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UPDATED VERSION - At production time, the date of the Boy Scouts vote was 5/20, and that was referenced in the program. Now it appears that the vot...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
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The story behind one of the saddest songs ever written.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Helen Morley was an unsung hero in a relatively unknown battle – the grassroots fight for mental health care in Chicago. Her deficits were often he...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:20
Caption: April 15th, 2013
April 15th came with an explosion this year at the Boston Marathon, this mix blends sounds from that afternoon with the ongoing bad history on that...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:47
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Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 2
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ID Radio is a two-minute daily feature with interviews and insights from today’s most influential authors, musicians, artists, and creative minds. ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
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Earlier this year, Kateri Tekakwitha became the first Native American saint. The 356-year-old saint helps American Indians cope with the Catholic C...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 05:36
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A small town's shocking scandal becomes national news, but no one is really sure why.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 07:35
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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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Being diagnosed with a disease is hard enough. Imagine living hours away from the closest place you could receive treatment.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:24
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Making a living is a struggle this year for Maine lobster fishermen - due in part to strong conservation regulations.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Vietnamese fishing communities are still finding themselves grounded by the BP oil spill, one of the largest environmental disasters of the century...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 10:20
Caption: Carmen Ward has been an inmate in San Quentin’s Adjustment Center for seven years, Credit: Nancy Mullane
What do we really know about death row in California? When we don’t know we create, we imagine.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 27:37
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Red Hook is an isolated neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, once known as the “crack capital of America.” In 2000, residents banded together to create a ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 11:48
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You’ve just been arrested, charged with a felony and can’t afford to pay your bail, let alone hire a lawyer. You know you have the right to a trial...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 13:00
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Is the law ever a laughing matter? We present to you a brief history of attempted comedy in the toughest room in the country—the Supreme Courtroom.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:10
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Two first time radio producers travel to the Everglades intending to tell the story of a state-sanctioned Python hunt, but end up telling an altoge...

Bought by KGOU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 09, 2013
  • Length: 15:34
  • Purchases: 2
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Each year, we ask some of public radio's most respected tastemakers to share their top picks for SXSW Music. We put those selections together and ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 2
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An hour-long radio documentary examining sexual assault on high school-aged girls in Indiana, featuring stories of sexual assault survivors, as wel...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 53:59
Caption: Lisa Smith and Tad Wagner skate at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, MN., Credit: Noel Clark
Built in 1982, the Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome has seen it’s share of sporting events. Baseball, football, soccer. But off the field, a community o...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Luxury hotels and apartments across the street from an earthquake-risk neighborhood., Credit: Ashley Cleek
Istanbul is a massive city of around 15 million people living in 3 million apartments. But Istanbul is also a city that is slated to have a major e...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 11:13
  • Purchases: 1
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There's a battle going on for the soul of Kensington Market in downtown Toronto...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:00
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features a discussion with The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert about the impact of climate change on enviromental health, human health, and human ri...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 20:35
Caption: Busting the Artichoke King's racket in the Bronx
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 09:56
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ID Radio is a two-minute daily feature with interviews and insights from today’s most influential authors, musicians, artists, and creative minds. ...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1