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Caption: For many months, this is the only dress Violet would wear. Joyce washed it every night in the sink., Credit: Joyce Slaton
A woman spends a month at home with her naked two-year-old daughter, trying to figure out why she won't wear clothes.

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KUT


  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 13:36
  • Purchases: 2
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Conversation with our early bird fishing guide Jeff Sundin. August 5th, 2010

  • Added: Aug 05, 2010
  • Length: 13:21
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
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Long Haul Productions follows two hospice volunteers as they visit their first patients.

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KERA, WVPE, Spokane Public Radio, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Walt Shaffner and his sister Mary Fischer remember their parents.

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: Oct 20, 2006
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Boyfriend and girlfriend Michael Wolmetz and Debora Brakarz, both in their mid-twenties, interview each other.

Bought by KUOW, KFOK-LP, WAMC, KERA, and East Village Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2005
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 5
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A woman reveals her terror when her recently-retired husband is suddenly in poor health.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
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The adult daughter hasn't called; the parents are desperate; but at least there's a message on the machine.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
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A woman questions her 15 year old daughter about going out with an older man and being busted. "The grass was Chuck's."

  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
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An elderly woman phones her older brother to let him know she's having a risky, life-saving operation. She ends up comforting him.

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: Jun 14, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
  • Purchases: 1
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A mother visits her comatose son to celebrate his birthday, while her daughter is deeply frustrated with her mother's "denial."

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
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A man wants his wife of 25 years to renew their lapsed intimacy, but she resists opening the wounds.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
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A teenager whose parents are divorcing sees that she has become a pawn of negotiation, in competition with the family dog.

Bought by WQJC and East Village Radio


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 2
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A suicidal youth dials the wrong number for the crisis help-line and gets Sam.

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
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He couldn't be with his dying lover because he wasn't family. "What does it take to be family?"

  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
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Young doctors face challenges, provide total care, and live unconventional lives in rural Nebraska

Bought by WRNC-LP, WRPI, Audible, and WCQS


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4