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LaMont Dottin
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:00
Hisako Hasegawa
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:55
Neil Harris Jr.
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 20:54
BLACK LIVES MATTER meets BLACK ROCK CITY
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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One principle guiding Burning Man is "Radical Inclusion." But it's never been racially diverse. Activists like Favianna Rodriguez are changing that.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 56:11
2022 San Francisco Mime Troupe: Back to the Way Things Were -- Velina Brown Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Velina Brown talks popcorning ideas, saying no, and not wasting a good tragedy.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2022
  • Length: 14:28
Episode 2: Everyone Eats
From: Elia Powers
Series: Areas of Agreement
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A deep exploration of the urban-rural divide and how one group is trying to bring both sides together

  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:19
CBC S 1 E 4: Minneapolis, The Supply Chain
From: WNIN
Series: COVID Between the Coasts
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Mistakes were made in keeping PPE and other essential medical supplies available for health care and emergency workers during the pandemic. Are we ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 21, 2020
  • Length: 21:59
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome to Surviving California
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California
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A limited series podcast produced by graduate students at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Calif...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 01:15
A Shortcut Through 2018-Part Two
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Stan Lee, Credit: Drew Friedman
More looking back through the past year with tributes, tragedies, traitors and comedians in another remix from the cutting room floor of 2018

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 59:38
  • Purchases: 2
The Rural Suicide Project
From: Capital Public Radio
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A rural pocket of Northern California is seeing some of the highest rates of suicide in the state. This project explores the mental health crisis i...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:05:14
Palliative Care: The Search For Comfort And Healing In The Face Of Death
From: JoAnn Mar
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For those who are dying, palliative medicine can go a long way in relieving the pain and suffering that often accompanies the final stages of death...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
THEO WHO LIVED -- David Schisgall Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: David Schisgall, San Francisco, CA 12/16/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
David Schisgall talks storytelling as therapy, empathy as salvation, and getting back what we’ve lost.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 16:41
Water Pressure 4: Water's Taking it Back
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
Caption: Melting Alaskan glacier, Credit: Rupa Shenoy
Water is claiming more coastal land, everywhere. So, do we prepare for that, or protect against it?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 1
Water Pressure 3: Water Isn't Just Running Out In California
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
Caption: Swansea Water Manager Robert Marquis
Our biggest source of freshwater is running out -- everywhere.

Bought by WABE, WLPR , and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 3
Water Pressure 1: New England Stole California's Snow
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
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Our relationship with water is changing, and we can’t ignore that water’s moods are getting a lot more dramatic.

Bought by WLPR and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 2
Show #7: Audio Gold
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08
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With the Olympics in progress, the Weekday High Interns thought it appropriate to ask people about their own Olympic moments. You know, those times...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:32
VoxPod #11 - Fish Out of Water
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
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Today's show looks at people protecting the life of Puget Sound.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:15
  • Purchases: 1
VoxPod #3 - A Pike Place Postcard
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today's show features an audio postcard of Seattle's Pike Place Market.

Bought by KZSC and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 2
Grit, Luck and Money: Preparing Kids for College and Getting Them Through
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: YES Prep students at an informational session at the University of Oklahoma. YES Prep is a charter school network that serves a low-income population in Houston, Tex. and focuses on getting all of its students accepted into 4-year colleges. , Credit: YES Prep Public Schools
Why are so many low-income students quitting college, and what leads a few to beat the odds and make it through? (8/30/2012)

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KERA, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Dressing the Part
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Felix Angelini-Hurll, Credit: Walter Murch
Sometimes we need help when dressing for a special occasion. In England Moss Bros. will 'give only the best service.'

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: 13:53
  • Purchases: 1
RISE: Part I Sounding the Waters
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions threaten the nation's coastal towns, Credit: Jan Sturmann
The San Francisco Bay is a place of beauty and biological diversity. But sea level rise and extreme weather will change human life along its coastl...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
RISE: Part II Facing the Rising Tide
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Steve Mello is a farmer on Tyler Island in the San Francisco Bay Delta, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Rising waters threaten the lands of a farmer and of a developer, yet they and their families dismiss all warnings of danger. Why are so many of us ...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
RISE: Part III Chuey’s Story
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Chuey Cazares and his family live in the tiny coastal town of Alviso at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Adapting to climate change will be a messy and painful business. And in the short term there will be winners and losers. Chuey Cazarez’s family is ...

Bought by WFHB, CI Dolphin Radio, WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Day Two: The Accidental Life of Cannon Point
From: Kenny Malone
Series: Neglected to Death
Caption: The Cannon Point neighborhood is like nowhere else., Credit: Google Maps
Cannon Point is a one-block stretch in Broward County, Florida, with the highest concentration of mental health assisted-living facilities in the s...

Bought by PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUT, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:51
  • Purchases: 5
Without Comment: The First 100 Days-Week Six"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "Without Comment:The First 100 Days"
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Without Comment is a 13 week series looking at the first 100 days of the Barack presidency.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 09:45