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According to the Center for Disease Control, only one-third of Americans have gathered their family health history, although 96% of them believe th...
- Added: Oct 17, 2023
- Length: 30:40
Host Rick Brewer learns the details of a family secret. The story of how his parents met.
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 17:28
Bois Forte Elder, Fred McDougal talks about economic growth in the Nett Lake Community.
- Added: Apr 17, 2020
- Length: 03:40
this is the conclusion of 2828 Story of a House. It’s about a man named Leroy Basham who hoarded for several decades, and the people who dug throug...
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 22:09
2828: Story of a House is about hoarding, and two people who can make order of chaos and find treasure in trash. It's also about a man whose life w...
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 26:05
Sacramento is considered one of the most integrated and diverse cities in America. But neighborhoods in California's capital are changing, in part,...
Bought by KZYX, KUAF Public Radio, KVCR, and KCPW Salt Lake City
- Added: Oct 14, 2017
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 4
Steve Plant was many other things before he became a caregiver for 96-year-old Frannie Cahoon. Now they spend the afternoons together. This is the ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 02, 2017
- Length: 07:39
- Purchases: 1
In February 2017, Claire Woodward died at home with the support of her family and hospice care. This is a documentary about the final three weeks o...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 29:00
This hour-long special is about the unspoken challenges of caring for a family member with dementia. The show explores the experience of ambiguous ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WFAE and more
- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 22
For the longest while I would think of my mother as a husk like the shell left behind by a cicada, all the internal meat gone, just a crisp skin re...
- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 27:38
Karen Miller met a man named Gil Harper on Facebook. They started flirting. The flirtation grew more serious. Eventually, they planned to meet in r...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 25:13
- Purchases: 1
Michael and Leah have been together for 37 years, living in a counter-cultural religious community that follows the teachings of “The Singing Rabbi...
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 06:21
Sassy and sagacious Gloria, 85, shares stories of being in both a conventional heterosexual marriage and a long-time same-sex relationship.
Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 12, 2014
- Length: 10:37
- Purchases: 2
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 1
If you're not a caregiver now there's a good chance you'll become one, joining an estimated 66 million adults who make up the "backbone" of America...
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 54:03
- Purchases: 20
I brought a microphone when I visited my grandfather, and he told stories I'd never heard. This is one of those stories, with original music and so...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 06, 2014
- Length: 05:40
- Purchases: 1
This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 54:59
Alzheimer’s sucks an entire life away, bit by bit at first, almost imperceptibly. By degrees memories--short-term, and then long-term--begin to fad...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 27:30
Everyone loves a good happy hour - a chance to socialize and sip spirits. But what about happy hour in an assisted living facility?
Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 2
Destination DIY profiles two families who live the DIY lifestyle every day by growing and making most of what they need.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 1
A show about love, family and dementia, in two parts. First, a documentary, second, a followup interview.
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 58:47
Chuck Lakin has a unique hobby. He builds coffins. For living people.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 06:15
- Purchases: 3
Bill Dewberry shares some stories from his Marine boot camp experience in 1954.
- Added: Nov 17, 2012
- Length: 02:51
This piece is called Grey Areas and it's about how close I am to my dad, in a literal sense, it's also a tribute to the the neighbour we buried in ...
- Added: May 22, 2012
- Length: 03:00
Join us at the 'Irish In Birmingham Activity Centre' in England as we grab an insight into how one group of 'Yeehaa Grandmas' plan to cause a stir ...
- Added: Mar 16, 2012
- Length: 05:16
