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From Paper Bags to Circular Saws -- Who Thunk 'Em Up?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" may be true, but it leaves out an important component -- the real "mothers" and "aunts" and "...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
609: Living In Skin / 610: The Sound Of Silence, 8/7/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Living In Skin" - All over America, people have stopped touching faces and hugging friends. This hour, explore the inner life of your sk...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Great Broadway Choral Numbers
From: George Harter
Series: A Night on the Town
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Many Broadway composers loved the challenge of writing the big choral number. Some were better at it than others. Some fine examples in this progra...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KTXK, WVTF, and WRR


  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 4
Buzludzha
From: LN Lurie
Series: Where in the World is LN?
Caption: Buzludzha's main chamber, Credit: LN Lurie
I visited (ahem...broke into) Buzludzha. An abandoned communist building in Bulgaria. I describe my adventure going through it- but my microphone p...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2015
  • Length: 08:09
O my Homunculus
From: Pop Up Archive
Series: Popcast
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In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
Anarchism and Dissent in Medieval Islam
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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Professor Hayrettin Yucesoy explores the turbulent political and religious climate of the medieval Islamic world.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
Can U.S. Women Catch Up With Their Japanese Sisters?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
August 14 marks the day in 1945 when President Truman announced Japan’s surrender in World War II. The war was over, but now Japan had to be rebuil...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Action Speaks "Heaven For All" Azusa Street Revival and Birth of Pentecostalism in America, 1906
From: Action Speaks Radio
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This week's underappreciated date is the Azusa Street Revival started by William J. Seymour in 1906 and brought about the revival of Pentecostalism...

Bought by WGCU, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR, and WCPN


  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 4
Promo - American Spirit: A History of the Supernatural [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: "Houdini and the ghost of Abraham Lincoln," ca. 1920, Credit: Library of Congress
With Halloween coming up, and vampires or zombies regularly topping the box office, it seems Americans can't get enough of all things spooky. This ...

Bought by WUFT and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Oct 16, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Erin Lynn Marsh - "I Try To Imagine Eva Braun"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
Red, White, and Bruised
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Don Floyd looks back on his life of 80 years after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 3
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
CL 2006 Rabbi David Gordis "Judaism in America:retrospect and prospect."
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Rabbi David Gordis looks at Judaism in America and interfaith relaions today.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2007
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 1
America's Women: Four Hundred Years Of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates And Heroines.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Columnist Gail Collins says that women in colonial times had nearly as much freedom and even more power than they do today.

Bought by KZYX, Stan, KMUN, KDLG, and Maine Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 5