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A half-century of musical innovation and self-determination, told by AACM co-founder (currently AACM-New York president) and 2010 NEA Jazz Master M...
Bought by XRAY.fm, WMUU-LP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 23, 2015
- Length: 28:28
- Purchases: 3
Aristotle said it best: “Nature abhors a vacuum.” Whenever there is a void in our lives we fill it, consciously or otherwise. Too often, people tr...
- Added: Oct 23, 2015
- Length: 26:45
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:06
How a detour, a patch of goathead thorns, and a flat tire changed one guy's life, and brought an economic boost to a sleepy, little town in rural W...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 20:03
- Purchases: 3
Sam White saw potential in the drama of a struggling city — a perfect setting for Shakespeare's plays.
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 19:51
Ocracoke Island North Carolina is the Key West of the mid-Atlantic. It's far removed from the mainland and the Outer Banks, surrounded by water, on...
- Added: Jun 20, 2015
- Length: 28:02
K.K. Ramachandra Pulavar and his family continue the ancient tradition of shadow puppetry in Kerala, India.
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 22:46
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
Bryson Alexander is a Contemporary Classical music composer. At 16 years old, he’s composed nearly 40 pieces...all without knowing how to read or ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 2
There are eleven tribes of Indians who call Virginia home, among them the Chickahominy. And though they all now enjoy state recognition, the federa...
- Added: Nov 12, 2014
- Length: 28:31
Behind the scenes and before the downbeat… join concert pianist and host Lara Downes backstage in the Green Room for a look into the real lives of ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 10:00
A meditation on relationships as DIY projects: The great thing — and the scary thing — about relationships is that you get to make it all up as you...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 23, 2014
- Length: 19:34
- Purchases: 1
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:22
- Purchases: 2
Moe Bowstern and Erin Yanke present a bear story from 1997 Alaska, with updates from the participants and observers, and from Alaska Fish and Game.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 01:00:18
- Purchases: 1
An underground supper club pairs beers with dinner, served in a Mission District apartment kitchen in San Francisco.
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 03:00
You’re about to hear a story about the bear whisperer of Lyme New Hampshire, Ben Kilham, and the abandoned black bear cubs he has rescued, rehabili...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 25, 2013
- Length: 27:53
- Purchases: 1
Howard Smith's interview with Pete Townshend, June 8th 1970. The day before, the Who performed 2 shows of Tommy at the Met.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
Witch-hunts are curious phenomena, and thoroughly reactionary in nature. They generally begin with an inexplicable event of one kind or other—cows ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 26:55
After nine concussions, artist Raphael Diluzio woke up one morning not knowing his own identity.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 07:28
- Purchases: 1
What is in the future for the Catholic Church and the shrinking parish of Jackman, Maine? Adapting to reality.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 05:14
- Purchases: 3
In 2009, the Portland Police Department faced down a daunting task: writing poetry.
Bought by KUER, KFAI Minneapolis, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 05:11
- Purchases: 3
Esther England was good at everything she did. Singing opera around the world, teaching university students who wanted to be her, doing that even a...
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 09:40
We all know how sweet it is when our appetites are satisfied, but what's it like to be a satiator?
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 02:53
Christi was a pregnant teenager who gave up her baby for adoption and then changed her mind. The story from there goes places no one saw coming. Pr...
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 07:28
