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Philip Armand tries to figure out the correlation between commitment and risk-taking and discovers Einstein's mistakes, and what they mean for his ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:54
Philip Armand grapples with commitment, then spends an afternoon watching the TV show Friends with a group of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 09:11
Breaking up is hard to do, and it's hard to put into appropriate words. Comedian Rosie Wilby seeks a better term for 'ex', and family law barrister...
- Added: Mar 06, 2016
- Length: 18:28
In this first episode of CHOICE/LESS, we hear from Candice, an activist, Texan, and Latina who will argue in front of the Supreme Court on March 2 ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 21:50
Your online dating profile is the latest spin on a 300-year-old tradition of advertising yourself in order to find a spouse, a sexual partner, or s...
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: 41:08
What do the restaurants of your childhood say about the place you grew up? In Jack Hitt’s case, the Oysters Mornay and Escargots Bourguignonne of h...
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 3
There’s a language which is said to be the smallest language in the world. It has around 123 words, five vowels, nine consonants, and apparently yo...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 20:24
- Purchases: 1
Julija Šukys talked to photographer Shane Epping about his extraordinary volunteer work and how it relates to the loss of his first daughter.
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 07:16
An audio essay that combines science, personal moments, and the wit and wisdom of four 100-year-old (and up) women.
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 10:26
Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 01:05:56
Have you ever wondered how Lake George got its name? Or who predicted the tornado of April 1886? Or even why this area hosts so many German Catholi...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 30:47
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture” is a problematic statement: not just because nobody can agree on who came up with it, but ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 27:04
- Purchases: 3
The messiness of English is the price of its success. It is the most widely spoken language in the world, geographically, being an official languag...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 28:03
- Purchases: 1
'Step-', as in stepparents or stepchildren, originated in grief. Family structures have evolved, but are stepmothers now so tainted by fairytale as...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 38:16
- Purchases: 1
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
Daphne Shaed talks about what it's like to be a woman with a penis.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 11:49
If the United States were embroiled in a third world war and the American public learned that Barack Obama were taking eight days off in the middle...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 3
An Elaine George poem, From My Porch, is woven in among a tapestry of sounds and activities of summer. Recorded in Missoula, Montana, Summer 2015.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 05:34
- Purchases: 1
Women have been making comics since the beginning. This engaging history tracks the gender dynamics of the comics industry for 120 years, highlight...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WABE
- Added: Jun 18, 2015
- Length: 21:39
- Purchases: 2
Vietnam veteran and widower Don Thomas needed a kidney. Hooters waitress Mariana Villarreal had an extra.
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 18:25
A new approach at discussing wine by treating it as a movie or book review. Talking about why it is what it is in hope of taking away the stigma of...
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 07:25
On the eve of the 2015 General Election in the UK, take a jaunt through the etymology of election-related words.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 06, 2015
- Length: 09:01
- Purchases: 1
In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack brings us multiple perspectives abou...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 30:20
- Purchases: 1
Becca doesn't have very good luck with hiking. This is the story of her two near-death experiences with hiking, set ten years apart.
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 04:16
Billions of pounds of plastic can now be found on about 40 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces. In this radio documentary, KVNF's Ali Lightfoot...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Apr 06, 2015
- Length: 28:04
- Purchases: 1
