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A Shortcut Back Through The 20th Century
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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A unique audio retrospective...A Shortcut Back through the 20th Century is an impressionistic glance back at the last one hundred years, featuring ...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2011
  • Length: 59:36
The Inner Life of a Campaign Volunteer
From: Emily Corwin
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LaDarrell Hagans is something of a full-time volunteer for Deval Patrick's reelection campaign for Governor of Massachusetts. Although LaDarrell k...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
The Impact of IMPACT
From: Learning Matters
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What happens when a 24-year veteran teacher is suddenly rated "ineffective" and loses her job?

  • Added: Sep 22, 2010
  • Length: 13:01
Ambassador Raymond Joseph of Haiti
From: National Press Club
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Haitian Ambassador to the US Raymond Joseph gives his assessment of the recovery efforts in Haiti and the outlook for the country's future at a Feb...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
Keeper of the Mountains - an evening with Larry Gibson
From: Christopher Weller
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Chris Weller, host of Fret Knot Radio Hour, spends an evening with Larry Gibson in his cabin on Kayford Mountain in the heart of coal country. Gibs...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 32:46
Assisted Suicide
From: Emilie Ritter Saunders
Caption: Montana Supreme Court, Credit: Emilie Ritter
The Montana Supreme Court will weigh in on physician assisted suicide.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2009
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
SURVIVORS: Solitary Confinement in America's Prisons
From: Claire Schoen
Caption: Robert King Wilkerson spent 29 years in solitary confinement., Credit: Terry Foss
In this half-hour radio documentary, "survivors" of solitary confinement paint a picture of what it looks, sounds and feels like to live for years ...

Bought by KMUZ, KOSU, KGNU Community Radio, KUT, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Please Don't Say My Name: Burmese refugees at risk in Malaysia
From: karen zusman
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Malaysia is a country that does not distinguish between illegal migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. What's worse, refugees from Burma have recen...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:00
Civil War Re-enactors
From: Jake Warga
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A non-narrated portrait of a small group of Civil War buffs re-dedicating a Union veteran's grave in Oregon and reflecting on when our nation, as w...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Catskill, Prairie Public, New Hampshire Public Radio, KISU and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2009
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 11
A Crazy, Convoluted Journey: Getting Water to Tucson
From: Terrascope Radio
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Tucson, Arizona, lives on water from the Colorado River, which is hundreds of miles away and half a mile downhill. This is the story of how it gets...

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, KDNK, WMPG, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 4
Making Contact: Survivors of Solitary Confinement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hakeem Shaheed
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine...

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Active Voice Radio Special- New Jersey Senate Passes Medical Marijuana Bill
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We speak with activists and an MS patient who testified before the Senate Health Committee.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
Protesting the School of the Americas
From: Gretel Carlson
Series: Listen Hear
Caption: Placing flowers and crosses at the fence, Credit: Leigh Kunkel
In November, 24 Grinnell College students piled into a bus for an 18 hour ride down to Columbus, Georgia to protest the School of the Americas.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: 18:23
Commentary: Less God-Talk, Please
From: Dick Meister
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It's time for society's believers to quit pushing their religious views on non-believers.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:10
Remember the Upstairs Lounge
From: Julia Botero
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A look back at New Orlean's Prospect One and an installation that brings attention to the Upstairs Lounge tragedy responsible for first galvanizing...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2009
  • Length: 06:09
A Shortcut Through 2008
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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A hour-long retrospective of the past year, including the historic election of Barack Obama* mixed with the sounds, music and major events of 2008.

Bought by KUT-HD, Marfa Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWIT, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2009
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 10
Washington Execution: The Mechanics of an Execution
From: KUOW
Series: State of Execution
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Prisoners sentenced to death in Washington State have a choice of lethal injection or hanging.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2008
  • Length: 06:58
Washington Execution: Capital Cases and the Law
From: KUOW
Series: State of Execution
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Death penalty cases are extremely complex and costly to pursue.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2008
  • Length: 06:41
Native Americans-opposing Pigs & demonstrating S.P.I.R.I.T
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: NAMAPAHH First People's Radio Show
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This program features interviews with two different women from two different regions in the United States, both who are standing up or their Native...

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cicatrix
From: Joan Schuman
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This piece resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness and irreparably damaged nerves as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, the Third Generation.
From: sivan raviv
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A three-part series about the impact of the Holocaust on grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, today's third generation.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2008
  • Length: 30:27
"A Thousand Kites"
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We learn about a Thousand Kites, a media-arts initiative designed to spark a national dialogue about the criminal-justice system in the U.S. throug...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
Labor's Critical Election Role
From: Dick Meister
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Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich says unions should go all-out to defeat presidential candidate John McCain.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 22, 2008
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
"Molt This"
From: ANNE KEALA KELLY
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This is a story about a Hawaiian Monk Seal molting on Kailua Beach.

  • Added: May 10, 2008
  • Length: 03:57
NAMAPAHH First People's Radio: Manifest Destiny & The Doctrine of Discovery
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: NAMAPAHH First People's Radio Show
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An on air conversation and voyage through Western History and American Indian Law with Professor Robert J. Miller.

Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM


  • Added: May 07, 2008
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1

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