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Misplaced Product Placement
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Man talks to dead people through his stereo. Sony opts in!

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 01:41
Visitor Center Fever: Catch It!
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Visitor Centers Replace Museums. Discuss.

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 01:51
Farewell to Paris
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
NY Post Gossip Columns Pledges to Ignore Paris Hilton. Consequences?

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:02
Shock Jocks Mocked
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Shock Jock Antics Deplored, Kind Of

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:31
Fast Food Mind Readers
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Fast food joints know what you like. Fight back!

Bought by WKMS


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
Is Your Boss Insane?
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A new test determines if your boss is a sociopath. Discuss.

  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 01:49
Bridge Spitting
From: Bill Palladino
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A reminisence of an adolescent event while growing up in New York City.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WFUV


  • Added: Apr 25, 2005
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 2
The Zen of Cappuccino
From: Dale Short
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A guide to contemplative coffee-making

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZSC, KTUH and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2005
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 6
Home Planet: In The Mood...For A Good Book.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Like a lot of people, columnist Cheryl-Anne Millsap misses having a little fun between the covers...of a good book.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
Sauna - Going "All The Way"
From: Bill Palladino
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A producer's take on the sauna and being naked in front of others.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2005
  • Length: 08:32
Little Gray Book Lecture: How to Communicate Without the Use of Wires
From: The Little Gray Book Lectures
Series: The Little Gray Book Lectures
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Lectures by Paul Tough and Starlee Kine, walkie-talkie banter and a song about NY ME host Soterios Johnson

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WVPE, WBEZ, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Feb 21, 2005
  • Length: 57:27
  • Purchases: 4
To Hug or Not to Hug?
From: Steven Tagle
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This short audio essay questions the male aversion to heartfelt hugs.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2005
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
Snowballs at Midnight Mass
From: Andrew Witmer
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Essayist Jonathan Malesic learns something new about Christmas after attending one of the only midnight Catholic masses ever to end in a snowball f...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KUT, KUT-HD, KMXT, WNKU and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2004
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 11
Every Day, on My Way to Work, Somebody Tries to Kill Me
From: Sarah Kobos
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Trade your car for a bicycle, and you learn a thing or two about people.

Bought by KZSC and BSR Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2004
  • Length: 11:47
  • Purchases: 2
Towards a bland Islam
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Islam needs Unitarianism

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 1
Lost at Sea: One VW Microbus
From: Jackson Braider
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How my parents managed to create a navigational obstacle in Dublin Bay

Bought by PRX Remix and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2004
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 2
Is Your Desk Trying to Kill You?
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Can a messy desk prove fatal?

Bought by KVMR and WKMS


  • Added: Sep 23, 2004
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 2
Death: The Relationship Dealbreaker
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In South Africa, murder/suicide couple married at their burial. This would not happen in America.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2004
  • Length: 01:33
Guitar Face
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Guitar Face contest. Ian comments.

  • Added: Sep 22, 2004
  • Length: 01:52
Dead of Summer and other poems.
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
Caption: NYC, Credit: M. Van Halteren
2" audio poem about summer, part of group of four. available separately.

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZYX, and WMBR


  • Added: Aug 29, 2004
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 4
Orphan Opossums
From: Worth Bishop
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Even killing a varmint has consequences.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2004
  • Length: 05:33
Outsource This!
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The downside of outsourcing examined.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 10, 2004
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 2
Stuck on a Word
From: Patricia Priest
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this offbeat essay the commentator examines her newfound habit of cursing, a feeble but oddly satisfying response to these Orwellian times.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2004
  • Length: 03:31
Polly's Boa
From: Jackson Braider
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Who knew the riverbanks of Boston catered to such diverse wildlife?

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Mar 04, 2004
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
Dangling Woman
From: Susan Barrett Price
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A social reformer runs away from work, only to get stuck in the jungle treetops of Costa Rica.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KUHB, WYSO, and KZYX


  • Added: Feb 04, 2004
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 5