All Pieces for Roman Mars

 
99% Invisible #28- Movie Title Sequences (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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There's more to the Art of the Title than meets the eye.

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #27- Bridge to the Sky (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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There are rules that dicate how high you can build. Bradford Gilbert just didn't believe in them.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WOUB, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17
99% Invisible #26- Chicago's Jailhouse Skyscraper
From: Roman Mars
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If you want to stand out as a skyscraper in Chicago, you've got your work cut out for you.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1
99% Invisible #25- Unsung Icons of Soviet Design (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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Imagine you're a country with 17 timezones. Your citizens want cassette players, but your factories only make tanks. What do you do?

Bought by WABE, The Story, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 3
99% Invisible #24- The Two Fates of the Old East Portico (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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When the District recovered the old Capitol columns, it forgot about the other fragments that had also once held up the country's icon of democracy.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, and WSLR


  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 3
99% Invisible #22- Free Speech Monument (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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The inscription on the granite reads, “This soil and the air space extending above it shall not be a part of any nation...”

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 3
99% Invisible #20- Nikko Concrete Commando (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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The story of the guy who etched his name in 1,000 slabs of San Francisco concrete--and the reporter who spent years tracking him down.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #18- Check Cashing Stores (Director's Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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One could argue that check cashing stores do a lot of things that are just plain wrong. But given so many people use them, what are they doing right?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KMUZ, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 3
99% Invisible #17- Concrete Furniture (Directors Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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In 1965, the people of Toronto were revolting against City Hall. Over furniture. Made out of concrete.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 1
99% Invisible #16- A Designed Language (Directors Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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In the language that means hope, the sky is blueing.

Bought by WABE and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #08- 99% Free Parking (Directors Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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No one's favorite part of living in an urban area is finding a place to park your car. But a re-designed parking system in San Francisco may take t...

Bought by KUOW and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #19- Liberation Squares (Directors Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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Tompkins, Tiananmen, Tahrir...why do revolutions always start in public squares?

Bought by KUOW and The Story


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #01- 99% Noise (Directors Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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This episode of 99% Invisible is all about acoustic design, the city soundscape, and how to make listening in shared spaces pleasant (or at the ver...

Bought by ABC, Troy Public Radio, XRAY.fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4
99% Invisible #15- Sounds of the Artificial World (Directors Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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Without their beeps and chimes, all of your modern conveniences would be very hard to use

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KZYX, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 5
99% Invisible #14- Periodic Table (Directors Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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The Periodic Table knew what our universe was made out of even before we did.

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
99% Invisible #57- What Gave You That Idea (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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What Charles Dickens has to do with those insurance commercials on TV.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 19
99% Invisible #56- Frozen Music (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Composer Jon Brion reminds us the difference between a performance and a song.

Bought by ABC, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WOUB, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 20
99% Invisible #55- The Best Beer in the World (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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They made it perfect--but not for you.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WOUB, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 19
99% Invisible #54- The Colour of Money (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Australia made its money better. Why can't the US?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 18
99% Invisible #53- The Xanadu Effect (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Can a building be too big to fail?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WOUB, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17

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