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Caption: The White Dove Review
This week, we meet a rock star on our paper route.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jordan Corey
Not many aspirational musicians can claim their songs rated alongside groups like Maroon 5 and Gwen Stefani. But, Jordan Corey can! And, she did ...

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 07:00
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Since she was a little girl, Saphira's life has been structured around the limits of Cerebral Palsey. Pushing through physical and emotional pain a...

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 06:17
Caption: Chuck Piekarski, Credit: Janette Beckman
Chuck Piekarski, a baker/pastry chef at God's Love We Deliver in New York, came to his job after experiencing a personal tragedy -- and now he's gi...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:49
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[This is our first piece on PRX - sort of a trial balloon for us. If the show became a regular series on PRX, would you be interested in it? Plea...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. On this edition, we...

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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"When I started to play jazz... I started in the middle. I wanted to play Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and all of that stuff first... When I started c...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Every Friday, individuals who wish to connect with the land and garden communally are invited to attend PLOT 22's Garden Fridays. In this intimate...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 19:21
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Every Friday, individuals who wish to connect with the land and garden communally are invited to attend PLOT 22's Garden Fridays. In this intimate...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 22:30
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An investigation into the stuff that makes anything digital actually possible: rare earth minerals. Host Benjamen Walker uncovers the dark story be...

Bought by KUT and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bill Kirchen
He’s been called the Titan of the Telecaster, the King of Diesel Billy. Bill Kirchen is all that and a lot more. He’s a master in a league of his o...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 27:45
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Joanna Foster was worried when her first deaf child was born. When her second baby was born deaf and autistic, she was devastated. Joanna started l...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:12
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Brain injuries have been in the news a lot lately - with soldiers and sports heroes suffering from acquired brain injuries, science and the public ...

Bought by KDNK and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:32
  • Purchases: 2
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With the legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine, Barton Girdwood got to wondering, what about all the gay men in Maine who never found love? S...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
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In the small village of Stratton, Maine, a woman believes she's not the master of her own destiny - the spirit of a sea captain is preventing her f...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Somewhere in the midwest are two of the most unnatural sounding rooms in the world, which some say were used to test the hearing of rabbits.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 22:01
  • Purchases: 1
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The story of a unique landmark off the eastern coast of England - a packing shed built in the 1890s for the cleaning, sorting, and packing of oysters.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Freddie Topete at Adult Transition Program, Credit: Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio
A one-hour documentary exploring what's happening twenty years after a sharp rise in autism rates. Thousands of children are aging out of special e...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Spokane Public Radio, KRCB-FM, KREV-LP, KWMR-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 21
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Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:14
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A woman arms herself before leaving for work; an 18 year old girl spends three months in an Alaskan cannery; and that woman on the phone is not who...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Aspen Public Radio, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 3
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Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a birth chart by an interested skeptic. Hidden from him for years, he attempts to reconcil...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
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Zach is a teenager who creates his own music that combines influences from world cultures!

  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
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From the outside, it seemed like Michael had it all - parents who loved him, a supportive brother, an affluent home, and good grades. But, wanting...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 15:08
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Two Syrians, separated by war, go to great lengths for love.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:29
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Ethnically Parsi, Diana grew up in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and went to boarding school there. She talks about how she and her family have ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:09