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It's Right For Me
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Alice Loesch has lived through a century that has seen some of history’s most sweeping changes in the lives of women.

Bought by WTIP, Delta College Public Radio, KSFR, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 10
"Suspect" with Poet Erin Malone
From: Elizabeth Austen
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Erin Malone’s poem “Suspect” explores how one new mother feels about her body, leading literary producer Elizabeth Austen to consider some assumpti...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2009
  • Length: 05:21
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
Fifty-Four Years
From: Erin Calabria
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A mother and son reunite after fifty-four years apart.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, The Neighborhood, SALTcast Podcast, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2009
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 4
This I Believe - Amy Tan
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Acclaimed writer Amy Tan believes in ghosts and the messages of joy, love and peace they bring her.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WEZU, KUER, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU and more


  • Added: May 13, 2009
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 7
A Welcome Home
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A profile of a Maine foster mother who's taken in dozens of kids over the years.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1
Yesterday and Forever
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Documentary composition by Marjorie Van Halteren and Helen Engelhardt featuring six widows in remembrance of Lockerbie tragedy - December 2008 is t...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2008
  • Length: 24:33
This I Believe - Anne Donahue
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Listener Anne Donahue has a few things she believes her newborn daughter should know about her.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KXOT Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 4
Manifestations of a creative husband's love
From: The humble Farmer
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A creative husband can manifest his love in many unique and wonderful ways

  • Added: May 27, 2008
  • Length: :31
The Women of India
From: Mahi Palanisami
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Five brown women, talk about themselves in relation to India

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2008
  • Length: 27:13
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Susan Cooke Kittredge
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Vermont minister Susan Kittredge believes we make torn or broken things stronger by mending them.

Bought by WEZU and WEZU


  • Added: Feb 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 2
Stood There Ringing
From: Shiow-Jiau Yung
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A pregnant woman lets a bell say everything she can't.

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Feminist and Her Daughter
From: Karen Brown
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A prominent feminist from the 60s and her grown-up daughter have an intimate conversation about family, work, politics, and the very different choi...

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Nov 05, 2007
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Yolanda Young
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Washingtonian Yolanda Young believes not having loved her absent father allowed her to forgive him.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 3
This I Believe Pledge Spot - Life's Changes
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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This I Believe essayist Amy Wilson and her mother discuss how their relationship deepened following the death of Amy's father.

Bought by WEZU, WEKU, New England Public Media, and KJZZ


  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 4
This I Believe - Corinne Colbert
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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In an age of bigger, faster, better, listener Corinne Colbert believes in settling for what you have.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KISU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KJZZ


  • Added: May 29, 2007
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 5
This I Believe - Christine Cleary
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Massachusetts listener Christine Cleary believes memory is more an exercise of the heart than a function of the mind.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Apr 11, 2007
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 3
Runaway
From: Homelands Productions
Series: World Views
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A single mother and her two teenage daughters tell the harrowing story of the girls' descent into an underworld of drugs and homelessness.

Bought by PRX Remix and KGLT


  • Added: Apr 10, 2007
  • Length: 34:20
  • Purchases: 2
Out of Their Hands
From: Teresa Goff
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Four bereaved mothers who first came together to share the pain and the tragic loss of their children tell the story of the 25 year-old organizatio...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2007
  • Length: 34:09
Down the rabbit hole with Maggie Sefton
From: KRFC
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Interview with Maggie Sefton - author of knitting mysteries

  • Added: Mar 09, 2007
  • Length: 29:06
This I Believe - Ann Karasinski
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Trying to understand her daughter's addiction gave Ann Karasinski a belief that helps her cope with it.

Bought by WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KJZZ


  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 5
This I Believe - Cortney Davis
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Nurse practitioner Cortney Davis believes embracing grief honors the beauty and fragility of life.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 4
This I Believe Pledge Spot - Community and Public Radio
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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In this fundraising spot, This I Believe host Jay Allison introduces listeners to Mary Cook of Gustavus, Alaska.

Bought by Radio Newark, WEZU, North State Public Radio, Remix Radio, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2007
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 12
Narcoleptic Christmas
From: Hillary Frank
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A woman discovers she's narcoleptic at Christmastime.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 2
Sheets and Hollers
From: Julia Applegate
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Audio recorded for This I Believe

  • Added: Jan 11, 2007
  • Length: 02:46