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This show features three moms talking about the elusive “work/life balance”. But is this even the right term for this perennial conundrum?

  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 15:08
Caption: Domestic Abuse Intervention Project
This time on Peace Talks Radio, we look at a program that seems to be having some success in quelling the violence in some men with histories of do...

Bought by KUOW, WCPN, KUOW, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 5
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This time on Peace Talks Radio, we look at a program that seems to be having some success in quelling the violence in some men with histories of do...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Comedian H. Alan Scott
Comedian and writer H. Alan Scott talks about being diagnosed with testicular cancer and going through chemotherapy while maintaining his career in...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:08:15
Caption: Tiny house living requires a minimalist approach., Credit: Califia Suntree
This episode features stories about projects that might seem impossible at first: tiny house construction, moving by bike, "hacking" reality, and h...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KPVL


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The story of an 11-year-old boy, the only survivor of a plane crash, who has to make his way down a mountain to find rescue.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KMUN, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, XRAY.fm, and KOSU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Mishak with one of his babies, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Mishak Nzimbi, of the Kamba tribe, is unique. He loves elephants. He has been an elephant keeper since he was 16 years old. He works at the David S...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 22:45
Caption: Michele Massa, Kettering Schools, Credit: Jenna Horn
Ohio's Governor John Kasich is proposing a new plan to improve Ohio's reading scores on the Third Grade Reading Assessment. With this plan, he is ...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2012
  • Length: 04:08
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Dillip Barman has had a great culinary journey. Of Indian descent, he grew up with a primarily vegatarian diet. What I find ironic about Dilip's jo...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 25:09
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This week our writers go up against the elements of water, fire, and earth-- and live to tell the tale. Stories by David Prud'homme, Holly Patton, ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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It's just a simple office, but for some students it's like a home, complete with an "adoptive mother." It's a routine place made special.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
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This week's show is all about the glory and defeat of competitions: some planned, some not. Stories by Pat Gillum, Charlie Baxter, and Hank Godwin....

  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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Stories all about the power of LOVE as our writers wrestle with, try to trick, and are eventually overpowered by Cupid. Stories by Jennifer Armstro...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
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A personal audio essay detailing one former tough-guy's transition into fatherhood. A humorous, reflective piece about moving through life with th...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2011
  • Length: 03:54
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It's our encore presentation of our Tin Roof Project featuring Presidential Diarist Janis Kearney, reading her true story about her childhood in ru...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Madelyn Young reads "Good Intentions"
This week's stories are about words, and the silences between sentences. Madelyn Young reaches out to one of her students, Robin Satterfield strugg...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier returns to his childhood hometown only to find it has changed as much as he has. Southern-style storytelling ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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In an effort to stem the tide of dating violence and domestic violence, a school-based intervention program is being tried in Canada and a few U.S....

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, 90.5 WSNC, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 03, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Ms Evelyn Williams, Credit: Michael Premo
Two first-person stories about the struggle for home. With mounting hospital bills, Linda Contes and her husband struggle to make mortgage payments...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 10, 2011
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Children playing in Brooklyn, Credit: Michael Premo
Two first-person stories about gentrification and the struggle for home. Maisha Morales and her 10-year-old son Anthony talk about how her successf...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 08:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Lisa Brandom, Rich Adams, and Lynn Ramage Shafer share about the transition to new perceptions: of God, of familiar places, and of humiliation. Sou...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Sokhom Mao (right) will be the next Commissioner of the Alameda County Juvenile Justice/Delinquency Prevention Commission
Twenty-four-year-old Sokhom Mao was one of California’s foster kids. He’s one of the few who went on to college – in 2010, Mao graduated from San F...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 10:43
Caption: Khotan Shahbazi-Harmon
Khotan was born in Iran but fled at the age of 13. Shortly after she left, her father was executed, her mother was imprisoned and their home was ra...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 25:20
Caption: Paavo Jarvi, Credit: Lang Photography
For your On-Air Fundraising: Think of this as a mini-fundraising "time-out" (or drop-in) to insert a little bit of musical insight, radio-craft, an...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, and KUCO


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 4
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Historian Buzzy Jackson used her prodigious research skills to trace her roots back more than 250 years. In the process, she connected to distant r...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1