PRX - Pieces for Topic: Health

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a commentary by Nanci Olesen about her sister's brain cancer

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KXOT Public Radio, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 22, 2008
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 3
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Remembrance of a friend and learning about Japanese funeral rites

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jan 31, 2008
  • Length: 08:52
  • Purchases: 1
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A chef reflects on what led her to stop talking about the benefits of local food supply and become a part of it instead.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2007
  • Length: 03:30
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A short first person essay about losing my hearing

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Oct 21, 2007
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
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Story about my father's decision to stop medical treatment.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 5
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This story is free! Kids in Middle East tell about the lasting effects of the war on the children of the region, with voices from Lebanon, Syria, I...

Bought by AIFM and WUAL


  • Added: Aug 15, 2006
  • Length: 17:10
  • Purchases: 2
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A humorous personal essay about growing older

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2006
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
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This Story is free! Ex-BBC War Correspondent Martin Bell gives a report on Dr Congo and the affects of war, disease and hunger on children there

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Jul 24, 2006
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Psychologist Debbie Hall believes being present with people is one of the greatest gifts we can share.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 3
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Dana Reeve, widow of Christopher Reeve, died March 6 at the age of 44.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2006
  • Length: 03:15
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Nanci Olesen describes her attitude toward global warming. She's depressed, but she's still gonna grill chicken outside in February....

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 1
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A cane helps Gloria Troyer keep her balance but she has mixed feelings about signalling her disability.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:02
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There is never a moment in any day when Corrina Hodgson is not in pain because of a heriditary spinal condition. How will this affect her brother's...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:40
Caption: CBC Radio's Outfront, Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91545223@N00/2743081060/">Benson Kua</a>
Sarah Green was a professional flute player who came to learn that she had ALS.

Bought by WTIP and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:29
  • Purchases: 2
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Rick Cepella was out in the woods trying to capture the beauty of rural British Columbia when a small tick lodged in his scalp and giving him Lyme ...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 12:50
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Jess Perlitz visits her grandmother and discovers that coping with memory loss is as much about the present as it is about the past.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 21, 2005
  • Length: 14:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Leah Rumack seeks out her mother's best friend to find out about the mother she never knew.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 14:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Our strangely intertwined melodies led me to play flute at Susanne's memorial service.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2005
  • Length: 02:45
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A Colorado resident objects to the resurgence of uranium mining in her county.

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jul 24, 2005
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Monique Attinger prepares for the possibility of losing a child to miscarriage.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 13, 2005
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
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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
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Saying Goodbye

  • Added: Oct 19, 2004
  • Length: 05:11