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Radio Impact Award The Ground We Lived On Sound Portraits, 11:33: Journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc faces mortality and loss in recordings she made during the last months of her father's life.
Best Documentary, Bronze Award Grandpa RadioLab, 58:59: How do we deal with dying? A father and son have a contest to take the best pictures of their dying grandpa, and the result is an up-close portrait of death.
Best Documentary: Honorable Mention American Icons: The Great Gatsby PRI, 59:00: F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is perhaps the quintessential early 20th-century American novel. What explains its lasting appeal?

2006 Third Coast Festival Broadcast
WBEZ / PRI, 120:00: Two-hour special featuring the winning documentary work from the 2006 Third Coast Festival/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition (one-time special).
Honoring the Body: Taharah
Rebecca Sheir, 15:45: Leaving the world as we entered it...with a twist.
Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu
Song and Memory, 04:30: The exiled son of Ghana's former emir remembers the song his father listened to as he carried the burden of leading Ghana's Muslim people.
My Lobotomy
Sound Portraits, 22:41: One man's quest to uncover the hidden story behind the lobotomy he received as a 12-year-old child.
Between Friends
Outfront, 12:59: A secret shared between 10 year-old girls becomes evidence in a court case 20 years later.
Thembi's AIDS Diary
Radio Diaries, 23:28: A year in the life of a South African teenager.

Gold Dear Birth Mother Long Haul Productions, 29:00: After waiting for Mr. Right (who has yet to arrive) - and after years of fertility treatments - Suzanne, a single woman in her forties, decided to adopt. She chose transracial adoption.
Bronze Mandela: An Audio History American Radio Works, 60:00: The story of South Africa's struggle against apartheid.
Director's Choice Awards The Wire CBC, 8 hour-long episodes: The impact of electricity on music.
The Ring and I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania
WNYC, 58:59: The love affair between hundreds of thousands of people and one colossal piece of work, Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung.
Just Another Fish Story
Salt Institute, 08:27: How do you get rid of a 60-ton dead whale?
A Map of the Sea
Homelands Productions, 59:00: A sound-rich documentary about the efforts of traditional societies to find a niche in the global marketplace, with stories from Peru, Canada, Scotland and Mexico.; "A fascinating story, beautifully paced and produced, it's worth playing the whole hour just to let your listeners hear [Brookes'] bit of audio wizardry."
Miller | full review
Weighing the Balance
Kellie Hudson, Dick Miller, & Mike Bryan, 21:29: In 2003, six men were named by the Toronto police as people who had purchased child pornography. What happened to them?

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