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Here, There and Everywhere: Locally Upholding Human Rights
From: Susan Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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In this season of gratitude, speak. Uphold civil liberties, the human rights that we have, that others will travel thousands of miles for, and when...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2012
  • Length: 03:28
Ministry of Presence
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Memories of the death house, from a man who sat with 95 condemned men on their last day on earth.

Bought by Aspen Public Radio and KFAI


  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 25:02
  • Purchases: 2
Christmas Bird Count audio postcard
From: Dina Weinstein
Caption: Tropical Audobon Society members on the annual Christmas Bird Count, Credit: Dina Weinstein
The annual Christmas Bird Count involves birders all over the Americas as citizen scientists tracking population and environmental changes. Miami, ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:55
"If These Walls Could Talk: Inside Youth Speak Out" SEASON TWO
From: Susan Stone
Caption: Justice for Youth mural, Credit: San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center
"IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK: Inside Youth Speak Out" is a poetry series drawn from testimonial writings by the youngest members of America's prison ...

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:58
  • Purchases: 1
Dolna Smithback "Global Youth Leadership Institute"
From: Youth Media Project
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Youth Producer Dolna Smithback spent a week with the Global Youth Leadership Institute documenting year one of the program, "aboard the Amsted scho...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 05:50
Tsholo's Botswana Digital Diary
From: UNICEF
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This Story is Free! This story is one girl's take on philanthropy in Botswana - youth-produced

  • Added: Aug 25, 2007
  • Length: 06:22
Watching a Riot Through a Window
From: Zak Rosen
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Life-long Detroiter remembers the 67' riot

Bought by KFAI and The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Jul 30, 2007
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 2
Your list of Transcendant Experiences
From: NAISA
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Transcendence expressed as something extraordinary

  • Added: Apr 18, 2007
  • Length: 01:00
Radio Active Voices
From: Julie Sabatier
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voices from community radio stations around the country

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZSC


  • Added: Mar 20, 2007
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 2
Lower Manhattan Diaries
From: WFUV
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Three New Yorkers reflect on 5 years since the 9/11 attacks in audio diary form.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 08, 2006
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 1
Rebuilding NOLA
From: WFUV
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The audio diary of a Habitat for Humanity volunteer in New Orleans.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KFAI


  • Added: Aug 22, 2006
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 2
The Appendage Police
From: Barrett Wolf
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Biker Poetry by J. Barrett Wolf, Highway Poet

  • Added: Nov 20, 2005
  • Length: 01:36
Saving baby; another harrowing tale of escape and evacuation.
From: Laura Ziegler
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One family talks about leaving their home in the New Orleans 9th ward as water rose toward the roof, floating their baby in a cooler toward safer g...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2005
  • Length: 04:20
Jesus in America
From: Talking History
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Richard Wightman Fox and Fred Nielsen discuss the changing perceptions of Jesus in America.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
Toilet Paper Scrap Chronicles Civil Rights Ordeal
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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A six-foot piece of jail-grade toilet paper from 1963 captures Civil Rights struggle

Bought by KUOW, KFAI, 90.5 WSNC, KSFR, and WMPG


  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 5
Surviving The Holocaust
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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A survivor of 5 concentrations camps tells his story

  • Added: May 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
RN Documentary: Love Exile on the Road
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Martha McDevitt-Pugh, founder of Love Exiles, flew from Amsterdam to San Francisco to join over 40 marriage equality activists and supporters on a ...

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Dec 14, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Graham Shelby on Public Assistance
From: KUT
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Graham Shelby is surprised to find himself seeking public assistance to help support his three new babies.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2004
  • Length: 02:26
My Criminal Life
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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This dreamy feature puts listeners in the mind of Mark, a young man who feels hopeless against the cycles of drugs and violence in his life.

Bought by Remix Radio, KFAI, and Public Radio Exchange


  • Added: Oct 11, 2004
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 3
Another Lousy Day
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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A critically-acclaimed story detailing one man's quest to find the author of two diaries from 1960 and 1961 that he found in a thrift store.

Bought by Public Radio Remix, Remix Radio, WYBC, and WYSO


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 17:36
  • Purchases: 4
Mom's Good Move
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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Peg Collison documents her move from San Mateo, California - where she'd lived for almost 35 years - to a retirement community in Davis, California...

Bought by WCBU and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 37:09
  • Purchases: 2
Learning to Live: James' Story
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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The story of an ex-felon's transition from prison to the free world. James, who narrates, is 38 and has been in and out of prison all his adult lif...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, WRNC-LP, KUT, KFAI, WMNF and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 7
PART 5: We Were Considered Expendable
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Downwinder about experiences of radioactive fallout in the 1950s

Bought by Public Radio Remix, WYSO, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 3
PART 4: The Family List
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Elmer Picket lost fourteen of his family members to cancer

Bought by Public Radio Remix, WYSO, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 3
PART 3: A Patroitic, Non-Questioning Population
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Downwinder talks about how her brother died from nuclear fallout

Bought by Public Radio Remix, WYSO, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 3