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EP121 Diane Blue
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Diane Blue has been a voice in the Blues music scene for years as a vocalist and harmonica player. This show highlights her solo career as well as ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:39
Books Are Not Dead
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 16:48
  • Purchases: 1
Teens Take Over
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 22:09
  • Purchases: 1
Throwing It Out
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 21:06
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 06: Dhow Ship Building Soundscape
From: American University of Sharjah
Series: 7eraff : UAE Craft SOUNDSCAPES
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Listen to the art and craft of dhow ship building through a soundscape. Audio was captured during a field investigation with a master craftspersons...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
Episode 08: Weapons Soundscape
From: American University of Sharjah
Series: 7eraff : UAE Craft SOUNDSCAPES
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He was no where to be found. After our time going in vain to find Abdul Razk. Khanjar craftsman. We changed our strategy and decided to look for a...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:22
Episode 07: Pottery Soundscape
From: American University of Sharjah
Series: 7eraff : UAE Craft SOUNDSCAPES
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Listen to the art and craft of pottery making through a soundscape. Audio was captured during a field investigation with a master craftspersons in ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: :47
Episode 05: Weaving Soundscape
From: American University of Sharjah
Series: 7eraff : UAE Craft SOUNDSCAPES
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Listen to the art and craft in a soundscape focusing on weaving. Audio was captured during a field investigation with a master craftspersons in the...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:10
Episode 04: Jewelry Soundscape
From: American University of Sharjah
Series: 7eraff : UAE Craft SOUNDSCAPES
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Listen to the art and craft of jewelry making in a soundscape. Audio was captured during a field investigation with a master craftspersons in the U...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: :54
Episode 03: Architecture & Tile Soundscape
From: American University of Sharjah
Series: 7eraff : UAE Craft SOUNDSCAPES
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Listen to the art and craft involved in the Architecture and Tiles of the United Arab Emirates through soundscape. Audio was captured during a fiel...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
Episode 01 : Perfume Soundscape
From: American University of Sharjah
Series: 7eraff : UAE Craft SOUNDSCAPES
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Listen to the art and craft in perfume making in a soundscape. Audio was captured during a field investigation with a master craftspersons in the U...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: :44
The Forgotten Trailblazer
From: Matt Mitchell
Series: The Forgotten Famous
Caption: www.TheForgottenFamous.com
Cloaked in mythology by the age of 40, this original hero of the Wild West embodied the term "living legend." So why have we forgotten him?

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 17:16
Sound Ecology: Harbor Seals
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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Remarkable facts about the ubiquitous resident of our coastal regions, the harbor seal.

Bought by Radio Newark and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Marsh Wren
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology highlights the diverse songs and calls of the marsh wren in northern California. For air during spring and summer.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Warblers
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology highlights the springtime arrival of orange-crowned and wilson's warblers in northwestern California. For air during ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Allen's Hummingbird
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the amazing migration of Allen's Hummingbirds along the pacific flyway. Best aired late winter through spring and su...

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Aleutian Geese
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology focuses on the recovery of the once-endangered Aleutian Geese that winter in northern California.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Kill 'Em Dead with Needle and Thread
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
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Jeremiah Williams, better known as Flag Boy Twin, may have left New Orleans, but he brought his rich heritage as a Mardi Gras Indian with him. Part...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
Sound Ecology: Cetaceans
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the wide variety of whales, porpoises and dolphins that inhabit the waters along northern California and southern Or...

Bought by KLCC, WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
Sound Ecology: Klamath Conifers
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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A discussion of the unparalleled conifer biodiversity in the Klamath mountain region. Taking the long view through geologic time, this segment of ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: American Dipper
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard about the American Dipper, highlighting some behavioral and physiological aspects of this ubiquitous songbird along rivers and st...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4
Guitar Legends: Paco de Lucía
From: Matthew Cochran
Series: Goes2Eleven
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Goes2Eleven continues its tribute to guitar heroes with flamenco superman Paco de Lucía. We discuss Paco’s traditional flamenco roots and his explo...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Subway of Mind
From: Judith Weber
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promo for THE LABYRINTHINE SUBWAY GAME

  • Added: Feb 27, 2007
  • Length: 07:26
Monhegan Island in Winter
From: Neenah Ellis
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A midwinter visit to an island off the coast of Maine

Bought by The PRX Podcast and WUSM


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 13:38
  • Purchases: 2
Wagon Train
From: Miles Eddy
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sound Rich Journey on a traditional wagon train in North-Central Nebraska.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2006
  • Length: 04:02