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The Earth Breathes
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip Roy's empty street in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
For these few weeks as humans suffer, the earth is healing itself.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Orthodox
From: Jonathan Hirsch
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What happens when your religious faith and sexual identity directly contradict one another? Josh Tranen lived with this contradiction for years. Ev...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 17:43
Minnesota Native News Special Edition: Responding to the Opioid Crisis in MN Native Communities
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News Special Editions
Caption: In 2015 More American Indians in MN Died of Drug Poisoning than in Any Other State. , Credit: MN Department of Human Services, May 2016
For over a decade, the prescription pain killer and heroin abuse crisis has had a hold on communities across the U-S. Opioid overdoses tripled betw...

Bought by KMSU, WDSE, WGZS, KFAI Minneapolis, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 14
Nicklesville Pushes Seattle Towards Acceptance of Tent Cities
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Nicklesville, Credit: Sara Bernard
Seattle is one of the only cities in the nation to have passed an ordinance formally sanctioning tent cities. A lot of that success can be chalked ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:13
  • Purchases: 2
Finding a home on Hotel 22
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Elizabeth Garber talks to the bus driver at the Palo Alto Transit Center, Credit: Isabel Angell
’m on the Valley Transportation Authority’s Line 22 bus somewhere between East San Jose and Palo Alto. It’s 2:30 AM, and it’s raining. I start a co...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 2
The Python Challenge
From: casey schelhorn
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Two first time radio producers travel to the Everglades intending to tell the story of a state-sanctioned Python hunt, but end up telling an altoge...

Bought by KGOU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 09, 2013
  • Length: 15:34
  • Purchases: 2
Uranium Bust Town May Boom Again
From: Addie Goss
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Some say rising uranium prices could revive a Wyoming ghosttown. But remaining residents don't buy it.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: 05:28
Blue Highways Day Trip #2 - Iraq Audio Diaries
From: Eric Mack
Series: Blue Highways
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We found one National Guard Chaplain from upstate New York who kept an audio diary in Iraq. His family also kept a diary back in Saranac Lake, NY.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
New Orleans' Friendly Bar
From: WFUV
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A visit to a local New Orleans bar reveals stories of Katrina's lingering effects.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2007
  • Length: 05:28
"And I Walked..." Stories from the Border
From: Ann Heppermann
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"And I walked" combines voices of border crossers, U.S. Border Patrol, and the haunting words of author Charles Bowden to highlight the plight of t...

Bought by PRX Remix, The Nature Podcast, Western Folklife Center Media, WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2004
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 7