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Saint Death
Series: With Good Reason news features
From With Good Reason
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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
The Rise of Santa Muerte
From With Good Reason
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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
Helping A Loved One Die
From Mark Dowie
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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
The Forest
From Alaska Teen Media Institute
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Sometimes you see more than you expect.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 00:01:47
Between A Rock and a Hard Place - David Dinnell
Series: Spark London
From Matt Hill
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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
Conversations
Series: Destination DIY
From Destination DIY
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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
Klet
From Alaska Teen Media Institute
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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
Sex and Death
From Sarah Boothroyd
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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
Adam as Machine
From Ed Prosser
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Electricity, pumps & shunts: A forensic pathologist on life.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:01:23
The D-Word
From Ed Prosser
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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
The "27 Club" Myth - Airdate: 4 January 2012
Series: Science Update
From Science Update
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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
Mind Labs
From Cornucopia Radio
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
Bono on His Dad's Final Days Before He Died of Cancer
Series: Blank on Blank
From Blank on Blank
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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
The Dietitian on Feeding Bob Marley Before He Died of Cancer
Series: Blank on Blank
From Blank on Blank
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
Newspaper Funeral
From Destination DIY
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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
Love and Loss in the Pet World
From Todd Cross
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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
The Library of Dust
From Sarah Lilley
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
Sing and I Will Hear You
From Carolyn Barnwell
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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
Grave Matters
From With Good Reason
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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
Bury Me Deep
From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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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
The Live Feed Presents: Good Luck and Godspeed
Series: The Live Feed
From KQAL
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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
Jenni Fallein, poet and painter
Series: The Write Question
From KUFM - Montana Public Radio
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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
Sing and I Will Hear You
From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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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
The Nest
From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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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
The List
From Love + Radio
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