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Twelve-year old Deamonte Driver died following brain surgery in February 2007. His original diagnosis was meningitis. After his death, the culprit...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 23, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
BLEEP loved the city of his birth, the pearl of the west, Guadalajara, second largest city in Mexico. He wandered its streets as a boy visited the...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 28:07
- Purchases: 1
There is deep concern for the health of American cities. Frustration with inequality is spreading. Public schools are lagging behind expectation. I...
- Added: Nov 14, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Karla Helbert is many things. An accomplished writer and veteran therapist. Wife, mother, artist. A seeker, too. Libertine in matters spiritual. A...
- Added: Nov 04, 2016
- Length: 27:06
Although Medicare is not going bankrupt, at the very least, it faces financing challenges.
According to Dr. Andy Lazris, there are some straightfo...
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Abbie Waters lived in Richmond, Virginia and attended Holton Elementary School. She had survived a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. F...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 27:28
Abbie Catherine Waters was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 26:25
Elisheva and Amaris, mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way ...
- Added: May 07, 2016
- Length: 27:49
What we least understand we fear the most. The way to overcome our personal insecurities is to interact with the world - Andrew Solomon
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 28, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
For the longest while I would think of my mother as a husk like the shell left behind by a cicada, all the internal meat gone, just a crisp skin re...
- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 27:38
Jay Ipson is a survivor of the first magnitude. He learned his survival skills under the most harrowing conditions known to man. As a young boy, he...
- Added: Jan 28, 2016
- Length: 26:41
The Mummers Day Parade is as quintessentially South Philadelphia as Ben Franklin or Willy Penn, a Philly cheese steak or Italian water ice.
It’s u...
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 08:35
Even in good schools racial inequality thrives. Basically, that’s the summary of an extensive study conducted by associate professors Amanda Lewis ...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Interfaith. What does it actually mean to have dozens, or even hundreds of different religions come together under one roof?
- Added: Aug 06, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
From beautifully-crafted short fiction to page-turning gothic novels, Rebecca Makkai puts art at the heart of her work.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNJR, WABE, KPIP-LP, and KPVL
- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 5
The ongoing controversy of same sex marriage reflects the dramatic impact the rule of law has on intimate partnerships. Today, those involved in fa...
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- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
America is in the midst of an obesity epidemic of catastrophic proportion. Today, two-thirds of adults, and one-third of children and adolescents –...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
For much of the past century, men have operated under “Male Code,” a rigid set of rules guiding their behavior that equate to masculinity with stoi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 28, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Fathers and Children is about a man named Melvin Major who became father to hundreds of young people. But he has no offspring.
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 27:40
The author of “Twenty Chickens for a Saddle” is a social entrepreneur who works in southern Africa. But back when she was 7 she moved from England ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Feb 08, 2015
- Length: 08:50
- Purchases: 2
Stereotypes about Asian-Americans abound - their kids get perfect scores on standardized testing and head off to Ivy League colleges to become doct...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:36
RadioActive's Yafiet Bezabih and Maddie Ewbank challenge our chef-in-residence Sarah Rosenthal to make a Thanksgiving meal out of mac and cheese, O...
- Added: Jan 16, 2015
- Length: 18:32
Hosts Molly and Zoe are too busy coping with the tragic end of Summer Soundwave to fabricate a theme from two very different stories. First, we hea...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 17:23
This month RadioActive hosts Yafiet Bezabih and Ann Kane are fixing to surprise you. First we bring you three amazing stories about the challenges ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 16:24
Kathleen Gillette has had a passion for singing for as long as she can remember. But after spending 15 years as an opera singer, her career began t...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 06:15
