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14 Carnival
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy tells the story of a Medieval street party that lasted for two months in episode fourteen of Noise: A Human History, 'Carnival'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:41
  • Purchases: 2
15 Restraint
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy hears how new codes of conduct in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries outlawed noise of every kind in episode fifteen of Noise: A H...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:30
  • Purchases: 2
16 Colonists
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy tells of the dislike 17th century American settlers had of native American Indian sounds and songs in episode sixteen of Noise: A Human...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:35
  • Purchases: 1
17 Shutting In
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy explains how cramped conditions led to a brutal massacre of cats in episode seventeen of Noise: A Human History, 'Shutting In'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:40
  • Purchases: 1
18 Master and Servant
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy eavesdrops with the servants in episode eighteen of Noise: A Human History, 'Master and Servant'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 1
19 Slavery and Rebellion
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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From Ghana's Gate of No Return to the Carolina plantations - David Hendy explores the soundscape of slavery in episode nineteen of Noise: A Human H...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:46
  • Purchases: 1
20 Revolution and War
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy considers the soundscape of civil conflict in 18th century Paris and 19th century America in episode twenty of Noise: A Human History, ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:46
  • Purchases: 2
21 The Conquering Engines: Industrial Revolution
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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The sounds of nature give way before the coming of the industrial din. Episode twenty-one of Noise: A Human History, ‘The Conquering Engines: Indus...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:25
  • Purchases: 1
22 The Beat of a Heart, the Tramp of a Fly
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy on medicine’s listening revolution - episode twenty-two of Noise: A Human History, ‘The Beat of a Heart, the Tramp of a Fly'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 2
23 The New Art of Listening
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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How the Victorians learned to listen all over again. Episode twenty-three of Noise: A Human History, 'The New Art of Listening'.

Bought by KALW and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:41
  • Purchases: 2
26 Shell Shock
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
Caption: Assistant producer Cathy FitzGerald on location in Flanders, France.
Soldiers in WW1 experienced a sonic onslaught. Professor David Hendy considers life under bombardment in episode twenty-six of Noise: A Human Histo...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 2
27 Radio Everywhere!
From: Matt Thompson
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Radio seemed like magic to begin with. Then the Nazis exploited its darker powers. Episode twenty-seven of Noise: A Human History, Radio Everywhere!'

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 1
28 Music While You Shop, Music While You Work
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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How music can make us work, rest and play - episode twenty-eight of Noise: A Human History, 'Music While You Shop, Music While You Work'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:52
  • Purchases: 2
06 Epic Tales
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
Caption: Orkney, Scotland
Epic tales could take days to perform, yet storytellers recited them from memory. David Hendy explains how ancient tales were remembered and passed...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:41
  • Purchases: 3
29 An Ever Noisier World
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy on the sounds of revolution and war in episode twenty-nine of Noise: A Human History, ‘An Ever Noisier World'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:47
  • Purchases: 2
30 The Search for Silence
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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Professor David Hendy considers the modern quest for quiet in episode thirty of Noise: A Human History, 'The Search for Silence'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:36
  • Purchases: 3
Acoustic Stories: Dan Sinykin - Christmas In A Swamp
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
Caption: Dan Sinykin
Dan Sinykin is a writer and frequent contributor of essays and book reviews to Northern Community Radio. In "Christmas In A Swamp" Sinykin recounts...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
The Kindness of Strangers
From: Kirsty McQuire
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One woman's philanthropic mission comes full circle.

Bought by KMXT, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, WOUB and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 24
Maasai warrior elephant hunt
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
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I'm sitting in a landrover with 46 year old Soila Sayialel - the car is surrounded by over 50 docile elephants grazing in Amboseli National Park. I...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2012
  • Length: 14:44
Yak Dung
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A Chinese plane filled with yak dung crashed in Tibet this morning.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2009
  • Length: :21
French Logic
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
John’s girlfriend tells him that he will have a headache if he drinks any more white wine. So John cries out, “Waiter, a bottle of red wine."

  • Added: Dec 23, 2009
  • Length: 01:32
How To Write A Best Seller
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Involve yourself in an authentic human drama and put it in a book.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2009
  • Length: 02:07
China: An Economic Black Hole
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
We are broke. How did it happen?

  • Added: Jan 08, 2009
  • Length: 04:05
He Threw A Shoe At President Bush
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
when President Bush visited Iraq, an Iraqi man threw a shoe at him.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2008
  • Length: :23