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Their Own Goal-- How Lacrosse Brought Siblings Together
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Dom and Marissa Madonna, Credit: (c) Marissa Madonna
With the mental pressure and rubber balls getting fired at you from all angles, playing goalie is not the ideal position in lacrosse. But, it is wh...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 04:11
California Innocence Project: A Woman Returns After 7 Years - episode 2
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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An innocent woman discusses re-entering her world outside of prison. She addresses the painful time spent away from her children and new possibilit...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 04:56
A Picture Emerges
From: Josh Swartz
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This story explores Michelle Obama's early life, expectations surrounding her ascendency as First Lady, and the impact she will leave on the office...

Bought by WWNO, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WHCP-LP Cambridge, WTJU, CI Dolphin Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 12
Melvin Majors Fathers And Children
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Melvin Major, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Fathers and Children is about a man named Melvin Major who became father to hundreds of young people. But he has no offspring.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 27:40
How to get married on a deadline
From: Jake Harper
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Friday afternoon, June 7, 2014. A judge overturns Wisconsin’s gay marriage ban. In Madison, the Dane County clerk announces his office will stay op...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KHSU


  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 2
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
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Cooking Puerto Rican Comida on the Lower East Side
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Olga Colon., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old. Over the years Colon ma...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
Powered by Laughter
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
For Katie West of Bath, Maine, laughter is not only a way of life but a tool for survival.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 2
The Farmington Diner
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The legendary Farmington Diner closed to make room for a new RiteAid pharmacy.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 06:11
The Art of Family
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Jon Joyce, an artist with down syndrome, offers support and love to his 94 year old mother.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2007
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 1
Cleo Johnson and Lady
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
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A game warden and lifelong hunter tells the story of a doe he rescued, and the unusual friendship they shared

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Culture Is Changing
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
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In this program, hunters describe hunting culture in New England as they were growing up, and how they see that culture changing

Bought by PRX Remix and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 2
Stagefright
From: Steve Mencher
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A lost recording brings pleasure to a woman and prolongs her life.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW, WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2006
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 6
Radical Restoration
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Radical artists, The Beehive Design Collective and the Machias Valley Grange Hall in Machias, Maine make an unlikely pair... or do they?

  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:25
The Church in the Heart of the City
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The Chestnut Street United Methodist Church in Portland, Maine deconsecrates the chapel in preparation for selling and leaving the church.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:49
Rugged and Beautiful
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Visit with two female WWII Liberty Ship welders from South Portland, Maine.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Yellowstone Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
For My Children, For Myself
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Somali refugee Abdi Said, 11, narrates his mother's story of war, marriage, and escape.

Bought by WMPG, Arab American Radio, WETA, KUT, and WYSO


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 07:16
  • Purchases: 5
How much longer will the bell toll.
From: David Barasoain
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A look at the tradition of bell ringing in England.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2004
  • Length: 06:45