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The Stories of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
From: Scott Gurian
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An unnarrated documentary collage of relatives of September 11th victims describing what they remember from the day of the terrorist attacks and ho...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Nov 25, 2003
  • Length: 52:41
  • Purchases: 2
Heartland Medicine
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Young doctors face challenges, provide total care, and live unconventional lives in rural Nebraska

Bought by WRNC-LP, WRPI, Audible, and WCQS


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
Hollow Victory
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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A David and Goliath battle against a mining technique that blows off mountaintops, buries streams and destroys communities in the hollows of West V...

Bought by WAMU, KGNU Community Radio, WRPI, KFAI Minneapolis, Audible and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 7
Little Odessa in Brooklyn
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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One hundred years of Brighton Beach memoirs.

Bought by KUER, KFCF FM, Radio Catskill, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KVSC and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 12
The Maypole at Merrymount
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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A long-forgotten conflict between the Pilgrim Fathers and a freethinking fur trader resonates with today's moral concerns.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WRPI, KTNA, Yellowstone Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 8
Mme. Blavatsky and The Colonel Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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The story of the woman responsible for America's love afair with spiritualism and her modern-day descendants.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Audible, KSFR, WFIU and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 6
Mme. Blavatsky and The Colonel Part Two
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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The story of the woman responsible for America's love afair with spiritualism and her modern-day descendants.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Audible, WFIU, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 5
Strip Club USA Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Strippers and club patrons talk about what draws them to America's thriving sex industry.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Audible, WZBC, and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
Strip Club USA Part Two
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Men and women, physically in the same place, inhabit different worlds.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Audible, WZBC, and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 4
The Prison Cure
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Sick kids behind bars and what happens when they get there: a Colorado youth prison sheds light on a national problem.

Bought by KPIK-LP, WSKG, PRX Remix, WRPI, and Audible


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 5
The WASPs: Women Pilots of WWII
From: Radio Diaries
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The story of the first female pilots in WWII.

Bought by KVMR, KUT, RadioFreePalmer, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KCNP and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 22:42
  • Purchases: 50
The Earth Chroniclers
From: David Kattenburg
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First in a series of narrationless documentaries on Earth and its environment

Bought by KGOU and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 20, 2003
  • Length: 55:32
  • Purchases: 2
Kids on the Street
From: David Kattenburg
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The lives of street kids in India, Uganda and Nicaragua

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Nov 09, 2003
  • Length: 27:20
  • Purchases: 1
Matching Outfits Not Included
From: Hillary Frank
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Two elderly sisters, who are not twins, dress exactly the same, eat all the same food, and go everywhere together.

Bought by WJCT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser) and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2003
  • Length: 10:24
  • Purchases: 9
What Big Teeth You Have
From: Hillary Frank
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A teenage babysitter convinces his younger siblings that he's a werewolf who's going to kill them.

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Nov 04, 2003
  • Length: 14:02
  • Purchases: 2
If Kids Must Work
From: David Kattenburg
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Canadian NGOs are helping youth for whom working is a necessity of life

Bought by WKSU


  • Added: Nov 03, 2003
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 1
The AIDS Highway
From: David Kattenburg
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The plight of Ugandan AIDS orphans

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, Public Interactive, WYSO, and WFUV


  • Added: Nov 02, 2003
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 4
The Missing Beatle
From: Jake Warga
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He sings on busses in Montevideo, he's from Liverpool...

Bought by PRX Remix, WBHM, and KUT-HD


  • Added: Oct 31, 2003
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 3
Montevideo by FMDial
From: Jake Warga
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Travel around the cultural landscape of Montevideo, Uruguay by tuning the FMDial

Bought by PRX Remix and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2003
  • Length: 12:05
  • Purchases: 2
Street Dogs
From: Jake Warga
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Homeless kids in Seattle and their Dogs

Bought by PRX Remix and WUNC


  • Added: Oct 31, 2003
  • Length: 12:00
  • Purchases: 2
Andrew and Racine Go To College
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Andrew Meyer, 19-year-old blind youth and his guidedog Racine navigate the Oregon State University during Andrew's first year of college.

Bought by WXLV-FM and KZYX


  • Added: Oct 31, 2003
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 2
The Child Soldiers of Uganda
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Narrationless documentary about the plight of Uganda's child soldiers

  • Added: Oct 30, 2003
  • Length: 28:37
Walter Backerman, Seltzer Man
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Radio Diaries Podcast
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When Walter's grandfather drove his cart there were thousands of seltzer men in the city; today Walter is one of the last.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, and WFUV


  • Added: Oct 29, 2003
  • Length: 12:27
  • Purchases: 4
Route 66
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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A two-part audio documentary about Route 66

Bought by WDCB, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KUER, KZYX, WITF and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2003
  • Length: 57:54
  • Purchases: 23
Challenger Softball Team
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Team Effort

Bought by WXLV-FM and KGLT


  • Added: Oct 23, 2003
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2

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