/straight and fabulous attend an "adult prom" for an NYC friend who's moving on...,

  • Added: Apr 15, 2004
  • Length: 02:49
Joey's Phone Call Home
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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Joey, an incarcerated teen, calls home.

Bought by The Story, Remix Radio, WYBC, YouthCast, Space Gallery and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2004
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 6
Area-Code Chic**
From: Sharon Glassman
Series: Radio Essays On Demand
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Could my dorky new cellphone area code be a secretly trendy thing?

  • Added: Apr 07, 2004
  • Length: 03:29
Too Curvy and Not Enough Shoulder
From: Julia DeBruicker
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Wilma and her son on bicycling

Bought by KUT, KZSC, BSR Radio, and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 02, 2004
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 4
For the Blood Is the Life
From: Julia DeBruicker
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Goat killing chronicles homegrown ingenuity in the mountains of Appalachia

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: Apr 02, 2004
  • Length: 09:44
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: A Man's Choice - A Look at Male Contraceptives
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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With the advent of the male pill, men will now have the opportunity to become more involved in family planning and society is ready for it

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 29, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Day My Mother's Head Exploded (Short Version)
From: Hannah Palin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It is the story of the brain aneurysm that almost killed my mother in 1987 and how she became a completely different person from the mother of my c...

Bought by KUOW, Wisconsin Public Radio, KPCC, East Village Radio, WUAL and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2004
  • Length: 11:06
  • Purchases: 6
The Day My Mother's Head Exploded
From: Hannah Palin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It is the story of the brain aneurysm that almost killed my mother in 1987 and how she became a completely different person from the mother of my c...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, XRAY.fm, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2004
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Way it Looks from Here
From: Kerry Seed
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In a time of great economic uncertainty, Mel Clarrage, a legally blind vocational counselor, is looking for work.

Bought by WMPG, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUHB


  • Added: Feb 18, 2004
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 3
Tupperware
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Tupperware. More than a way of storing leftovers in covered plastic bowls, for many it's a way of life.

Bought by KPIK-LP, KUOW, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2004
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 16
Sweet Phil from Sugar Hill
From: Phyllis Fletcher
Caption: the producer with her parents
A man has 14 children with 13 different women, dies young, and leaves them to learn about him through each other, and through the letters he wrote ...

Bought by KUER, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, WYBC, KCUR, NPR Station Showcase with PRX and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2004
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 10
Alzheimer's: Losing a Mind
From: WHYY
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The latest information about Alzheimer's and the impact on families.

Bought by WPSU, WFUV, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 29, 2004
  • Length: 59:37
  • Purchases: 3
Of A Piece
From: Michelle Orange
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A father/daughter meditation on divorce, tradition and jigsaw puzzles

Bought by KUOW, KPFA, and KGLT


  • Added: Jan 26, 2004
  • Length: 17:05
  • Purchases: 3
A Cook's Notebook: Chocolate Cake for Stanley
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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Baking a cake for my father-in-law who has Alzheimer's

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Jan 21, 2004
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 4
Letter from Chicago
From: Jonathan Menjivar
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A son in Chicago reaches out with a mic to his mom in L.A.

Bought by PRX Remix, The Story, WBEZ, WMPG, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Jan 12, 2004
  • Length: 10:41
  • Purchases: 5
Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Twelve-year-old Roy Eberhardt investigates "the running boy" and lands in the middle of a full blown ecological mystery!

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, KTNA, and KUT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2004
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 5

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