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Catatonia's Incantations
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Seth-Adrian Harris learns to deal with catatonic schizophrenia by discovering that there is an art to listening to his voices and valuing what they...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 13:34
  • Purchases: 1
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
The Unit
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For most of us, our jobs are hardly a matter of life and death but that's exactly what Andrew McLaren deals with everyday.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 13:02
  • Purchases: 1
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
Make room for shame.
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The role of shame in society examined.

  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 01:54
Surprise! Uh oh.
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What I always thought: surprise parties could kill you.

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 01:33
A House With Many Rooms
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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In this intimate and compelling memoir, Marti Em offers a rare glimpse into what it is like to live with multiple personalities.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 14:21
  • Purchases: 1
My Body
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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This program looks at society's fixation with breasts -- a fixation that can be playful -- or downright painful.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 12:45
  • Purchases: 1
Cracked Open
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Richard Handler shares his pungent insights into brain surgery, actually, his own brain surgery.

Bought by WBEZ and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 12:40
  • Purchases: 2
He's My Brother
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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If your brother is a drug addict, what do you do?

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 12:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Voice Of Warning
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jade's voice speaks a loud warning to thousands of students.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WBEZ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 12:59
  • Purchases: 3
Finding My Place
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A memoir piece about overcoming depression and finding hope

Bought by KVSC, KVSC, and KUT


  • Added: May 07, 2005
  • Length: 22:00
  • Purchases: 3
My Body My Temple
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Women writers reading their own works about how breast cancer affects their body image

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KLCC, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Mar 30, 2005
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 4
A Menace As Great -- or Greater -- Than Steroids
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Smokeless tobacco is threatening the health of major league baseball players and millions of others.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 04, 2005
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 1
Sauna - Going "All The Way"
From: Bill Palladino
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A producer's take on the sauna and being naked in front of others.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2005
  • Length: 08:32
Illness and Cure - Rhythm
From: Bill Palladino
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A producer describes his cardiac arrythmia, and his non-pharmaceutical "cure."

  • Added: Jan 21, 2005
  • Length: 09:38
Three Women
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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A Chicana, African American and Romanian talk about their breast cancer.

Bought by KUER, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUCB


  • Added: Oct 19, 2004
  • Length: 08:44
  • Purchases: 3
Nip and Tuck, Stretch Your Luck
From: Carl Hammerschlag
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Even with today's plastic surgery technology, beauty is still only "skin deep."

  • Added: Oct 19, 2004
  • Length: 03:39
Goodbye, Ma
From: Carl Hammerschlag
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Saying Goodbye

  • Added: Oct 19, 2004
  • Length: 05:11
Ect + Vns = Tlc
From: Carl Hammerschlag
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Strengthening your Body's Signals

  • Added: Oct 18, 2004
  • Length: 03:58
Graham Shelby and the Heartbeat Story
From: KUT
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Graham Shelby learns his wife is pregnant with triplets.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2004
  • Length: 02:20
Outside the Dying
From: Conrad Bishop
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Dramatization of a journal of a woman whose husband is dying of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), and the aftermath.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 22, 2004
  • Length: 21:23
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Ned Hallowell: Dare To Forgive
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Psychiatrist Ned Hallowell explains why forgiving is healing.

Bought by KMXT, Maine Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 13, 2004
  • Length: 59:46
  • Purchases: 3
When All Else Fails
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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"When All Else Fails" is a first-person account of a man undergoing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock (Award Winner:...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 21:19
  • Purchases: 2
Health Insurance Dilemma
From: Vermont Public
Series: 10 in Their 20s
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A young mother weighs the costs of buying health insurance against the risks of living without it.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WMPG, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 11, 2004
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 4