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My Sentence
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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An experimental look at what it's like to be committed to the Long Creek Youth Development Center.

Bought by Remix Radio and East Village Radio


  • Added: Oct 11, 2004
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 2
King Joe Harris
From: Patrik Angstrom Poore
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Interview Excerpt from Excessive Police force documentary

  • Added: Oct 03, 2004
  • Length: 08:33
The Fraying Safety Net
From: Patrik Angstrom Poore
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Health Care options for Oregon's uninsured look grim

  • Added: Oct 01, 2004
  • Length: 29:32
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
House of Pain
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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Public housing residents scramble to figure out where to go next when their Chicago public housing high-rise is slated for demolition. It's all p...

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 2
Learning to Live: James' Story
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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The story of an ex-felon's transition from prison to the free world. James, who narrates, is 38 and has been in and out of prison all his adult lif...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUER, RadioFreePalmer, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 11
A Danger to Self and Others
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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"A Danger to Self or Others" documents everyday life inside the Chicago Cook County Jail's Mental Health Division - the largest provider of mental ...

Bought by PRX Remix and WYBC


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2
A Night at the Spa
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this Labor Day, WFUV checks in with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment we visit the 24-hour spa, where working nights can be...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:40
Baking Through the Night
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, some bakers in Lower Manhattan burn the midnight oil...

Bought by WCQS, Prairie Public, Here and Now, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WYSO


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 5
Night Shift Headlines
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City night shift workers. In this segment, we hit a local newspaper as they put together the morn...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:24
"Return to Rwanda"
From: Liz Jones
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A Rwandan woman who escaped the 1994 genocide prepares to revisit her country and family.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2004
  • Length: 10:55
New Mexico On Reagan
From: Angela Taylor
Caption: PRX default Piece image
New Mexicans comment on the late President Ronald Reagan's legacy.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2004
  • Length: 04:15
Vietnamese Homecoming Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Fishermen and their families escape from Vietnam to a new home in Louisiana and struggle to earn a living along the Gulf Coast.

Bought by WFHB, XRAY.fm, and Audible


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:07
  • Purchases: 3
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
Profile of Cpl. Chris Kotch
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Spencer Scott interviews Cpl. Chris Kotch an Iraq War Veteran who recently returned to the US with a devastating throat injury.

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2004
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 3
Profile of Sgt. Jim Johnson
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Spencer Scott interviews Sargeant Jim Johnson of the Maine National Guard as he departs for eighteen months in Iraq.

Bought by WXLV-FM, WMPG, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2004
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 3
Confessions of Teen Stripper
From: Holly Kernan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
commentator Sayyadina Thomas reflects on her days as an underage stripper

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXLV-FM, and East Village Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2004
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 3
undocumented
From: Holly Kernan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
a day in the life of an illegal immigrant

Bought by 2SER FM 107.3


  • Added: Dec 08, 2003
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 1
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
Immigrants and Democracy
From: Radio Bilingue
Caption: PRX default Piece image
New Voters Share Views on Democracy in the U.S.

Bought by KDNA Radio and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 12, 2003
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Triangle, The Fire That Changed America
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Radio Curious discusses the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 and it's impact on the labor movement and Democratic Party in the U.S. with David Von ...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2003
  • Length: 29:01

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