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In June 1989, Sean Smith, 10, fatally shot his younger sister while playing with his father’s gun. He talks to his mother, Lee, about that devastat...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Dena Kohleriter had always seen herself becoming a mother one day. So when she was 36 years old, she decided to have a child on her own.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Jamie is pregnant and has nowhere she can go. She finds herself at Saint Andre Home, a modern day home for unwed mothers, where she awaits her four...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
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Susan's mother died of breast cancer on Mother's Day in 2004. She carried a genetic mutation that made her susceptible to the disease. After years ...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2006
  • Length: 20:11
Caption: Incarcerated mother in Decatur Prison’s Nursery Program and Reunification Unit. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Shannon Heffernan http://www.timeontheoutside.com/prison-nursery
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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A woman speaks with one of the men who saved her life on Christmas Eve 1956, after her mother jumped with her off a bridge and into the river below.

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU


  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ciara G. wakes up at dawn on her way to visit her mother who is currently incarcerated., Credit: R.J. Lozada
The Get on the Bus program provides support and free transportation for children and families throughout California to visit their mothers and fath...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Suzanne LaGrande interviews Leah Klass, creative consultant, mother of two, neighbor who works with asylum seekers.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 12:09
Caption: Judy Brady and daughter Jillian Gustafson, Credit: Photo courtesy of StoryCorps
Dealing with death on a daily basis can be draining, but when the death affects your own family, well, that’s a different story altogether. Jillian...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 02:27
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This intimate, award-winning audio diary documents a young mother's year-long battle with breast cancer.

Bought by WUTC, KTSW 89.9, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, KBYS 88.3 FM and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2007
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 23
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This intimate, award-winning audio diary documents a young mother's year-long battle with breast cancer.

Bought by KUER, WBEZ, KOSU, Louisville Public Media, KZYX and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2007
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 9
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A Long Island mother faces immense challenges as she tries to educate her three autistic sons through New York's public school system.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 1
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That's what the ads always say about the third Sunday in June. Father's Day. Reserved for Father.

Bought by KGLT


  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of Wind & Rhythm we pay tribute to mothers everywhere with music dedicated to moms, with Percy Grainger's “Marching Song of Democra...

Bought by WQCS, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUAL, KVNO, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:31
  • Purchases: 9
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Every 100 days, Roberts saves the phone messages of her mom who passed away two years ago as a living memorial.

Bought by WHFR, Prairie Public, Room Tone Selects, WTJU, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: May 02, 2004
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 28
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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 53: Melinda and Judy before you listen to this. This is the second episode of a two-part story. Melinda...

Bought by ABC and WFAE


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 31:45
  • Purchases: 2
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City of Dreamers explores the lives of young people and immigrant families from Santa Fe’s South Side. First presented live, on stage at the Lensic...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:54
Caption: Marilyn Hillerman (L) and Andrea Crook (R)
When Andrea Crook was 24, she began having paranoid thoughts, delusions, and her behavior became erratic. She picked up the phone and called her mo...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 3
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commentary from Nanci Olesen about Mary

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Dec 21, 2005
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard is caught between two philosophies of life: his father’s hard work ethic, which saw Richard’s responsibility to help meet the immediate exp...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 15:48
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Mary Reed talks to her daughter, Emma McMahon, about the day she was shot while at a Gabrielle Giffords event in suburban Tucson, AZ.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:02
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Three hospice professionals explore ways for the dying and the survivors to find more peace around the death passage. This compelling hour also inc...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A documentary of the effects of being left both motherless and fatherless at an early age.

Bought by KUER, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KISU, KUNM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 57:03
  • Purchases: 8
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Monique Attinger prepares for the possibility of losing a child to miscarriage.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 13, 2005
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Youth Radio's Gabriela Jacobo describes growing up in a religious house, struggling to find religion herself.

Bought by PRX Remix, WNIN, KSFR, New Hampshire Public Radio, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2003
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 11