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Remembering South Rome
From: LA Lands
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A compilation of memories of the historically black neighborhood of South Rome (Rome, Floyd County, Georgia), a community currently undergoing "red...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2007
  • Length: 06:31
What Comes Next?: Jews & The Afterlife
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
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When it comes to life after death, you get 5 Jews... you get 50 opinions.

Bought by Iowa Public Radio and Audible


  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 18:04
  • Purchases: 2
Talk About It: The Jewish Mourning Process
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
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Grieving for the deceased... and comforting the living.

Bought by Iowa Public Radio and Audible


  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 18:03
  • Purchases: 2
Honoring the Body: Taharah
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
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Leaving the world as we entered it... but with a twist.

Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, Iowa Public Radio, and Audible


  • Added: Nov 27, 2006
  • Length: 15:45
  • Purchases: 5
LaPorte, Indiana
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Song/Story
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A Long Haul Production's "song story" about people whose portraits were taken by a LaPorte, Indiana photographer a generation ago.

Bought by The Story, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2006
  • Length: 13:12
  • Purchases: 3
Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Early history of Hawaiians settling along the West Coast

Bought by KREV-LP, KLCC, KSUT, and KUOW


  • Added: May 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 4
Crossing East: Brides & Children - Program Five
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Stories of Asian brides of American servicemen and adopted Asian children. THE ACTUAL SHOW LENGTH IS 59 MINUTES. THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSIONS OF THIS...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCPN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCPN, KQED and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Salida Oral History Project
From: KRCC-FM
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Local history project releases CD of interviews

  • Added: Jan 11, 2006
  • Length: 08:29
Out of The Ashes
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Mastin's store was once the heart of the community where you could buy a bag of flour, a pair of boots, a side of beef and a flannel nightgown all ...

Bought by WTIP and KSUT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:15
  • Purchases: 2
The Secrets of Stanley Mission
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For Tom Kernaghan, all the family stories begin at an old trading post and Mission church.

Bought by WTIP and KSUT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 2
My Lobotomy
From: Sound Portraits
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One man's quest to uncover the hidden story behind the lobotomy he received as a 12-year-old child.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2005
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 15
Welcome To My World
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For a young Canadian child, the battles of the Second World War are so far in the past that they might as well be from another world.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
All Coming Years of Peaceful Love
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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The history of the twentieth century told through a love story, a mandolin, and an 81-year-old husband?s guide to good sex?

Bought by WRNC-LP, KUT, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2005
  • Length: 13:18
  • Purchases: 7
Hart Island
From: Barrett Wolf
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Poem about New York City's Potters Field

  • Added: Nov 21, 2005
  • Length: 02:11
RN Documentary: Sólheimar, a place in the sun
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The story of Sólheimar,a village in Iceland where mentally disabled persons live together with people without a handicap.

Bought by WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Nov 08, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Jimmy Carter Builds a Tree House
From: Marion Owen
Series: The UpBeet Gardener Series
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President Jimmy Carter builds daughter Amy an environmentally-friendly tree house on the White House grounds.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
Anna on the Homefront
From: Whit Richardson
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An intimate look at a wife of a National Guard member deployed to Iraq

Bought by KHNS, KZYX, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, The PRX Podcast, KTUH and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2004
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 11
Vietnam Bones
From: Karen Brown
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A man tries to repatriate the bones of a Viet Cong soldier that his father took from the jungle, 35 years earlier.

Bought by WRFA-LP, Prairie Public, WFHB, WTJU, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2004
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 10
Alaskan Native Culture
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
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Raymomd claims his birthright and shares his personal journey and native history.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2004
  • Length: 20:40