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Your Own Anti-Drug
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
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An artful PSA for an anti-drug campaign

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:10
KERA Commentary: Breast Cancer
From: KERA
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Maintaining a positive attitude amid struggling with breast cancer

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 20, 2007
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
From The Heart
From: Bill Slammon
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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
This I Believe - Christine Cleary
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Massachusetts listener Christine Cleary believes memory is more an exercise of the heart than a function of the mind.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Apr 11, 2007
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 3
"My Friend" by Porsche Colbert
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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A moving personal story of one young writer's downfall with anorexia. This poet is a student at Morgan Park High School (Chicago, IL).

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Public Interactive


  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 2
This I Believe - Ann Karasinski
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Trying to understand her daughter's addiction gave Ann Karasinski a belief that helps her cope with it.

Bought by WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KJZZ


  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 5
This I Believe - Cortney Davis
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Nurse practitioner Cortney Davis believes embracing grief honors the beauty and fragility of life.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 4
The Ground We Lived On
From: Sound Portraits
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Journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc faces mortality and loss in recordings she made during the last months of her father's life.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., The Story, PRX Remix, KUT and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 11:33
  • Purchases: 12
This I Believe - Daniel Ferri
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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A natural disaster and a family medical crisis made Daniel Ferri believe in the kindness of strangers.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 3
"Our Way Through"
From: Susan Johnston
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Portrait of life with HIV in Ottawa, Canada

  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 19:35
Mom's Good Move II
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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An update of the Long Haul Production's series "Mom's Good Move."

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jan 09, 2006
  • Length: 10:52
  • Purchases: 1
Young Thai Woman Educates Peers about HIV
From: UNICEF
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This Story is Free! Nakwan Leknork from Thailand Helps other Young People Stem the Tide of HIV

  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
Young Woman in Namibia Fights Stigma of HIV
From: UNICEF
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This Story is Free! Livey Van Wyk is a Namibian AIDS activist

Bought by WFUV, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUCB


  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 3
Young Woman in Ukraine Works to Fight Spread of HIV
From: UNICEF
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This Story is free! Iryna Kalinichenko tells her story of how HIV has affected her life.

Bought by WFUV


  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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
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
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
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
Goodbye, Ma
From: Carl Hammerschlag
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Saying Goodbye

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