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Far from the Tree
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Soloman
Andrew Soloman's proposal, in his recent book, is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition. Our differences are what unite us.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Kids Cancer Research Foundation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kids Cancer Research Foundation, Credit: foundation logo
Pediatric cancer strikes a relatively small number of victims, and market incentives do not provide clear financial motivation for investors to fun...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Alzheimer's: Slipping Away Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
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This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 27:22
Modern-Day Homesteaders
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Destination DIY profiles two families who live the DIY lifestyle every day by growing and making most of what they need.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 1
Author Anthony Swofford and Getting Past Fame and Fortune
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anthony’s latest book, “Hotels, Hospitals and Jails” describes his life after the pluses and minuses of the fame of "Jarhead." In that book he chro...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 2
Father's Day With My Two Sons
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Brendan Angus McGuigan, Credit: Charles McGuigan
this week’s episode contains two parts. The first act is called Weather or Not. Act Two is titled Life Among The Immortals. They’re about my two s...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 28:11
Tales from the South 117: Season 7 Finale and Top Stories of the Year
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Fall Season
Caption: Grand Prize Winner Angela Gattin
This week it's our Season 7 Finale Show, featuring our Top Stories of the Year. In a 1-hour show or in two parts. True stories told by the Southern...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
What's What Radio: Go Out and Play
From: Paul McCarthy
Series: What's What Radio
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Why is the parenting phrase "go out and play, kids!" becoming endangered? Meredith Grimm wanted to ask how parents avoid both hovering and neglect ...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 35:25
  • Purchases: 1
Kids Need the Same Teacher for More Than One Year
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Back to School stamp, Credit: iStock photo
In multi-year classrooms, teachers work with the same children for two years or longer. The result, according to founder and coordinator of Explora...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 18:42
The Behavior Code
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Dr. Nancy Rappaport
About 10-percent of kids in school – approximately 9 to 13 million students – struggle with mental health problems. Whether they’re running out of ...

  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 17:25
Tales from the South 081: 6th Annual Mothers Show
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Spring Season
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This week it's our 6th Annual Mothers Show, celebrating the awesome power of motherhood. Stories by May Griebel, Jan Hamlett, and Mike Noland. All ...

  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Abbie Waters: The Habit of Being
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Abbie Waters
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 ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 55:07
  • Purchases: 1
The No Principal Principle
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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At the Reiche School, you'll never be sent to the principal's office.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 2
Tales from the South 025
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
Caption: Madelyn Young reads "Good Intentions"
This week's stories are about words, and the silences between sentences. Madelyn Young reaches out to one of her students, Robin Satterfield strugg...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Poz Rayz
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Nigel Chase spent much of his youth learning the art of making and playing steel drums with his father. Nigel now makes a living making pans, playi...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KLCC, WMPG, and KUT


  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 4
Not a Foamer
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Griffin Bourassa possesses many traits of a typical 15 year old boy, but there is one facet of his life that is not normal.

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 07:06
  • Purchases: 2
Doing It Ourselves
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Shiro plums picked by the Portland Fruit Tree Project (after this photo was taken)
Doing it Ourselves: What it really takes to work, play and live together. ***This show aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting as part of a series of 5...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WRVO Public Media, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KLCC, KUT and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
DIY Economy
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Local currency, bartering on the playground and other ways of looking at money through a DIY lens. ***This show aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, XRAY.fm, WRVO Public Media, WYSO, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Endangered Sea Turtle, Yum
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
Caption: Max, back in his grunting days
A vegetarian of 22 years decides that the way to fix her son’s constant discomfort is to start eating meat.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 11:33
Libby and the Girls
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Libby St. Pierre knew since she was a young girl that she wanted only a few simple things in life: a career, which she has as a nurse in Auburn, Ma...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUOW, and WMPG


  • Added: Jan 05, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 3
TANGLED -- Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Mandy Moore & Zachary Levi, 11/7/10, San Francisco, CA, Credit: Andrea Chase
Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi talk working in isolation, bringing smolder to the table, and the importance of coffee.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2010
  • Length: 13:22
Fiddle-icious
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Ordinarily, if you want to perform with an orchestra you have to have years of musical experience and you have to go through a rigorous audition pr...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and KUT


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:42
  • Purchases: 3
Acoustic Youth
From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes
Caption: Adam Larkey
Many of the musicians who perform at fiddlers' conventions and music festivals throughout southern Appalachia are, in fact, young kids.

Bought by WMMT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
Growing Up, Getting By: A Radio Rookies Special
From: Radio Rookies
Caption: Radio Rookie Sunnie Hwang with Producer Czerina Patel
For the first time, Radio Rookies presents an hour-long special, “Growing Up, Getting By”, hosted by WNYC reporter and Radio Rookies founder Marian...

Bought by KSFR, WHRV, KUT, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
More Legends
From: The Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis
Series: Art for Ears
Caption: Amanda Ratliff
In this program we explore legends kept alive by historic recordings and the performers’ unmatched contributions to the musical world.

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Aug 28, 2009
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 1