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Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 12:15
When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 26:07
When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 07:41
Summer Road Construction Plans with Mike Doherty from MN DOT
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 24:48
A lot has been said about the Ultra-Orthodox community during the pandemic. But little has been heard from its members themselves. Yochai Maital an...
- Added: Aug 11, 2020
- Length: 15:34
"One-two-three-four/ What are we waiting for? Fifty years on, after a night spent largely on that big wet, now commercialized field in Bethel, New...
- Added: Aug 16, 2019
- Length: 04:00
Vanessa from Austin, Texas, talks about why she wants the detention centers at the border to be closed. She describes what she saw in the children'...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 04:10
Meant to be an Israeli version of Hair’s ‘Let the Sunshine In,’, Shir La’Shalom was quickly banned by generals and labeled as both defeatist and de...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 13, 2018
- Length: 12:16
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Sep 07, 2018
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
A commentary/editorial/music mix for the US American change of Imperial Power, first aired in January 2017.
- Added: Jul 15, 2017
- Length: 14:59
Eddie Jaffe was a press agent "legendary for his lost causes, chutzpah and angst," according to his obituary in the New York Times. He represented ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 01:43
- Purchases: 3
Fitting song to play before or after basically any story that packs a good wallop.
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 02:58
An acoustic story about growing up in the 1950s and society's loss of innocence since.
- Added: Jul 31, 2016
- Length: 26:05
Candace Simar is a Pequot Lakes poet who with her sister Angela Foster, has written a book of poems and essays, "Farm Girls," which was recently re...
- Added: Aug 11, 2013
- Length: 02:06
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 1
Ann Niedringhaus is a Duluth poet who has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She belongs to a Duluth writers group that is currentl...
- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 01:57
When tragedy strikes a 16-year-old Muslim girl, her neighbor, Helene Newberg, is inspired to run in this year’s Boston marathon for her. And like e...
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 12:46
Writer, and Native American from Leach Lake Reservation, David Treuer, last year published “Rez Life,” an important work on many levels. David Treu...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSJD, and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 16:45
- Purchases: 3
Preston Bus Station is considered one of the finest examples of British "Brutalist" architecture. Built in 1969 at the time of its construction it ...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 15:00
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays. In th...
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 05:58
Between 50 and 80 percent of American adults carry oral herpes, the virus that causes sold sores. Many people with oral herpes never show any symp...
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 07:19
Rick Steves is a popular PBS Travel Host and has authored dozens of travel guides. Here he speaks passionately about marijuana reform at the NORML ...
Bought by KSFR and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Aug 31, 2009
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 2
School on Wheels is a non-profit program located in Los Angeles which pairs volunteer tutors to homeless students.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and CKMO
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 3
A profile of Millinocket, Maine, after the mill shut down.
- Added: Jan 20, 2009
- Length: 06:50
Weed, cocaine, morphine, oxycontin, crack, Ryan has tried them all. Once he developed a tolerance for one, he just moved on to the next. Now he's i...
Bought by Remix Radio and WXLV-FM
- Added: Apr 12, 2007
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 2
