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Healing Iraq
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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News and features on the War in Iraq

  • Added: Mar 31, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
Home Planet: Dana Reeve - What really matters.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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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
Homeless Anchorage Youth
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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ATMI's Rebecca Barker profiles three homeless Anchorage teens.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 16, 2006
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
Personal Thoughts about Global Warming: a commentary by Nanci Olesen
From: Nanci Olesen
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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
Becoming Visible
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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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
To Be Pain Free
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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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
Perinatal Hospice: A Matter of Language
From: Miles Eddy
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How we view a situation can drastically change how we make decisions. Doctors and nurses have to communicate complex and difficult issues to griev...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2005
  • Length: 05:21
Voice Box and Flute
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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
Just Live With It
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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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
Blissful Oblivion
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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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
She's Just Like Me
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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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
Ruach: Playing flute for Susanne's memorial
From: Michael Jackman
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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
Hello My Name is Ellen and I am a Spaz
From: Ellen Birkett Morris
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An undectectable case of cerebral palsy allowed the commentator to reflect on living in two worlds and what it will take to get people to reach out...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2005
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
"Ball" - a traumedy
From: Radio Arte
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An interview with young writter Brian Lobel on his experience writting "Ball", a 'traumedy' about his experience with testicular cancer.

  • Added: Sep 09, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:43
Consent and Coercion (#125)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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If we respect the autonomy of others then coercion must be replaced with consent.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Commentary: Uranium Mining Returns to the United States.
From: KRCC-FM
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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
Listening For A Name
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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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
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
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
Here There is No Moon (European version 31:54)
From: Susan Stone
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a portrait of the long dark tunnel of the suicidal mind

Bought by PRX Remix, WBEZ, WYSO, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Apr 28, 2005
  • Length: 31:55
  • Purchases: 4
Here There is No Moon (U.S. version 26:37)
From: Susan Stone
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A portrait of the long, dark tunnel of the suicidal mind

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KVNF, KRZA and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2005
  • Length: 26:35
  • Purchases: 15
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
Holding Your Breath
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Micheal Geary has cancer. It could be getting worse. What do you tell the kids?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 1
Goodbye, Ma
From: Carl Hammerschlag
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Saying Goodbye

  • Added: Oct 19, 2004
  • Length: 05:11
Gut Reaction
From: Richard Paul
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Documentary about Celiac Disease

Bought by PRX to iTunes, WCPN, WLRN, KXOT Public Radio, WMRA and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2004
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 13