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Saving the Bay starting with the Clapper Rail
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A California Clapper Rail at Arrowhead Marsh, MLK Regional Shoreline, Oakland, CA., Credit: Len Blumin
The California Clapper Rail is a bird that likes to be heard, but not seen. But today, on this windy morning at Arrowhead Marsh in Oakland, they ar...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 07:13
A starting place for former foster youth
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Darrell Molett in his living room, Credit: Rachel Wong
Dejon Lewis was 11 years old when child protective services arrived to take him and his twin sister away from their mother, whom he says is a drug ...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 08:47
FOR NO GOOD REASON -- Charles Paul and Lucy Paul
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Lucy Paul and Charles Paul, San Francisco, CA 4/14/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Charlie Paul and Lucy Paul talk managing media, meeting your hero, and getting under the skin of a painting.

  • Added: May 10, 2014
  • Length: 21:43
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
From: Joyride Media
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Brand-new one hour special from Joyride Media takes in depth look at Roy Orbison's 1989 posthumous comeback album, "Mystery Girl."

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Harford Community Radio, KPVL and more


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Kate Racculia reads from Bellweather Rhapsody (5/19)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. A classical music motif.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Daphne Kalotay reads from Sight Reading: A Novel (5/7)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module from our weekday readings for May; a classical music motif.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Improving Birth For Moms And Babies
From: Giovanna Rossi
Series: Well Woman Radio
Caption: A gathering for the "Rally To Improve Birth" in front of the Austin TX. Capitol Building., Credit: rallytoimprovebirth.com
Interviews with birth professionals and a mom.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 30:01
Health care reform: Will it help make American women and families healthier?
From: Giovanna Rossi
Series: Well Woman Radio
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Health care reform, also known as the Affordable Care Act or "Obamacare", is moving forward with new health coverage enrollment and both women and ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 30:01
Grisham's Rules (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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John Grisham is one of the best known authors in America, with his books selling over 275 million copies. Allison Quantz tells the story of an aspi...

Bought by KENW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
Rod Is God!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Gulaab Gang Poster
This is a story about two films that are in the eye of a peculiar storm in India. One is called Gulaab Gang. The other is called Gulaabi Gang with...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Only Olympic sport played with brooms finds a home in the Bay Area
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Barry Ivy at the Golden Gate Bonspiel, Credit: San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club
Inside a huge ice rink in San Jose, where the Sharks hockey team practices, thirty-two men and women are laughing, yelling, and taking turns sweepi...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 06:31
Human trafficking: A fisherman’s story
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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San Francisco has some of the country’s highest reports of human trafficking. It’s one of the top 10 cities in the U.S where trafficking is the worst.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 2
Slavery: The Rise of American Capitalism (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The tribulations of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, are depicted in the popular film 12 Years a Slave. A soon to be publis...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 1
Slavery: The Rise of American Capitalism (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The tribulations of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, are depicted in the popular film 12 Years a Slave. A soon to be publis...

Bought by WJCT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WLIW


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Jenifer Ringer: Dancing Through It -- My Journey In the Ballet
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: March 2014
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This is one example of our 21 weekday 100-second modules for March, 2014.... -- A new author each day reading a compelling passage from their new ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Cookbook author Cynthia Graubart, Credit: Tanner Latham
Cynthia Graubart attained culinary celebrity status last year when she won a James Beard Award for the cookbook she co-wrote with famed Southern au...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 11:37
  • Purchases: 2
Taking Wheelchairs To New Heights
From: Lauren Ober
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Some people are not meant to stay on the ground, weighted down by gravity. Aaron “Wheelz” Fotheringham is one of those people. He’s used a wheelcha...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., New Hampshire Public Radio, and WTJU


  • Added: Jan 20, 2014
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 3
Remembering Eudora Welty
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Eudora Welty, New Haven, CT, 1974, Credit: William Ferris
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 13:47
  • Purchases: 2
Will Bay Area Bike Share expand on its downtown success?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The Bay Area Bike Share station in front of San Francisco City Hall, Credit: Isabel Angell
The success of Bay Area Bike Share depends on one place: downtown San Francisco. Back in August, the program. made a well-calculated gamble and stu...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 07:24
7th Ward Residents Await the Return of Circle Food Store
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Caption: the iconic exterior of Circle Foods on St Bernard and Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans, Credit: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
More than eight years after it flooded and closed due to Hurricane Katrina, the Circle Food Store on the corner of Claiborne and St Bernard Avenues...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 3
John Catsimatidis on Conversations With Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Billionaire entrepreneur John Catsimatidis, President of the Gristedes and Red Apple supermarkets, speaks about his campaign for the Republican nom...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 37:10
Southern Folklorist Bill Ferris
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: The Storied South , Credit: Bill Ferris
Preeminent Southern folklorist Bill Ferris has spent the last 40 years documenting the South in print, photography and film. His latest book, The S...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 15:59
  • Purchases: 3
Lots of Talking is One School's Strategy to Retain Students
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
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To enroll at West Brooklyn Community High School, students must buy in to a certain level of support and counseling. In exchange, the school promis...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 04:48
A visit with the string whisperer
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Roland Feller is responsible for the well-being of many of the city's stringed instruments. When you imagine him working on a violin, picture him s...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Lone Grangers
From: Leslie Chang
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A small group of Mainers is working hard to revitalize and modernize their local grange, while holding onto traditions that date back to the 1800s.

  • Added: Dec 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:44

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