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Where You Least Expect It
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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As a maintenance man at The Waynflete School and a working writer, Michael Macklin?s world is filled with sawdust, kids, and poetry.

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Other End of the Line: Profile of a 911 Operator
From: Aaron Henkin
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a look at life on the phone at the Baltimore City Police Department's 911 call center

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 15, 2007
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
Blind Traveler
From: daniella ponet
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Pat, a blind activist and singer/poet, describes her life in New York City

  • Added: May 13, 2007
  • Length: 10:01
Major-league mariners
From: John Ryan
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A midnight run on a giant oil tanker

  • Added: Apr 07, 2007
  • Length: 06:39
Crossing Admiralty Inlet
From: John Ryan
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The rough seas -- real and virtual -- of Puget Sound

  • Added: Apr 06, 2007
  • Length: 06:08
Bridges over troubled waters
From: John Ryan
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Journey deep beneath the sea, and back in time, in the Tacoma Narrows

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2007
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 1
Pastures of Plenty: The Future of Farm Labor
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farm Workers
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Program 4 in a four-part series about farmworker history

Bought by KSQD Santa Cruz, KVMR, North State Public Radio, KZYX, WCBU and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2007
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 16
Pastures of Plenty: Destination El Norte: Braceros and Campesinos
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farm Workers
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Program 3 in a four-part series on farmworker history

Bought by KSQD Santa Cruz, KVMR, North State Public Radio, KUSP, WCBU and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2007
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 16
Pastures of Plenty: Hard Times in the Country: The Depression Years
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farm Workers
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Program 2 in a four-part series on farmworker history.

Bought by KSQD Santa Cruz, North State Public Radio, KUSP, WCBU, KUOW and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2007
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
The Belltown Hustle
From: David Weinberg
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Welcome to the world of the belltown posse...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2007
  • Length: 11:11
Pastures of Plenty: Sailing East: Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos in the Fields
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farm Workers
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Program 1 in a four part series about farmworker history.

Bought by KSQD Santa Cruz, North State Public Radio, KUSP, WCBU, KUOW and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2007
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 14
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
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Youth Flight in Falmouth: If the next generation of teachers, nurses, and firefighters can't make the Cape their home, then who will serve and take...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2007
  • Length: 04:52
Timber! The Aftermath of the Washington Logging Collapse
From: Jessica Roberts
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What happens after an industry collapses?

  • Added: Feb 07, 2007
  • Length: 18:14
Where Credit is Due
From: Sean Kelly
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A documentary about microcredit

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and Audible


  • Added: Nov 09, 2006
  • Length: 49:49
  • Purchases: 2
Seven O'Clock in the Morning
From: Jefferey Sweeton
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Jose Luiz speaks from a dirty and weed filled lot, begging the City of Chicago to let him keep the broken and abandoned land...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2006
  • Length: 12:09
"You talkin' to me?" - Conversation with a Cabbie
From: Aaron Henkin
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A veteran cab driver reflects on what it takes to do his job.

Bought by KUOW, Here and Now, and CKMO


  • Added: Oct 20, 2006
  • Length: 09:40
  • Purchases: 3
Reporting from the Red Light
From: Seattle Globalist
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A reporter's personal and ethical journey through Kolkata's red light districts.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2006
  • Length: 08:44
The Film that Exposed a Memorial Day Massacre
From: Dick Meister
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A once-suppressed newsreel showing Chicago police chasing, killing and wounding strikers and their families on Memorial Day in 1937 played an impor...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KFAI Minneapolis, and KPFT


  • Added: May 27, 2006
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 3
Taxi Line
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Somali taxi drivers in Portland Maine sit with their frustrations, hopes, and memories.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Used and Abused: Child Trafficking in Southeast Asia
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Throughout Southeast Asia, tens of thousands of children are being trafficked and end up in the sex industry or in sweatshops.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Passaic On Strike!
From: New Jersey Historical Commission and NJN Public Radio
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In 1926, 16,000 Wool Workers Strike for nearly a year in New Jersey

Bought by WVTF, KBRP Community Radio, Iowa Public Radio, KLCC, KZYX and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2006
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 10
Crossing East: Exclusion & Resistance - Program Four
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Accounts of immigration laws designed specifically to restrict Asian Americans. THE ACTUAL SHOW LENGTH IS 59 MINUTES. THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSIONS O...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WCPN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCPN, KQED and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Hiking the Andes
From: Cynthia Graber
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Reflections with sound of hiking the Inca Trail, poor Peruvian porters carrying our belongings.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2006
  • Length: 04:26
Tending the Barter's Island Bridge
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Step out onto the Barter's Island Bridge as Duane and Dwight Lewis run around in circles opening the bridge for passing boats.

Bought by SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
Every Ship is Different
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Board an oil tanker on its way into Portland Harbor with harbor pilot Captain Susan Clark.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 2

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