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For the past ten years, drug cartels in Mexico have been worshiping a sort of grim repress, a robed skeleton lady known as Santa Muerte, or Saint D...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Over the past decade, Mexican drug traffickers trying to get their products to the U.S. have had a spiritual “protector.” Her name is Santa Muerte—...

  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:00
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Investigative reporter Mark Dowie, host of Talking Point Radio probes the challenging moral controversy surrounding assisted death in this hour-lon...

Bought by KVMR and WRPI


  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:58:25
  • Purchases: 2
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Sometimes you see more than you expect.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 00:01:47
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A true story told live in London. David goes scuba diving off the coast of Sicily, and gets into troubled waters - involving an airport runway, uns...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:11:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Conversations with people who take a DIY approach to science and to life: DIY biologists working to democratize the lab, a single mom who says some...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:01
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Living in a new place can be hard. It can also be great!

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:27
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A three-minute spin on time-lapse phonography. Fragments, questions, and the banal. Life stories and other accidents.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Electricity, pumps & shunts: A forensic pathologist on life.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:01:23
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Why is death such a difficult subject to talk about? From hospital mortuary to the grave, The D-Word explores our complex relationship with death...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:30:30
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Statisticians test whether famous musicians are really more likely to die at age 27.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 00:01:00
Caption: The Dead and Their Place
In this programme we’ll be looking at the treatment of Sheffield’s dead at the beginning of the 19th century and asking what this can tell us about...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 00:38:00
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"I’d go and usually have a pint of Guinness and a chaser to steady my nerves. Then I'd go to the hospital and I'd sleep beside my father." - Bono. ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 01, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bob Marley on Tour in Dublin July 6, 1980, Credit: Eddie Mallin via Flickr
Rona Steinberg recalls the time a cancer-stricken Bob Marley came into her hospital and her life.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:05
  • Purchases: 1
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When a neighborhood newspaper folds, the publisher creates a unique ritual to mark its passing.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:42
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We bring animals into our lives for companionship. And this newly formed relationship redefines the idea of family. This is a look at pet love and ...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 00:15:11
Caption: Library of Dust, Canister 1454, Credit: David Maisel, photographer
Photographer David Maisel's project "Library of Dust" proves there is life after death, in vivid color.

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:51
  • Purchases: 2
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Elaine and Francis- a nun and a priest- fell deeply in love and left the Church so they could be married. Nearly 40 years later, on Jan. 3rd 2010, ...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:58
  • Purchases: 1
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People once buried their dead in small family plots. Now we can have our ashes turned into diamonds--or shot into space. What do our burial practic...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
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Two hospice workers invite us into the world of death and dying.

Bought by WMPG, KUOW, and KFAI


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 00:11:36
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on The Live Feed we join a band that just released their first cd with the theme death in mind. Good Luck and Godspeed is a four man band...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 00:31:21
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During this program, TWQ producer Chérie Newman talks with Jenni Fallein about her new collection of poetry, IF BEAUTY WERE A SPY. The conversation...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In early 2010, Elaine McGillicuddy lost her husband to bone cancer. Elaine has created her own grieving process rooted in daily rituals. She is e...

Bought by WMPG, WAMC, Interfaith Voices, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:58
  • Purchases: 5
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It's one thing to make it to living in your nineties, and another to get to that age and still live independently at home. Bob and Terry Rohe have ...

Bought by WNPR, WMPG, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:54
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Adam Warner and Meghan Baker, Credit: Meghan Baker
When people ask Adam Warner what he does for a living, he tells them he's living out his wife's life goals.

Bought by Third Coast Festival/Re:sound and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 22, 2010
  • Length: 00:35:54
  • Purchases: 2