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Caption: Julia Ward Howe
The story of Julia Ward Howe's 1871 Proclamation for Peace and her call for a universal Mother's Day to promote peace and disarmament, plus the aut...

Bought by KHNS, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KPVL, KWIT, WSKG and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:13
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Kevin Zepper is an Associate Professor of English at Minnesota State University - Moorehead. He was recently awarded a writing residency at Starry ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 03:02
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The Saturday Night Widows are a group of six friends that decided to remake their lives after suffering the loss of their husbands. Aikmans memoir ...

Bought by WCWP


  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 1
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New research suggests that young children understand the concept of fairness, but desire gets in the way of sharing.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays. In th...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is currently serving as both the Poet Laureate of the United States and of her home state of Mississippi. Trethewey discusses he...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Apr 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Researchers have developed an implantable blood testing sensor that can monitor blood glucose levels and chemotherapy drugs, among other things.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
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Can the culture of playing through pain ever change?

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


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 9
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Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 2
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"We have a mixture of many elements from the world. The classical music from Europe- the sense of melody and deep harmonic sense- and on the other ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 14:45
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At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:06
Caption: The Hartigan family’s journal is full of stamps and memories of their letterboxing outings in Virginia, Ireland, the Pacific Northwest and other destinations. , Credit: Nancy Greenleese
There is a breed of modern day treasure hunters who need the Internet, a knack for orienting and solving puzzles, and a sense of adventure. They w...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2013
  • Length: 04:29
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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
Caption: Gelato served from a Carpigiani-made gelato truck at the Bologna fair in 1958, Credit: Gelato Museum
I scream, you scream, we all scream for...gelato. The first museum dedicated to gelato has opened in Italy.

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 1
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This week marks the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting that happened on April 16, 2007 and the shooting at Columbine High School that took p...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 09:59
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In just a little over a week hundreds of thousands of students in middle schools, high schools and colleges all across the country will take a vow ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 09:57
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One of the biggest worries parents face is their child’s involvement with alcohol and drug use. Several months ago we were all concerned about bath...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 09:59
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With jobs, chores, and family obligations, working mothers can lose themselves to their many commitments. A group of moms in Maine have a unique so...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 04:48
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Ray Penfold and his son Bill have been racing together for the past 40 years. Now 85 years old, Ray's health is failing and he can't race anymore.

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 06:54
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Chuck Lakin has a unique hobby. He builds coffins. For living people.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Lucinda Marker and her husband, John Tull, talk about being diagnosed with bubonic plague in 2002.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:17
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The American dream wouldn’t be complete without a picture perfect lawn. Lawn chemical companies want you to think their products are safe when used...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
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Just one week of sleep deprivation alters the expression of at least 711 different genes.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:00