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A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support (Part III)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In the last of our three-part series, A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support, we?ll hear from experts offering an insiders view on the continui...

  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (1 hour Special)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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One mother's fight to save her daughter's life from a dysfunctional and inhumane health care system in California's prisons.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (Part II)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This is the second of a three-part series, 'A Crisis of Care,' a look inside California's prison health care system. We'll hear how a state-sancti...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (Part I)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This is the first of a three-part series, "A Crisis of Care," a look inside California's prison health care system. In this first show, "Gina's Sto...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
Luck's No Lady
From: Libby Conn
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This half hour documentary examines a growing public health concern for women: pathological gambling.

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2008
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 2
We are the Canaries
From: Briana O'Higgins
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A Chronic Illness multi-narrative

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX to iTunes, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2007
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 3
Dina's Diary: Journey of a Cancer Survivor (newscast compatible)
From: Capital Public Radio
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This intimate, award-winning audio diary documents a young mother's year-long battle with breast cancer.

Bought by KUER, WBEZ, KOSU, Louisville Public Media, KZYX and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2007
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 9
Dina's Diary: Journey of a Cancer Survivor
From: Capital Public Radio
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This intimate, award-winning audio diary documents a young mother's year-long battle with breast cancer.

Bought by WUTC, KTSW 89.9, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, KBYS 88.3 FM and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2007
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 23
The Three Furies: Poverty, Addiction, and Mental Illness
From: Dawn Dreyer
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Producer Dawn Dreyer explores the "three furies" of poverty, addiction, and mental illness through her own struggles with bipolar disorder. "The T...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KZSC


  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 2
Finding Out
From: Susan Goldberg
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Susan's mother died of breast cancer on Mother's Day in 2004. She carried a genetic mutation that made her susceptible to the disease. After years ...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2006
  • Length: 20:11
Stagefright
From: Steve Mencher
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A lost recording brings pleasure to a woman and prolongs her life.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW, WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2006
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 6
RN Documentary: The Pearl and the Plague
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A visit health care facilities in Odessa, where care for people living with HIV /AIDS is seriously hampered because of persistent discrimination, ...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
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
Shades of Gray
From: Jonathan Mitchell
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an hour-long audio mosaic about abortion in America

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRIR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUNM, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2005
  • Length: 58:27
  • Purchases: 18
Three Women
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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A Chicana, African American and Romanian talk about their breast cancer.

Bought by KUER, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUCB


  • Added: Oct 19, 2004
  • Length: 08:44
  • Purchases: 3
The Breast Cancer Monologues
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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A one-hour documentary special intricately woven from interviews, readings and original music about how breast cancer has affected the lives of wom...

Bought by WJSU, KVSC, KWIT, KPVL, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2004
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 16