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HOMELESS HOSPITALITY: PRIEST OPENS CHURCH PROPERTY TO CAR CAMPERS
From: Barb Seaman
Caption: The Reverend Jessie Smith, with two of St. Anne's guests, Joanna and Carla
The face of homelessness is changing, in ways that are not easily addressed by any one group or agency. More people have resorted to living in th...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
Life, Bread And Gold: The Story of an Egyptian Street Food Vendor
From: kim fox
Series: Student Produced Audio Documentaries
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This audio documentary was produced by Sarah El Safty for the audio production course at The American University in Cairo in Cairo, Egypt. It is ...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 06:59
Poison Tree
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The "Get to Know Me" occasional series
Caption: Painting 781 Poison Tree strangled by a Fig, Queensland, Credit: Marianne North
Love hurts.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 05:13
Her Speech
From: Jamie Courville
Series: Squirrels Stories
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Victoria is trying to get her life back after the removal of a brain tumor. She is getting a little better every day.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:58
Raising Angel
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Jamie is pregnant and has nowhere she can go. She finds herself at Saint Andre Home, a modern day home for unwed mothers, where she awaits her four...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 2
Health Care Hackers
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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When you’re sick, looking up symptoms online is not always the best idea. But if you have a disease that’s poorly understood and often overlooked b...

Bought by KSFR and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 13:15
  • Purchases: 2
Alzheimer's: Slipping Away
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Frances Hilary McGuigan, Credit: Doug Dobery
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
A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Susan Burton, A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project executive director and founder
After serving time, finding food, a job and a place to live with a criminal record can become an almost impossible task. On this edition, Women bu...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
Hitchhiking to Amsterdam
From: Sean Rasmussen
Series: Radio Docs
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Feeling depressed and alone in Europe and with family problems at home, Darlene thinks the solution is to visit a drug house in Amsterdam. But some...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:06
Lindsay Ess : Becoming Whole
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Lindsay Ess was at the top of her form, doing what she knew how to do best. Fashion was her passion. She breathed it; she lived it. Modeling. Phot...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 50:17
Versions of Love
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Life is long and love is complicated.

Bought by XRAY.fm, WMPG, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 3
54 Years
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The nation's last sardine cannery in Gouldsboro, Maine closed its doors in April 2010. Lela Anderson worked at the cannery for fifty-four years.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 07:46
Lindsay Ess, Becoming Whole, Pt. 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Lindsay Ess was a fashion model, a designer, a stunning beauty. And then at the age of twenty-four, just two years ago, doctors had to cut off both...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2010
  • Length: 27:39
Flatline Days
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The story of being bipolar and being a mom.

Bought by KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, SALTcast Podcast, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 5
I Have The Day Free
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A profile of the only woman in Maine serving a prison sentence in home confinement.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 06:50
Art of Survival
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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A documentary about the healing power of art

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KPFA


  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
We are the Canaries
From: Briana O'Higgins
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Chronic Illness multi-narrative

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX to iTunes, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2007
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 3
Dina's Diary: Journey of a Cancer Survivor (newscast compatible)
From: Capital Public Radio
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This intimate, award-winning audio diary documents a young mother's year-long battle with breast cancer.

Bought by KUER, WBEZ, KOSU, Louisville Public Media, KZYX and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2007
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 9
Dina's Diary: Journey of a Cancer Survivor
From: Capital Public Radio
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This intimate, award-winning audio diary documents a young mother's year-long battle with breast cancer.

Bought by WUTC, KTSW 89.9, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, KBYS 88.3 FM and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2007
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 23
Home Is Where the Flood Was
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
With failing health, Debra Dickinson saved eight dogs from the floods of Katrina.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 2
The Three Furies: Poverty, Addiction, and Mental Illness
From: Dawn Dreyer
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Producer Dawn Dreyer explores the "three furies" of poverty, addiction, and mental illness through her own struggles with bipolar disorder. "The T...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KZSC


  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 2
Girls from Cambodia with newshole
From: Outer Voices
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Girls From Cambodia - an honest look into sex trafficking in Cambodia

Bought by WUFT, KUT-HD, WOSU, KQED, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2006
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 9
Anna on the Homefront
From: Whit Richardson
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An intimate look at a wife of a National Guard member deployed to Iraq

Bought by KHNS, KZYX, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, The PRX Podcast, KTUH and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2004
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 11
City Lights
From: Jennifer Dunn
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Members of China's floating population recount their hopes and challenges as rural-urban migrants.

Bought by WBEZ and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 27, 2004
  • Length: 20:37
  • Purchases: 2
A Stop Along the Way
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
There's a love affair off Interstate 95 in Bangor, Maine.

Bought by WMPG, KFAI Minneapolis, SALTcast Podcast, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2004
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 4