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Left, Right & Center is KCRW’s show where we take on all the political issues -- even the complicated ones that might divide your own family.
- From: Left, Right & Center
- Updated: Jul 12, 2023
- From: No Small Endeavor
- Updated: Aug 14, 2023
- From: WGUC/ WVXU
- Updated: May 21, 2018
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The Third Coast International Audio Festival presents a special 11 episode series of its flagship radio program "Re:sound" (heard weekly on WBEZ, Chicago). Hosted by award-winning producer and writer Gwen Macsai, "Re:sound" is known for presenting unforgettable audio stories carefully curated from around the world. Each episode explores a new theme through a variety of lenses, a refreshing mix of storytelling styles and joyful use of sound. For this series, Third Coast has chosen ten favorite "Re:sound" episodes, nipped and tucked the shows to get them ready for the national stage, and teamed up with PRX, the Public Radio Exchange, to share them far and wide.
- From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
- Updated: Jun 17, 2014
- Avg Piece Length: 58:43
The 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge, in partnership with the food-championing James Beard Foundation, invited producers and listeners alike to create short audio works (2 - 3 minutes) inspired by the idea of "appetite," presented in three "courses," and including one of the five tastes in the title: bitter, salt, sour, sweet or umami.
- From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
- Updated: Sep 17, 2013
- Avg Piece Length: 03:01
We're turning your news into music. The anonymous vérité pop collective Mad Genius will spend 2012 charting the course of our apocalypse through our always trustworthy media. How will we do this? We'll make them pop stars, naturally.
- From: Mad Genius
- Updated: Nov 02, 2012
- Avg Piece Length: 04:45
The 2012 Third Coast ShortDocs each feature at least two neighbors, include both a color in the title and three consecutive seconds of "narrative silence," and last about three minutes.
- From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
- Updated: Jul 24, 2012
- Avg Piece Length: 02:54
This 3-part series on the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics covers the hidden side of the Olympics and the disruption caused to local communities.
- From: Adam Vaughn
- Updated: Feb 12, 2010
- Avg Piece Length: 05:26
Short audio works inspired by song titles and samples from the acclaimed musical duo The Books.
- From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
- Updated: Apr 12, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 02:57
Short audio works inspired by five books carefully selected from the San Francisco-based Prelinger Library's extensive and treasured collection of printed ephemera.
- From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
- Updated: Apr 25, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 02:58
Y-Press Youth reporters report from the 2008 Republication National Convention.
- From: Y-Press
- Updated: Jul 28, 2009
- Avg Piece Length: 04:02
Y-Press is a youth media organization. In 2008 they reported from the Democratic National Convention.
- From: Y-Press
- Updated: Jul 28, 2009
- Avg Piece Length: 03:32
This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies.
- From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Updated: Nov 17, 2008
- Avg Piece Length: 54:00
Short radio works inspired by three items purchased at a dollar store in downtown Chicago: a mug with a feisty message, an old-school bicycle bell and wooden mousetraps.
- From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
- Updated: Apr 05, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 02:57
Short radio works inspired by the French literary group Oulipo and cartoonist Matt Madden, and produced according to the following rules: - each starts with some manifestation of: "To begin with, they never got along." - each includes a discernible pre-recorded voice, rhythmic noise, and exclamation - each lasts exactly 2:30 minutes
- From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
- Updated: Apr 15, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 02:30
- From: [redacted] [redacted]
- Updated: Apr 26, 2012
- Avg Piece Length: 03:15
The 2 Minute Teach-in Project: giving the down-and-dirty, what-you-need-to-know in 2 minutes or less on a variety of subjects.
- From: Liz Myers
- Updated: Mar 05, 2013
- Avg Piece Length: 02:01
AARP’s newest radio production, the 2 Boomer Babes Radio Hour, is a weekly feature that highlights a variety of the most relevant issues to the largest generation, with discussion topics ranging from caretaking of elderly parents, to your health, popular culture, and relationships. Hosts Kathy Bernard and Barbara Kline are enthusiastically traveling the same road as the nearly 78 million other boomers while exemplifying the spirit of “living in the boomer moment.” Kline and Bernard are not shy about adding their own insights and understanding to the conversation, and always top it off with a generous dose of great humor and laughter.
- From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
- Updated: Feb 04, 2015
- Avg Piece Length: 54:51
12th Street Jump Series - Subscribe Now Public Radio's weekly Jazz, Blues, and Comedy Jam, recorded live from 12th Street in Kansas City, where Basie tickled the ivories and Big Joe Turner shouted the blues. Each week we celebrate the birthday of a jazz or blues great with sketch comedy, improv and great live music. "An urban/jazz PHC."
- From: KCUR
- Updated: Jan 05, 2021
- Avg Piece Length: 59:00
12 Knots is a podcast from North Haven, Maine, exploring universal themes in a unique setting.
- From: Courtney Naliboff
- Updated: Apr 16, 2017
- Avg Piece Length: 42:35
- From: 800 lb. Productions
- Updated: Sep 04, 2006
- Avg Piece Length: 03:57
A special 3-part podcast series to mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
- From: The Story Exchange
- Updated: Jun 30, 2020
- Avg Piece Length: 34:05
Narrated articles from the former daily DC paper, The Washington Herald.
- From: Michael Scherer
- Updated: Sep 06, 2012
- Avg Piece Length: 01:45
