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Returning Home: From War Fighter to Student Veteran
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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What is it like to be a student who has fought in a war? Producers at The Stanford Storytelling Project’s podcast, State of the Human asked six Sta...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: May 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Playing for two
From: Amy Wimmer Schwarb
Series: NCAA Champion: The Magazine of College Sports
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Florida Gulf Coast University's Kaneisha Atwater got pregnant at 18, but her dreams didn't die when her son was born. What she thought was her mist...

Bought by iPondr, KRZA, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 4
Enough To Love
From: Caroline Warner
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A narrative weaving together the voices and stories of women who, by choice or chance, do not have children and what they are doing with their love...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 15:41
The Music of Conversation
From: Hold That Thought
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Even casual conversations have surprisingly musical qualities. Linguist Brett Hyde delves into the rhythms behind language and the principles that ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 12:30
  • Purchases: 1
El Sistema: Music Lessons to Rebuild the World
From: Open Source
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El Sistema is not an instruction method so much as a shared conviction: that every child wants to make music, and can. It has big social implicatio...

Bought by KWMR and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 50:57
  • Purchases: 2
Beautifully Bright Black Holes
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Out There: The Science of Exploring the Universe
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Physics professor Henric Krawczynski describes how an instrument called X-Calibur will study "beautifully bright" black holes. Krawczynski and his ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 09:00
Lunar Mysteries
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Out There: The Science of Exploring the Universe
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Dr. Bradley Jolliff describes how lunar samples and orbiters provide insights into the history of Earth's closest neighbor.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 13:12
  • Purchases: 1
Education Equity: Lucia Martinez
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Lucia Martinez, Credit: Generation Justice
Lucia Martinez, 20, speaks about her personal experience of education equity. She speaks about real life stories of growing up and higher education...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 07:15
50001 - The Age of Telemann
From: Otto Schulze
Series: The Age of Telemann
Caption: Georg Phillip Telemann
50001 - The Age of Telemann

  • Added: Sep 29, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Vacations - "This Summer's Vacation: China."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions 9/7/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THROUGH PHASES IT PASSES ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Stressed-Out Students
From: Humankind
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Ideal for broadcast late-Summer / early- Fall, this new 1-hr. documentary from Humankind examines the epidemic of high anxiety among secondary scho...

Bought by WVTF, WSKG, KRCB 104.9, KUAF Public Radio, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 24
Riddles from the Border Regions, 5/25/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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A FEARSOME FOE, THIS PHANTOM...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Opening Door Show - Sally Kempton
From: Wendy Strgar
Series: The Opening Door - Positivity Series
Caption: Sally Kempton
The Opening Door with Wendy Strgar, Loveologist, entrepreneur, & educator, is a joyful refocusing on love as the transformative force of life. The ...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 27:12
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Nikki Anderson-Weir - "Waterfall"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Nikki Anderson-Weir is a high school student in Bemidji. Recently she stopped into the Northern Community Radio studios in Bemidji and recorded som...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 01:18
Black Solidarity
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is there still a place for political unity among African-Americans?

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KSKQ, WRNC-LP, WHFR and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2013
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Riddles from the Border Regions, 08/25/12
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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I STAND AGAINST THE DARKNESS...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 08/11/12
From: Joan VanBuskirk
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MY SHINGLE IS A CANDY STICK...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Making the Grade: Ambition
From: Larry Berger
Series: Making the Grade
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High School students from Pittsburgh Public Schools discuss their future plans, hopes and dreams upon graduating.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 03:42
Who was Guinea Pig B
From: Euan McAleece
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An exploration into the life and legacy of Richard Buckminster Fuller

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 1
Clever Apes: Nature and human nature
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Megan Bang helped incorporate systems-level thinking into the design of an early education classroom., Credit: (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer)
We go back to one of the first lessons kids learn about science, and what it says about how human minds develop. As children discover the natural w...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, PRX Remix, KUT, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 5
Welcome to the Star Party
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In the past decade, dark sky festivals have become attractions in parks across the U.S. 

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 6
Civil Rights Activist Edward Harden Peeples, V: Born To Be A Racist
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 55:38
A Call for Interfaith Dialogue and Harmony (Peace Talks Radio) [59:00/54:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Book: Abraham’s Children: Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict, Credit: Calvin College
Religious liberty and tolerance are complex issues, impacted by a variety of factors including education, politics, and the media. On this edition ...

Bought by KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUOW, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Roland Scott: The Art of Transformation
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Rolanda Scott can take a chunk of solid glass, drop it in a flower pot then super heat it in her kiln, turning it into liquid, which she then pours...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2011
  • Length: 53:46