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Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series, Credit: Paul Vogelzang
🎙️✨ Attention Beatles enthusiasts! Discover Kenneth Womack's insights on Mal Evans, the unsung hero behind The Beatles. 📚 From a Beatles scholar's ...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 32:51
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Teenage grandchildren steal food and oxycodone from their grandfather, and injure him. Grandfather's personal support worker and her agency give l...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:39
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Richard’s physical therapist Jennifer has saved his life…more than once! Jennifer keeps an eye on Richard and, with training, persistence, and inge...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 12:51
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Fruit brings Richard joy, especially papaya. But the fruit cup at Richard’s senior living residence leaves something to be desired. Richard must wo...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2021
  • Length: 10:16
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When Richard stops answering the phone and getting out of bed for Zoom meetings, daughter Kerry finds a new way to reach dad—just in time for new r...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 10:35
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Richard and his grandson Sam sing old favorites together while daughter Erika explores her father’s influence on Sam.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2020
  • Length: 10:03
Caption: Joe Newman and Anita Sampson, Credit: ABC Action News
Joe Newman is 107 years old. He was 5 during the flu pandemic of 1918. Today, he lives in a senior apartment complex in Sarasota, Florida with his ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
Caption: Lee Plaza at one of her organizing meetings, Credit: Photo by Rebecca Ressler
Like many low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles, Aleja "Lee" Plaza spends her days taking care of the elderly — emptying bedpans, giving sponge...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2019
  • Length: 07:35
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The theme of this show is, "What is health?"

Bought by WNYO


  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
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ACTEC Fellow Hugh Magill continues his lecture by discussing how trusts need to evolve to serve new family dynamics and issues in designing trusts ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 25:29
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The theme of this show is aging today.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 52:01
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The theme of this episode is the body image, aging, and acceptance.

  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
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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
Caption: Bekka Fink on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
Rockstar Organizer, Bekka Fink, shares her journey of decluttering spaces for her clients on this episode of Making it Work.

  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 24:18
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Today we talk to all ages of drivers about their cars and how they drive them.

Bought by Littleglobe and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 10:07
  • Purchases: 2
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This hour: the delicate interdependence between being in need and answering the call to help.

Bought by WEZU, WCBE, WRIR, WVPE, KALW and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
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Second part of our generational discussion on surveillance.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: A mid 20th century hearing aid from CHF’s collections.
Part three in our series, The Stages of Life, spotlighting the chemistry found in childhood, adulthood, and old age. First, a look at how brain con...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Before it was called DIY or even “do it yourself,” self-sufficiency had value. Our parents and grandparents called it “making do.” This episode exp...

Bought by WYSO, XRAY.fm, KUT, and Oregon Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Maggie Kuhn left no stone unturned to leave the world in a better state than she found it. No topic was off limits. In fact, she even talked about ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Horace Hollister, the devoted choirmaster and youth leader, helps Richard break through the wall of established social cliques at Madison Avenue. R...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 17:42
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Friendships on New York City streets are made and solidified by the games young Richard plays after school and on Saturdays. Which game is played d...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard receives an early political education from his Socialist cigar maker grandfather, by hearing over-the-counter conversations at the butcher ...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 02, 2013
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Two stories about that key life moment many of us spend a lifetime dreading. It's a key life event that none of us live to tell about. The moment. ...

Bought by Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: My Transistor Radio, Credit: Web file photo
My Transistor Radio is a retrospective spotlighting “Dance and Romance” teen music from 1950s and 60s A-M Radio. MTR is attempting to examine why ...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2011
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1