At Home With Mr. Mangus: A Day in the Life of a Home Health Aide

Rebecca Sheir has a real knack for finding interesting characters and weaving a tapestry of voices and sound elements that works perfectly for me. She is expert at extracting the very best from her…
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Citizen Lawsuit Targets Foreign Ships

This is a straightforward hard news feature produced by Mark Brush for the Environment Report, formerly the Great Lakes Consortium. It is factual and provocative, but not particularly lively or hard…
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'Til Death Do Us Part

Producer Sara Archambault has crafted an excellent piece that will satisfy the curiosity most of us have in what goes on behind the scenes in a funeral home. The husband and wife team of morticians…
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Muslim Cabbies Say 'No' to Passengers With Alcohol

This is a very well produced feature that was originally heard on PRI's program series "The World". It reflects the high standards of quality that are heard regularly in this signature program…
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It's Not About You

This piece is very well produced technically with lots of sound elements, and it's fun to listen to, but very difficult to follow if you haven't read the written description. I understand that this…
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Doc Merrick

This is a first person essay narrated by producer Viki Merrick about her coming of age with her father. It is well written, from the heart, and a touching story. It includes just the right tongue in…
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The Miltyway

This is a fantastic first-person essay from producer Kristina Lund reminiscing about when she was four years old receiving cassette tapes from her father featuring him singing along with recordings of…
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Global Warming: A Climate of Peril and Promise

This program is part of a radio series from Bioneers, a "forum for connecting the environment, health, social justice, and spirit within a broad progressive framework". It features a speech by author…
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Generation Next: Citizenship

This is standard BBC fare, with the usual high quality production values. It's part of the BBC's "Generation Next" series of documentary programs about what "youth" means in different societies and…
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Freeing the Press, Episode 2: Josh Wolf

This interview is part of the "Freeing the Press" series from the Common Language Project, whose mission is to "develop and implement innovative multimedia approaches to international and local…
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Rock This!

This is an interesting arts feature about A Cappella singing groups who dissect songs into individual parts and instruments and put them back together with just voices. The production values are…
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John Carroll's Take -- Camel No. 9

Commentator John Carroll has a winner with this biting, incisive commentary about the launch of a new Camel No. 9 cigarette for women. Carroll's writing contains a unique mix of sarcasm, humor, and…
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Tackling Electronic Waste

Tight editing and crisp delivery characterize these daily 90-second modules that are part of the Isla Earth Radio Series produced by Catalina Island Conservancy. This module talks about e-waste, the…
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A Priest and a Barman in Dublin

This is a soft feature about St. Patrick's Day, its religious origins, and the drinking holiday it has become today. We learn that St. Patrick wasn't even Irish, and he was a former slave. The…
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The Person I Admire the Most

Producer Jake Warga has created a highly produced and exquisitely mixed feature about the person he admires most, a medical researcher working in Ethiopia. It was good enough to be on NPR's "All…
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