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GLOBAL ISSUES come to BURNING MAN
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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As the media portrays 2023's Burning Man as a hellscape, THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man revists the work of a group of Burners at the 2019 event. ...

Bought by KFCF FM, WVTF, Nevada Public Radio, KUNM, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:37
  • Purchases: 6
GN_4.31_Miracle Messages
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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A San Francisco Man uses social media to connect the homeless with their families.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
The Most Important Seconds
From: Israel Story
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On June 2, 1978, five-year-old Eli Beer witnessed something that would impact the rest of his life: As he was walking home from school with his bro...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 34:24
The Show Must Go On(line)
From: Elia Powers
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Art is best experienced in person. But what happens when events get cancelled during a pandemic? Artists do what they do best: improvise.

  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 15:47
The White Whale
From: Matt Frassica
Caption: Michael Gorman and Alan Barnes Netherton in "Chasing the New White Whale", Credit: Carlos Cardona
Opiate addiction has become increasingly common in the commercial fishing industry. For one Massachusetts-born playwright, a brother’s death from a...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2018
  • Length: 09:30
Chester and Gertrude (at War)
From: WNIN
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Just in time for the centennial of the end of World War One, a story of triumph and tragedy that spawned a national womens' movement and a historic...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
Family, Friend and Foe; Part 1 - Episode 104
From: Lisa Reilly
Series: THE HUSTLER FILES
Caption: Now and Then
As the title implies, Keron McHugh's continuing journey is not without a range of players, emotion, and drama.

  • Added: Feb 14, 2018
  • Length: 25:37
Unstable ice leads to a deadly winter
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: New York State Police / Snowmobile , Credit: New York State Police
More than 30 snowmobilers and fishermen have died after breaking through lake ice in the northeast and Great Lakes region this winter. The toll wou...

Bought by WBFO, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 6
N.Y. snowmobilers add to toll in deadly winter
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A sign on Conesus Lake directs sportsmen to an access point., Credit: Veronica Volk
In part two of a series on fatalities associated with thin ice this winter, we hear the story of two men who disappeared one night after taking a l...

Bought by WCPN, WRVO Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 14: Shorty - The Life and Disappearance of Mike "The Bike" Rust
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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On this special episode of Wish We Were Here: Tales and Investigations from the Shadows of America's Mountain, we worked with Nathan Ward at Grit a...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Apr 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:09
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 21: Bloodlines
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Julius Robinson had killed for revenge before, and so when his sister was brutally murdered in her sleep last year, he says he planned to “get” the...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 21:14
  • Purchases: 1
From Graduation to Deadly Confrontation: A WWII Story...
From: D. 'Fitz' Allgood
Series: The Allgood News
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It was 1945, Joe Prinster was just hours into his high school diploma when he was told to "pack and be ready to get on the train in the morning...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:35
Life of the Law #34 - Necessity Defense
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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It’s odd to think cannibals, cannabis-growers, Vietnam War protesters, and prison escapees all have something in common. But they do: the necessity...

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 21:04
  • Purchases: 2
Morocco: Moving Towards an Uprising?
From: War News Radio
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When we think of the Arab Spring, the countries Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Tunisia come to mind. But what about Morocco? Elliana Bisgaard-Church ha...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 07:17
Minneapolis Police want more domestic violence convictions.
From: Will Wright
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Minneapolis Police try something different to boost with domestic violence convictions.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2009
  • Length: 05:06
Eighteen months after the I-35W bridge collapse...one man's story
From: Will Wright
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Will Wright spoke with a man whose attempt to save a stranger's life left a mark on his.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2008
  • Length: 05:03
Part Four : Mat Fraser
From: Siobhan Mullen / David Lewis
Series: Get On With It
Caption: PRX default Piece image
in the fourth part of our series we look at an actor

  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 10:03
The Psychedelic Legacy of Roky Erickson
From: Adam Allington
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Roky Erickson is the godfather of pyschedelic rock.

Bought by KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, and WMPG


  • Added: Jun 28, 2006
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 3
Shakespeare In Black and White
From: Richard Paul
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The African-American experience with Shakespeare

Bought by KLCC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WABE, KZYX, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2006
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 9
The Face of White Collar Crime
From: Adam Allington
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What really happens to white collar criminals when they go away to prison

Bought by PRX Remix, KPIK-LP, Hearing Voices, KUSP, and KUCB


  • Added: Jan 02, 2006
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 5
The Pope's Polish Legacy in New York
From: Thomas Grove
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Residents of New York's Polish neighborhood of Greenpoint watch Pope John Paul II's final days

  • Added: Jul 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:38
Errol Morris on Harris execution
From: Connie Walker
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Errol Morris on recent execution of David Ray Harris

  • Added: Jul 13, 2004
  • Length: 20:17