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StoryCorps Missoula 2022 - 01
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: MTPR Documentary Specials
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The first special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio on January 22nd, 2023, this f...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 24
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about resilience.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Dreamer
From: Israel Story
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David Ben Shabat hates being called a prophet. As he sees it, he’s just a guy who stumbled upon a deep truth and wants to share it with the people....

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:17
Now We Have Fire: A Tale of Two Bladesmiths
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
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Two lives, two philosophies, and a History Channel special collide as a relationship is forged with Iron Age techniques.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 09:24
The Secret Basketball Game That Desegregated Louisiana High School Sports
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Purple Knights pose on the court; Harold Sylvester is kneeling next to his coach., Credit: HAROLD SYLVESTER / AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER
In this episode, Laine Kaplan-Levenson discusses the first integrated high school sports contest in Louisiana between St. Aug and Jesuit--and talks...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:26
  • Purchases: 1
Stronghold
From: From Block2Block
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As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2014
  • Length: 14:07
An Interview with Ms. Joanne Bland: Civil Rights Activist for the Selma Voting Rights Movement
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On the last edition Culture Clique, Ms. Joanne Blackmon Bland discussed on Growing up in the Segregated South: The Selma Voting Rights Movement. Sh...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 32:18
  • Purchases: 1
The Most Unfair Thing I've Ever Seen
From: Zachary Barr
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The U.S. Army wants to expand a training area in SE Colorado, and it may use eminent domain to acquire thousands of acres of private ranchland. If...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2008
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 1
Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, the Third Generation.
From: sivan raviv
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A three-part series about the impact of the Holocaust on grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, today's third generation.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2008
  • Length: 30:27
Take The Old Road, program four
From: Spokane Public Radio
Series: Take The Old Road
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A 4-part series about small towns in eastern Washington state.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 28:30
Take The Old Road, program two
From: Spokane Public Radio
Series: Take The Old Road
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A 4-part series about small towns in eastern Washington state.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 31:27
Take The Old Road, program one
From: Spokane Public Radio
Series: Take The Old Road
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A 4-part series about small towns in eastern Washington state.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 28:34
Surviving a Tsunami: The story of Valdivians in 1960
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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A college freshman travels to Chile and interviews survivors of the 1960 tsunami/earthquake.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome To My World
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For a young Canadian child, the battles of the Second World War are so far in the past that they might as well be from another world.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
Vietnam Blues
From: Tina Antolini
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Vince Gabriel is a Vietnam veteran who's written an album of songs chronicling his experience of the war. He takes listeners back to 1968, to the j...

Bought by KSKA, RadioFreePalmer, WJSU, WABE, KZYX and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2005
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 15
The Port Chicago 50: An Oral History
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series
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The story of the worst homefront disaster of World War II -- an ammunition explosion that killed more than 300 men -- and what happened to the 50 A...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVMR, WORT, KVNF and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 25:12
  • Purchases: 26
Bible Salesman
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series
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Former door-to-door Bible salesman Jim "The Rabbit" Baker, featured in the classic 1969 Maysles Brothers film Salesman, explains the secrets of his...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WYBC, KSUT, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 5
Alaskan Native Culture
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
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Raymomd claims his birthright and shares his personal journey and native history.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2004
  • Length: 20:40