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Two Stories Featuring Self-Sufficient Lifestyles.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Sep 01, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Two episodes about people doing what they love, despite adversity.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Today on Don't Cha Know, we talk to Eileen Mueller who is the managing director at the Frozen River Film Festival. The Frozen River Film Fest is an...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 42:07
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This Thanksgiving, meet the people who run Central Library's café and get a peak into their kitchen on the Library's third floor, where fourteen st...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 12:41
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We all arrive at the gateway to medicine carrying baggage from our past. How does this baggage impact the way we experience shame in our profession?

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 26:26
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Medical culture is filled with impossible ideals. What makes an “ideal doctor”? Where do these “ideals” come from? How are they communicated? And w...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:11

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 49:53
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 49:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 2
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HOUR ONE: 'If Your Clothes Could Talk' - Whether you know it or not, your closets are filled with personal information. Do you think about what are...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
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Sam Forbes is a writer, photographer, and actor. For many years, a significant part of her creative practice took place inside what she calls a hid...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 12:28
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 21:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
It’s not an uncommon experience to be unstably housed in this country. From Brooklyn to San Francisco, communities often turn to public libraries f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 24:46
  • Purchases: 2
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The outlaw ocean, a space apart, hidden from view, a place of rampant criminality and exploitation. This week on World Ocean Radio we offer part on...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:32
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The outlaw ocean, a space apart, hidden from view, a place of rampant criminality and exploitation. This week on World Ocean Radio we offer part on...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 05:07
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This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill highlights the dark side of what happens at sea in the context of a forthcoming book by Pulitzer Pr...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:34
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An argument in favor of increasing the minimum wage to a living wage

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sunjeev Sahota
The book “The year of the Runaways” was shortlisted for a Man Booker. But Sunjeev Sahota is an unlikely storyteller, he’d never read a novel until ...

  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Mom and Uncle Harodl, Credit: Stephanie Guyer-Stevens
Most often family members are the ones that step up and provide care when a parent or loved one needs it. According to the Family Caregiver Allianc...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 12:39
Caption: Cocoa Farmers
Philip Armand ruins a cup of hot cocoa and realizes his mad, sweaty, sloppy rushing is no longer working.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:02
Caption: Frozen tuna in the hold of a fishing ship. , Credit: Alex Hofford | Greenpeace | MarinePhotobank.org
World fisheries are in crisis, with many species pushed to the edge of extinction. The current system is a recipe for disaster: demand is up; exter...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 05:25
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In this short piece, students decide to talk about their neighborhood and interview folks at a nearby flea market, where they run into other studen...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:14