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End Kids Cancer
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: End Kids Cancer
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in children from 1 to 14 years old. According to the American Cancer Society more than 10,000 children ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 39: The Ups And Downs Of Moving Countries And Choosing Careers
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Monthly Podcast
Caption: RadioActive's Yafiet Bezabih and Ann Kane in KUOW's studio recording this program. , Credit: Lila Kitaeff
This month RadioActive hosts Yafiet Bezabih and Ann Kane are fixing to surprise you. First we bring you three amazing stories about the challenges ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 16:24
The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Laskin
Bestselling author David Laskin unfolds a sweeping epic that spans the three major upheavals the affected Jews in the twentieth century: immigratio...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Daunting DIY
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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
Tales from the South: 075 Against the Elements
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Spring Season
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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
Tales from the South: 071 The LOVE show
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Spring Season
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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
Reflections of a Former Tough Guy
From: Mason Sand
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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
Tales from the South 025
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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
B-Side Radio: Neighbors
From: B-Side Radio
Series: B-Side: Cure for the Weekend Blues
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B-Side's Tamara Keith moves into a new house and introduces us to some unconventional neighborhoods. Also, what happens when a fence falls down, o...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WBEZ, WGBH Radio Boston, and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 29, 2009
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Quincy Dean's Radio Diary
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Quincy Dean is trying to decide whether she should quit being home-schooled.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2009
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 1
Surrounded by Lights
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Spend a day with Amy, a single mother, as she works to fulfill the promise she made to her daughter two years ago.

Bought by KGLT and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Feb 01, 2008
  • Length: 06:47
  • Purchases: 2
The Education of a Young Dairy Farmer
From: Ed Janus
Series: Milk on Our Boots: The Terroir of Dairyland
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Cows helped form the moral character of a young woman farmer

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 10:39
  • Purchases: 1
From Cheddar to Art
From: Ed Janus
Series: Milk on Our Boots: The Terroir of Dairyland
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A cheese maker with 130 years of family tradition becomes a genius in creating with milk

  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 09:52
Forward to Yesterday: Grazing Their Way to the Future
From: Ed Janus
Series: Milk on Our Boots: The Terroir of Dairyland
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Modern grazing helps preserve the land and the farmer

  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 09:08
Picking Up the Pieces
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In the summer of 2006, Linda Boutaugh and Keri Fuchs were victims of a violent hate crime. Their home was destroyed, but their relationship survived.

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 07:34
  • Purchases: 2
The Angel Warrior On His Way to the Top
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Despite the concerns of his family, Mike St. Germain races stock cars to win and for God.

Bought by HowSound, KFAI Minneapolis, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 3
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: (Christmas) Just in the nick of time
From: Spokane Public Radio
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By the time Christmas rolls around, I've lost the glow. I'm grouchier and meaner than the Grinch.

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: Dec 16, 2006
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: The Dance
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Of all the tender moments I have shared with my children, I think I?ll remember the dancing the most.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2006
  • Length: 03:06
Home Planet: Fly away home
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Watching a family of Swallows who have nested under the eaves brings a comparison to the drama in the human nest

  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 03:22
And One Day Your Grandma Will Forgive You...
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Lena was born and lived to tell the tale...barely.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2006
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: (New Year) Time in My Hands
From: Spokane Public Radio
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I don't have a lot to show for last year. I didn't lose a pound or gain an hour. I didn't save nearly enough time or money. I didn't turn over any ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Public Interactive, KUOW, and KZUM


  • Added: Dec 29, 2005
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 5
Home Planet: (Christmas) Mom's Secret Christmas List
From: Spokane Public Radio
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When my children ask what I want for Christmas, I give the the standard list: perfume, slippers and things like that. But I have a secret list.

Bought by WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2005
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 3
Home Planet: Dear Santa, Make it work again.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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A few minutes before midnight a little boy brings one of last year's gifts and places it under the tree. He wants to return it to Santa.

Bought by WRVO Public Media and WNIN


  • Added: Dec 03, 2005
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
Alaska Beckons
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Disillusioned with their teaching jobs in California, Ray takes a job at a one room school house in Alaska and their adventure begins.

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 14:04
  • Purchases: 1
Trading One Tongue for the Other
From: outLoud Radio at Youth Radio
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A young Filipino-American's poem on growing up in many languages.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMNF, KUOW, YouthCast, KUCB and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2003
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 6