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Two Ponzi Perpetrators and a Journalism Student's Dilemma
From: Mordechai Twersky
Series: Variations on a Theme
Caption: PRX default Piece image
First-person essay in wake of Bernard L. Madoff scandal recalling a journalism student's dilemma in covering a similar scandal close to "home."

  • Added: Dec 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:20
Fred Friendly: Propaganda-Words and Actions, Contexts and Consequences
From: Murray Street Productions
Caption: Arthur Miller with panelists, Credit: Jonathan Guyer
A panel of international journalists, politicos, academics and legal experts consider propaganda in the context of a hypothetical struggle between ...

Bought by KQED, WGBH Radio Boston, KUT-HD, KCUR, KWGS and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2008
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
War Rugs: What Little Girls Make
From: Susan Barrett Price
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Contemplating a war rug made during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WFUV, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
Killing is the New Fighting
From: Youth Radio
Series: Youth Radio's the Best of "What's the New What?"
Caption: Youth Radio reporter Ayesha Walker., Credit: Youth Radio
In an age when handguns are bought and sold for less than twenty-dollars on urban street corners and the price of a human life sometimes seems even...

Bought by PRX Remix and WMNF


  • Added: Dec 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 2
Sex Without Condoms is the New Engagement Ring
From: Youth Radio
Series: Youth Radio's the Best of "What's the New What?"
Caption: Youth Radio Reporter Pendarvis Harshaw., Credit: Ayesha Walker
Youth Radio's Pendarvis Harshaw says that for a lot of his friends, the transition from having sex with a condom to sex without, is seen as a symbo...

Bought by WMNF and WMNF


  • Added: Dec 05, 2008
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 2
Gems #851 Rounders
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil Nusbaum at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
piece suggested for Dec 13 - 19, 2008

Bought by KZYX and WAMU


  • Added: Dec 05, 2008
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 2
Religion Gets Me High
From: Youth Outlook
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This week on YO!Radio -- father and son go on 3 million dollar spacewalk, girls outsmart boy and religion is the anti-drug. PLUS: Youth Speaks goes...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 07:22
Gems of Bluegrass #850 Twin Fiddling
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
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The fiddle is the bluegrass instrument with the greatest tradition. Gems #850 depicts one of the favored fiddle effects, that of two fiddles playin...

Bought by WDVX , KZYX, and WAMU


  • Added: Dec 02, 2008
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 3
Hollywood's Depression Mentality
From: Linda Blake
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The impact of the flailing economy on the story-lines coming out of Hollywood.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour Five
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour Four
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour Three
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour Two
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour One
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gems of Bluegrass #848
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
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program suggested for Nov 22 - 28

Bought by KZYX and WAMU


  • Added: Nov 15, 2008
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass #847
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
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program suggested for Nov 15 - 21, 2008

Bought by KCRW, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and WAMU


  • Added: Nov 04, 2008
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 4
KERA Commentary: Six Degrees of Obama and McCain
From: KERA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How the "six degrees of separation" concept is playing out in political campaigns.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2008
  • Length: 03:06
Gems of Bluegrass #846 Frank Wakefield
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
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pieces suggested for November 8 - 14, 2008

Bought by KZYX and WAMU


  • Added: Oct 25, 2008
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 2
A Postcard from Paris: Obama Mania
From: Janet Robbins
Series: A Postcard from Paris
Caption: Paris, 2008
Interest in the US Elections and in Barack Obama run high in Paris

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Oct 23, 2008
  • Length: 10:51
  • Purchases: 1
Unquiet History 3
From: Matthew Battles
Series: Unquiet History
Caption: PRX default Piece image
October 22, this day in history.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2008
  • Length: 02:52
What's at Stake
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
General Series description: Three lively one hour programs on issues in the 2008 election as they affect women and men that care about the women...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 58:52
The White Album Listening Party: Revisiting The Beatles' Top-Seller (3-Hour / Newscast-Length Version)
From: Paul Ingles
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Beatle fans and musicians gather to re-experience The Beatles' top-selling album, which came to be known as The White Album.

Bought by KSRQ, KSUT, KDUR, Marfa Public Radio, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2008
  • Length: 02:42:04
  • Purchases: 11
Gems of Bluegrass #845 Bill Monroe mandolinist
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
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piece suggested for Nov 1 - 7, 2008

Bought by WAMU and KZYX


  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass #844 Dave Apollon
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
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piece suggested for October 24 - 30, 2008

Bought by KZYX and WAMU


  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 2
Camp Lovewave's 400th Show - Matt Taibbi/Mark Epstein
From: Terran Lovewave
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Our 400th show features: 1. A Keith Olbermann rant on Sarah P., 2. an interview with neo-economist, Mark Epstein, about the Bail-Out and our fai...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2008
  • Length: 01:01:19

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