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My Big Fat Corona Wedding
From: Israel Story
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Long before Anthony Fauci became a household name, and we began peppering our speech with terms like “herd immunity” and “flattening the curve,” Mi...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 30:53
Justin Bachman Chooses to 'Live Loud' and Teach Others About Tolerance
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Justin poses with the tattoo that you got for his twentieth birthday, representing the cross country bib that was taken away from him in 2010., Credit: (c) Janel Semonasky, 2017
Justin Bachman has spent his whole life being different. After being diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome, Bachman chose to teach others about tolera...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAER Syracuse, NY, and WNYO


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
What's it like to live in a Lake Erie lighthouse? Bring water.
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Lighthouse, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Sheila Consaul purchased the Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light in 2011 – and since then, she’s renovated and refurbished her unique summer home.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WLPR , WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WKSU and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 7
Winter Life on a Great Lakes Island
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Delaware Avenue., Credit: Elizabeth Miller
Put-In-Bay, on an island in Lake Erie, is a summer destination for vacationers and tourists. But when winter comes and ferry service to the mainlan...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, WKSU, and WBFO


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps: Vaughn Allex and Denise Allex
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Vaughn Allex and Denise Allex
A former airline employee discusses the aftereffects of knowing he checked two 9/11 hijackers onto the plane that was flown into the Pentagon.

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
The Glass Sho: Episode 33 (Willie Nile)
From: Chris McGovern
Series: The Glass Sho
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Singer-songwriter Willie Nile discusses his latest album as well as other things in his career.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:02:27
Finding Treatment
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Being diagnosed with a disease is hard enough. Imagine living hours away from the closest place you could receive treatment.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:24
Does Portland Oregon’s TriMet Unfairly Cut Service for the Poor?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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When you think of modern, green, public transportation, a city that likely comes to mind is Portland, Oregon. Portland has built a reputation worl...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 08:45
WVR Show 382 - Mexico Special (Half hour to air May 7, 2011)
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour
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Spend a half-hour in Mexico this week without ever leaving home. It's all on The World Vision Report. From immigration issues to a plate full of ta...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
Walking Home: An Interview with Laura Milkins
From: Aengus Anderson
Caption: Camera on head, Laura Milkins walks across Tucson, AZ, Credit: Tom Willette
Laura Milkins is walking from Tucson, Arizona to Grand Rapids, Michigan—with a streaming webcam attached to her head. Milkins is a performance art...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 1
Culion Island
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Culion Island is a remote chunk of land in the Philippines that once housed the world’s largest leper colony. At its peak, 16,000 patients lived t...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
Egypt Tourism
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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While other parts of the Arab world are in turmoil now, Egypt celebrates a new beginning. But many Egyptians remain out of work – especially in th...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KRUA


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
Holocaust Survivors
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Egypt’s neighbor, Israel, is also facing protests about the rising price of bread, water, and gas. The labor movement is planning strikes and prot...

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1
Stereotypes
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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When we travel to a foreign country, we often bring our assumptions with us. That’s what reporter Jina Moore did during a trip to the capitol of t...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:36
New Delhi Tour Guides
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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We all know how easy it is to take for granted those things we’ve grown up around. But imagine growing up in the midst of historical monuments 700...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 05:09
Crawford Texas After the Bush Years
From: KUT
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Crawford, Texas became the adopted home of George W. Bush during his presidency. But the small town west of Waco has undergone some big changes si...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 03:25
Albergheria Tour
From: World Vision Report
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At the beginning of the 20th century, widespread poverty forced more than one million Sicilians to leave the island and immigrate to the United Sta...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 1
Creative Commutes
From: David Schultz
Caption: Slugging at the Pentagon is just one of the ways people in the Washington region develop their own methods of avoiding traffic-clogged highways., Credit: David Schultz/WAMU
Traffic congestion in the D.C. region is at an all-time high. That's forced many to get creative with their commutes.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2010
  • Length: 06:03
Route 66 business owners keep the Mother Road alive
From: Jordan Nelson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A new crop of Route 66 business owners give hope of a new life for America's favorite road.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2009
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 1
Adirondack Election Views
From: Brad Horn
Caption: Downtown Tupper Lake
What do people in the Adirondacks of New York think about the upcoming election?

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 10, 2008
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 1
"Lee the Horselogger"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Valentine Programming
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Joe Bevilaqcua meets a man who set out in a covered wagon in 2006 to find his childhood sweetheart and fell in love with America instead.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jan 11, 2008
  • Length: 10:28
  • Purchases: 1
The Half Way - Bus Station
From: WKNO
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The Half Way - Station in Jackson, Tennessee is the oldest operating terminal in the U.S.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and WVTF


  • Added: Nov 14, 2006
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 2