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Kupatia
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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High School Senior, Eavan Burke, had a life changing experience on the tea plantations of Kenya, Africa. She decided to aid to the workers by creat...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
237-Lost
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The asteroid named for Mildred Shapley Matthews was lost in the solar system for 75 years.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Coming of Age
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Anton Disclafani discusses the writing process behind her acclaimed debut novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 13:33
"For Lynda" Pt.2
From: Kendra Dobson
Series: Columbus Myth
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This is part 2 of Episode 1 of the radio drama, "Columbus Myth." "Columbus Myth" is a speculative piece written from an African American perspecti...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 10:14
RDD: Way Will Open
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we'll meet Shelley Kotz, a person so involved in the community of Toledo it's hard to cover everything she doe...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:03
RDD: Eleanor and Gail
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, we'll take a look into the life of Eleanor Roosevelt and a woman that portrays her, Gail Conrad. Gail...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 06:09
Too Late for Suzette
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Suzette Jordan
Justice has finally come for Suzette Jordan.Though she was not there to witness it. In 2013 she became the face of rape in Kolkata, India. Her att...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
Operation Baby New Year Seeks 100,000 Diapers for Families in Need
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s installment of The Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, we find a little bit of light in the darkness as we hear about a volunteer drive...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2015
  • Length: 31:31
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Where Is the "Good" Donald Trump?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
This civil liberty loving country listens with astonishment to Donald Trump, ignore religious freedom and propose that no Muslims be allowed into t...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:22
Delta Jewels (Gravy Ep. 27)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Mrs. Joyce Meyers, Credit: Photo by Alysia Burton Steele
The image of the Mississippi Delta the public usually gets is one of poverty-- or of cotton fields. But, on a search for women like her grandmother...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 25:16
  • Purchases: 2
Black Friday Shooting Dissected
From: KCMJ Community Radio
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The 2015 Black Friday shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs is explored in this December 2 episode of KCMJ Community Radio’s ...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: :00
Affordable by design: the fight to save one of Silicon Valley’s last mobile home parks
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Erika Escalante stands in front of her home at Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, Credit: Angela Johnston
Buena Vista is a diverse community, made up of seniors, families, people with disabilities. The majority of residents are low income, and Latino. P...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:08
Is a Woman a Person? Needing Ellen Willis More Than Ever
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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So, here we are, August 4th, 2015, and I’m asking "Is a Woman A Person?" You laugh, no, scoff at me for asking this. Of course!, you say. But are w...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 58:41
In The Left Pocket, By My Heart
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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A story about the transformative power of loss. How one tiny life can become so large, that you begin to see it everywhere and in everything that y...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 20:02
  • Purchases: 1
Three Weeks
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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An intimate conversation about the death of a child. What happens after the hardest thing happens?

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 31:27
My Body, My Choice
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Katia Hauser explores the intricacies of teenagers having the legal right to make their own medical decisions.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
The American Dream?
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Junior year is universally known as the most difficult, stressful year of high school. Between academics, extra-curriculars, and athletics, college...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
Another Day Older
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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In this show, you’ll hear from women of all ages, from five to eighty-five. They talk about how they imagine their lives will be, how their lives a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 16:02
  • Purchases: 1
#4 Nothing to Lose
From: Megan Tan
Series: Millennial
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Why do we become our worst enemies when it comes to pursuing the things we actually want? I’ve been there. This is the origin story of making Mille...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 20:31
  • Purchases: 1
#3 Brunchies
From: Megan Tan
Series: Millennial
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Following your dreams is not always glamorous, especially when you could get stuck in "transition."

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 19:28
  • Purchases: 1
#1 Welcome to Millennial
From: Megan Tan
Series: Millennial
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The day you graduate college is suppose full of smiles, family pictures, and a sense of accomplishment. But what happens after that day when you pa...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, American Voices, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 3
#2 Living on "The Line"
From: Megan Tan
Series: Millennial
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Decisions. How do you know which ones will lead you to become the person you want to be in the future? And which ones may screw everything up?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 20:13
  • Purchases: 1
Don't Knock It Till You Try It
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Tatiana Whitlock is a firearms instructor who believes in real world situational learning.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 08:57
  • Purchases: 1
A Subject of Universal Interest
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Hundreds of New England towns honor their oldest resident with a cane when the previous town elder dies. Some recipients celebrate; others feel cur...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
The Most Luxurious Vacations
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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For the last decade, Mary Murrin lived and worked in Europe as a Cruise Director on the most luxurious riverboats afloat - traveling the Rhine, Dan...

  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:10

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