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Re:sound - The Family Ties Show
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2020 Re:sound Specials from Third Coast
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This hour, stories about family ties, love and loss.

Bought by KOSU, Troy Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Michigan Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Crashing Into Love
From: Israel Story
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In 2012, Jordan got a wakeup call. A strong-headed college student from a conservative Christian Arkensas family, she found herself in the Middle E...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2020
  • Length: 26:27
This Wall Is My Wall
From: Israel Story
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In 1988, a handful of tough, idealistic women banded together to fight for women's rights to pray, as men do, at the holiest Jewish site in the wor...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 47:26
S2 Ep 5: Treating the wounds of trauma
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Musician and artist, Becka Baker, at band practice in Tacoma, Washington.
In this episode, we hear personal stories from three women that show just how tightly woven together trauma, pain and addiction are. Also, we hear ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 32:36
Are You There God? It's me, Paula.
From: KAYLA LATTIMORE
Caption: Paula Degree, Credit: Kayla Lattimore
Going through puberty is rough. It’s a time most of us would give anything to forget. Well, Paula Degree chose to do it all over again at 72.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 08:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Gift and Curse of Being a Latina Woman
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2019
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My Name is Ashley Villa, I am an 18 year old Mexican- American Woman from the Southwest Side of Chicago.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2019
  • Length: 07:14
Joy Harjo: Writing the Southwest
From: David Dunaway
Caption: Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate
The work and life of Joy Harjo, newly-named U.S. Poet Laureate, explores growing up between cultures, part Muskogee-Creek and Cherokee, part Irish ...

Bought by KGLP and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:23
  • Purchases: 2
The Untold Story of the 2019 Women’s March in St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In this timely Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack brings us excerpts from the 2019 Women’s March in ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Running for life
From: Wadii'ah Boughdir
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Recent studies have shown the therapeutic effects of running on depression. This, shouldn’t come as a surprise for people who’ve been blessed by it...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2019
  • Length: 08:28
Weight off her Shoulders
From: Ruby Schwartz
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Bodybuilding is no easy feat. Bodybuilders spend endless hours in the gym. They count carbs and grams of fat meticulously. Why? To get ripped, mayb...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 2
Pony
From: Ibby Caputo
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is audio of a formerly incarcerated woman reading a letter she wrote while in prison.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:13
Episode 88: Cold Case
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1984, Sheila Wysocki found herself helping the police investigate the murder of her college roommate. Detectives asked her to help gather inform...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 34:29
Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Olivia Hooker, Age 6 in 1921
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
The Seekers, Pt. 1: Freedom from Violence
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Albertina Gutiérrez and her 8-year-old son, Lester display photos of relatives., Credit: Maria Martin
The Seekers is the first in a two-part documentary series that examines the experiences of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the US. In t...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 79: Secrets and Séances
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Helen Duncan was a famous medium who travelled around Britain in the 1940s performing séances. She claimed to speak to the dead, and even produce p...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 31:17
  • Purchases: 1
A Better Love
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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We follow a mother's love through the stages of life to seek wisdom about what love is, what love does, and why love happens. We follow five mother...

  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 47:06
Episode 63: Rochester, 1991
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Kim Dadou says she wishes she had a nickel for every person who has asked why she didn’t leave her abusive boyfriend. They stayed together for four...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2017
  • Length: 26:32
  • Purchases: 1
Eyes of Another
From: Terence Mickey
Series: Memory Motel
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Autobiographical memories are the stories we tell ourselves, but they’re also a window into other people’s experiences. They’re one of the best way...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:10
Episode 54: Melinda and Clarence
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 53: Melinda and Judy before you listen to this. This is the second episode of a two-part story. Melinda...

Bought by ABC and WFAE


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 31:45
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 53: Melinda and Judy
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under mysterious circumstances. As she got older and had children of her ...

Bought by ABC and WFAE


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 25:27
  • Purchases: 2
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
Being Black In Blue: A Profile Of A Police Officer
From: Emily Corwin
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Nashua, NH Police Sergeant, Lakeisha Phelps is one of two black police officers on a force with 176 police officers, in one of New Hampshire’s most...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 48: Eight Years
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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2008 was an exciting time to be a Harry Potter fan. The final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, had been released. Movies were on the way...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 22:36
  • Purchases: 1
The Triangle Seagals
From: Mary Samouelian
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The Triangle Seagals, WAVES national unit #144 is a North Carolina based women’s organization for active, former active, retired, and reservists. F...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2016
  • Length: 36:27
Women's Voices From Dayton Correctional Institution
From: WYSO
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In 2011 the Dayton Correctional Institution became the third women’s prison in Ohio, when it was changed from a 500-bed male facility to a women’s ...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:04

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