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We Are Still Here: Voices of HIV+ Youth
From: Julia Applegate
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Voices of HIV+ Youth

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRUA, KLCC, 90.5 WSNC, and WFUV


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 5
Finding My Kerouac: On the Road at Mid-Life
From: David Berner
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This documentary is about two men who, at mid-life, re-read Kerouac's book and get behind the wheel for a 4000 mile road trip of reflection and di...

Bought by WUSM, WGBH Radio Boston, WVPE, KZYX, WKSU and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2007
  • Length: 57:05
  • Purchases: 7
Unpredictable Journey
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Marc Steiner's personal essay of the trip he organized with three veterans to return to Vietnam 30 years after the fall of Saigon.

Bought by KUOW, WFUV, WNYC, New England Public Media, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
In My Neighborhood
From: KUER
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How one neighbohood thinks about rights for gay people

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and KUSP


  • Added: Jan 05, 2006
  • Length: 14:51
  • Purchases: 2
Becoming Visible
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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A cane helps Gloria Troyer keep her balance but she has mixed feelings about signalling her disability.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:02
You Only Have To Look and See
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Martha Solomon tries to discover more about the work of her late father, a highly regarded photographer. What Martha discovers is the difference be...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 1
To Be Pain Free
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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There is never a moment in any day when Corrina Hodgson is not in pain because of a heriditary spinal condition. How will this affect her brother's...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:40
The Secrets of Stanley Mission
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For Tom Kernaghan, all the family stories begin at an old trading post and Mission church.

Bought by WTIP and KSUT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • 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
Voice Box and Flute
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
Caption: CBC Radio's Outfront, Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91545223@N00/2743081060/">Benson Kua</a>
Sarah Green was a professional flute player who came to learn that she had ALS.

Bought by WTIP and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:29
  • Purchases: 2
Tiger Balm and Batman Comics
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Edward Lee has questions about his family’s immigration to Canada, and the only person he can ask is his father.

Bought by WTIP, KCUR, WMPG, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 4
Just Live With It
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Rick Cepella was out in the woods trying to capture the beauty of rural British Columbia when a small tick lodged in his scalp and giving him Lyme ...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 12:50
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
Tough Love
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Divorced mom Lisa Wojna can understand why her boys tried drugs but now she wants them to stop.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 1
The March of the Living
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Two journalism students in Toronto decide to attend the March of the Living and visit the Holocaust sites in Poland.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:41
Mama's List
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jennifer Dunville drives to Prince Edward Island to engage her grandmother in a showdown, of sorts.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:35
Only Shooting Stars
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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A disillusioned teacher is about to meet one little boy who will change everything.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
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
Blissful Oblivion
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jess Perlitz visits her grandmother and discovers that coping with memory loss is as much about the present as it is about the past.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 21, 2005
  • Length: 14:00
  • Purchases: 2
My Pregnancy
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Dana Hennessey is 17, going to high school, and expecting a baby this spring.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2005
  • Length: 13:15
Long Time Home
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For singer Michelle Rumball "the voice" is the person so when she lost her voice, she lost her sense of who she was.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 21, 2005
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
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
Honeymoon in Dieppe
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Sally Crooks reflects on the ghosts of Dieppe.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 14:10
  • Purchases: 1
Listening To Grandmere
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Genevieve Metropolis’s grandmother recorded her stories on tape with strict instructions: Do not listen until after I'm gone.

Bought by WTIP and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 2
You Must Be Ready
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Marianne Apostolides has always known there were things about her father’s past that were deliberately kept secret.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 13:01
  • Purchases: 1