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Against All Odds: Hope in the Struggle-HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
From: Meg O'Shaughnessy
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Teaming to Combat the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Southern Africa

Bought by KMUN, WDCV, and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2008
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 3
Thinness and Salvation
From: Sarah Yahm
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a piece about the symbolic meaning of fat in our culture

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUT-HD, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 5
Interview with a Grandfather
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont
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Chelsey interviews her grandfather about his struggle with alcoholism, and his wish that Jesus would save him.

Bought by YouthCast and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
Two Weeks
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Laurie Williams (aka Crow) is preparing to die in the next two weeks.

Bought by HowSound, SALTcast Podcast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 01, 2008
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 3
Remembrance
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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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
Deepak Chopra - What Would Buddha Do?
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Dr. Deepak Chopra, medical physician, pioneer in mind-body studies, and philosophy teacher bridging eastern and western traditions discusses with u...

Bought by WUCF


  • Added: Sep 04, 2007
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Isabel Legarda
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Massachusetts anesthesiologist Isabel Legarda believes every person and every breath is precious.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: May 29, 2007
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 3
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
Healer
From: Voices of Our World
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Repairing a torn psyche or a scarred soul is possible but the methodology has yet to be confined to a specific set of protocols.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2007
  • Length: 28:05
Modern Day Miracles
From: Voices of Our World
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Lay Missioner, Joe Rigotti, whom doctors had fully been expected to die several years ago from terminal brain cancer, has just received the results...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
This I Believe - Catherine Royce
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Lou Gehrig's Disease is robbing her of many things, but Catherine Royce believes she still has a choice.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KJZZ


  • Added: Feb 01, 2007
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 4
This I Believe - Debbie Hall
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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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
Jan 14 : English - Alona on Albert Shweitzer
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday piece

  • Added: Jan 14, 2006
  • Length: 02:48
Jan 14: Russian - Alona on Albert Shweitzer
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday piece

  • Added: Jan 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:31
Curandera
From: Western Folklife Center Media
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Eva Castellanos, a curandero in Nyssa, Oregon, employs massage, herbs, and prayer to help those who seek her healing.

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Dec 19, 2005
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1
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
Trauma and Recovery: A Cambodian Refugee Experience
From: Karen Brown
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A documentary on Cambodian refugees still coping with past trauma.

Bought by KBOO, WGBH Radio Boston, and CKMO


  • Added: Nov 16, 2004
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Goodbye, Ma
From: Carl Hammerschlag
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Saying Goodbye

  • Added: Oct 19, 2004
  • Length: 05:11
An Anatomy of Humanity
From: Geo Beach
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Five thousand miles from New York, commentator and medic Geo Beach had to practice a different kind of medicine, praying for a minister at Ground Z...

Bought by WZBC, 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station, WYSO, and prpdstation


  • Added: Sep 08, 2003
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 4