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Buying Power: Corporate Money in Politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Job Creators, Credit: Brad Kayal
It began with an on-air rant by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli. It became a major political movement, with elected representatives on Capitol Hill....

  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Redbricks and Weatherboards
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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I’ve lived in Melbourne’s suburban inner west for five years, walked my street of redbricks and weatherboards every day, but never stopped to liste...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
We Thought He Had a Black Heart
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Through their journey down Letaba road, Brandon, Keith, and Jameel quickly realise that appearances may not be the entire story and that there is m...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
That Mill House Yellow
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, gentrification advances with a cautionary yellow light as a local property manger paints the town his own special hue.

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Rudy's Gray Area
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Rudy has lived on this bizarre little block since 1953, before a dozen railroad tracks and nearly as many highway lanes separated it from other res...

Bought by The Story, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 3
Keep Warm & Cut Your Costs: How$martKY
From: WMMT
Series: Making Connections
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Because of historically cheap energy rates and lots of poorly insulated housing, Kentuckians’ average home electricity use is one of the highest in...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 12:49
After Coal, What? Appalachians look to Wales for Answers
From: WMMT
Series: Making Connections
Caption: Hywell Francis
Scholars, community organizers, activists and students gathered at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., October 14-16 for “Appalachia and W...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 13:27
Bull-Baiting
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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The violent pastime known as bull baiting entertained the wealthy and poor alike and shaped the breed we now know as the bulldog.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 1
Exotica
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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The rise of exotica, a mysterious musical genre of the '50s and '60s.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
Tremolo
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Tremolo, one of music's most basic effects, has an incomplete history. What we do know links centuries of composition.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
Jack Johnson and The Great "Race" Race
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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America’s first African-American heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson challenges auto-racing champ Barney Oldfield... on the racetrack in pre-W...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Meriwether Lewis, October 11, 1809
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Explorer, naturalist, writer ... in his too-short life, Lewis helped to make this country ... literally ... what it is today. From sea to shining s...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Actress Mary-Louise Parker said this is one her favorite novels of all time and so she jumped at the chance to read excerpts. There's commentary by...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:07
  • Purchases: 7
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers –,” “Because I could not stop for Death –”, and “I dwell in Possibility –” are some of most memorable opening li...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, WKMS, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 22:33
  • Purchases: 6
A Wizard of Earthsea: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Hear acclaimed authors including Michael Chabon (Wonderboys), Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game), and Walter Mosley discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's coming...

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 6
11 (more) from John Lennon: An Appreciation (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Paul Ingles
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A second hour to celebrate the music of John Lennon. Writers, Reporters, Musicians and Beatle fans share their impressions of 11 more standout John...

Bought by KPIK-LP, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 15
Ghost Tour through former prison in Tasmania
From: Jake Warga
Caption: Church at Port Arthur, Credit: Jake Warga
A night time ghost hunt through Port Arthur, Tasmania

Bought by KUT, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 14, 2009
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 3
NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb Remembering Making the Kind of Blue Album
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb remembers being in the amazing Miles Davis Band.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF and more


  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
Animals of Australia take a Hold
From: Ray Gard
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A Behind the scenes look at the Australian animals associated with the National Aquarium in Baltimore.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 09:55
Running On Fumes Part 1: Opportunity
From: Elliot Ward
Series: Running On Fumes: An Adventure in America
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Exploring the American dream through a homless shelter in Charleston and a lawyer in Baton Rouge

  • Added: Jun 04, 2007
  • Length: 24:59
Arctic Solitude
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Chose a random place (Antarctica), found a blogger to talk about it

Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, and KZSC


  • Added: Nov 01, 2006
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 3
Bruce Springsteen: The Seeger Sessions
From: Joyride Media
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One-hour music intensive radio special details how Bruce Springsteen was inspired by Pete Seeger's musical legacy while recording his latest album,...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, KBYS 88.3 FM, Prairie Public, WYEP and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 24
Bruce Springsteen: The Story of Born to Run
From: Joyride Media
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This one hour radio documentary tells the inside story of Bruce Springsteen's classic album, Born To Run on it's 30th anniversary.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., The Pulse--Messiah College Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2005
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 36
Carl Webb Goes AWOL
From: KUT
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Texas National Guardsman Carl Webb recounts his tale of desertion and living underground.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WYSO


  • Added: Jan 21, 2005
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Attack on Black
From: Jessica Seigel
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Why basic black remains basic in fashion despite yearly marketing assaults.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2004
  • Length: 06:19