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This hour we're listening to some of the winners of our annual documentary competition. Year: 2016 Producers: Rachel Matlow Jamil Lindsey Smith Sarah Hulett Sasha Khokha Bernice Yeung Daffodil Altan Samantha Broun Jay Allison Dennis Funk

This hour the life and AIDS reporting of New York Times reporter Jeffrey Schmalz. Year: 2016 Producers: Kerry Donahue Samuel Freedman Sara Burningham Eric Marcus Dennis Funk

This hour people trying their best — and sometimes failing miserably — to make a connection. Year: 2016 Producers: Yowei Shaw John Biewen Mira Burt-Wintonick Cristal Duhaime Davey Kim Dennis Funk

When 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling disappeared in 1989, local Minnesota police seemed determined to crack the case. Instead, it took them 27 years. Year: 2016 Producers: Madeleine Baran Samara Freemark Natalie Jablonski

From the 2016 Third Coast Conference... celebrated author, filmmaker and radio journalist Alex Kotlowitz talks about the power of a finely crafted intimate narrative. Year: 2016

This hour we're going on three soundwalks that meander at the pace of real life. Year: 2016 Producers: Aaron Henkin Wendel Patrick Susanna Grant Jo Morris Josie Holtzman Isaac Kestenbaum Joaqlin Estus Dennis Funk

You’re sent to cover breaking news – a natural disaster or a large-scale accident or crime. You don’t have much time, or much warning. How do you bring back sound-rich, interesting tape, that makes listeners perk up their ears? Year: 2016

Thousands of office janitors work at night, cleaning up our work spaces after we go home. Many are immigrants – some undocumented – and many are women. With these conditions, they are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence. Year: 2016 Producers: Bernice Yeung Sasha Khokha Daffodil Altan

When Rainy was 17, she met a producer named Courtney Stein from WNYC’s Radio Rookies. Year: 2016 Producers: Courtney Stein Rainy

Thirteen years ago, in Viborg, Denmark, lived two young men with the same name: Thomas Andersen. Year: 2016 Producers: Thomas Arent Andersen

On August 1, 2015 Glendale Police Officer Eric Guse received a call about a carjacking that would change his life. Year: 2016 Producers: Emily Forman Celeste Wesson

What would you do if your tap water turned brown? Year: 2016 Producers: Lindsey Smith Sarah Hulett

The story of a terrible crime and everything that followed. Year: 2016 Producers: Samantha Broun Jay Allison

Mariya Karimjee was a teenager in Texas when she first confronted her mother about the genital cutting she'd undergone as a child in Pakistan. Year: 2016 Producers: Kaitlin Prest Mitra Kaboli Mariya Karimjee

For most of his life, comedian W. Kamau Bell assumed his single mom never had sex after she made him. Year: 2016 Producers: Hillary Frank Abigail Keel

A spare and gripping account of one family's journey fleeing violence in Afghanistan. Year: 2016 Producers: Jamil Jamil

"If you want to talk to me when I'm dead, go to the bench." Year: 2016 Producers: Rachel Matlow

This hour we're featuring some of our favourite entries to the 2016 ShortDocs Challenge! Year: 2016 Producers: Maya Goldberg-Safir La Cosa Preziosa Garrett Kling Stephanie Rowden Jennifer Metsker Michelle Macklem Peregrine Andrews Geoff Marsh Tree Mabry Dear Deer Face Collective Geoff McQueen Regina Botros Sam Wemmer Belle Wemmer Todd Wemmer Dennis Funk

Sylvia Ryerson works with family members of those incarcerated in Virginia supermax prisons to capture the sounds, voices & music of home - to be broadcast directly into the prisons. Year: 2016 Producers: Sylvia Ryerson

On this episode of Re:sound, we're featuring an audio postcard from the Restorative Radio Project plus an interview with the series' producer, Sylvia Ryerson. Year: 2016 Producers: Sylvia Ryerson

In this session, Nikole Hannah-Jones (The New York Times) and Chana Joffe-Walt (This American Life) talk about how to build a story structure that will make listeners care about even the most familiar, entrenched social problems. Year: 2016

For five years, Sophie Harper recorded nearly every phone call, chat with friends, even her visit to the fertility clinic. Year: 2016 Producers: Sophie Harper

For some people, making great radio is easy. Ben Calhoun has no idea what those people are talking about! For him, making radio is hard, beset by self-doubt -- and he finds it’s often easy to get stuck. Year: 2016

In this session for editors - or anyone who wants to help someone else shape a story – Gimlet Media’s Jorge Just explores the delicate art of making good things better. Year: 2016

It’s becoming more common for podcast producers to work with composers to create an original soundtrack. At this session, producer Michael May and composer/producer Nick DePrey share their techniques for bringing a piece to life with music and sound design. Year: 2016