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Lester Blackiston: The Pirate of Shockoe Bottom, Part 4
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Lester Blackiston
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 26:15
Digging Up Myles Standish
From: Annie Sinsabaugh
Caption: Myles Standish reenactor
There’s a recent trend to question historical icons with complicated histories—Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and of course the confederate flag. ...

Bought by WCPN, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 10:32
  • Purchases: 3
Poets for Hire
From: Sarah Holtz
Series: New Orleans Street Economy
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In this episode of "Street Economy," radio producers Kelley Crawford and Sarah Holtz go to the streets in search of poetry -- literal poetry, not a...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:21
Southern Fried Baked Alaska (Gravy Ep. 28)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Oysters Mornay., Credit: Image courtesy of Ship Restaurant & Bar.
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...

Bought by KVLU, KVLU, and WABE


  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 3
Steve Moore: Tears of a Clown Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Steve Moore
Charmed lives lack for something. If you’re born in a state of nirvana or somehow privileged as a member of the elect, what’s the point? It’s only ...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2015
  • Length: 26:07
Episode 23: Triassic Park
From: Criminal
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The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 millio...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 20:17
The history behind White Castle building #8
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Jess Mador goes behind the scenes of a familiar fast food landmark: White Castle building #8.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:05
Hello Buffalo
From: Israel Story
Caption: Dubi tending to his water buffalo.
Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 17:03
TSR15-05 Don McClean
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
Caption: Tent Show Radio
McLean recorded his first album, Tapestry, in 1969 in Berkeley, California, during the student riots. After being rejected 72 times by labels, the ...

Bought by KFCF FM, KALH, KMSU, KPIP-LP, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 11
Chanukah, 1992
From: Dennis Funk
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A night of recollections, moments and new memories.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #41 - Who Owns That Joke?
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Comedian Carlos Mencia is notorious for stealing other comics’ jokes. But he’s never been sued—in fact, there are almost no lawsuits in comedy. On ...

Bought by KVSC and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 18:43
  • Purchases: 2
All Mirth and No Matter
From: Richard Paul
Series: Shakespeare Unlimited
Caption: The Reduced Shakespeare Company
The things in Shakespeare the make us laugh, and the things that don't anymore -- and why.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 27:40
12 Days to Curtain: Inside a Summer Theatre Camp
From: Alexander Ward
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A piece exploring the Young People's Theatre Project's summer theater production, which brings 6th-12th graders into the wilderness to produce a mu...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2014
  • Length: 17:38
To Eat a Pig, Pt. 1
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Journalist Sean Kelley, Credit: Tanner Latham
Sean Kelley is a journalist, and in this show, he begins telling us about raising a couple of pigs so that he could slaughter them and eat them and...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2014
  • Length: 13:29
  • Purchases: 2
Pumpkin Chuckin'
From: JP Davidson
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Pumpkins are baked into pies, turned into soup, and carved into jack-o-lanterns. But there's another use for these autumnal gourds - they're the ke...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 05:10
Episode 12 - Manny Roth of Cafe Wha?
From: Andy Moore
Series: Andy's Treasure Trove
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Episode 12 - Andy interviews Manny Roth, who ran the famous Cafe Wha? in New York City, presenting up-and-coming entertainers like Bob Dylan, Bill ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 51:58
The Last Amtrak
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
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From Los Angeles to Chicago, folk journalist Hank Rosenfeld finds Amtrak's Train #4, the Southwest Chief, full of adventure...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 08:30
  • Purchases: 2
Knoxville's Miss Biscuit
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Liz Barr, reigning Miss Biscuit, Credit: Tanner Latham
One of the highlights of Knoxville’s International Biscuit Festival is the Mr. & Miss Biscuit Pageant. This piece profiles Liz Barr, the reigning M...

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


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 4
Indian Pass Raw Bar
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Jimmy McNeill, owner of the Indian Pass Raw Bar, Credit: Tanner Latham
The Indian Pass Raw Bar is the anchor of the tiny community of Indian Pass in the Florida panhandle. It’s an institution in this part of the world ...

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


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 4
Southern Storyteller Les Thomas
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Les Thomas, legendary travel writer and storyteller, Credit: Tanner Latham
Les Thomas wrote his way across the South. His travel writing, for Texas newspapers, Southern Living magazine and beyond, has spanned over 45 year...

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


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 3
Go Go Alberto
From: Annie McEwen
Caption: Go Go Gadget, Credit: Mike Dennis
By day, Alberto Denis is a quiet, unassuming man who dances professionally and works with computers. By night, he transforms into his alter-ego, Go...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 04:28
That Song
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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A show about songs and stories about songs. There is brave singing. There is blood and guitar solos. It’s an hour of music you’re sure to love and ...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 30:40
Mascot Boot Camp: Putting the F-U back in FUN
From: Alexis Kenyon
Caption: Dave Raymond watching Fritz the Cat at Mascot Boot Camp, Credit: Alexis Kenyon
Since retiring as the original Philie Phanatic, Dave Raymond makes his living training professional mascot performers and creating new mascot ident...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 23:31
The Cart Men of Catalina
From: Alexander Ward
Caption: A golf cart for towing golf carts, Credit: Alex Ward
Golf carts are the primary vehicles for residents in Avalon, CA. This is about the guys that make them go.

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 2
Cicada Confidential
From: Louisa Jonas
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From the red eyes of a periodical cicada looking out: a bug's first person rendition from emergence til death.

Bought by KSJD, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, Radio Newark, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2013
  • Length: 07:42
  • Purchases: 8