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Caption: Shanna Marie Wallace, Credit: Shefik
Faith - Shanna Marie Wallace is a Spiritual Interfaith Minister, who inspires in her classes, workshops, and guest speaking appearances. Her passio...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 03:06
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In this piece we hear people from Mexico, Jamaica, Indonesia, and Nigeria talk about their mothers and who they are because of their mothers.

Bought by WMPG and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 2
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In this piece we hear from 4 people around the world talking about their mothers, and how their mothers have shaped them. From a mother whose strug...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, RadioStPete Florida, and WMPG


  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Alafaka Opuiyo, Credit: Shefik
Love - Alee Opuiyo is a 2005 Howard University School of Communications graduate. She majored in Broadcast Journalism and minored in Political Scie...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:19
Caption: Paula Degree, Credit: Kayla Lattimore
Going through puberty is rough. It’s a time most of us would give anything to forget. Well, Paula Degree chose to do it all over again at 72.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 08:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Nashua, NH Police Sergeant, Lakeisha Phelps is one of two black police officers on a force with 176 police officers, in one of New Hampshire’s most...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Candice Russell in her home in Irving, Texas. , Credit: (Jenn Stanley//RH Reality Check)
In this first episode of CHOICE/LESS, we hear from Candice, an activist, Texan, and Latina who will argue in front of the Supreme Court on March 2 ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 21:50
Caption: Rosemary and David
Mammary Lane: A Breast Cancer Survivor Sketches Her Battle.

  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 03:45
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29 year old Kate hasn't eaten for six months. She has been hospitalised 11 times this year. She's had an eating disorder since she was a teenager. ...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 51:41
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Victoria is trying to get her life back after the removal of a brain tumor. She is getting a little better every day.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:58
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This is Melissa’s second audio diary. Her son Issaiah is now one-year-old. “I’m a really selfish person…I want to be treated as the baby. I want t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 12:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Listening to Chloe (a 16 year old) play the violin is listening to an inspired, emotional, and technical artist. But Chloe doesn’t agree. Focused...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2012
  • Length: 07:37
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Janis Joplin's friends and family talk about her final album,"Pearl."

Bought by KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KMUN, WSKG and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Caption: Ms Evelyn Williams, Credit: Michael Premo
Two first-person stories about the struggle for home. With mounting hospital bills, Linda Contes and her husband struggle to make mortgage payments...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 10, 2011
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com/, Credit: Shannon Heffernan
What happens when a women gives birth behind bars? Usually those babies are sent home with family members or put into foster care. But some prison...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 14:25
  • Purchases: 4
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Heidi was adopted from Iran when she was three years old and raised in blue-blood Virginia. She will never be able to find her biological mother, b...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 4
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A mother and son reunite after fifty-four years apart.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, The Neighborhood, SALTcast Podcast, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2009
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 4
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
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A documentary about the healing power of art

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KPFA


  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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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
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Profiles of poet George Evans, a veteran medic, and Lynda Van Devanter, whose experiences as Vietnam nurse inspired China Beach. Warning: Graphic D...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, WKMS, WRGY, KBYS 88.3 FM, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
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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
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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
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After waiting for Mr. Right (who has yet to arrive) - and after years of fertility treatments - Suzanne, a single woman in her forties, decided to ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVSC, KMXT, HowSound, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 16