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StoryCorps Missoula 2022 - 01
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: MTPR Documentary Specials
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The first special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio on January 22nd, 2023, this f...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Shame in Medicine: 7. On Trial
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest
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1 in 10 physicians will get sued at some point in their career – but physicians rarely discuss this, much less prepare for it. How do we bring liti...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 40:56
150 Years after the Navajo Long Walk
From: Alix Blair
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"You can't heal from something unless you really honor that it happened." This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of 1868, which relea...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:07:35
Clayton Williams
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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See all these blankets and quilts and stuff? I got enough in here to keep me warm.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
My Vietnam War - During, After, and Way After
From: WGCU
Caption: Michael Hirsh tells his story of being an Army Combat Correspondent in Vietnam.
Punta Gorda resident and WGCU reporter Michael Hirsh shares a first-hand account of his Vietnam War experiences, including audio recordings he made...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 3: Lost weekends
From: KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Series: Off The Block
Caption: Betty Peters, known as Mama Betty, shuttles jail visitors along the last mile of the journey. , Credit: George Lavender
Thousands of Los Angeles County prisoners are housed in Pitchess Detention center. For visitors, the journey to the jail can take all day. The clos...

Bought by PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 3
The Dramatists
From: KCSM
Series: The Annals of Jazz
Caption: Richard Hadlock
Host, Richard Hadlock investigates performances by some of Jazz's greatest dramatic players while connecting their performances with that of the Gr...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 57:55
Messages From a Forgotten Troopship (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the 1960s, it took almost three weeks to cross the sea from America to Vietnam. Three weeks for young men in crowded cabins, with salt water sho...

Bought by WHFR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, KYUK, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 26:24
  • Purchases: 10
Views and Brews: The Elegance of Physics
From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix
Caption: Steven Weinberg, Credit: Matt Valentine
Professor Steven Weinberg is a Nobel laureate in physics and a theoretical physicist who is an outspoken thinker on topics ranging from nuclear wea...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:20:04
The Last Man on the Mountain (Podcast)
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Radio Diaries Podcast
Caption: James Weekley, Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein
In West Virginia, people say that in the old days, communities turned into ghost towns when the coal ran out. Now they turn into ghost towns when t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 2
Diary of A Bad Year: A War Correspondent's Dilemma
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: The Transom Radio Specials
Caption: Kelly McEvers, Credit: Glen Carey
NPR's Kelly McEvers' unprecedented and intimate portrait of the sacrifices reporters and their families make to tell untold stories -- and the some...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Prairie Public, KSUT, RadioFreePalmer, WYSO and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 81
Latitude News Podcast #3 - Black in China
From: Latitude News
Caption: Jo Bai and her fellow English teachers in Yuyao, China.
Jo is African American. Jo lives in Yuyao, China. Jo gets a lot of attention.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 13:14
  • Purchases: 1
Life By The Drop: Drought, Water and the Future of Texas
From: KUT
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Life By the Drop is a close look at the state of water and drought in Texas, looking both to the past and the future for answers on how the state c...

Bought by WZEN.org, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and KUHF


  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Jane Bown - a portrait
From: Jack King
Caption: Samuel Beckett, Credit: Jane Bown
A glimpse into the world of highly acclaimed photographer Jane Bown. Jane discusses balancing her career with her family, her two identities, Jane ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:46
Rosanne Cash: The List
From: Joyride Media
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Rosanne Cash re-interprets some of the classics of American music.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WYEP and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Piece of My Heart: The Story of Janis Joplin
From: KUT
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Winner of the Grand Trophy 2011, International Radio Festivals! An intimate reconsideration of Janis' journey from a tiny Texas refinery town to t...

Bought by KCNP, Prairie Public, WRGY, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCPN and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2010
  • Length: 57:31
  • Purchases: 20
Handsworth Evolution
From: Robin Valk
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Calypso, Reggae, Rap, Soul, Asian Rap and Sound Systems in Birmingham, England, in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Jul 07, 2010
  • Length: 50:12
  • Purchases: 1
Natural Child Birth: "Is the Plan still the Plan?"
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Experience Natural Child Birth
Caption: The new baby, Avery Arena, Credit: Katy Sewall
It is good to have a birth plan. The one problem? The birth of a child can be unpredictable. Radio Producer Katy Sewall brings us the story of on...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2010
  • Length: 11:56
Jeff Buckley: Grace Around the World
From: Joyride Media
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A look into the life and music of singer and songwriter Jeff Buckley.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Radio New Zealand, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WXXI Rochester, CBC Inside the Music and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Roy Orbison: Black & White Night
From: Joyride Media
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Roy Orbison was cool in color, even better in black & white.

Bought by Prairie Public, Harford Community Radio, Prairie Public, KPIK-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Working the Night Shift
From: WFUV
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Night shift workers share their perspective on life after dark, family obligations and the big question -- when do they sleep ?

Bought by KMSU, WAER Syracuse, NY, KZYX, KFCF FM, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2004
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 32
Fran Rehfeld--Almost 100 years old in NYC
From: Mona Iskander
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An extraordinary New Yorker who lives alone as her 100th birthday approaches

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Jul 09, 2004
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 1
Don't Take The Colors Apart
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Amerasian Playwright Velina Hasu Houston learned early on to have pride in her identity through her African American father and Japanese mother.

Bought by KVSC, WESM 91.3 FM, KUER, KVSC, KUT and more


  • Added: May 17, 2004
  • Length: 26:09
  • Purchases: 17
"Home From Africa"
From: Jake Warga
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A Peace Corps adventure

Bought by KUT, KUT, and Kansas Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2003
  • Length: 20:03
  • Purchases: 3