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Series: A Sense of Place
From Helen Borten

An ancient pastime explored in the lives, lore and literature of anglers.

The Silent Generation: From Saipan to Tokyo

From Helen Borten

The final year of World War II in the Pacific, told by men who came back and kept silent about the harrowing ordeal that changed their lives.

Bought by WRPI, KERA, WILL, KTNA, WNIJ and more

House of the Lord

Series: A Sense of Place
From Helen Borten

The history of a black church on an antebellum plantation and how it was saved from destruction.

Bought by KUT, KDUR, WJAB, WNCU, and KUOW

Convicting Chevie Kehoe

Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
From Helen Borten

A new inquiry into a notorious murder case that asks: Were the wrong men convicted of this crime?

Bought by Audible and Spokane Public Radio

Skywalkers of Akwesane

Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
From Helen Borten

How the dangerous skill of high steel became a rite of passage for a Mohawk tribe.

Bought by WRPI, KFAI, KIDE, KPFA, KUT-HD and more

Georgia Market Bulletin

Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
From Helen Borten

A chronicle of rural life in Georgia unfolds between the lines of a farmers' newspaper.

Bought by Audible

Laugh Tracks Part One and Part Two

Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
From Helen Borten

Two parts, each 28:58 minutes. A one-hour celebration of ethnic humor.

Bought by KMXT, WETA, Spokane Public Radio, Audible, KUOW and more

Nancarrow and the Player Piano

Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
From Helen Borten

The life and work of a renegade composer who blazed a trail to the future by using an instrument that sounded like the past.

Bought by WYSO

Stranger in Paradise

Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
From Helen Borten

The strange life and haunting work of outside artist Achilles Rizzoli.

Bought by Audible

In Love with the Mob

Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
From Helen Borten

One hundred years of mob rule in Youngstown, Ohio.

Bought by Audible

Love and War

Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
From Helen Borten

Professional soldiers in Fort Benning, Georgia talk of the challenges facing themselves and their families as they prepare to go to war.

Bought by KPBS, Audible, KUOW, and WKSU

The Children of Logan

Series: A Sense of Place
From Helen Borten

The producer returns to her Philadelphia home and finds hope amid the ruins. The life and death of an inner city neighborhood.

Bought by WFUV and Audible

Vietnamese Homecoming Part Two

Series: A Sense of Place
From Helen Borten

Conflict breaks out between the Vietnamese and Cajun shrimpers and the fate of both hangs in the balance.

Bought by Audible

Vietnamese Homecoming Part One

Series: A Sense of Place
From Helen Borten

Fishermen and their families escape from Vietnam to a new home in Louisiana and struggle to earn a living along the Gulf Coast.

Bought by Audible

Summer Camp

Series: A Sense of Place
From Helen Borten

From the mouths of kids and the memories of grownups comes a rambunctious portrait of a peculiarly American institution.

Bought by WHRV, KVSC, WJFF, KXOT Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio and more

Sunset Hall

Series: A Sense of Place
From Helen Borten

Leftist causes continue to invigorate residents of a Los Angeles retirement home for radicals.

Bought by Audible and KSFR

Lost in America

Series: A Sense of Place
From Helen Borten

Drug addicts, a prostitute and a blind woman recount their journeys through homelessness to a new life.

Bought by Audible

Broadway Memories

Series: A Sense of Place
From Helen Borten

From a riot in 1849 to today’s regulars at Barrymore’s Bar, how a street became the universal symbol of live theater.

Bought by Audible and WFUV

Nightfall in Chester County

Series: A Sense of Place
From Helen Borten

In Pennsylvania farmland that was the first stop on the Underground Railroad, a strike by Mexican mushroom pickers polarizes a Quaker community.

Bought by WRPI, KUT-HD, WNPR, KFAI, and Audible

Circus Life: To Catch the Quad

Series: A Sense of Place
From Helen Borten

A trapeze star of the 1920s, his present-day counterpart and a colorful supporting cast reveal the heartbreak and gritty reality behind the tinsel:...

Bought by Audible and WZBC

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