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Abbie Waters: Habit of Being, Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Abbie Waters lived in Richmond, Virginia and attended Holton Elementary School. She had survived a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. F...

Added: May 26, 2016
Length: 27:28

Of Numbers and Names

From: Israel Story

For Yom HaShoah, stories of Israeli encounters with the Holocaust in the years and decades after it ended.

Added: May 25, 2016
Length: 48:42

Abbie Waters:The Habit of Being Part 1

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Abbie Catherine Waters was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...

Added: May 20, 2016
Length: 26:25

Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor, Part 3

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Jay Ipson, Credit: John MacLellan

Jay Ipson is a survivor of the first magnitude. He learned his survival skills under the most harrowing conditions known to man. As a young boy, he...

Added: Jan 28, 2016
Length: 26:41

RDD: Connecting Through Cancer (part 2) - The Story of Nate

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley meets Nate Jones. He's a former patient of the non-profit outreach program, Cancer Connection of ...

Added: Dec 07, 2015
Length: 06:00

Beauty Is in the Imperfection

From: Tim Smith
Series: For The Record

Paul Armstrong was in a business partnership back in 1998, which ended in him being sued. Soon after, he went through debt, the birth of his first ...

Added: Sep 29, 2015
Length: 23:38

A Mexican-American family's divided immigration status

From: Bending Borders
Series: Between Homelands: Hope, Fear and Longing in America

Caption: Lupe Herrera, Credit: Charles Magovern

Lupe Herrera has all the protections of United States citizenship, but none of that is guaranteed to her brother and parents. This legal crack in t...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUER, KSFR, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Jul 01, 2015
Length: 04:16
Purchases: 4

Despair, Inherited

From: Catarina Martins

In most families, mental health can be a taboo topic. But not in the House family. Jeff and Tenley’s relationship is not your usual father and daug...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Jun 03, 2015
Length: 11:10
Purchases: 4

Mother and Son: Two Plays by Daniel Reitz and David Cale

From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes

Jane Kaczmarek ("Malcolm in the Middle") stars in the touching and humorous first piece, Napoleon in Exile, directed by Marsha Mason (four time Aca...

Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Georgia Public Broadcasting and more

Added: May 27, 2015
Length: 53:00
Purchases: 7

All in the Family

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

After months on strike, FairPoint Communications workers reflect on going back to work.

Added: May 27, 2015
Length: 06:19

Just Good Enough is Perfect

From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel

Have you ever felt like you had to be perfect? Maybe it was a job interview, a speech, a meeting you were leading, a performance review, a conflict...

Added: Mar 27, 2015
Length: 44:21

Food Sleuth Radio, Eric Herm Interview

From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio

Strong winds in West Texas make it difficult for farmers to grow crops without contamination from pesticide drift. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and ...

Added: Dec 05, 2014
Length: 28:00

After the Floods

From: Michael May

Caption: David Connor in front of FEMA trailer., Credit: Daniel May

It was three years ago that Katrina made landfall in the southeastern corner of Louisiana. Within a day, New Orleans was filling with water. But sm...

Added: Dec 03, 2014
Length: 08:26

Haunting

From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human

October is full of ghosts, but in our show we will not be talking about little kids who wear white sheets.

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9

Added: Jun 25, 2014
Length: 58:00
Purchases: 2

Studs Terkel: Born to Live

From: The WFMT Radio Network

Born to Live is Studs Terkel’s remarkable Prix Italia-winning audio collage program (produced with Jim Unrath) that first aired in 1962 and serves ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WWNO, WCQS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more

Added: May 09, 2014
Length: 56:45
Purchases: 9

Tara and Lulama

From: Littleglobe

Caption: AIDS Skeletons, Credit: Bob Smith

Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...

Added: Apr 09, 2014
Length: 08:22

Anonymous and Diana

From: Littleglobe

Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art

An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

Added: Apr 09, 2014
Length: 05:57

Marquell, Sharon, and Jane

From: Littleglobe

Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross

N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

Added: Apr 09, 2014
Length: 10:00

The Hang Family

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

How do you pass on the culture of a country you can’t remember? Three generations of the Hang family in Portland, Maine, try to reconcile memories ...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Feb 21, 2014
Length: 08:00
Purchases: 3

Stripped Away: This Teen Finds Her Family Homeless

From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions

Up until she was a teenager, she lived in comfort. What she didn’t see coming was the moment when she lost everything. Find out why her world turne...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix

Added: Jan 16, 2014
Length: 07:31
Purchases: 3

UnFictional: Falling

From: KCRW

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

Teenage Diaries Revisited: Frankie

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries Revisited

Caption: Frankie in 2013., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR

As a teenager, Frankie was a high school football star whose picture was in his hometown newspaper every week. Years after graduating, Frankie was ...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, PRX Remix, WJCT, and Georgia Public Broadcasting

Added: Jul 02, 2013
Length: 30:26
Purchases: 4

National Parks Centennial: The Dispossessed of the Shenandoah

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Madison County, Credit: Charles McGuigan

More than 75 years ago Shenandoah National Park opened to the public for the first time. One of the most scenic routes in Virginia— Skyline Drive w...

Added: Jun 09, 2013
Length: 53:40

Author Alexandra Fuller and "Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

In her first memoir, “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” British-born Alexandra introduced us to her family and her early y...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio