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Christi was a pregnant teenager who gave up her baby for adoption and then changed her mind. The story from there goes places no one saw coming. Pr...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 07:28
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Original documentary about teaching young children about homosexuality. *SHORTLISTED New York Festivals Radio Awards 2013*

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:58
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Joanna Foster was worried when her first deaf child was born. When her second baby was born deaf and autistic, she was devastated. Joanna started l...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:12
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This show covers a variety of topics including medicine, music, an unconventional road trip and summer camp for grownups. Program Directors: please...

Bought by WRVO


  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 01:29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Presbyterian church in Vardy, Tennessee, was a community center for some Melungeon families. , Credit: Mary Helen Miller
The Melungeons were a mixed-race group in southern Appalachia with an elusive history. Now some Melungeon descendants are looking to DNA testing fo...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 01:23:22
  • Purchases: 1
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Rebelling against your parents is the norm for most teens in America, but for some young people who immigrate to the U.S. without one or both of th...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 06:35
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Bill Dewberry shares some stories from his Marine boot camp experience in 1954.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:51
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Frankie’s second Teenage Diary follows his season playing running back for the Valley Head Tigers. Recorded in 1997, Frankie documents his life as ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: She Was Led to the Altar, African-American Wedding, 1908, Credit: Library of Congress
Marriage - the laws, as well as social conventions and expectations surrounding it - have long been subject to change. In this hour of BackStory, w...

Bought by WFIU, KREV-LP, and WRPI


  • Added: Jul 13, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews award winning filmmaker Jan Weber. Based in Brooklyn, but born in Wisconsin, Weber travels b...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Robert Hamilton wanted to be known as the world's greatest unknown painter. When he died in 2004, he left behind 600 paintings. Now it is up to his...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Megan Westgate, Executive Director of the Non-GMO Project. Do you agree that consumers have...

Bought by KFAI


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Producer Shannon Geis deals with moving out of her childhood home in Nebraska for good and the memories of her father that still haunt the property.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 20:22
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It’s called a gang injunction. A controversial crime tool strategy that some people say should be illegal, and others say is a necessary last reso...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 13:36
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This is an adventure story about how I met a girl who couldn’t laugh, and my quest to get my laugh back, which I lost somewhere under the pile of l...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 21:14
Caption: Famine Memorial Dublin, Ireland
The story of 4,000 orphan girls sent to Australia from Ireland after the Great Potato Famine of 1845-9, told by their descendants.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 42:26
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As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches this week, a lot of people feel a sense of fatigue--some just aren’t interested in looking back. And one...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
  • Length: 07:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Shiro plums picked by the Portland Fruit Tree Project (after this photo was taken), Credit: Portland Fruit Tree Project
The Portland Fruit Tree Project harvests fruit that would otherwise go to waste and gives it to area food banks, where fresh produce is scarce.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 1
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A labyrinth is a circular path that leads to a center. Walking a labyrinth is an ancient ritual that pre-dates religion. Eunice Schroeder found a n...

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 2
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When Katie Perkins adopted 10-year-old Tajenae out of foster care, they created a ritual to mark the occasion.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:46
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A young man proposes to his girlfriend... and then reconsiders.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 1
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A teenage girl talks about learning that her father is gay and her subsequent decision to stay with him.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUT


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
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A father decides to take a transcontinental motorcycle trip and leave his children for a year.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2011
  • Length: 03:29
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Griffin Bourassa possesses many traits of a typical 15 year old boy, but there is one facet of his life that is not normal.

Bought by WMPG and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 07:06
  • Purchases: 2
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A 21 year-old abandons his carefree bachelor fantasy and reluctantly marries a girl he accidentally impregnated.

  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 02:24