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This I Believe - Cecile Gilmer
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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NPR listener Cecile Gilmer of Logan, Utah, believes family includes much more than blood relatives.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KZYX, and KJZZ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 4
Painted Lady: Part Two
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Elizabeth once worked the strolls in Calgary and Vancouver as a heroin addicted prostitute. She tells us how she went from sex trade worker to socc...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
Painted Lady: Part One
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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There are not many women who can tell the stories Elizabeth Hudson has to tell -- she used to work the strolls in Calgary and Vancouver as a heroin...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: Dear Santa, Make it work again.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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A few minutes before midnight a little boy brings one of last year's gifts and places it under the tree. He wants to return it to Santa.

Bought by WRVO Public Media and WNIN


  • Added: Dec 03, 2005
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
Fisherman's Wife
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jackie Hannam fell in love with a fisherman and so far their life together is often a life apart.

Bought by WTIP and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 2
The Education of Sarah Brodie
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Sarah Brodie, an art therapist, thought she could help Adele Lerner cope with living in a nursing home but in the end it is Adele who teaches Sarah...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:10
  • Purchases: 1
A Colonel's Daughter
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Makiko Ishihara of Toronto travels to her childhood home in Japan to face some difficult memories.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KCUR, and WETA


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 3
Katrina Survivor: New Orleans jazz singer Charmaine Neville
From: Miae Kim
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Hurrican Katrina survivor's first -hand account

Bought by KSJD, KGOU, KTNA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 08, 2005
  • Length: 27:10
  • Purchases: 5
Long Time Home
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For singer Michelle Rumball "the voice" is the person so when she lost her voice, she lost her sense of who she was.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 21, 2005
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
She's Just Like Me
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Leah Rumack seeks out her mother's best friend to find out about the mother she never knew.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 14:30
  • Purchases: 3
Home Planet: A New (school) Year
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Essay by Cheryl-Anne Millsap. No matter what the calendar says, for some of us, the New Year begins in September.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2005
  • Length: 04:15
Bonnie's Budget
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Bonnie has raised three daughters on less than twenty thousand dollars a year but according to Bonnie, she is anything but poor.

Bought by WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, and WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 08, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 3
Home Planet: Scent Bonds Mothers to their Children
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Scent Bonds Mothers To Their Children essay by Cheryl-Anne Millsap

  • Added: Jul 07, 2005
  • Length: 03:13
Home Planet: "Hot or Not?" by Cheryl-Anne Millsap
From: Spokane Public Radio
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"Hot or Not?" essay by Cheryl-Anne Millsap

Bought by Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 21, 2005
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Birth Mother
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Becoming a Mom
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After waiting for Mr. Right (who has yet to arrive) - and after years of fertility treatments - Suzanne, a single woman in her forties, decided to ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVSC, KMXT, HowSound, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 16
My Muslim Hairdresser
From: Shana Sheehy
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Hairdresser converts to Islam and discusses the dilemma of "covering up her moneymaker."

Bought by Interfaith Voices, KXOT Public Radio, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 3
A House With Many Rooms
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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In this intimate and compelling memoir, Marti Em offers a rare glimpse into what it is like to live with multiple personalities.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 14:21
  • Purchases: 1
My Body
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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This program looks at society's fixation with breasts -- a fixation that can be playful -- or downright painful.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 12:45
  • Purchases: 1
Ursula Le Guin's Riff on Writing
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Famed Author Ursula K. Le Guin talks about the art of writing.

Bought by KZYX, PRX Remix, KZYX, PRX to iTunes, KGLT and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2005
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 6
Women Making Music: Mary Gauthier
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mary Gauthier is a Nashville based performer who has used her rich life experience as fodder for her material.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, Public Interactive, NPR Station Showcase with PRX and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 7
1990 Bobbie Louise Hawkins - First Story
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Bobbie Louise Hawkins is a Beat era writer and one woman performer, reading a beautiful piece

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1
Women Making Music: Joan Baez
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this "Women Making Music" vignette folk icon Joan Baez ponders her evolution in both her personal and artistic life since her beginnings as a pe...

Bought by WHQR, WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WYOU and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 10
Women Making Music: k.d. lang
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Genre defying performer k.d. lang remarks on her life in music as WXPN continues it's "Women Making Music" vignettes.

Bought by WHQR, WSGE, KSRQ, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 10
Women Making Music: Lucinda Williams
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In celebration of Women's History Month our Women Making Music series continues with words and music from Alt. Country singer-songwriter Lucinda Wi...

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, WCOM and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2005
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 8
Women Making Music: Suzanne Vega
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Veteran singer songwriter shares insights about her music as part of WXPN's Women's history month series Women Making Music.

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2005
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 9