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Home Planet: On the move
From: Spokane Public Radio
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It isn't easy to pack up a life and move. But there are advantages. Moving gives you a chance to look at what you own and what owns you. Moving giv...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 02:39
Home Planet: Fly away home
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Watching a family of Swallows who have nested under the eaves brings a comparison to the drama in the human nest

  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 03:22
B-Side: Indoor Space, Outside
From: B-Side Radio
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Take it outside! Isn't that what your mom always told you? And weren't you happy to comply? B-Side's Tamara Keith brings us stories about what happ...

Bought by KGOU, KXOT Public Radio, and KUT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2006
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 3
Losing It
From: Rebecca Sheir
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A move to Alaska leads one woman to give up a certain something she's been holding onto for years... and where else to lose it but at Hooters?

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 04:46
What I'll Remember
From: BSR Radio
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"And like the masses in Times Square on the cusp of midnight, we are waiting in anticipation of something huge."

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Apr 17, 2006
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: Dana Reeve - What really matters.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Dana Reeve, widow of Christopher Reeve, died March 6 at the age of 44.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2006
  • Length: 03:15
One Afternoon by Joanie Mackowski
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WNYC, and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 06, 2006
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 4
Home Planet: What I see in your eyes.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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One day, when my first child was just a toddler and I was holding her close, she stopped talking suddenly and leaned quite close to me. Capturing m...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2006
  • Length: 03:06
Home Planet: Real Love (To air Feb 13.)
From: Spokane Public Radio
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I watched the old man and woman walk slowly down the sidewalk...

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Feb 10, 2006
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
How to Observe Presidents' Day, Observed
From: The Little Gray Book Lectures
Series: The Little Gray Book Lectures
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Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman and Joshuah Bearman on Presidents' Day, along with a fifteen-piece marching band and a new song about all forty-three pr...

Bought by KWIT, Nevada Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2006
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 13
Home Planet: Love or Something Like It. (Valentine's Day)
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Love doesn't always come with balloons and words that rhyme. True love usually comes to us just like the groceries, mixed with the necessities and ...

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and WKNO


  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 2
Home Planet: (New Year) Time in My Hands
From: Spokane Public Radio
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I don't have a lot to show for last year. I didn't lose a pound or gain an hour. I didn't save nearly enough time or money. I didn't turn over any ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WAMC, Public Interactive, KUOW, and KZUM


  • Added: Dec 29, 2005
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 5
Red-Speak, Blue-Speak: Why Conservatives and Liberals Fail to Communicate
From: Janis Jaquith
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A personal essay illustrating George Lakoff's theory that what's moral for US is immoral for THEM

  • Added: Dec 21, 2005
  • Length: 05:01
Praying for Peace in The New Year
From: Paul McDonald
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What might really happen if every warrior on the planet beat his sword into a plowshare?

Bought by WSLR, KDNK, KUT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KTNA


  • Added: Dec 20, 2005
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 5
Home Planet: (Christmas) Silent Night
From: Spokane Public Radio
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We can't see magic at work. Sometimes, we have to be content with looking at where it's been.

  • Added: Dec 04, 2005
  • Length: 03:23
Home Planet: Dear Santa, Make it work again.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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A few minutes before midnight a little boy brings one of last year's gifts and places it under the tree. He wants to return it to Santa.

Bought by WRVO and WNIN


  • Added: Dec 03, 2005
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
Let's Talk About Sex
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Blunt Presents: Youth and Sex
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Johanna Greenberg says parents, including her own, are falling down on the job when it comes to "the talk." So she makes the first move.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and YouthCast


  • Added: Nov 21, 2005
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 2
Home Planet: None So Blind: A Thanksgiving Story
From: Spokane Public Radio
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A plate full of homemade food, the gift of a Thanksgiving meal, connects a lonely, blind, old woman and the shy little girl next door.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Delta College Public Radio, WTIP, KZYX, KGOU and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2005
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 13
Home Planet: Wanting the 'Firsts' to Last Forever
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Going to summer camp for the first time is a big milestone for a mother as well as a child.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2005
  • Length: 02:38
A Cook's Notebook: Bones
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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as a reconciliation to the beast - roast the bones

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Apr 27, 2005
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
Experiences With The "N" Word
From: Paul McDonald
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A double standard still exists for this racial epithet.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFAI, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Feb 10, 2005
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 3
A Cook's Notebook: Beach Paella
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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cooking on the beach

Bought by WAMC, Public Interactive, and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Sep 02, 2004
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 3
The Fair
From: Jason Rayles
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The fair is bright and nice and happy, and then the sun goes down....

Bought by KFAI, KUOW, WNIJ, WBEZ, WZBC and more


  • Added: May 04, 2004
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 7
Yo-Yo Ma ENCORE: In his own words
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
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Yo-Yo Ma describes how a 21st-century hotel key helps him create the right sound for a rustic piece called "Drunken Fisherman."

Bought by Public Interactive, KMHD, and KNAU


  • Added: Apr 27, 2004
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 3
The Day My Mother's Head Exploded (Short Version)
From: Hannah Palin
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It is the story of the brain aneurysm that almost killed my mother in 1987 and how she became a completely different person from the mother of my c...

Bought by KUOW, Wisconsin Public Radio, KPCC, East Village Radio, WUAL and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2004
  • Length: 11:06
  • Purchases: 6