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Lee Gundersheimer and the Winona Fine Arts Comission
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today on Don't Cha Know, we speak to Winona Arts and Culture Coordinator, Lee Gundersheimer about the Winona Fine Arts Commission. Don't Cha Know i...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 26:30
After 9/11
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This Classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features a look back at the importance of poetry after 9/11 with readings by Arab-American Naomi Shihab Nye, no...

Bought by WGCU, WDCB, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Shortcut Back to 9/11-The 20th Anniversary Mix
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Remembering 9/11
A look back on September 11, 2001 on the 20th Anniversary with new music and additional material on Afghanistan, small and just wars and "The War O...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Aug 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 1
Ghost
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music for Halloween.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2020
  • Length: 55:04
  • Purchases: 1
Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Second Lt. Russell Gackenbach
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
Mark Strand: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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We honor the life of poet Mark Strand, who passed away on November 29, 2014 at the age of 80. This archive recording features the former U.S. Poet ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Dec 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Halloween Special: Studs Terkel talks with witch Sybil Leek about myths and realities of witches
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Caption: Sybil Leek, Credit: <a href="http://covenantofrhiannon.org/sybilleek.htm">Covenant of Rhiannon</a>
In 1966 Studs Terkel sat down with witch, astrologer, psychic and author Sybil Leek. Join us for this except from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive w...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KYUK, KZYX, KRZA, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 7
Fear On the Inside: A Story of Domestic Violence
From: Long Haul Productions
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A week in the life of a woman in Chicago attempting to escape a physically and emotionally abusive marriage.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2014
  • Length: 23:22
  • Purchases: 2
PPW - New York: Voices UnBroken
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop
Caption: Voices UnBroken, Credit: Voices UnBroken
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:52
  • Purchases: 1
PPW - Michigan: Time Piece
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop
Caption: Dudley Randall
Michigan has always been home to a number of bustling American enterprises, including the prison industry. Each year, the state's correctional faci...

Bought by WWNO and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:27
  • Purchases: 2
Alex Not Having a Good One
From: KISL Island Radio
Series: Remember What You Said
Caption: this is alex, Credit: @freakdog
It is late, and things are not going well

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:21
Strange Fruit: Voices of a Lynching
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.

Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WMMT, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:35
  • Purchases: 6
Queen Esther Montour
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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in 1790 the Yankees fully intended to turn this "New World" into their own nation. The Native Americans, on the other hand, indigenous to the conti...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
Irena Sendler, May 12, 2008
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale. Also available...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Part Five-The Night Before The Surrender
From: Jan Thompson
Series: The Tragedy of Bataan
Caption: American Troops Surrendering
The final segment describes the fall of Bataan and those who were able to escape to Corregidor Island. Interviews are with: Art Campbell, Ralph Lev...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 1
Part Three-New Protein Sources
From: Jan Thompson
Series: The Tragedy of Bataan
Caption: Wounded Eating at Jungle Hospital on Bataan, Credit: National Archives
Segment Three Background Info: This segment goes into detail about how the food situation became so bad in the Philippines that the troops had to b...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
Himmler's Angora
From: Brian Bull
Caption: Angora Rabbit and Heinrich Himmler
A look at a strange and curious relic of the Holocaust.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:15
Beware of Shortcuts!
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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A Classic Halloween Special recorded and mixed on a two track machine and spliced together by hand--"from the bodies I took from graveyards..."

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2006
  • Length: 54:37
  • Purchases: 16
The Frankenstein Family Crypt
From: PRX
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A reporter explores the Frankenstein family crypt, and he's in store for a surprise.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXLV-FM, KGLT, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Oct 28, 2005
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: Hollands' Black Page
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Former dutch veterans of the colonial conflict in Indonesia talk of their guilty past and of atonement.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2004
  • Length: 29:02