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Wells to Wheels: Can shale gas power cars?
From: Reid Frazier
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age
Caption: Making way for the Marcellus, Credit: Reid R. Frazier/Allegheny Front
We use natural gas to heat our homes and generate our power. Can we use it to fuel our cars? Big Gas thinks shale gas is the key to cleaning up our...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:57
Silent and Unseen: Secret Agent in the Warsaw Uprising
From: Dave McGuire
Caption: Stefan Baluk during WWII, Credit: Stefan Baluk
A 97 year-old veteran of the Warsaw Uprising recounts parachuting into occupied Poland and fighting in a last-ditch attempt to re-take his home fro...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:19
  • Purchases: 2
Artist FAITH RINGGOLD interview for the Mosaic of Art
From: George Fishman
Caption: Thom Collins, Faith Ringgold and Tracy Fitzpatrick
Artist FAITH RINGGOLD speaks with Mosaic of Art host George Fishman about her exhibition at the Miami Art Museum, entitled "American People, Black ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:43
Sounds of Landa Park
From: Victoria Campos
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Created for a Sound Landscape assignment.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:54
The Mark of a Blacksmith
From: JP Davidson
Caption: Bob Jordan with his anvil, Credit: JP Davidson
Bob Jordan has a 3000-degree forge in his garage. He’s a blacksmith with over 40 years of experience – including work with German, Italian and Nort...

Bought by PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 3
Veterans of Occupation: From Iraq to Wall Street
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Veterans Join Occupy Wall Street, Credit: Iraq Veterans Against War
On this edition, we bring you the voices of Veterans from Occupy Wall Street and a special report on veterans returning home from war and the strug...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Holidays Moonwalk
From: Patrick Fosso
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Holidays Moonwalk is the new release by Golden Boy (Fospassin) the ultimate songwriter for the 21st century.Are you ready for holidays?

  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:52
9-11
From: Patrick Fosso
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Let's remember 9-11.More than 3000 children lost their parents in the tragedy.The destruction has caused damages to the economy at the global marke...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 1
Placenta Fruit
From: Will Rogers
Series: Compostmodernist
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Taste the fruit of a tree that has a placenta buried beneath it... it's tart and crisp. Learn about how the placenta, which connects mother and chi...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:04
Pooptown Adventure
From: Will Rogers
Series: Compostmodernist
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This tour of a Texas wastewater treatment plant will inspire you to “Do what you love; Love what you doo”

  • Added: Aug 27, 2011
  • Length: 03:59
U Pick Blueberries
From: Marianne Gardner
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A community of pickers tell the story of this u pick blueberry patch.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 2
Rude sea mammals
From: Paula Kahumbu
Caption: New born, Credit: Andrew Kahumbu
A team of Kenyans visit Horsey Sound on the Norfolk coast, England, to discover the joys and rude sounds of seals.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 05:18
JazzStories: Electric Kulintang - Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Susie Ibarra
“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, 90.5 WSNC, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 4
JazzStories: Father Peter O'Brien and Mary Lou Williams
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Father Peter O'Brien and Mary Lou Williams - Monterey Jazz Fest., 1971, Credit: Paul Slaughter Photos
“My father forced me to go to dancing school and take accordion lessons. I was a lousy dancer, couldn’t play, but there was this yearning for that ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more


  • Added: May 13, 2011
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 6
Django Reinhardt (Gypsy Jazz Guitarist), May 16, 1953
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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A Gypsy, he never lived in a house or wore a suit until age twenty. At age 18, a late-night caravan fire left him with only two, useful fingers on ...

  • Added: May 10, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Jack Dunn (Discovered Babe Ruth), October 22, 1928
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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His was a life that nearly didn't happen. He fell under a boxcar, his left arm mangled as a child, yet went on to own and manage one of the greates...

  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Frank T. Hopkins (Hidalgo), November 11, 1951
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...

  • Added: May 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Tenzing Norgay (First on Everest), May 9, 1986
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Self-described as a simple mountain coolie, he became one of the world's foremost mountaineers and, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, the first ... ev...

  • Added: May 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Program II: Folk Songs and Ballads
From: David Dunaway
Series: Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?
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This program evokes the exciting folk music revival of the 1950s and ‘60s and the role Seeger played in it.

Bought by KUNM, KGLP, WOWD, KWMR, WLRN and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 52:43
  • Purchases: 21
Program I: Origins
From: David Dunaway
Series: Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?
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Program I: Origins How did a Harvard-educated boy become a radical, hitchhiking, banjo-playing, political activist? Program I explores Seeger’s you...

Bought by Prairie Public, KUNM, KZYX, KGLP, WOWD and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 52:40
  • Purchases: 27
Thai Food
From: Jake Warga
Caption: Thai Street Food, Credit: jake Warga
A culinary journey through Bangkok, starting at the top--Lebua Hotel--to the street level in a quest to find "Authentic" Thai food

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUT, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 3
Marcel Mangel(Marceau), September 22, 2007
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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One night, entering a clearing, he and a companion came face to face with a well-armed Nazi patrol. Desperately outnumbered, he took an amazing cha...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Colored Musicians Club
From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York
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The Colored Musicians Club is one of Buffalo’s oldest music venues. Jazz giants from Count Basie to Billie Holiday played there, but even with the ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 07:24
Tenderness And Joy
From: Cornelis van den Hoeven
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 15:33
Peer Research Success
From: Cornelis van den Hoeven
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 08:57

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