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Our History: United States vs. Dakota War
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
Caption: US-Dakota War Exhibit
Director of the Minnesota History Center Museum Dan Spock details the 1862 war between the U.S. government and the Dakota Indians.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 12, 2012
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 3
The Unabomber is my brother Part 1 Segment 2
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
David Kaczynski is the younger brother of Ted Kaczynski

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 1
The Unabomber is my brother Part 1 Segment 1
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
David Kaczynski is the younger brother of Ted Kaczynski.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 1
Brenda Child: Holding Our World Together-Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
Caption: Holding Our World Together by Brenda Child
Brenda Child talks with Scott Hall about her new book. They discuss the pre-European and post-European Ojibwe culture, particularly as it relates t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 23, 2012
  • Length: 17:36
  • Purchases: 3
Culturology: Mary Strother's toned and hand painted photography
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Mary Strother discusses how she has evolved her artistic process and how she gathers her photography's subject matter. Her exhibit appear during Fe...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: Lisa Stauffer's landscape paintings and "In Search of Enough" traveling exhibit
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Katie Marshall and Lisa Stauffer join Travis Ryder to preview the exhibitions appearing this month at MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids. The mai...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 11:52
  • Purchases: 1
"The Country Doctor Revisited" edited by Therese Zink
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Heidi Holtan talks with Therese Zink about this collection of writing in various forms penned by modern day rural health care professionals. Things...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 20:08
  • Purchases: 1
The Carsten Höller Experience
From: Sarah Lilley
Caption: Carsten Höller's Mirror Carousel, Singing Canaries Mobile, and Untitled (Slide) at the New Museum in NYC., Credit: New Museum
Art exhibit, amusement park, or laboratory? You decide.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 07:30
JazzStories: Frank Foster
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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He said don’t have too many pregnant 19ths in there. Keep it simple…..Basie was as much as an arranger as any of the arrangers who actually wrote d...

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


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 6
Labor Day: Creating More Jobs by Helping Small Businesses Succeed
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: The Emotion Roadmap to Inspired Performance
Graduate students at UCONN are helping small businesses learn about enterprise risk management and they are producing stellar results.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:57
Warning Signs
From: Sarah Lilley
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Nuclear waste will be with us for thousands of years. But the signs we use to warn people about its location will likely have to change.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Yuja Wang (Music in Between the Notes)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Caption: Yuja Wang
When pianist Yuja Wang plays the Paganini Variations by Brahms, she gives plenty of attention to the music’s frequent technical challenges. But sh...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: :26
Virtuoso Voices - Robert Spano (It’s Theater)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Robert Spano
Even before the recent economic challenges, there have been ongoing discussions and blogs about the future of the American symphony orchestra. Wha...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: :23
Virtuoso Voices - Kim Kashkashian (Ear of the Beholder)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Kim Kashkashian, Credit: courtesy of WGBH
How does one make a sound on an instrument? Violist Kim Kashkashian says it actually has little to do with the instrument itself. Ultimately, she...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: :22
Virtuoso Voices - Anna Netrebko (Not So Still of the Night)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Anna Netrebko, Credit: Annie Leibovitz
Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has a recording of songs by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. It’s not just a Russian themed disc – it’s more about m...

  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: :18
Inaugural Whites 100 Challenges Athletes in Remote Alaska
From: Emily Schwing
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38 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska, the first ever 100 mile wilderness adventure race in the White Mountains National Recreation Area tested athle...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 05:35
Call To Copenhagen
From: Littleglobe
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Interviews with spiritual leaders at the international conference, The Parliament Of World’s Religions, held in Melbourne, Australia.

  • Added: Mar 20, 2010
  • Length: 04:16
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Freaky)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Hilary Hahn
Violinist Hilary Hahn is one of many musicians who consider Bach’s music to be timeless. She says Bach’s music “doesn’t necessarily belong in one ...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Yuja Wang (Apocalypse)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Yuja Wang
The young pianist from China, Yuja Wang is generating considerable excitement for her playing and astounding technical mastery of composers like Ra...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: :18
  • Purchases: 1
U.S. Secretary of Commerce - Gary Locke - National Export Initiative
From: National Press Club
Series: From the National Press Club
Caption: U.S. Secretary of commerce Gary Locke discusses the National Exports Initiative at a National Press Club Lunceon on February 4, 2010, Credit: Sam Hurd
United States Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke talks about President Obama's State of the Union commitment to double U.S. exports in 5 years. Secr...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
From Africa to Anchorage
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It can be hard being the new kid in school. It can be even harder being the new kid in a new country.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2010
  • Length: 07:25
I (G)Love Haiti: Numa Perrier
From: My Lens Media
Series: Home from Home
Caption: Numa Perrier
How are Haitians who live outside of the devastated country learning about the fate of their loved ones? And how are they coping? Numa Perrier, a H...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2010
  • Length: 30:00
Remembering To Forget In The Digital Age
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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What is the importance forgetting has played throughout human history? What will be the effects on society, relationships and humanity now that so...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2010
  • Length: 58:02
Virtuoso Voices - Robert Spano (The War Room)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Robert Spano
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra operates under a management approach known as “collective leadership.” Conductor Robert Spano is clearly in charge,...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and WETS


  • Added: Dec 31, 2009
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Herbert Blomstedt (Dramatic Solution)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Herbert Blomstedt
Swedish composer Carl Nielsen offers us a vast range of musical colors and tapestries. The music can be beautiful and entertaining, but conductor ...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Dec 31, 2009
  • Length: :25
  • Purchases: 1