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A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support (Part III)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In the last of our three-part series, A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support, we?ll hear from experts offering an insiders view on the continui...

  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (1 hour Special)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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One mother's fight to save her daughter's life from a dysfunctional and inhumane health care system in California's prisons.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (Part II)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This is the second of a three-part series, 'A Crisis of Care,' a look inside California's prison health care system. We'll hear how a state-sancti...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (Part I)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This is the first of a three-part series, "A Crisis of Care," a look inside California's prison health care system. In this first show, "Gina's Sto...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
Comfort and Addiction
From: Amy Conger
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People speak candidly about food, comfort and compulsion

Bought by Vocalo.org and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2008
  • Length: 19:30
  • Purchases: 2
Lucy and the Bike Girl
From: Hillary Frank
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Lucy can never meet her best friend in person because it might cut her life expectancy in half.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2008
  • Length: 10:27
  • Purchases: 5
Luck's No Lady
From: Libby Conn
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This half hour documentary examines a growing public health concern for women: pathological gambling.

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2008
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 2
We are the Canaries
From: Briana O'Higgins
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A Chronic Illness multi-narrative

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX to iTunes, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2007
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 3
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
Dina's Diary: Journey of a Cancer Survivor (newscast compatible)
From: Capital Public Radio
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This intimate, award-winning audio diary documents a young mother's year-long battle with breast cancer.

Bought by KUER, WBEZ, KOSU, Louisville Public Media, KZYX and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2007
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 9
Dina's Diary: Journey of a Cancer Survivor
From: Capital Public Radio
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This intimate, award-winning audio diary documents a young mother's year-long battle with breast cancer.

Bought by WUTC, KTSW 89.9, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, KBYS 88.3 FM and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2007
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 23
Violence in Relationships
From: Youth Mic
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Excerpt from a live show about violence in relationships

Bought by KUNM, YouthCast, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 5
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
The Three Furies: Poverty, Addiction, and Mental Illness
From: Dawn Dreyer
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Producer Dawn Dreyer explores the "three furies" of poverty, addiction, and mental illness through her own struggles with bipolar disorder. "The T...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KZSC


  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: 07:31
  • 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
Finding Out
From: Susan Goldberg
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Susan's mother died of breast cancer on Mother's Day in 2004. She carried a genetic mutation that made her susceptible to the disease. After years ...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2006
  • Length: 20:11
Before & After: The Second Spirit of a One-Eyed Photographer
From: Rebecca Sheir
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When she lost her sight, she found her vision.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2006
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 1
Two Strokes
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
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Cornelia Richardson survives the sudden loss of her husband, moving on with life, and then faces recovery from her own stroke.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:15
Stagefright
From: Steve Mencher
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A lost recording brings pleasure to a woman and prolongs her life.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW, WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2006
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 6
RN Documentary: The Pearl and the Plague
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A visit health care facilities in Odessa, where care for people living with HIV /AIDS is seriously hampered because of persistent discrimination, ...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
Perinatal Hospice: A Parents Story
From: Miles Eddy
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Hospice care is something that most people associate with elderly people, or at least terminally ill adults. But what happens when the life that is...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Nov 05, 2005
  • Length: 07:15
  • 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
A Survivor of Cutting Speaks Out
From: North Country Public Radio
Series: Raise Your Voice: Stories from North Country Teens
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teen audio diary about self-injury, or cutting

Bought by WBEZ, PRX, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2005
  • Length: 07:57
  • Purchases: 3