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Part three: Anne Strike
From: Siobhan Mullen / David Lewis
Series: Get On With It
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in the third part of our series we look at a disabled model

  • Added: Jul 11, 2006
  • Length: 10:02
Midlife Web Diary
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us
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Middle-aged corporate malcontent goes online, to be found by mom

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 11, 2006
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 2
This I Believe - Martha Graham
From: This I Believe
Series: Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe
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Martha Graham speaks about hard work and creativity.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KISU, KZYX, WKYU, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2006
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 7
Betty Be Mine
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
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The tale of a happy marriage and family, touched by loss.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:44
Two Strokes
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
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Cornelia Richardson survives the sudden loss of her husband, moving on with life, and then faces recovery from her own stroke.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:15
This I Believe - Cecilia Munoz
From: This I Believe
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Cecilia Munoz believes outrage has been an effective fuel for her activism on behalf of immigrants.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:42
This I Believe - Nancy Yucius
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Nancy Yucius' life creed has taken on special meaning now that she is battling colon cancer.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KFAI Minneapolis, and KJZZ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 4
This I Believe - Jody Williams
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Nobel laureate Jody Williams believes extraordinary things can happen when ordinary people take action.

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


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 4
This I Believe - Mel Rusnov
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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A civil engineer by profession but a pianist at heart, Mel Rusnov believes in cultivating hidden talents.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KJZZ, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 4
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
RN Documentary: Running with Atalanta
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Women who are victims of trafficking and forced to work in the sex trade in The Netherlands often find themselves perceived as criminals by a gover...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 20, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Classic conversation with legendary singer/songwriter Janis Ian
From: Out of Bounds
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Classic interview w/ Legendary Singer/songwriter Janis Ian discussing her long career with humor and candor

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WMNF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KVNF, WDNA and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
Women Making Music: Candye Kane
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Candye Kane muses about her love of music and how she was able to support her art and young son by working in the sex industry

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, KVNF, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 16, 2006
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Honest, triumphant...and pornographic
From: Susan Johnston
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When is literature pornography, and pornography also literature?

  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 13:29
Ghada Kanafani, Palestinian Poet in Exile
From: Claudia Cragg
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Ghada Kanafani, Palestinian Poet in Exile

Bought by WYSO and KUNM


  • Added: Feb 02, 2006
  • Length: 20:05
  • Purchases: 2
Tsim Txom: Domestic Violence in Hmong Society
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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A look at domestic abuse in Hmong culture

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 01, 2006
  • Length: 29:42
  • Purchases: 1
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
The Courage to Leave
From: Voices of Our World
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Two women in Sao Paulo, Brazil had the courage to leave. Apareceda left her violent husband and Ana is sewing away from prostitution. We speak with...

Bought by KUHB


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: (Christmas) Mom's Secret Christmas List
From: Spokane Public Radio
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When my children ask what I want for Christmas, I give the the standard list: perfume, slippers and things like that. But I have a secret list.

Bought by WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2005
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 3
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

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