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Audio documentaries from the front lines

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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In this episode, we feature an audio diary from an English teacher living in Les Cayes, Haiti. Then we speak with former US Ambassador to Haiti, Pa...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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HOUR ONE: 'Jazz Migrations' - Jazz wasn't just born in America. There's an alternative history — a story of colonial empires, grassroots revolution...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:58
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It takes surprisingly little for the human psyche to come undone. We know that the virus can’t survive when we isolate ourselves, the question is, ...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 30:47
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Over the past few weeks, there have been so many news articles about healthcare workers as heroes, or soldiers fighting the battle of coronavirus. ...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 31:40
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This week tackles what it means to be sick. You’ll hear from diarists from Michigan, Maryland, Ontario/Canada, Massachusetts, and California. You w...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:39
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What is it like to be a healthcare worker forced to stand on the sidelines during a global pandemic? This week, you’ll hear from diarists from Cali...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 26:29
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This week, we continue with audio diaries from healthcare workers around the country who speak about ventilator hacks, breathing tubes, search and ...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 30:55
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In this episode of The Nocturnists: Stories from a Pandemic, you will hear diary entries from healthcare workers from New York, California, Massach...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 31:10
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In this first episode of our special podcast series, healthcare workers reflect on the imminent patient surge that we have all been bracing for acr...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 31:14
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For the month of April, The Rough Draft Diaries is going to bring you a short series of phone interviews detailing how the community has been affec...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 06:16
Caption: Joe Newman and Anita Sampson, Credit: ABC Action News
Joe Newman is 107 years old. He was 5 during the flu pandemic of 1918. Today, he lives in a senior apartment complex in Sarasota, Florida with his ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
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For the month of April, The Rough Draft Diaries is going to bring you a short series of phone interviews detailing how the community has been affec...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:18
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Jehan Bseiso is the Head of Communications for Doctors Without Borders in the Middle East Region by day (and some long evenings) and a poet by nigh...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 30:37
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In a Rough Draft Diaries first, we're entering the world of science by learning about the past (and present) struggles of Lake Erie with the former...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 06:06
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Tom Henry is a current feature writer for The Toledo Blade but not long before that he was creating a new genre of journalism for The Blade... and ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, we return to Baldemar Velásquez and the FLOC, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. An organization created to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 1
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The Standing Rock Sioux are protesting the construction of the 1200 mile Dakota Access oil pipeline because it threatens and places at enormous r...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2016
  • Length: 06:15
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The Rough Draft Diaries visits our local newspaper to interview Taylor Dungjen, a journalist working to understand and help the community around her.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:09
Caption: The Moving Wall came to Maine not long ago before Memorial Day..., Credit: Susan Cook
History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...

  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 07:06
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A radio nerd chases her dream job. Also a love story.

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 14:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Modi supporters at a rally, Credit: Reuters
Sandip Roy sends us an audio postcard from the 2014 Indian election season.

  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: New Managed car regulations require us to cover more items than we did before and our company has decided that is Unaffordable... we are cancelling your policy.", Credit: Susan Cook
Well, we thought it might happen. Over at Automobile Behavioral Health they are cancelling managed car insurance policies because the new "required...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:39
Caption: Kelly McEvers, Credit: Glen Carey
NPR's Kelly McEvers' unprecedented and intimate portrait of the sacrifices reporters and their families make to tell untold stories -- and the some...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Prairie Public, KSUT, RadioFreePalmer, WYSO and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 81
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As the Syrian revolution unfolded over the last year, Syrian-Americans have been glued to YouTube - the primary source of information from the war ...

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1