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Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 32
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about people finding stability when things feel out of control.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Recovery Point
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I started out in detox and worked my way up to the director's position.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
Maureen
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Sparx is a rat terrier Chihuahua, and he doesn’t let people get too close to me, I think for fear that they’re going to hurt me. He’s a good boy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
Grandmothers Matter
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Some surprisingly controversial theories of human longevity. 

  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 18:06
Slipping Away: An Alzheimer's Story, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Triptych photo illustration, Credit: Doug Dobey.
For the longest while I would think of my mother as a husk like the shell left behind by a cicada, all the internal meat gone, just a crisp skin re...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 27:38
Behind the Badge
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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From patrolling the streets of Sunset Boulevard to infiltrating prostitution rings, this female police officer has seen it all. Patty Corso’s persp...

  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 07:41
Revelations
From: Homefront Chronicles
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How do you proceed with your life when a family secret is revealed?

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 06:11
Mom Prom
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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Once you’re a mom, does your vision of the ultimate night out become different from before?

Bought by KVNF, WMMT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KUOW


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 4
Hospital Birth Stories
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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Hospitals advertise their birth centers with soft focus photos of dewy-eyed newborns and kindly nurses, but the reality of giving birth is somethin...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:31
The Work-Life Conundrum
From: Homefront Chronicles
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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
Same Sex Parenting
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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When a married couple has a baby, is it fair for one of the parents to have to adopt the baby to make it their own? Why do the rules differ for m...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 04:39
Ernie's Green Free Tree
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Under Ernie’s Free Tree neighbors and passersby pick from the free pile, the last of Ernie Winger’s possessions—recycling, laughing, crying, rememb...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Conversations with people who take a DIY approach to science and to life: DIY biologists working to democratize the lab, a single mom who says some...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KUT, KUOW, WYSO, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Representing Yourself in Court
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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A mother struggles to represent herself in a custody dispute when she runs out of money to pay her lawyer.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
Linda Contes and Evelyn Williams
From: Rachel Falcone
Series: Housing is a Human Right Storytelling Project Vol. 1
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
Libby and the Girls
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Libby St. Pierre knew since she was a young girl that she wanted only a few simple things in life: a career, which she has as a nurse in Auburn, Ma...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUOW, and WMPG


  • Added: Jan 05, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 3
Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, January 3, 1923
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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While many of the most-told love stories are fairy tales, hers was real and it changed YOUR life.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Family, Derby and Nothing Else
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Maine Roller Derby skated into Portland, Maine and called the city home in 2006. Roller derby is a fast-paced full-contact sport played on skates.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
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
My Mother's Story
From: Teresa Goff
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A group of Vancouver actors gets together to try and fit the lives of their mothers into 1000 words or less. The project is called My Mother's Sto...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and WKSU


  • Added: Apr 11, 2007
  • Length: 21:10
  • Purchases: 2
Three Women
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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A Chicana, African American and Romanian talk about their breast cancer.

Bought by KUER, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUCB


  • Added: Oct 19, 2004
  • Length: 08:44
  • Purchases: 3
Memorial
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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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 Room Tone Selects, WTJU, Prairie Public, Delta College Public Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: May 02, 2004
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 26