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Keep It Movin'
From: Kaitlin Prest
Caption: Maria at 16
Maria---AKA TS [Tough Shit] and her mother Marta unearth the stories of their first romances and reveal the lasting impact they had. These are sto...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 18:38
StoryCorps: Bernard Holyfield and Charles Barlow
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Bernard Holyfield (R) and Charles Barlow
Bernard Holyfield (R) tells his friend Charles Barlow (L) about a painful memory from his childhood in the 1960s.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:18
Our Bodies, Our Stories: Reproductive Health Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Woman in Handcuffs, Credit: Thisisbossi
Pregnant women in America’s prisons are being shackled to their beds; others are being sterilized. Correctional institutions claim the policies are...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Mrs. Klein
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Julie Harris, JoBeth Williams, and Lindsay Crouse star in Nicolas Wright's work about the brilliant, controversial therapist.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KKRN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR-FM, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 9
Sexism on the Pueblo
From: Youth Media Project
Caption: Acoma Pueblo
Chasity Salvador, a senior at the Santa Fe Indian School performs a spoken word poem responding to her experience of sexism on her Native American ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Philip Levine. Sunday, March 5, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Caption: Philip Levine
Philip Levine talks about his relationship to New York City as well as Detroit's Diego Rivera murals and their impact on his youth and poetry. He...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
UnFictional: Self-Immolation Man
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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A young boy escapes to a foreign country by himself, on foot, with no money or passport. When he grows up, he sets himself on fire, and lives to te...

Bought by KOSU and Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Anne Dunn - A poem in honor of Paul Wellstone
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller, writer, and poet. Following Paul Wellstone's death she wrote this poem to honor his legacy.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
Marriage and Severe Weather
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron Brown on severe weather.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:09
Welcome to the Big Leagues
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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From our show on Homeownership: In the 1960s, a group of African Americans in Chicago fell victim to predatory lending. Brian Balogh tells the stor...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 13:26
  • Purchases: 1
Going to St. Ives
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A doctor-patient relationship with harrowing repercussions.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Nevada Public Radio, KUOW, KWMR-FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Possibility of You
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Pamela Redmond
Can we ever atone for the sins of the past? Or does each generation of women invent itself anew? In THE POSSIBILITY OF YOU, bestselling author Pam...

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 13:39
Commanding Responsibility
From: KUOW
Series: Less Than Honorable: Sexual Assault In The US Military
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The second part of our series examines the challanges victims face after being sexually assaulted in the military.

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 06:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Fire This Time
From: The Tibet Connection
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Desperation leads to dramatic self-immolations in Tibet. Tibetan reporter Lhakpa Kyizom reports from Dharamsala, India.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:40
Just a Sample
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Questions surface about brain harvesting in Maine.

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
Buffalo Creek Disaster Remembered
From: WMMT
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This Sunday, February 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. The disaster occured when the da...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 08:53
Who Controls Black Women's Bodies?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Pro-abortion rally, Credit: Flickr user: ProgressOhio
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Occupy Minnesota
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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Inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and other revolutionary movements across the world, the Occupy Wall Street movement has just entere...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 24:26
Tales from the South 030: Arkansas Literary Festival
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Winners of the Arkansas Literary Festival share their winning stories: Jill Duvall visits an asylum, Wyatt Jones stands on the edge and tries not t...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
MIRAD, A BOY FROM BOSNIA (Part One)
From: Chris TEMPLETON
Caption: MIRAD, A Boy from Bosnia, Credit: Chris Templeton
An achingly passionate drama based on the true story of a boy soldier in Bosnia.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 39:41
My Name is Lydia Foy
From: Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland
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Lydia Foy was born in 1947 and registered as a baby boy. When she realised her true identity, as a woman, she discovered something missing - a birt...

Bought by KUT and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 36:53
  • Purchases: 2
Tales from the South 017 with Janis Kearney
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Publisher and author Janis F. Kearney on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Survival of an Island
From: Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland
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On Arranmore - one of the few inhabited islands off the Donegal coast - fishing has sustained a population for generations. Now, as the fishing ind...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 39:35
  • Purchases: 1
MT Silvia, producer and director of documentary film, Atomic Mom
From: susan galleymore
Caption: from Atomic Mom, Credit: MT Silvia
Film maker MT Silvia's mother, Pauline Silvia, was a US Navy biologist conducting research on the effects of radiation on mice and dogs from 1952 t...

  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 30:02
Master Harold...and the Boys
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A story of friendship and racism in apartheid-era South Africa.

Bought by WCPN, Nevada Public Radio, KUT, KMUN, KUOW and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 7