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Virginia Tranel documents abuse in BENITA: prey for him
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Decades after graduating from a Catholic college, Virginia Tranel found out that one of her classmates, Benita Kane, had been in a 20-year relation...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Seattle's Ellis Island
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: Many Uch at the Airport Way Detention Facility., Credit: Eroyn Franklin
An imposing brick building on Airport Way at the edge of the International District housed detained immigrants from 1931 to 2004. It was once known...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Rwandan Genocide
From: Arndt Peltner
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In the evening of April 6th 1994 the plane of the Rwandan president was shot down. This sparked the genocide that nearly killed one million people

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 14:39
Himmler's Angora
From: Brian Bull
Caption: Angora Rabbit and Heinrich Himmler
A look at a strange and curious relic of the Holocaust.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:15
Slavery in America: 1870 through WWII
From: Burton Cohen
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Interview with Doug Blackmon, author: Slavery By Another Name

  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 59:59
Veterans Speak Out: Winter Soldier
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In March 2008, hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans gathered for "Winter Soldier": to talk about what they saw and did in combat, and diff...

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jun 20, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Making Room For Shenandoah National Park
From: Jesse Dukes
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500 families were displaced from their homes to make space for the Shenandoah National Park

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2008
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 6
Eliot Spitzer and Witch Burning
From: The humble Farmer
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Is our generation just as irrational as the one that burned witches?

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 1
The Sad Demise of the Passenger Pigeon
From: Long Haul Productions
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The passenger pigeon was once the most common species in North America - now it's extinct. A look at how the bird disappeared.

Bought by KUOW, PRX Remix, The Nature Podcast, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 4
Court Sentences Argentine Priest to Life in Prison for Genocide
From: Marie Trigona
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Court Sentences Argentinean Priest to Life in Prison for Genocide(3:24)

  • Added: Oct 11, 2007
  • Length: 03:47
WWOZ Street Talk-A Dollop of History
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
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Alarming trends in school lunch outsourcing and a lack of home cookng has caused deep concern for the future of New Orleans culinary traditions.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 17, 2007
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
Crime and Redemption: A Wise Guy's Tale
From: Aaron Henkin
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A gangster-turned-informant reflects on his life of crime and his quest for redemption

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 11, 2007
  • Length: 49:36
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Yinong Young-Xu
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Yinong Young-Xu believes he must guard against exercising the brutality he learned as a child in China.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KBGA 89.9 FM, and KJZZ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 4
Bluma Shapiro: Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bluma Shapiro is a grandmother of four... and a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 15:25
Bald Eagles Breeding on California's Channel Islands
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The bald eagle is back! Back on California's Channel Islands, that is, after facing near extinction forty years ago.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Restoring England's Countryside
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In its manufacturing heyday, England was infamous for its skies dark with coal smoke belching from mills and factories.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
America's Wetland
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The place is America?s Wetland -- millions of acres along Louisiana?s Gulf Coast that teem with life

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
EPA Cancels Pesticide Registration
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
You might say carbofuran is an equal-opportunity killer. It takes out Eagles, Red-tailed Hawks, and migratory song-birds of all types.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
The Legacy of Torture
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In 1971, a San Francisco police officer was killed. Black Panther members were arrested and tortured, then charges were dismissed. In 2007 the case...

Bought by KUT-HD and KMUN


  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
C'est la Guerre
From: David Grimes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Musical setting of quotes from Lyndon Johnson, William Fulbright and Wayne Morse regarding the War in Vietnam.

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Oct 30, 2006
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
From: Philip Graitcer
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The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot was the closest thing to a race war ever known in Atlanta

  • Added: Sep 25, 2006
  • Length: 06:47
The Silent Generation: From Saipan to Tokyo
From: Helen Borten
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The final year of World War II in the Pacific, told by men who came back and kept silent about the harrowing ordeal that changed their lives.

Bought by WVTF, WITF, WABE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: May 03, 2006
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 32
My Lobotomy
From: Sound Portraits
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One man's quest to uncover the hidden story behind the lobotomy he received as a 12-year-old child.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2005
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 15
RN Documentary: Zeeland '53
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus: Living With Water
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Recreation of the disastrous 1953 flood in the southern Dutch province of Zeeland during which more than 1800 lives were lost.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio and WRPI


  • Added: Sep 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Leaving a Mark - The story of an Auschwitz survivor
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Eva Schloss is the “posthumous step sister of Anne Frank”. She tells her own story of how she survived 2 years in hiding, 9 months in Auschwitz an...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Jul 05, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1