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Is art a public good? In the cash-strapped city of Bangor, a suggestive sculpture sparks debate.
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 05:31
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
In 2014, tens of thousands of Americans died from accidental drug overdoses. Many more remain addicted to prescription painkillers and heroin. For...
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WMMT, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 3
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Rhode Island’s prisons are grappling with a dilemma. Hundreds of inmates have hepatitis C. New drugs can cure it. But they’re so expensive the depa...
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 08:39
On this show we bring you an update on some of the stories we’ve covered this year. We’ll go to a protest to talk to advocates calling for an end t...
- Added: Dec 17, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
There’s a new push to get tourists in New Orleans off bourbon street and into nature. Eco-tourism is the new way to explore Louisiana according to ...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 1
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
How do you stop an epidemic? Keep the people who are sick from infecting more people. Isolate them if you have to, treat them, and cure them. Epide...
Bought by WMMT and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 14, 2014
- Length: 06:43
- Purchases: 2
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Baby boomers make up the majority of the estimated five million people who have hepatitis C. Most caught the disease – from sharing needles, or a b...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Nov 14, 2014
- Length: 07:55
- Purchases: 1
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 2
’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...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 2
Religious devotion and carnival revelry combined Friday night as thousands of devout Catholics gathered in the small Guatemalan village of San Bart...
- Added: Apr 08, 2014
- Length: 01:43
WABE reporter Jim Burress takes us to ‘The Bluff’, a neighborhood in Atlanta where a needle exchange program has become a vital part of a strugglin...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Mar 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In a Global Day of Action, LGBT Nigerians and their allies fight back against new anti-gay laws.
- Added: Mar 08, 2014
- Length: 02:14
The tribulations of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, are depicted in the popular film 12 Years a Slave. A soon to be publis...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 1
The tribulations of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, are depicted in the popular film 12 Years a Slave. A soon to be publis...
Bought by WJCT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WLIW
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Ben Weisz investigates how child labour is rife among Montevideo's rubbish-cart drivers, and what is being done to help.
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 09:27
Missing laborer in Brazil highlights disappearances amid police crackdown in favelas
- Added: Aug 17, 2013
- Length: 04:58
Julie Eaton is the captain of the Cat Sass. She spends 6 months of the year on the water, and is ready to haul in a union.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 2
Throughout the school year, we've been following two bright, young, future doctors. Now, we're wrapping up the journey with a one-hour documentary ...
Bought by 90.5 WESA, KZYX, KUNM, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 52:45
- Purchases: 4
For the past school year, the series "Future Docs" has been following two Brown University medical students to see how their training is evolving w...
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 05:00
We're checking in on our Future Docs, Sarah and Peter, who've nearly reached the mid-way point of their second year of medical school. Reporter Kri...
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 07:15
After medical school, most doctors go through a kind of on-the-job training called residency. Residency programs have been around for a while, but ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 03:39
As a nation, we’re getting older, and we’re getting sicker. More of us than ever are over the age of 65. And more of us are suffering from at least...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Jul 07, 2013
- Length: 07:50
- Purchases: 1
What do doctors need to learn in school to take the best care of you? Clearly, they need advanced medical and scientific knowledge. But should we e...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Jul 07, 2013
- Length: 05:41
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy takes us to the rally in Kolkata where thousands marched against the rash of violent rapes in the state of Bengal.
- Added: Jun 25, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
The device that inspired a generation-- a prototype of one of the first portable transistor radios -- has just been accepted into the Smithsonian's...
- Added: Jun 06, 2013
- Length: 02:43
