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Marie's Crisis
From: Kevin T. Allen
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A relationship between Man, Father, God, and Piano Bar.

Bought by Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), KFAI Minneapolis, and The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 09:42
  • Purchases: 3
Thanksgiving in Athens
From: amara hark-weber
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This is a narrative piece about living in a foreign country during Thanksgiving.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 21, 2006
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 2
Falling into the Change of Seasons
From: Nanci Olesen
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A commentary by Nanci Olesen about the change of seasons

Bought by WFUV


  • Added: Sep 22, 2006
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Steam Engine Days 2006
From: Benji Nichols
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A short narrative on a unique annual fall festival celebrating the Steam Engine.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:00
It Happened at the Wisconsin State Fair (w/Music)
From: Jacob C. Norman
Series: Practical Perspecitves
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Interesting events that happened at a state fair.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2006
  • Length: 05:35
Missing Sylvie
From: Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
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How do divorced moms keep their sanity when their children are visiting the other parent? Sometimes not so well...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: May 08, 2006
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Nativity: one-hour version
From: Conrad Bishop
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A celebration of the wonder, joy, pain, and innate sacredness of childbirth.

Bought by KVNF and WNIJ


  • Added: Apr 10, 2006
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
Personal Thoughts about Global Warming: a commentary by Nanci Olesen
From: Nanci Olesen
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Nanci Olesen describes her attitude toward global warming. She's depressed, but she's still gonna grill chicken outside in February....

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 1
Gigantic, True Love for Valentine's Day
From: Nanci Olesen
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A commentary by Nanci Olesen about true love for the planet

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WEPS


  • Added: Feb 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 2
Teaching Kids to Kill
From: Dick Meister
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Hunting interests have stepped up their efforts to recruit youngsters to join adults in killing for the sport of it.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 02:26
Open Letter to the President
From: Sidney Wildesmith
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WILD SIDE NEWS Host Sidney Wildesmith directs an open letter to President Bush

  • Added: Dec 30, 2005
  • Length: 06:20
Kick the Holiday Junk Habit
From: Shana S. Weber, Ph.D.
Series: BioSphere
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Ideas for slimming that holiday wasteline

  • Added: Dec 08, 2005
  • Length: 02:05
Home Planet: A not-so-perfect holiday
From: Spokane Public Radio
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We're driven by the belief that we can create this one perfect day or season, and the warmth generated by it will carry us through the rest of the ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WBHM


  • Added: Dec 06, 2005
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 4
Home Planet: (Christmas) Mom's Secret Christmas List
From: Spokane Public Radio
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When my children ask what I want for Christmas, I give the the standard list: perfume, slippers and things like that. But I have a secret list.

Bought by WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2005
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 3
Hart Island
From: Barrett Wolf
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Poem about New York City's Potters Field

  • Added: Nov 21, 2005
  • Length: 02:11
Home Planet:I Sang a Song for Her
From: Spokane Public Radio
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An old bluegrass standard, "Who will sing for me?" brings back memories of a life on the road.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 04:59
Playing In The Street: Halloween Tames Traffic
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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David Engwitch author of Mental Speed Bumps explains how the street activity of Halloween is just what we need to calm traffic.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
Riding A Streetcar Wtih Grandma
From: Kris Vockler
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Grandmother and granchild return to New Orleans to find the memory of recenly passed Grandfather

  • Added: Aug 31, 2005
  • Length: 10:40
Jumping Off The Raft Without Dad
From: Nanci Olesen
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First person narrative about missing my dad.

Bought by KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, KTNA, and WKMS


  • Added: Jun 09, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 4
A Prescription For Life Long Independence
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Dr. Lipschitz talks about why our health declines in our later years, how to slow the decline.

Bought by KQED and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 59:47
  • Purchases: 2
America's Women: Four Hundred Years Of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates And Heroines.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Columnist Gail Collins says that women in colonial times had nearly as much freedom and even more power than they do today.

Bought by KZYX, Stan, KMUN, KDLG, and Maine Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 5
Home Planet: Going home
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Home. It's where we go for comfort, even when it no longer exists.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
Letter
From: monika mueller
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Letter from the past

  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 01:22
No Child Left Unrecruited
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on the military's devious, expensive and escalating attempts to recruit high school juniors and seniors.

Bought by WUSF


  • Added: Mar 20, 2005
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: The Temporary Green of Spring
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Writer Cheryl-Anne Millsap reflects on the meaning of being "green."

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: Mar 11, 2005
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1

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