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Watching the lives of wolves and moose unfold on Isle Royale (Part 1)
From: Michigan Radio
Caption: Rolf Peterson on Caribou Island, one of more than 450 smaller islands in the national park's archipelago., Credit: Mark Brush
Researchers have studied the wolves and moose on a remote island archipelago in Lake Superior for 54 years. These days, the wolves are in trouble.

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Lonely Shortcut
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Ernest Borgnine as "Marty"
A classic year-end show that highlights the celebration of the holiday rather than the passing of any specific year. It's all about the going out, ...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 28:41
The Living Fossil
From: Veronica Simmonds
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Every drug we take is tested with crab blood. And it all started with a walk on a beach.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 3
New Orleans Horns
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Canal Street, New Orleans
The legend of musician Buddy Bolden has stretched well beyond the city limits of New Orleans. Whether or not half of the stories are true, really d...

Bought by WRGY and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2012
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 2
Kenny Endo
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Designing a Creative Life
Caption: Kenny Endo
Kenny Endo is one of the leading artists in contemporary percussion and rhythm. He is a consummate artist, blending Japanese taiko with rhythms inf...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2012
  • Length: 52:59
The 47% Mixdown-Mitt's Mess
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
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"The 47% Mix" with Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Ethel Waters, Ry Cooder, Menomena, The Mills Brothers, Bing Crosby, Alan Price, a...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 19:31
  • Purchases: 1
Chicago Noodles
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sterling Clarinet, Credit: http://www.clarinetpages.net
Among the many names adopted for the clarinet during the early years of jazz, the “noodle” is possible the most catchy. Feature are Johnny Dodds, B...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Lost Odessa Tapes
From: KUT
Series: Texas Music Matters
Caption: The Flatlanders, Credit: Courtesy of New West Records
The rediscovery of recordings lost for 40 years in West Texas rewrites a chapter in American music history. In this hour long radio special "The L...

Bought by CBC Inside the Music, KGLT, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 55:51
  • Purchases: 3
Bix & Tram
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer
The dynamic duo work of cornet Bix Beiderbecke and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer was one of the greatest in early jazz. Their first recording dates...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 58:53
On the Move in Mongolia
From: Outer Voices
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There I was, an Indian woman on the move in a strange new land - Mongolia - and it didn't feel so strange. So much resonated - especially the voic...

Bought by KUER, KZYX, WRPI, KFOK-LPFM, and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 23:43
  • Purchases: 5
Omer Simeon
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Omer Simeon-front row, 3rd from left
Born in New Orleans in 1902, Omer Simeon is the least known of the early clarinetist of the 1920s. He was apparently very quite and reserved, didn...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
Great Northern Radio Show: Brainerd
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Great Northern Radio Show
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The third edition of the Great Northern Radio Show has us at the John Chalberg Theater in Brainerd. Titled "Maybe About Trains," this radio variety...

Bought by KSRQ and WTIP


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:59:22
  • Purchases: 2
Tales from the South 085: Delta Music Show II
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Spring Season
Caption: Jimbo Mathus
Our second annual Delta Music Show, featuring singer/songwriter and Delta bluesman Jimbo Mathus singing and telling stories. True stories told by t...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Wizards of Chicago
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Apollo Theater, Chicago, 1920s
It’s Windy Hear! But, in the late 1920s and early ‘40s, much of that wind was coming from the great horns of musicians like Ruben Reeves and Louis...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Groundwork: Democracy Close to Home
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Caption: A resident of Chicago's 49th Ward., Credit: Melissa Beck
A timely one-hour special, hosted by NPR's Scott Simon, that tells stories of American democracy at the local level. We listen in as people wrestle...

Bought by KPIK-LP, XRAY.fm, Nevada Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KRCU Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 30, 2012
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 79
Red Hot Mama's
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sophie Tucker in 1927
The use of the term Red Hot Mama’s supposedly emerged in the early 1920s. In 1929, songsters Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote, I’m the Last of the...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
2012: A Year In Your Ear - "Doggie Sunglasses"
From: Mad Genius
Series: 2012: A Year In Your Ear
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The first entry in our "A Year In Your Ear" series: "Doggie Sunglasses." The year begins with the GOP trying to outgun each other, Obama trying t...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2012
  • Length: 05:36
05 Lubliner Nign
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
At the Sabbath table on a Friday evening, the Khasidim of Eastern Europe sang tish nigunim, “table songs” praising God . . . seeking to get closer ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:16
04 Lustig Zayn
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
Sometimes, klezmer songs borrowed from popular folk melodies. “Lustig Zayn”, also known as “My Yofes” came from Polish peasants. But the more kle...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:24
03 Simkes Hanefesh
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This is a more spiritual tune. In 18th Century Poland, the Jewish mystic philosophy of Khasidism was born. The Khasidim believed that singing song...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:53
02 Sofia's Song
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
In the audio drama “The Witches of Lublin,” Sofia is a teenaged girl in love – all that matters to her is that the object of her affection shares h...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:44
01 Shtayn Gart's
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This lively dance is a bulgar. It is exactly the sort of music one would hear at one of the market fairs held in Easter Europe during the late 1700...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 09:55
Hungry in Winter: The Literary Julia Child
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: Julia Child
Julia Child wanted to be a novelist, or to write for The New Yorker. "They weren't interested in me, for some reason." So she just kept reading. An...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 49:35
West Texas 1941: The Story of Guy Clark
From: KUT
Caption: Susanna and Guy Clark, Credit: Music Road Records
Join a who's who of Texas Music, including Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Willie Nelson and many, many more in a 70th birthday celebration o...

Bought by KSUT, Prairie Public, Marfa Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and KGLT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 53:47
  • Purchases: 5
Dream Jobs 2011 Promos
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
15 and 30 second promos for "Dream Jobs 2011: Outside the Cubicle"

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, KMXT, WEKU, WNIN, WCPN and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2011
  • Length: :45
  • Purchases: 9

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