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Hidden Kitchen Mama
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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Mothers and kitchens. The food they cooked or didn’t. The stories they told or couldn’t. In honor of Mother’s Day we linger in the kitchen.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KZYX, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Vocalo.org and more


  • Added: May 04, 2010
  • Length: 08:23
  • Purchases: 6
Bayoji Akingbola - "The Victim of Circumstance"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
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Meet Tulane graduate Bayoji Akingbola. On paper, he was the perfect Teach for America candidate. But even the best teacher needs support. Was Bayoj...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:11
CHICK/LIT
From: Inez Tan
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This feature explores the global subculture of Slash fiction, a genre of fan fiction where pop culture/media fans write stories about their favouri...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2010
  • Length: 31:38
Someone to Tuck Me In
From: Radio Rookies
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Last year at a routine check-up, 15-year-old Raymond Henderson decided to tell the truth. When his doctor noticed bruises on his neck, Raymond admi...

Bought by KFAI, Public Radio Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2010
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 3
I'm Not Emo
From: Radio Rookies
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Like most of the kids in her school and on her block, 16-year-old Josetta Adams used to listen to hip-hop. But when she slipped into a depression, ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUT, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2010
  • Length: 09:08
  • Purchases: 3
Read a Book
From: Radio Rookies
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Keith Harris had a secret when he started school in the U.S. for the first time: he didn't know how to read and write.

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2010
  • Length: 09:24
  • Purchases: 2
Home Alone
From: Radio Rookies
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Krystle loves her mom very much and she feels guilty about how hard her mom has worked to provide a good life for them, but Krystle sometimes wonde...

Bought by The Story, KUT, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2010
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 3
Money Stress
From: Radio Rookies
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Rookie Reporter Erikka Diaz, like many of her neighbors in South Bronx, has lived in poverty her whole life. Her family knows well the anxiety that...

Bought by The Story, Vocalo.org, Public Radio Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 09:17
  • Purchases: 4
Matthew
From: Helena Keeffe
Caption: Matthew Wearing Mask, Credit: Helena Keeffe
Matthew and I met during printmaking workshops I led at Laguna Honda Hospital. As the workshops were wrapping up he asked me to work with him to cr...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 18:45
  • Purchases: 2
American Dreamer: Sam's Story
From: Long Haul Productions
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Every year, an estimated 65,000 undocumented students graduate from American high schools. Raised entirely in American culture, they finish high s...

Bought by WPSU-FM, WRPI, Iowa Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KGLT and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Putting a Younger Face on Alzheimer's Disease
From: WRVO
Caption: Sue Dublin with her dog, Rose, Credit: Jasmyn Belcher
A 54-year-old woman living with Alzheimer's disease in Central New York is sounding the alarm, as more and more Americans face the same diagnosis.

Bought by WAMC and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 16, 2010
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Theater of War
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Jason Robards, Jr. in THE DISENCHANTED on Broadway
In which David Pressman goes to war, suffers the consequences, and comes home to direct a hit play.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 08:31
Independent Minds: Jack Kevorkian
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds
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Discover how a curious pathologist turned into an expert on death and challenged our ideas of life and self-determination.

Bought by WNIN, WHRV, Iowa Public Radio, and WFPL News


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 55:55
  • Purchases: 4
Valleys of Neptune Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
From: Media Mechanics
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A new CD helps answer the question: where was Jimi Hendrix headed next?

Bought by Radio New Zealand, WCPN, KUCB, WTIP, KUT and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
Only I Can Now
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Deb Dunn’s second love, after her husband, was teaching marine biology. But about five years ago, she had to give it up.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 05:30
Tribute to Walter Cronkite and Don Hewitt
From: National Press Club
Series: From the National Press Club
Caption: Marc Wojno (standing) with (L to R); Dan Rather, Marvin Kalb, Bob Schieffer and Daniel Schorr., Credit: Michael Foley
Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, Dan Schorr, and Moderator Marvin Kalb reflect on their personal and professional friendships with Walter Cronkite and Do...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2010
  • Length: 54:01
Thanks For Sharing Your Girlfriend
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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From Monica Lewinski to Mark Sanford, infidelity is always big news. But recently a debate about whether monogamy is the only model for long-term r...

Bought by KFAI, Public Radio Remix, The Neighborhood, KUOW, and KUT


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 5
Always Been With Me
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Amy has battled bipolar disorder all her life. She’s tried 25 different medications, but nothing has been able to stabilize her mood.

Bought by KFAI


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 1
Citizen Synforose
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Maine has one of the most diverse immigrant populations of any state in the country. Synforose Rugema came to America as a refugee from the Congo i...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WAMC


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 3
It's Right For Me
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Alice Loesch has lived through a century that has seen some of history’s most sweeping changes in the lives of women.

Bought by WAMC, KUOW, WMPG, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 4
Lindsay Ess, Becoming Whole, Pt. 1
From: Charles McGuigan
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Lindsay Ess was a fashion model, a designer, a stunning beauty. And then at the age of twenty-four, just two years ago, doctors had to cut off both...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2010
  • Length: 27:39
100 Years of Whiffenpoofs
From: Gretta Cohn
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Every year at Yale, 14 male seniors are tapped to sing in an elite a cappella group called the Whiffenpoofs. Their repertoire ranges from Cole Port...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2009
  • Length: 05:22
Blues Quest featuring Marie Knight
From: Mike Sanders
Series: Blues Quest
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Gospel legend Marie Knight died August 30, 2009, at the age of 89. She was best known as the singing partner of Sister Rosetta Tharpe. In this sh...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 56:59
Dad to Dad: A Preparation
From: Eric Winick
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In Fall 2009, as my wife entered the late stage of pregnancy, I asked several friends of mine who are recent or long-time dads for advice on becomi...

Bought by KUT and KRUA


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 13:46
  • Purchases: 2
Divorced Kid
From: American Public Media
Caption: "Divorced Kid" producer Sasha Aslanian at her own wedding in September 1999., Credit: Liz Banfield Photography
America's divorce rate soared in the 1970s. Thirty years later, kids who grew up in the divorce revolution look back at that experience, and descri...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGDR, 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station, WFIU and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 29

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