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Caption: Susan Greenhalgh
America is in the midst of an obesity epidemic of catastrophic proportion. Today, two-thirds of adults, and one-third of children and adolescents –...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jane Kaczmarek
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
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Adverse health effects from low-dose exposures to Bisphenol-A (BPA) include obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and ADHD. Join Food Sleuth R...

Bought by WRGY


  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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A short story about kids and piano practice and parental rage.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
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How do you save an important piece of your past while building your future?

  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 06:39
Caption: Orphans in Romania., Credit: Mike Carroll for Harvard University
What makes some people able to cope with life's challenges better than others? A growing field of science is peering into the brain to find an answer.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KPIK-LP


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:13
  • Purchases: 2
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Do you believe that a calorie is a calorie, or that we all have real “choice” in the food marketplace? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
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It’s episode seventy-two! It’s also our fifth anniversary show! Five years broadcasting, wow, never thought we’d get this far. Now in forty-eight S...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
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We look at some programs that stress the peacemaking, unifying aspects of sports and we ask the question, why don't more celebrated sports stars sp...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Claudia Quigg
We hope that every child has a safe home where he is loved and cared for, provided with every need. But for about 400,000 American children each y...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:29
Caption: Genevieve Bailey and Dagan, San Francisco, CA 9/24/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Genevieve Bailey and Dagan talk optimism, chance meetings, and the advantages of being a female filmmaker.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 22:58
Caption: Claudia Quigg
When the world sees our children, it sees them as they are at this moment and in this environment, through a narrow lens. Their teacher at school ...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:44
Caption: Claudia Quigg
News buzzed around a friend’s family tree that the second baby to be born would be another little girl. I had heard about the excitement, so when ...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:39
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An early intervention for autism shows promise for helping babies who have not yet been diagnosed with the condition.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Sep 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This is the second of two programs exploring the special challenges of raising boys into becoming young men who DON’T turn to violence and crime a...

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


  • Added: Sep 10, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Claudia Quigg
Sweet Will recently celebrated his fourth birthday. Before his party, he could hardly contain his excited anticipation about opening his presents.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Claudia Quigg
One story from my annals of parenting shortcomings involves a pair of runaways. The scoundrels in question were my two daughters, ages three and f...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
Caption: Claudia Quigg
Each day millions of people leave for work or school or even longer journeys with no one to say goodbye or miss them in their absence. Tragically,...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2014
  • Length: 02:23
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The first of two PEACE TALKS RADIO programs that will explore the special challenges of raising boys into becoming young men who DON’T turn to viol...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGNU Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Aug 27, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Claudia Quigg
Unwilling to allow his son to continue in this self-centered orientation, he chose to have a much-needed talk with this otherwise-terrific young man.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:36
Caption: Claudia Quigg
When that peace-shattering event occurs, all our smugness evaporates. At first we recoil in denial. And then reality sets in when we’re faced with...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:35
Caption: Claudia Quigg
And so it goes with siblings, those creatures who most closely share our DNA and our childhood experiences. Sometimes we despise them, and often w...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:29
Caption: Claudia Quigg
This week has brought outrageous giggles, a writing lesson, some highly-sought-after information, and some new social insights, all the gifts of bo...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:23
Caption: Claudia Quigg
There’s a new bird’s nest in the oak tree in your backyard, but you might look right past it. You’ve observed droves of such nests before and you m...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:19