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John and Annie Glenn's life story is one small step for a man and one giant leap for love!

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 14:53
Caption: The Not Old Better Show
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
Caption: Terry Menefee Gau, Kathi Shiff, Didi Tremblay, Mary Carpenter and Melissa Gray. , Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
We continue with the stories of five brave women—Terry Menefee Gau, Melissa Gray, Kathi Shiff, Mary Carpenter and Didi Tremblay—who like so many ot...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 27:31
Caption: My Body Odyssey - Episode 4
"Pregnancy is no joke," Erin tells us in this body odyssey that's both deeply personal and all-too-common. Having been on bed rest with preeclampsi...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 20:39

  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Houda, her 14-year-old sister Sara, and a friend. A month after Houda’s family moved to Arizona, Melanie took them to visit her friend’s horses. This was the second time Melanie & Houda met, and Houda’s shirt was Melanie’s first clue about what an extraor
Episode 6: Houda brings us to her high school at the beginning of the war, when she was fourteen years old, after her father’s arrest and release.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:15
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All of us are on this planet because we were born. Still, for most of us, giving birth is so mysterious. Many people don’t really learn about what ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
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She didn't start with her name or with me. We trace the pure bred mutt's story back to the beginning, or as best we can.

Bought by North State Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2015
  • Length: 14:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mishy Harman and his grandmother, Zena Harman.
At an extremely early age, Shavit Ben-Arie became the leading expert on the female members of the Israeli parliament and in many cases, he became t...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 21:25
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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
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Many women in the US are still forced to choose between having a career or having children. Some brave women choose to do both. In the wake of Anne...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:02
Caption: This polaroid of Joel was given to Carol by her social worker when the adoption process was completed., Credit: Photo courtesy Carol Brobeck.
When Carol was 20, she gave her baby boy away for adoption. Twenty years later, the son, Joel, came looking. The two tell their story of reunion.

Bought by American Voices, KUT, SALTcast Podcast, KCRW, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2009
  • Length: 10:25
  • Purchases: 8
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
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The story of a Zoo run by only women that was transferred to a private home in Alabama

  • Added: Aug 01, 2008
  • Length: 16:10
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Three women share their life stories, memories and what it is like to live at the YWCA of Central Virginia.

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 05, 2006
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
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A celebration of the wonder, joy, pain, and innate sacredness of childbirth.

Bought by KVNF and WNIJ


  • Added: Apr 10, 2006
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
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A Chicana, African American and Romanian talk about their breast cancer.

Bought by KUER, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUCB


  • Added: Oct 19, 2004
  • Length: 08:44
  • Purchases: 3