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This Is Your Life
From: Emma de Campo
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Sometimes advice comes from surprising places...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: :51
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Mary Finch - Gifts
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota. In her essay, "Gifts," Finch shares the story of one of...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
The Beat: Doris Stengel - "Grandma Walked Wide"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 1
Melanie Burnett or How to Make Changes in Life that Matter
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Melanie, Credit: MB
Melanie is a young woman of Suriname in South America who now lives in Holland and is becoming an icon and inspiration for those who want to change...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:54
Baltimore, MD: Outsiders In
From: Al Letson
Series: State of the Re:Union: Season Three
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Baltimore is a city of many neighborhoods, of intense divides—racial, class, and otherwise-- not easily overcome. It’s a city bogged down by a repu...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WESM 91.3 FM, WRKF, KACU, WVTF and more


  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 20
Byran Crigler of Herbal Turtle Farms Talks About Sustainable Foods
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Owners of Herbal Turtle Farms: Kate Foerster with partner Bryan Crigler and son Ayden
Local farmer and President of The Winona Farmers Market, Bryan Crigler stops by to inform us on Community Supported Agriculture, the importance of ...

Bought by KSRQ and KSRQ


  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 2
Moments with Jazz Master Sheila Jordan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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5 Moments with vocalist and NEA Jazz Master, Sheila Jordan.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, WICR, WART FM and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 10
Painting from the Ashes
From: Sarah P. Reynolds
Caption: Kevin King painting in his studio, Credit: Sarah P. Reynolds
Kevin King is a painter. His paintings aren't controversial, but his medium is.

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


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 4
The Words of Our Parents
From: City High Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
When adults talk to teenagers, they often wonder, "Are they hearing ANYTHING I say? Are they going to remember ANY of this?" Seventeen-year-old Gra...

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1
Tattooed Teens
From: City High Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
High school freshman Karla interviews fellow students to see what they think about teenagers getting tattoos. Do tattoos in high school make you Re...

Bought by Vocalo.org


  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 1
Distant Learning as a tool for development [ Part Two ]
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro
Prof.Stavros Xanthopoylos is the Executive Director of the on line and distant learning project at the Getulio Vargas institute in Rio de Janeiro, ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2011
  • Length: 15:53
NEA Jazz Master Hubert Laws
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Four Jazz Moments featuring flutist and 2011 NEA Jazz Master, Hubert Laws.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, WICR, WART FM and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2011
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 10
San Francisco Stories from StoryCorps and KALW: How a 12-year-old foiled the FBI
From: KALW
Caption: Robert Tsutakawa spoke with his daughter Susan Tsutakawa in the San Francisco StoryCorps booth
It’s the year 1942. The United States has just joined the war in the Pacific. On the home front, the FBI is investigating and interning Japanese-Am...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
San Francisco Stories from StoryCorps and KALW: The luckiest man in San Francisco
From: KALW
Caption: Bruce and Joan Stephan. Photo courtesy of StoryCorps.
Bruce Stephan is probably the luckiest San Franciscan alive. He happened to be driving across the Bay Bridge on October 17, 1989, the very moment t...

Bought by KVMR and KUOW


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 2
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
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
What About Dad? A Discussion on Single Fathers
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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This week on Culture Clique Dr. Aurea Osgood assistant professor of Sociology at Winona State University asks the question "What about Dad?" in he...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 39:12
  • Purchases: 1
San Francisco Stories from StoryCorps and KALW: A predetermined friendship
From: KALW
Caption: Gregory Bartlett and Corinn Flaherty., Credit: Photo courtesy of StoryCorps.
Corinn Flaherty and Gregory Bartlett are best friends. And like many best friends, they share a similar sensibility about life. Though Gregory live...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Anne Kaner-Roth with Project 515
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we have a guest with a person who is excited to help MN move forward in relationship equality. We sit down with Anne Kaner-...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 15:30
Do You Hear The People Sing - entire song
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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At 1:00 p.m. on the 13th day of protests in Madison, Wisconsin, hundreds of singers and instrumentalists suddenly burst into song. The "Les Miserab...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 27, 2011
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Marin Alsop (Language Barrier)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
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Use any of these Funder Spot choices during your Classical Music Fundraising programming, and especially before or after playing any performance co...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, New Hampshire Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 10
Video Games
From: War News Radio
Caption: Eric Cota purchases his copy of the popular video game “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2", Credit: Associated Press
From Behind the Screens, on November 5, 2010: War News Radio investigates how video games portray warfare and their impact of player's perceptions ...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 07:30
Virtuoso Voices - Misha Dichter (Feeling Cheap)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Misha Dichter, Credit: Stefan Cohen
You don’t usually see a lot of extra physical gestures or exaggerated facial expressions when pianist Misha Dichter is on stage. But there was a c...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :23
Virtuoso Voices - Kim Kashkashian (A Very Proud Thief)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Kim Kashkashian, Credit: courtesy of WGBH
In addition to being the butt of musical instrument jokes, the viola suffers from “lack of solo music syndrome.” Violist Kim Kashkashian says that...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: :14
Virtuoso Voices - Yuja Wang (Brahms the Torturer)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Yuja Wang
The technical and musical challenges for the pianist who plays Brahms are immense, and when it comes to his “Paganini Variations,” pianist Yuja Wan...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: :24

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