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Mom's Good Move
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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Peg Collison documents her move from San Mateo, California - where she'd lived for almost 35 years - to a retirement community in Davis, California...

Bought by WCBU and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 37:09
  • Purchases: 2
Meet Me at Unity Playlot
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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After a battle erupts over whether to allow kids to play basketball in a scruffy Chicago park, neighbors rally and defeat the machine-backed alderm...

Bought by The Story, PRX Remix, and KVNF


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 15:08
  • Purchases: 3
When All Else Fails
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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"When All Else Fails" is a first-person account of a man undergoing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock (Award Winner:...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 21:19
  • 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
Has America Failed Public Education?
From: Charline Spektor
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Beyond No Child Left Behind

Bought by Central Florida Public Media and WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Essence of Dick Cheney's RNC Speech
From: Christopher Sprinkle
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Dick Cheney's RNC speech squeezed down to its true essence.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WZBC


  • Added: Sep 02, 2004
  • Length: 02:03
  • Purchases: 2
Sisters in Pain
From: Down to Earth Productions
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This Peabody Award-winning documentary details the imprisonment and eventual release of 10 women who struck back against the men who violently abus...

Bought by WLRN, 90.5 WSNC, KQED, Louisville Public Media, KVNF and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2004
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 11
The Economist Swing-State Reports: Ohio
From: The Economist
Series: The Economist Swing-State Reports
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The heart of the election battle

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KTOO, WKSU, WYSO, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 31, 2004
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 5
Planning Anarchy (So Many Meetings!)
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC on the RNC
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Modern-day anarchy is actually… very structured.

Bought by WZBC, WBFO, and East Village Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2004
  • Length: :06
  • Purchases: 3
The Steroid Olympics
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Why not create the Steroid Olympics and return fairness to athletic competitions?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KISU


  • Added: Aug 26, 2004
  • Length: 02:00
  • 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
Early Morning Delivery
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, a trucker drives through the night to make an early-...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 01:50
Cops and Firefighters
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, a police officer and a firefighter talk about the la...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WBFO, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 3
Stencil Pirates
From: Adam Allington
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Street artist Josh McPhee talks about the versitility of stenciling

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX to iTunes, WHQR, and WZBC


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 03:50
  • 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: Keeping the Peace
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Interviews with three Dutch soldiers sent to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban and also the musings of a photographer and a film maker who ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
The Parents of PFC Nick Spry
From: Zachary Barr
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Beverly Fabri and Irving Spry eulogize their son, Nicholas Spry, who was killed in Iraq on Febuary 15, 2004. Nick was 19 years old.

Bought by WMPG and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2004
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 2
Gossip (#74)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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When is it unethical to talk about other people?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2004
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
Vegetarian for Dinner (es#73)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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What they don't know, won't hurt them... or will it?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2004
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Proust, cattle and self-governance
From: Claes Andreasson
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About the unique and little known Deep Springs College

Bought by WCFM and WUAL


  • Added: Jul 19, 2004
  • Length: 10:21
  • Purchases: 2

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