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Biography of 100,000 Square Feet
From: Benjamin Temchine
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How does a public space fail? Can good intentions separated from reality border on negligence?

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPFA, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KALW, WZBC and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2005
  • Length: 32:00
  • Purchases: 9
A Memento of War
From: Dick Meister
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Lessons learned from a grotesque necklace of human teeth.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2004
  • Length: 03:19
The Boomtown Chronicles: Reflections on a Changing California
From: Coastridge Productions
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A documentary from the epicenter of California's housing crisis. Two versions available: 59 minute and NPR-Clock Friendly with cutaways.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2004
  • Length: 59:02
Talking About Abortion: A Resurgence in Sound
From: Marian van der Zon
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An experiential history told primarily through women’s voices, spanning six decades.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 59:21
Reconstructing Providence: Adaptive Reuse, Urban Revitalization, & Neighborhood Change
From: Robin Amer
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Artists vs. developers vs. the city. The adaptive reuse of historic mill buildings in Providence, and all the controversy that's come with it.

Bought by Central Florida Public Media, WMPG, and WZBC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2004
  • Length: 49:32
  • Purchases: 3
The Creative Remix
From: Benjamen Walker
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a lawyer free exploration of the remix in music, art and literature.

Bought by KVNF, WCFM, KUOW, WBEZ, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2004
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8
Another Lousy Day
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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A critically-acclaimed story detailing one man's quest to find the author of two diaries from 1960 and 1961 that he found in a thrift store.

Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, WYBC, and WYSO


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 17:36
  • Purchases: 4
Maxey's Mansion
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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Alva Maxey-Boyd, now in her nineties, defied race covenants, urban renewal bulldozers, and two Mayor Daleys in a seven-decade battle to get and kee...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WFUV, WLUW, and WYSO


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 25:07
  • Purchases: 5
RN Documentary: Sick at Heart
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The Netherlands has a unique disability pension system. For years its been both the golden goose and the sacred cow, but things are going to have ...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 28:57
RN Documentary: Hollands' Black Page
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Former dutch veterans of the colonial conflict in Indonesia talk of their guilty past and of atonement.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2004
  • Length: 29:02
Kill or Be Killed
From: Richard Rene
Series: Here's Looking at You/USA From London
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The bottom line realities of being a soldier

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 07, 2004
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
PART 1: When the American Dream turned into a Nightmare
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Downwinder affected by the radiocative fallout from test at Nevada Test Site

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, WYSO, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 4
Hollister
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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On July 4, 1947 thousands of bikers roared into a small California town and changed our assumptions about America. A new investigation raises prov...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WRPI, KUT, PRX Remix, KALW and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
Japanese American World War II Draft Resisters
From: Robynn Takayama
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After being relocated from their west coast homes on suspicion of being disloyal Americans, some Japanese Americans stood up to the hipocracy when ...

Bought by KPIK-LP and WETA


  • Added: May 25, 2004
  • Length: 08:14
  • Purchases: 2
The New WWII Memorial In DC
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Interview with architect about the memorial

Bought by WDNA, Public Interactive, KCLU, KTOO, and KRCL


  • Added: May 25, 2004
  • Length: 27:09
  • Purchases: 5
Hollow Victory
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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A David and Goliath battle against a mining technique that blows off mountaintops, buries streams and destroys communities in the hollows of West V...

Bought by WAMU, KGNU Community Radio, WRPI, KFAI Minneapolis, Audible and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 7
Socrates of Athens
From: Barry Vogel
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"First person interview" with Socrates of Athens.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2003
  • Length: 29:00

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