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Joyce Jeffries and the Cutters
From: WFIU
Series: Inner States
Caption: Inside the Bybee Stone Mill (Alex Chambers)
Limestone work used to be quite dangerous. Joyce Jeffries remembers workers, including her grandfather, dying or getting injured. It’s gotten safer...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 51:59
From Community Dance to Dance Community: Recalling the Old Farmer's Ball
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: The original Farmer's Ball, and an OFB dance today, Credit: Phil Jameson/Carla Seidl
The Old Farmer's Ball is a regional folk dance organization in Asheville, North Carolina that is best known for its lively Thursday night contra da...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 49:50
Concrete Dream: Miami Marine Stadium - Jolt Radio - 04Apr2018
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: FreshArtINTL Live Radio
Caption: Miami Marine Stadium, Credit: Diana Larrea
Miami Marine Stadium inspires this tale of modernist architecture and Biscayne Bay, of speedboats and rock stars, of skateboarding, street art and ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 46:07
What We Talk about When We Talk about Two Bears High-Fiving
From: The Organist
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Hermann Rorschach’s inkblot test has become ubiquitous in pop-culture as shorthand for both psychiatry and the subconscious. The first biography of...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 1
Harbor Views: Portraits of a Working Waterfront
From: Sophie Kazis
Caption: Clean Up Man at Bergie’s Seafood from the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s exhibition, “Working Waterfront: Photographic Portraits”. 2009. New Bedford. Photo by Phil Mello.
Phil Mello has been photographing New Bedford’s working waterfront for over 40 years. He started as an amateur, documenting the inner world of the ...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 2
Out of the Blocks: 400 E Patapsco (full version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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400 E Patapsco Ave: One block. Everybody's story.

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 48:30
  • Purchases: 2
Out of the Blocks: 3300 Greenmount (full version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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3300 Greenmount: One block. Everybody's story.

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 48:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Tune Under Willie Nelson's Skin
From: Michael May
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Country music legend Willie Nelson says that when he was a child, he heard a heavenly tune that's been under his skin ever since.

Bought by KCSM and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 2
South Minneapolis home to inspiring Russian Art Museum
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Spanish Colonial-Revival building at 55th Street and Stevens Avenue in south Minneapolis was originally home to the Mayflower Church. In 2005 t...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:30
Sounds of Silents
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Credit: Russian Public Library via Wikipedia Commons
Silent film may be a thing of the past, but scoring music to flickering screen classics isn't. This documentary focuses on three Minneapolis bands ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 2
Emmett and Trayvon
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Caption: Mike Wiley performing Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.

Bought by KUER and WUNC


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:22
  • Purchases: 2
Southern Folklorist Bill Ferris
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: The Storied South , Credit: Bill Ferris
Preeminent Southern folklorist Bill Ferris has spent the last 40 years documenting the South in print, photography and film. His latest book, The S...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 15:59
  • Purchases: 3
Spoken Editions #206: Romantic Modern: California Architecture 1930 to 1950, Harwell Hamilton Harris
From: Teosson Wells
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Free, audio excerpt from a book. The California of Harris’ youth was a very different place than it is today: It was a verdant oasis of orange grov...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:35
A Goose for Christmas
From: Traveling 219
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A Christmas tale for the holidays

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KISU, and WMPG


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 3
The Alutiiq Masks - Sharing HIstory
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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details the long-sought return of the Alutiiq Masks from France to Kodiak. AK.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2008
  • Length: 06:09
Venice Beach Freak Show
From: Briana O'Higgins
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A look into the contemporary Freak Show

Bought by WILL and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2008
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 2
A 21st Century Pioneer Experience
From: Megan Martin
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John Coffer, a Tintype photographer, takes us on a wagon ride into Dundee, NY

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Mar 04, 2008
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 2
Crossing East: Shasta Taiko
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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A 1st Person profile of Russel Baba and Jeannie Aiko Mercer of Shasta Taiko

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing East: Jon Jang Music Feature
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Profile of Composer and Pianist Jon Jang

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 04:59
RN Documentary: For Every Atom Belonging to Me?
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham invokes the spirit of Walt Whitman in his latest book ?Specimen Days? ? part of a wave of post 9/1...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 06, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Lo-Fi Ballad of Daniel Johnston
From: KUT
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He's been called the 'Brian Wilson of Indie Rock', but the true story's a little more complicated....

Bought by KUOW and PRX Administrator


  • Added: May 01, 2006
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 2
Mingling Pen and Plow
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Chinmney Farm in Nobleboro, Maine, has a rich literary history.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Public Interactive


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:42
  • Purchases: 2
The Bottle King
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Come along on the hunt for buried treasure: antique bottles.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KTNA


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 2
First Trumpet Memories
From: Adam Allington
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Trumpet player Irving Sarin recalls the strict disicpline of legenardy conductor Fritz Reiner

Bought by PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WUNC, PRX, Public Interactive and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2005
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 7