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A place in the Tenderloin where sleep is sacred
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Every morning in the Tenderloin, when people all around San Francisco are starting to wake up, around 30 people gather at St. Boniface Church, wait...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 08:07
Author & journalist Damian Fowler on his new book, "Falling Through Clouds"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Near Grand Marais, Minn., in 2003, a small plane crashed in the forest, taking the lives of the pilot and his sister-in-law, but sparing the two li...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 24:22
  • Purchases: 1
After a fatal heroin overdose, the grief lingers for a family
From: WITF
Caption: Stephen Mercado (Anthony's stepfather), Jesse Perez and Stacy Emminger (Anthony's mother), Credit: Ben Allen/WITF
NOTE: This piece pairs best with a companion piece called Heroin addiction robs family of son. This traces the Emminger family's grief since they...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 1
Heroin addiction robs Lancaster County family of son
From: WITF
Caption: Anthony Perez and his son Gage., Credit: Ben Allen/WITF
Heroin addiction has touched towns and cities across the Northeast. In this piece, WITF's Ben Allen goes beyond the numbers to talk to a family who...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 07:07
Becoming An Advocate
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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What does life look like after experiencing major trauma?

  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 11:00
A Survivor Story
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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What does life look like after experiencing major trauma?

  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 21:09
Life of the Law #46 – One Conjugal Visit
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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How long would your relationship last without a kiss or more than a kiss In America, only three states allow prisoners and their spouses or domesti...

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 17:48
  • Purchases: 2
Politics on the Spot: The Houston Ship Channel
From: Michael May
Caption: The Texas Petrochemicals flare., Credit: Bryan Parras
We've heard a lot about the economy this general election season. Not so much about the other big E-word: the environment. Unless you count the man...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
After the Floods
From: Michael May
Caption: David Connor in front of FEMA trailer., Credit: Daniel May
It was three years ago that Katrina made landfall in the southeastern corner of Louisiana. Within a day, New Orleans was filling with water. But sm...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 08:26
Episode 11: I'm About To Save Your Life
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1977, a mild-mannered aeronautical engineer sideswiped a parked car in Compton, CA. He stopped his car to see the damage, and all of a sudden a ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 19:01
  • Purchases: 2
Two Days in Ferguson, MO
From: Nick Jaworski
Series: One Degree of Separation
Caption: A memorial at the location of Michael Brown's shooting in Ferguson, MO., Credit: Nick Jaworski
**A MUST-HEAR EPISODE FOR ANYBODY INTERESTED IN THE EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN FERGUSON, MO.** Nick visits the town of Ferguson, MO in the aftermath ...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Aug 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Physician Assisted Death in Colorado
From: Vero Balderas Iglesias
Caption: Reporter Veronica Balderas Iglesias interviewing Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosing physician assisted death.
KGNU's Veronica Balderas Iglesias brings us the story of Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosin...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 06:44
Cyberbullies, Mass Media and Pedophiles
From: Dan McPeake
Series: Endeavours
Caption: Paula Todd
Writer, professor, lawyer & digital media expert Paula Todd; Journalist Luke Malone

  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 56:32
CRACK: The Drug That Consumed the Nation's Capital
From: Kellen Quigley
Caption: Mayor Marion Barry
For years, powdered cocaine was D.C.'s drug of choice, but when crack hit the streets in the eighties, the city was afflicted by levels of addictio...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 51:30
A Shortcut Through 2013
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Nelson Mandela
A journey through the past twelve months, this retrospective gathers the major and minor events, the sounds, voices, music, memories, and emotional...

Bought by PRX Remix, KISU, KUNC & The Colorado Sound, North Country Public Radio, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 8
Adeeb's Fight for Justice
From: malene Haakansson
Caption: Adeeb Yousif
While most of the international community has forgotten about the crisis in Sudan’s Western Darfur region – human rights’ activist Adeeb Yousif con...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2013
  • Length: 51:59
MATT SHEPARD IS A FRIEND OF MINE -- Michele Josue Phone Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Michele Josue talks dealing with grief, facing new allegations about Matthew Shepard’s murder, and how friendship is always in the present tense.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 10:46
Monique, the slothified jewel from Suriname
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Monique at work, Credit: Anton Foek
She saved 205 sloths in a couple of weeks and now makes headlines around the globe.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 12:16
Suzette Jordan does the unthinkable!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Suzette Jordan, Credit: Sandip Roy
Recently the Park Street rape victim did something almost unthinkable in India. She revealed her identity.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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From: Zach Hirsch
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Two survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing confront their psychological bruises.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., PRX Remix, and HowSound


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 09:12
  • Purchases: 3
Durga's Murder Part 1
From: Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
Series: Who killed 8 year old Durga Owens?
Caption: Durga age 8, Credit: Courtesy of the Owens family
An old cold case still haunts family of murdered boy.

  • Added: May 12, 2013
  • Length: 05:12
George Jones: He Stopped Loving Her Today
From: Devon Strolovitch
Series: Inside the National Recording Registry
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George Jones, Bobby Braddock, and Hazel Smith tell the story behind one of the saddest songs ever written, selected for the National Recording Regi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KGLT, and KUT


  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:08
  • Purchases: 3
A Revolving Door For Deported Children
From: Fronteras Desk
Series: Removed: The Realities Of Deportation
Caption: A drawing by the American child of deported parents in Tijuana., Credit: Beth Caldwell
The majority of the 400,000 people deported from the U.S. in 2012 were adults, many with criminal records, but minors are sometimes caught up in th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 1
Children Left Behind: Deported Parents, American Kids
From: Fronteras Desk
Series: Removed: The Realities Of Deportation
Caption: An American boy walks down a street in Guanajuato, Mexico with his father, a deported Mexican national., Credit: Erin Siegal McIntyre
Hundreds, if not thousands, of deported parents are trying to reunite with children left behind in the United States.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
Helen Morley: A Blessed Nuisance
From: Grant Buhr
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Helen Morley was an unsung hero in a relatively unknown battle – the grassroots fight for mental health care in Chicago. Her deficits were often he...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:20

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