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StoryCorps: Colleen Kelly Starkloff
From: StoryCorps
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Colleen Kelly Starkloff (R) talks to her daughter, Meaghan Starkloff Breitenstein (L), about the day she met her late husband Max Starkloff.

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, WEZU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 3
A Mother Who Kept Fighting
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Fall 2013
Caption: Maria Perez with her daughter Estefania
Being a mother isn’t easy. It’s harder being both single and an immigrant. But that didn’t stop Maria. RadioActive’s Estefania Chirino Perez shares...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:20
Let's Get Intimate
From: Sara Brooke Curtis
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A personal essay exploring all kinds of intimacy.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:16
She Is Mighty
From: Phoebe Flanigan
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By day, Lynne Duquette Perera is a wedding planner, photographer, wife, and mother of two-year-old twins. But on Monday and Friday evenings, Lynne ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 3
Jasmine & Teen Pregnancy
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
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Jasmine explores the difficult and at times controversial subject of teen pregnancy-taking the mic to her friends and fellow schoolmates who have e...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:51
Anorexia, a family affair
From: Masako Fukui
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29 year old Kate hasn't eaten for six months. She has been hospitalised 11 times this year. She's had an eating disorder since she was a teenager. ...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 51:41
StoryCorps: Tina Vasquez and Sonia Vasquez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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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
The Caretaker
From: Jamie Courville
Series: Squirrels Stories
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Learan lost his wife to breast cancer a year ago. Now he is a single parent to two boys. This portrait is about love, loss and moving on.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Barbara Moore and Olivia Fite
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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
Raising Angel
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Jamie is pregnant and has nowhere she can go. She finds herself at Saint Andre Home, a modern day home for unwed mothers, where she awaits her four...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 2
Her Newborn In Withdrawal, A Young Mother Faces Her Own Recovery
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: Newborns in Withdrawal
Caption: Baby Jonathan, 10 days old, Credit: Kristin Gourlay
More babies are being born dependent on the opioid drugs their pregnant mothers were taking. Their condition, called neonatal abstinence syndrome, ...

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 06:47
Tara and Lulama
From: Littleglobe
Caption: AIDS Skeletons, Credit: Bob Smith
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 08:22
Anonymous and Diana
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Proud Tummy Mom
From: Savanna Nilsen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
When my sister placed her baby for adoption, she and the adoptive parents developed an unexpected relationship.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2014
  • Length: 10:06
Stories from my Family: Evelyn
From: Marion Kane
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This chat with my nanny, Evelyn Smail, was recorded at her seniors' home in Morrisburg ON about a year ago. Created by me, it was produced by Ashle...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2014
  • Length: 07:14
208
From: Eoghan Hanlon
Caption: Sheila Hayes, holding two of 208 babies that she fostered.
This is a radio documentary - my first radio project - that I produced in 2011. It tells the story of my grandmother in Ireland, who fostered over ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Julia Klatt-Singer - "The Fall After"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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The Beat daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day. Julia Klatt-Singer writes, and paints, and wal...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 1
Would You Climb a Mountain With Your Sister?
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Rachel is facing the camera. Katy is the taller one.
After a high-speed car crash, sisters Rachel DePuy and Katy-Robin Garton’s relationship cratered. Climbing 20,000-foot Mount Denali isn’t where mos...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WJCT, and WJCT


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Diane Tells His Name and Bonnie Buchanan
From: StoryCorps
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
Culturology: "The Shoemaker's Wife" - Author Adriana Trigiani talks to Heidi Holtan in a Real Good Words interview.
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "The Shoemaker's Wife" by Adriana Trigiani
Beloved bestselling author Adriana Trigiani talks with Heidi Holtan about her latest "The Shoemaker's Wife" a novel based on the love affair of her...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 19:39
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: "The Fall of Alice K." by Jim Heynen
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Caption: "The Fall of Alice K." by Jim Heynen
In this Real Good Words interview, Heidi Holtan talks with Jim Heynen about his new book "The Fall of Alice K."

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 17:17
  • Purchases: 1
Amber Heard on Not Sitting Pretty and Shutting Up
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"It’s easier to deal with a woman who is compliant and sweet and sunny and nice and non-confrontational." Interview by Jason Feifer // NYC hotel i...

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 19, 2012
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 4
The Beat: CarolAnn Russell - "Fishing"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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CarolAnn Russell is Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a r...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
StoryCorps: Edith Green and her granddaughter, Chaya
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Edith Green tells her granddaughter, Chaya, about being a survivor of gun violence.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1