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Season 1, Episode 28 - 'Population Growth' feat Christopher Tucker
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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A controversial, yet necessary conversation around how many people can this planet support.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
The Berger Bros
From: Israel Story
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When God first spoke to Benjamin, he was reading the newspaper. From that moment, he and his brother - two Orthodox Jewish boys from the Bronx - we...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:13
S2 E2 Compassionate Release
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Michele DiTomas, a hospice physician who cares for incarcerated men, races against the clock and slashes through bureaucratic tape to help a dying ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 37:16
Merry Christmas Miracle Maker!
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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This year's Christmas special is entirely devoted to the one but for whom there would be no Christmas...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:58:41
Fear On the Inside: A Story of Domestic Violence
From: Long Haul Productions
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A week in the life of a woman in Chicago attempting to escape a physically and emotionally abusive marriage.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2014
  • Length: 23:22
  • Purchases: 2
Raising Angel
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Jamie is pregnant and has nowhere she can go. She finds herself at Saint Andre Home, a modern day home for unwed mothers, where she awaits her four...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 2
In Between
From: Vanessa Barchfield
Caption: Performers wave to their audience at the close of the Fantasia Follies., Credit: Vanessa Barchfield
Every October for the past 39 years, Provincetown, Massachusetts has hosted the Fantasia Fair – the oldest transgender conference in the world. Van...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 09:22
  • Purchases: 1
2/9/12 Food Sleuth Radio: Megan Westgate on the Non-GMO Project
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Megan Westgate, Executive Director of the Non-GMO Project. Do you agree that consumers have...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living with Hypochondria: The Real Costs of Imagined Illness
From: Karen Brown
Caption: Sheila Murphy
Woody Allen made hypochondria famous as a source of self-deprecating humor, but this clinical condition can be seriously debilitating for individua...

Bought by PRX Remix and Jazz 91.9 WCLK


  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Breastfeeding Beyond Infancy
From: vanessa lowe
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An hour-long radio documentary, featuring the voices of fourteen women who have breastfed their children between one and four years. Some of the m...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZYX


  • Added: Oct 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 2
Always Been With Me
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Amy has battled bipolar disorder all her life. She’s tried 25 different medications, but nothing has been able to stabilize her mood.

Bought by KPVL and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 2
Divorced Kid
From: American Public Media
Caption: "Divorced Kid" producer Sasha Aslanian at her own wedding in September 1999., Credit: Liz Banfield Photography
America's divorce rate soared in the 1970s. Thirty years later, kids who grew up in the divorce revolution look back at that experience, and descri...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGDR and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 31
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -6: Rosewood Reborn (1923 --
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: Rosewood survivor Minnie Lee Langley
It began on New Years Day 1923, when a white woman in a small Florida (saw-)milltown claimed that a black man had attacked her. By the week's end, ...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 59:31
  • Purchases: 1
Hazelton: How Mayor Lou Barletta Helped to Divide this small working class Pennsylvania town
From: Melissa Townsend
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In 2006 Mayor Lou Barletta cracked down on Latino residents new to the predominantly white working class town of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Many new L...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2008
  • Length: 11:46
Little Black Train
From: Nora Harrington
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Five Conversations on Death

  • Added: Dec 09, 2007
  • Length: 26:22
Grandpa
From: Lu Olkowski
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A father and son have a contest to take the best pictures of their dying grandpa, the result is an up-close portrait of death.

Bought by KUOW, PRX Remix, KUT, KVNF, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2007
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 6
A Burden to be Well: Sisters and Brothers of the Mentally Ill
From: Karen Brown
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Sound-rich documentary about the effect of mental illness on "well" siblings

Bought by KPVL, PRX to iTunes, WCQS, KXOT Public Radio, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
Morning Stories, Common Ground
From: WGBH Radio Boston
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Morning Stories expands on and samples from WGBH's popular Morning Stories podcasts, which contain stories from everyday people about a significant...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: 28:59
Morning Stories, From the Street
From: WGBH Radio Boston
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Morning Stories expands on and samples from WGBH's popular Morning Stories podcasts, which contain stories from everyday people about a significant...

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Hospice Chronicles
From: Long Haul Productions
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Long Haul Productions follows two hospice volunteers as they visit their first patients.

Bought by Raven Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, KERA, WVPE and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Youth and Sexism
From: KPFT
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Youth explore the issue of sexism.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2006
  • Length: 06:58
Coming Home
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2001
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Coming Home features stories from the hearth of gay America

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KQED, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 26, 2006
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Hart Island
From: Barrett Wolf
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Poem about New York City's Potters Field

  • Added: Nov 21, 2005
  • Length: 02:11
Bonnie's Budget
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Bonnie has raised three daughters on less than twenty thousand dollars a year but according to Bonnie, she is anything but poor.

Bought by WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, and WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 08, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 3
Mea, Me, Mine
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mea Tavares was born female. He’s spent the rest of his life redefining what it means to be male.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 08:49
  • Purchases: 1