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Episode 62 delves into the critical issue of gender-based violence, encompassing domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and...
- Added: Jan 19, 2024
- Length: 58:12
Generational Gene may seem a special case; a middle-aged school superintendent with a father and grandfather who’ve contracted Type 2 diabetes, Gen...
- Added: Nov 01, 2022
- Length: 18:29
Our work in the correctional facilities in New York City didn't stop during the pandemic. We talked with the Justice Initiatives team at BPL to hea...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 26:38
At a book group meeting, women went around the circle and introduced themselves. They found out that nearly everyone there had a son addicted to he...
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 30:42
The best ways to prevent young people from getting addicted don’t necessarily focus on the drugs themselves (forget “Just say no.”) Research shows ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 29:58
The third graders of "Third Grade Audio" made two Service Learning podcasts. Each one is about a social service organization which is working to he...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
The third graders of "Third Grade Audio" made two Service Learning podcasts. Each one is about a social service organization which is working to he...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 1
Some surprisingly controversial theories of human longevity.
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 18:06
America is a country plagued by racism. Culturally, socially, economically. But what about in the courts? 30 years ago, Warren McCleskey, a black m...
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 56:32
Archeologist Ripley Bullen written and presented by Ed Schmidt
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:42
Eighteen-year-old Tonia Miller was accused of shaking her baby to death. A jury in Michigan convicted the young mother of second-degree murder and ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2016
- Length: 30:58
Thirty-six-year-old twins Carol Enoch and Katy Panek are physically identical in every way but one: Katy was born without ovaries. She never menstr...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUER
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 10:29
- Purchases: 3
'Step-', as in stepparents or stepchildren, originated in grief. Family structures have evolved, but are stepmothers now so tainted by fairytale as...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 38:16
- Purchases: 1
We return to Prince Edward Island where we’ll spend the next half hour with a father and daughter who produce what PEI has come to be known for the...
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 27:06
At an extremely early age, Shavit Ben-Arie became the leading expert on the female members of the Israeli parliament and in many cases, he became t...
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 21:25
Joanna Foster was worried when her first deaf child was born. When her second baby was born deaf and autistic, she was devastated. Joanna started l...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 1
For fourteen years, a singular event has shaped Valencia McMurray's life: her mother, Charlene Sanders, was violently attacked by her father when s...
Bought by WGXC
- Added: Aug 14, 2011
- Length: 09:54
- Purchases: 1
This is a feature story documenting the performers and organizers of the 30th annual Skaneateles, NY chamber music festival.
- Added: Feb 23, 2010
- Length: 07:29
In this audio piece the audience visits the Netherlands and listens to a way of dying in dignity.
We tell the story of how the Dutch may have found...
- Added: Sep 30, 2009
- Length: 24:45
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
- Added: Jan 20, 2009
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 2
Three Maine families describe the joys and challenges of transracial adoption in the whitest state in the country.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WMPG, WFUV, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more
- Added: May 27, 2005
- Length: 06:36
- Purchases: 6
This story is free! A program to provide bednets to prevent malaria in Tanzania, starting with the women and children, is a huge success.
- Added: May 05, 2005
- Length: 07:10
President Jimmy Carter builds daughter Amy an environmentally-friendly tree house on the White House grounds.
- Added: Mar 22, 2005
- Length: 02:00
