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Seeking Shelter: Building Housing and Community for LGBTQ Elders
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender seniors are much more likely than their straight counterparts to be alone and isolated as they age. Housing ...

Bought by Wild Planet Radio and WXDU


  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Me Nacieron Mi Diente Cocinando; I Was Born Cooking"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950., Credit: Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America.
Nurys Ortiz, 58, of Washington Heights, left the Dominican Republic ("DR") to work in a NYC factory when she was 17 years old. Ortiz started cooki...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Missing Hong Kong Handmade Noodles & Winter Melon Soup in NYC
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Photograph from The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
Nancy Soong, 90, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the foods of her childhood in Hong Kong.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
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
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Learning to Cook and Eat in America
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Photograph from The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
Christina Lam, 68, of Chinatown, Manhattan, grew up in Hong Kong and moved to New York to work in a garment factory on East Broadway. She recalls h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 2
Chatting with Bill
From: Mary Beth Holland
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bill Dewberry shares some stories from his Marine boot camp experience in 1954.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:51
Seeking Peace Around Death and Dying (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Three hospice professionals explore ways for the dying and the survivors to find more peace around the death passage. This compelling hour also inc...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Military Draft 29 min.
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Shorter version of the Military Draft

  • Added: May 31, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Helping The Elderly Through Natural Disasters
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Helping the Elderly Through Natural Disasters – and The Favorite Child … this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 09, 2010
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 1
Getting Old is Hell
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
The world through 94-year old eyes

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2009
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
Peace Talks Radio: Peace Elders Part 2 / Dr. Bernard Lown (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Dr. Bernard Lown
A conversation with 1985 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Bernard Lown about his book "Prescription For Survival: A Doctor’s Journey to End Nuclear Mad...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: 28:59
Peace Talks Radio: Peace Elders Part 1 / Juanita Nelson + Ruth Imber (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Juanita Nelson, Credit: Paul Franz
Conversations with two octogenarian peace advocates, Juanita Nelson and Ruth Imber, who have each found ways to stay active, working for peace well...

Bought by WOMR, Radio Catskill, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and WGDR


  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
Peace Talks Radio: Peacemaking Elders (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Ruth Imber
Conversations with three octogenarian peace advocates who each found ways to stay active, working for peace well into their eighties. Juanita Nels...

Bought by KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUOW, KUOW, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: 58:39
  • Purchases: 6
What We Talk About When We Talk About Little Italy
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An oral history of Portland, Maine's long-lost Little Italy.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2009
  • Length: 07:08
Remembering Poetry: The Alzheimer's Poetry Project
From: Don McIver
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An Hourlong Radio Documentary examining the Alzheimer's Poetry Project

Bought by KRZA, KSJD, WEKU, Yellowstone Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2007
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 7
Dowser, Consultant to the Universe
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Water dowser Glen Johnson makes a mistake.

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


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 4