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Billions lost! Ask me how!
From: Merle Kessler
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Some flunky at a bank in France lost billions. How?

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
LiveHopeLove
From: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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Writer and Poet Kwame Dawes explores HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, produced by Outer Voices, in association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WSKG, KBRP Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2008
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 22
This I Believe - Troy Chapman
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Tending a stray cat helped convicted murderer Troy Chapman realize that everyone wants to be needed.

Bought by WSLR, WEZU, WEZU, KUOW, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 30, 2008
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 5
How much water do we use?
From: William S. Hammack
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A look at how a typical American uses water - a large percentage of which is imported from outside the US!

Bought by Real Estate Today


  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
West Wing Moment
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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William's been a political junkie since he was a preteen.

Bought by WMPG, 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station, and PRX Election Podcast


  • Added: Jul 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 3
This I Believe - Kenneth Feinberg
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Lawyer Kenneth Feinberg believes people's lives should be valued equally, not based on their wealth.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WEZU, and WEZU


  • Added: May 27, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Should I Stay or Should I Go (To the Prom)
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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It's considered by many to be a rite of passage, but Blunt reporter David Barber-Callaghan isn't sure whether he wants to go to his senior prom. In...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and YouthCast


  • Added: May 15, 2008
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 3
William Penn Tried her for Witchcraft
From: The humble Farmer
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Margareta Matsson was the only person ever tried for witchcraft in Pennsylvania.

  • Added: May 14, 2008
  • Length: 01:38
Would You Run For President
From: The humble Farmer
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People who wouldn't run for the office had their reasons.

  • Added: May 06, 2008
  • Length: :31
Charlton Heston, Union Hero
From: Dick Meister
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Although he became a staunch conservative in his later years, actor Charlton Heston had earlier been a union leader and one of Hollywood's most out...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2008
  • Length: 02:37
The Line by Ona Wang
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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Ona Wang is 17 years old and a member of WordPlay, which was a team finalist in the 2008 Louder Than a Bomb Competition. WordPlay is an organizati...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:45
Basick-ness by Leonard "Junior" White
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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His first year in the competition, Junior says this piece is about his love of graffiti. Leonard "Junior" White is 18 years old and a member of Ku...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:31
The Bad Kids by Marvin Gutierrez
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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His seventh year in the competition, Marvin says this piece is about his love of graffiti. Marvin Gutierrez is 16 years old and a member of Kuumba...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:56
We Remain by Keith Redman
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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His first year in the competition, Keith says this piece is about humanity. Keith Redman is 18 years old and a member of Kuumba Lynx, which was th...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:20
Weird Beliefs
From: KVNF
Series: Belief Systems and Other B.S.
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Weird beliefs are incredibly common in religion, and also incredibly useful.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 30, 2008
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
Torture
From: KVNF
Series: Belief Systems and Other B.S.
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That others are tortured makes me feel tortured: let's stop.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 28, 2008
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
Saving The Sierra
From: Catherine Stifter
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3 stories of rural America where unlikely allies have found common ground in dealing with urban development pressures

Bought by KUT-HD, KXOT Public Radio, WCBU, WVIK, KUER and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
KERA Commentary: Public Sense of Identity
From: KERA
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How much our place of origin determines our sense of identity

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Brigid Brockway
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Ohio listener Brigid Daull Brockway believes she should stick her nose into other people's business.

Bought by WEZU and WEZU


  • Added: Feb 29, 2008
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
"Women RIsing XVI: Civil Disobedience and Resistance"
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Anti-war activist, Medea Benjamin takes her pro-democracy and pro-environment activism to new heights with CODEPINK. And Burmese activist Saw Mya...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
This I Believe - Sister Helen Prejean
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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"Dead Man Walking" author Sister Helen Prejean says to watch what she does to see what she believes.

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


  • Added: Feb 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 3
Secret Asian Woman
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Secret Asian Woman is a brief personal history of Mixed Race in America.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KUOW, KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Rebate Debate
From: Merle Kessler
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Consumers must bear brunt of repression. Why?

  • Added: Feb 10, 2008
  • Length: 02:33
Letters from the Outside
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Getting letters in jail is part of what keeps Randy going. Here he shares some from his friends in Texas.

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jan 17, 2008
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 1
California Wildfires; A Perspective
From: Michael Faulkner
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A provocative essay contemplating rebuilding after the Calif. wildfires

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jan 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1