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We continue with the stories of five brave women—Terry Menefee Gau, Melissa Gray, Kathi Shiff, Mary Carpenter and Didi Tremblay—who like so many ot...
- Added: Oct 16, 2022
- Length: 27:31
This hour, stories about family ties, love and loss.
Bought by KOSU, Troy Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Michigan Radio and more
- Added: Apr 22, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
Aurora has finally found a stable home, after 14 years, at the Beloved Community Village, a tiny home colony for people experiencing homelessness i...
- Added: Feb 03, 2020
- Length: 17:12
This piece is an exploration of the experience of children of immigrants.
- Added: Dec 30, 2019
- Length: 07:04
In episode 25 of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, Houda interviews Christina, one of the English Language Development teachers from her schoo...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:10
Episode 26: It’s celebration time! Houda got her driver’s license!
Last September, Melanie started teaching Houda how to drive–the first woman in h...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:15
Tribute to my grandmother: No matter what life hands them, great dames keep on singing.
Bought by WHQR and Public Radio East
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
For the longest while I would think of my mother as a husk like the shell left behind by a cicada, all the internal meat gone, just a crisp skin re...
- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 27:38
"I sat my kid down and said 'do you wanna be a girl?' And she said 'no, I am a girl'"
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 23:30
- Purchases: 1
All of us are on this planet because we were born. Still, for most of us, giving birth is so mysterious. Many people don’t really learn about what ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:00
Karen Miller met a man named Gil Harper on Facebook. They started flirting. The flirtation grew more serious. Eventually, they planned to meet in r...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 25:13
- Purchases: 1
She didn't start with her name or with me. We trace the pure bred mutt's story back to the beginning, or as best we can.
Bought by North State Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2015
- Length: 14:29
- Purchases: 1
Israel Story's Mother's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching tale you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are now avai...
Bought by WYSO, WVPE, WZEN.org, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WNYC
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
At an extremely early age, Shavit Ben-Arie became the leading expert on the female members of the Israeli parliament and in many cases, he became t...
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 21:25
Mishy Harman shares the zany matchmaking adventures of his Orthodox downstairs neighbor, which he had no chance but to overhear because all her dat...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 09:27
- Purchases: 2
From patrolling the streets of Sunset Boulevard to infiltrating prostitution rings, this female police officer has seen it all. Patty Corso’s persp...
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 07:41
How do you proceed with your life when a family secret is revealed?
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 06:11
When my sister placed her baby for adoption, she and the adoptive parents developed an unexpected relationship.
- Added: Apr 02, 2014
- Length: 10:06
This show features three moms talking about the elusive “work/life balance”. But is this even the right term for this perennial conundrum?
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 15:08
When a married couple has a baby, is it fair for one of the parents to have to adopt the baby to make it their own? Why do the rules differ for m...
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 04:39
This is a story about two women who attempt to adopt a baby from an abortion clinic. Things don't go exactly as planned, and they end up in over th...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 20, 2011
- Length: 18:01
- Purchases: 1
While many of the most-told love stories are fairy tales, hers was real and it changed YOUR life.
- Added: Dec 08, 2010
- Length: 03:00
When it comes to giving birth in America, less than 1% of couples choose a "natural birth;" that is a birth with no drugs - and little to no medica...
- Added: May 14, 2010
- Length: 17:14
A single mother and her two teenage daughters tell the harrowing story of the girls' descent into an underworld of drugs and homelessness.
- Added: Apr 10, 2007
- Length: 34:20
- Purchases: 2
Four bereaved mothers who first came together to share the pain and the tragic loss of their children tell the story of the 25 year-old organizatio...
- Added: Mar 19, 2007
- Length: 34:09
