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  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Patricia Mishler discusses with her daughters what it is like living with ALS, and her thoughts on knowing that the disease will one day take her l...

Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: May 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 2
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Barb Abelhauser explains how she quit an office job she hated and became a bridgetender, beginning a career she quickly fell in love with.

Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 2
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Segment 1: Hal Needham/stuntman Segment 2&3: Alexandra Horowitz/On Looking Segment 4: Bob Vetere/Wags to Riches Segment 5: Jeffrey Nash/reinvent...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Mar 27, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
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As a young woman in the 60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in Chicago. She spent 43 years sketching everyone f...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 24, 2016
  • Length: 17:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chassitty (L) and Noramay Cadena
Noramay Cadena, a mechanical engineer with several degrees from MIT, tells her teenage daughter, Chassitty Saldana, about the summer her parents to...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WEZU, WTJU, and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Sep 25, 2015
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Angela Stowe (L) and Glenda Elliott (R)
Glenda Elliott, 75, tells her friend Angela Stowe about the love of her life, and what it was like to love another woman long before the gay rights...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WCQS, WMMT, WMUU-LP, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Andrea Cleveland (L) and Monica Harwell (R)
Monica Harwell, talks to her daughter, Andrea Cleveland, about being the first woman to climb electric utility poles for ConEd in New York.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Israel Story's Mother's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching tale you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are now avai...

Bought by WYSO, WVPE, WZEN.org, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WNYC


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Jackie taking a break from building her house.
Dreams can be as simple as a home and a flower garden. Jackie walked by the Habitat for Humanity application for 2 years.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:33
Caption: Kiser, Home Again!
Ashley went outside to call her best friend Kiser… she called his name, a long pause and then nothing, silence. Kiser was gone.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:38
Caption: Joanna Ebenstein holding a taxidermy two-headed duckling at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Joanna Ebenstein, founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, tells her father, Bob, about the childhood...

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 3
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Tina Vasquez tells her mother, Sonia Vasquez, about what it was like to grow up...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Olivia Fite (left) and her mother Barbara Moore.
Barbara Moore (R) tells her daughter, Olivia Fite (L), about becoming a bricklayer in the...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WXPR, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KERA and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 6
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When and where were you happiest? Novelist Helen Oyeyemi answers a modified version of the Proust Questionnaire, a set of questions made famous by ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Kari in front of the Joe Strummer mural, Niagara Bar, East Village, NYC, Summer 2013
Spending the summer in California while her mother convalesces from a grave illness, a 12 year-old finds herself suddenly alone at a rock concert o...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2014
  • Length: 17:49
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Yelitza Castro talks with her friend Willie Davis about serving meals to the homeless community in Charlotte, North Carolina for the past three years.

Bought by WEZU, KMUD, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 3
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Maria Vasquez-Rojas talks with her brother, Francisco Vasquez, about being diagnosed with ovarian cancer shortly after finding out she was pregnant.

Bought by WEZU and KMUD


  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
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Don Byles talks to his daughter Mackenzie about their family's funeral home.

Bought by WEZU and Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Frances Gerwig, San Francisco, CA 5/3/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Greta Gerwig talks the addictive quality of multiple takes, the lightness of muscle memory, and keeping secrets from the cast.

  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 10:38
Caption: Rebecca Posamentier (R) and Carol Kirsch (L)
Rebecca Posamentier (R) reflects on an interview she recorded with her mother, Carol Kirsch (L).

Bought by WEZU and KZYX


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 2
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Chloe Espinosa interviews students, teachers, friends and family members about what it means to be a woman.

Bought by KSFR, KZYX, KUER, KUOW, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Bonnie Brown (L) and Myra Brown (R)
Myra Brown speaks with her mother, Bonnie Mae Brown, who has an intellectual disability.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Diane Tells His Name (L) and Bonnie Buchanan (R)
Diane Tells His Name talks to her daughter Bonnie Buchanan about discovering she was adopted.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Erica Linz, San Francisco, CA, 12/4/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Erica Linz talks fear as a buddy, transferring the magic from stage to screen, and why she founded the charity, Cirque du Couture.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 16:43