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Program 05: A Fishing Story
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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John Gouldin's plantation was on the Rappahannock River in Port Royal, Virginia. He owned 2,000 acres and 77 slaves. If the slaves didn't work fast...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 2
Program 04: More Stories of Plantation Life
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Alec Turner was born on the Gouldin plantation in 1845 and remembered his childhood there in stories he told his children and grandchildren. Many o...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 2
Program 03: Young Alec and His Red Moccasins
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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In this episode Alec Turner's mother, Rose secretly makes a pair of red moccasins for Alec with disastrous consequences.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 2
Program 02: Africa, Slave Ships, and a Cherokee Princess
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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The story of Daisy's grandfather Alexander, whose parents were a shipwrecked English merchant's daughter and an African chieftain's son.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 2
Program 01: Daisy Turner, Vermont Storyteller
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Introducing Daisy Turner who lived to be 104 and was an extraordinary storyteller, sharing experiences from her lifetime and from her parents and g...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 2
The Forgotten
From: SCAD Radio
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Tim Bui of Gulfport, MS tells his story of Katrina.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Dec 25, 2006
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
SOWETO Today
From: Mikko Kapanen
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The largest township of South Africa 12 years after the fall of apartheid

  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 10:30
Prisoners of War: A Story of Four American Soldiers
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
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Four Vermont soldiers talk about life in German prison camps after their capture at the Battle of the Bulge, and the life-changing effects of this ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRVO Public Media, PRX to iTunes, KUT-HD, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 57:08
  • Purchases: 17
Unpredictable Journey
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Marc Steiner's personal essay of the trip he organized with three veterans to return to Vietnam 30 years after the fall of Saigon.

Bought by KUOW, WFUV, WNYC, New England Public Media, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
MASH 1969 - Visions of War, Dreams of Peace
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Profiles of poet George Evans, a veteran medic, and Lynda Van Devanter, whose experiences as Vietnam nurse inspired China Beach. Warning: Graphic D...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, WKMS, WRGY, KBYS 88.3 FM, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
DIRTY HARRY - When the American Dream Became a Nightmare
From: Claes Andreasson
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The effects of the nuclear weapons tests in Nevada on people working at, and living downwind from the test site

Bought by KUER, KOSU, Nevada Public Radio, PRX Remix, WNIJ and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2006
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 11
The Gilchrist Brothers
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Interview with Congressman Wayne Gilchrist of Maryland and his brothers, three of whom served in Vietnam.

Bought by KUOW, WFUV, WNYC, New England Public Media, KSUT and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Woody's Journey
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Vietnam Veteran and drug therapist Woody Curry returns to Vietnam forty years later.

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KUOW, WNYC, New England Public Media, KSUT and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Valdivia: Stories of Survival
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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MIT Freshmen travel to Valdivia, Chile, and report on three stories of survival they have found there: ecological survival, cultural survival, and ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 23:26
Surviving a Tsunami: The story of Valdivians in 1960
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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A college freshman travels to Chile and interviews survivors of the 1960 tsunami/earthquake.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 1
A Map of The Sea
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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An award-winning documentary on the collapse of the Newfoundland cod fishery and its resounding effects on the local community.

Bought by HowSound, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland and more


  • Added: May 04, 2006
  • Length: 14:57
  • Purchases: 8
The Lemon Tree
From: Homelands Productions
Series: World Views
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An award-winning documentary that explores the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict through the intertwined stories of an Israeli woman and a Palesti...

Bought by KSFR, XRAY.fm, KLCC, KPCC, KGLT and more


  • Added: May 01, 2006
  • Length: 38:21
  • Purchases: 6
From WWII to Iraq War: U.S Veterans on War and Peace
From: Miae Kim
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Four U.S. veterans share their views on war. An eighty-three year-old World War II veteran, two Vietnam War veterans, and a Gulf War veteran tell ...

Bought by KZYX, Marfa Public Radio, New England Public Media, and WDNA


  • Added: Mar 24, 2006
  • Length: 27:16
  • Purchases: 4
Gerda and Olcott
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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A vacation in San Francisco, a flea market, and the chance purchase of old love letters.

Bought by WTIP and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2005
  • Length: 15:10
  • Purchases: 2
Out of The Ashes
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Mastin's store was once the heart of the community where you could buy a bag of flour, a pair of boots, a side of beef and a flannel nightgown all ...

Bought by WTIP and KSUT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:15
  • Purchases: 2
The Secrets of Stanley Mission
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For Tom Kernaghan, all the family stories begin at an old trading post and Mission church.

Bought by WTIP and KSUT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 2
The Caboose
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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On a visit to Newfoundland, Helen Forsey is smitten by an abandoned caboose.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome To My World
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For a young Canadian child, the battles of the Second World War are so far in the past that they might as well be from another world.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
RN Documentary: Becoming Rebecca West
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A portrait of journalist/writer Rebecca West whose life spanned most of the 20th century, with memories from her great-niece and thoughts from an a...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
In Honor of Veterans
From: Western Folklife Center Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This Veterans' Day program pays tribute to America's fighting men and women through first-hand accounts of battle, as well as music and poetry that...

Bought by KTNA, KSLU, KVLU, KMSU, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2005
  • Length: 53:07
  • Purchases: 40

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