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Weighing the Balance
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
Caption: CBC Radio's Outfront, Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91545223@N00/2743081060/">Benson Kua</a>
This is a documentary that aired on CBC Radio's "The Current". Weighing the Balance evolved from a simple question: what happened to the men who w...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 17, 2005
  • Length: 21:26
  • Purchases: 1
Return to Shaklat
From: Thomas Grove
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Kurdish villager returns to the rubble of his village

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 15, 2005
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
Back to School
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Kids starting junior high school share their excitements and anxieties.

Bought by KZYX and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 2
Countdown Discovery
From: Mike Crane
Caption: PRX default Piece image
NASA tries to launch the first Space Shuttle since the Columbia disaster in 2003

Bought by KPIK-LP, KBBI Alaska, WBST, WYSO, WAER Syracuse, NY and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2005
  • Length: 58:52
  • Purchases: 16
Consuming Desire
From: Todd Melby
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Enter the world of passionate collectors and compulsive shoppers to find out why people spent money on objects they don't need.

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WGBH Radio Boston, Marfa Public Radio, KVNF and more


  • Added: May 25, 2005
  • Length: 27:07
  • Purchases: 6
UPDATED RELEASE: Security Check: Confronting Today's Global Threats
From: The Stanley Foundation
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Updated NON-Collaboration version of the documentary "Security Check: Confronting Today's Global Threats."

Bought by KSKA, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUOW, 90.5 WSNC, and WVPE


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 5
Convicting Chevie Kehoe
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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A new inquiry into a notorious murder case that asks: Were the wrong men convicted of this crime?

Bought by Audible and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 59:26
  • Purchases: 2
Spectrum Radio Special: China's Tech Revolution #004
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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A new monthly web-based technology newsmagazine takes an in-depth look at the tech revolution in China.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2005
  • Length: 01:26:04
Guyanese at Home and Abroad
From: WFUV
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A report on the economic and emotional toll of Guyanese immigration.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 05:00
Sri Lanka Radio Diary: A Journey Through a Rebuilding Country
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This Story is Free! An Audio Journey around Sri Lanka a few months after December's tsunami, to see the rebuilding efforts

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 11, 2005
  • Length: 12:16
  • Purchases: 1
Wal-Mart in China
From: BBC
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The world's largest retailer -- and the world's largest buyer of Chinese goods -- has jumped with both feet into the rapidly expanding Chinese market.

Bought by WGVU, WBST, KCLU, WBEZ, WILL and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2005
  • Length: 12:19
  • Purchases: 8
Labor Express for 2-20-05
From: WLUW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is the Feb. 20th 2005 episode of Labor Express in full.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2005
  • Length: 58:21
Labor Express for 2-13-05
From: WLUW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is the Feb. 13th 2005 episode of Labor Express in full.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2005
  • Length: 01:04:11
RN Documentary: Pow Wow at Porcupine
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: Buffalo Nation/Pow Wow Hour Special
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Hot summer fun in the US state of South Dakota: The pow wow in the town of Porcupine on Pine Ridge Reservation is alive with jokes, music and dance.

Bought by WGDR, WGBH Radio Boston, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and KSUT


  • Added: Feb 18, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 5
RN Documentary: Buffalo Nation
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: Buffalo Nation/Pow Wow Hour Special
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In the north central USA, Native North Americans are reviving their own culture and that of the buffalo, or bison.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, The Nature Podcast, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, and KSUT


  • Added: Feb 08, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: Adrift in Sri Lanka
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Marijke van der Meer was a tourist in Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit and recorded her experiences in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.

Bought by Central Florida Public Media


  • Added: Jan 27, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Biography of 100,000 Square Feet
From: Benjamin Temchine
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
"My Daughter Knocked Out The Power On The Whole East Coast"
From: Charles Lane
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Amusing vox pop about how a girl caused the '77 Blackout

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2004
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 2
All Available Boats: Harbor Voices from 9/11
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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Documentary on harbor workers who evacuated Manhattan on September 11, 2001.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WLRN


  • Added: Sep 08, 2004
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Movin' Out the Bricks
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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A year in the life of Catherine "Coco" Means, as she leaves her long-time home in a Chicago public housing development and moves to her first priva...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KGNU Community Radio, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 27:46
  • Purchases: 8
RN Documentary: Troubled Children in a Troubled Land
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Torn Lives - Stories from the Holy Land
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The upsurge in violence in the Holy Land over the past four years is leaving growing numbers of Israeli and Palestinian children traumatized. (29:30)

  • Added: Aug 23, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
U.S. Missile Defense
From: Claes Andreasson
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Missile defense deployed as first missile is put in its silo in Alaska

  • Added: Aug 09, 2004
  • Length: 14:39
Detention center
From: Noah Reibel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An investigation of abuse and overcrowding in immigrant detention centers

  • Added: Aug 04, 2004
  • Length: 07:42
Errol Morris on Harris execution
From: Connie Walker
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Errol Morris on recent execution of David Ray Harris

  • Added: Jul 13, 2004
  • Length: 20:17
RN Documentary: Our Law
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Is international law in crisis in the wake of the violations in the war in Iraq.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2004
  • Length: 29:30

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