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Seattle's Ellis Island
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: Many Uch at the Airport Way Detention Facility., Credit: Eroyn Franklin
An imposing brick building on Airport Way at the edge of the International District housed detained immigrants from 1931 to 2004. It was once known...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Rwandan Genocide
From: Arndt Peltner
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In the evening of April 6th 1994 the plane of the Rwandan president was shot down. This sparked the genocide that nearly killed one million people

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 14:39
Making Contact: Survivors of Solitary Confinement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hakeem Shaheed
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine...

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Billionaires are Everywhere
From: Anton Foek
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Maria is a woman who took to her heart some of the hundreds of thousands of orphans in Russia.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2008
  • Length: 26:03
Surviving on the Duwamish
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Life on the Duwamish: Rediscovering Seattle's Dirty South
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Life on the Duwamish, Segment 5

  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 08:53
The Fundamentals of Impairment-Part 1
From: KUOW
Series: Troubled Doctors: Addiction and Depression in Medicine
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story of an addicted doctor

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 01, 2008
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 2
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (1 hour Special)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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One mother's fight to save her daughter's life from a dysfunctional and inhumane health care system in California's prisons.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Part 2: Crime Ignored
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: Genderless Justice
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The second part examines the sexual violence being perpetrated against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo and during the genocide in Rwanda.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 17:32
Part 1 of 7 - The Global Triple Crisis
From: Bing Gong
Series: Confronting the Global Triple Crisis & Local Responses
Caption: PRX default Piece image
3-Day Teach-in in Washington DC on Global Crisis in September 2007

  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 54:09
Jenny or the abuse of Native American women
From: Anton Foek
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The forgotten story of Jenny, an abused native woman in South Dakota

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 06:49
NeedleExchangeSouthBronx,NY, USA
From: Anton Foek
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Hopeful Future Needle Exchange

  • Added: Aug 04, 2007
  • Length: 13:32
WesternAmazon
From: Anton Foek
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Changing of the Amazonia Region

  • Added: Jul 30, 2007
  • Length: 01:45
Crime and Redemption: A Wise Guy's Tale
From: Aaron Henkin
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A gangster-turned-informant reflects on his life of crime and his quest for redemption

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 11, 2007
  • Length: 49:36
  • Purchases: 1
Bluma Shapiro: Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bluma Shapiro is a grandmother of four... and a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 15:25
My Dinner With Menopause
From: Karen Michel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
8 women at dinner talk about fears and realities of oncoming menopause

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Feb 05, 2007
  • Length: 32:32
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: A Life of Ashes: Widows in India
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A personal journey of an Indian born producer of a widow to look at the situation of widows in India.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, KXOT Public Radio, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Silent Generation: From Saipan to Tokyo
From: Helen Borten
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The final year of World War II in the Pacific, told by men who came back and kept silent about the harrowing ordeal that changed their lives.

Bought by WVTF, WITF, WABE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: May 03, 2006
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 32
RN Documentary: Not Enough Tears
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Rajani Thiranagama was a doctor, a teacher and a committed human rights who was shot in 1989 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Her daughter was 11 years old. ...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Apr 13, 2006
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Sonar and Whales
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Sonar's deadly effect on several whale species

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


  • Added: Feb 08, 2006
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 2
Girls From Cambodia
From: Outer Voices
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An honest look into the sex industry in Cambodia

Bought by KUER, WRPI, KFOK-LPFM, WUFT, KUT-HD and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2006
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 17
Girls from Cambodia with newshole
From: Outer Voices
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Girls From Cambodia - an honest look into sex trafficking in Cambodia

Bought by WUFT, KUT-HD, WOSU, KQED, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2006
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 9
RN Documentary: Zeeland '53
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus: Living With Water
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Recreation of the disastrous 1953 flood in the southern Dutch province of Zeeland during which more than 1800 lives were lost.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio and WRPI


  • Added: Sep 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 2
James J. Cathey Obituary
From: KRCC-FM
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Soldier obituary

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 07, 2005
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Gerson Legacy, Three Generations: Medical Evidence v.s. Persecution
From: Edward May
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Three generations of Gerson's have been persecuted by the medical and pharmaceutical industries, yet they continue to educate the public about the ...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2005
  • Length: 01:10:44
Uranium Mining Returns to Colorado
From: KRCC-FM
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Abandoned uranium mines coming back online

  • Added: Aug 03, 2005
  • Length: 09:25