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On today’s episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by liste...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 45:28
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One day in the spring of 1986, a woman in Hot Springs, Arkansas named Ruth Coker Burks was visiting a friend in the hospital. She noticed a door do...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 27:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Professor Longhair, Credit: Michael P. Smith © The Historic New Orleans Collection
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, this show is devoted to “Fess” -- Henry Roeland Byrd, aka Professor Longhair - the pianist whose music fills the stree...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Paul Ingles talks with drummer Doug Clifford and bassist Stu Cook of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Creedence Clearwater Revival about t...

Bought by KUHF, KUPR low power FM, and KSJE


  • Added: Jul 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Episode 2. Spoon talks about a dog rescue program that took place inside Lancaster State Prison. He talked to Common the rapper, Matthew visits a s...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 20:00
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Three years ago, we spoke with Axton Betz-Hamilton about discovering that her identity had been stolen as a child. When she found out who had stole...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 37:32
  • Purchases: 1
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After a crime occurs, or when someone dies, the police aren’t responsible for cleaning up. That’s not their job. The coroner takes the body, the po...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 19:11
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“I never did anything wrong. I never had a speeding ticket. I think I just saved all my stuff up for just one thing.” This week, we speak with Toby...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 43:49
  • Purchases: 1
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In our last episode we spoke Cecilia Gentili, a trans Latina who worked for many years as an undocumented sex worker. Today, we get two more views ...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 38:34
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Dhows were the UAE’s lifeline. Salah Bin ouq explains that everyone in the UAE used to work on dhows, their entire lives were on boats. Because wit...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 07:48
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This a bonus podcast sharing piece of the interview that didn't make it into the Architecture and Tile podcast.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:39
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At the begining, we were skeptical about choosing Pottery as our topic, as there did not seem to be many things to say about the topic. However, th...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 08:46

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 08:55
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Jewelry is a huge part of the UAE’s history, and is very prevalent in modern age. Traditional jewelry used to have an incredibly specific purpose a...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 08:38
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Initially we assumed that it wouldn’t be difficult to find people interested in speaking to us about the architecture in the UAE. We were wrong. Fi...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 07:11
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Hand crafted over centuries, Arabic calligraphy has not only withstood the test of time, it has also preserved it. Just a glimpse of the richness o...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 10:09
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In this piece, the *brand new* Emmy Award-winning Jacobs discusses the art of music supervision and shares stories from her work on four projects i...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 09:23
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On this episode of The Live Feed, we visit with the combined acoustic and electric guitar duo Land at Last. The two musicians fill us in on their c...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 30:01
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Deje Rene Carr has basically reached the status of local music legend in Pioneer Valley. The catch, she's still in high school.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 05:57
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Teenagers of the modern United States focus primarily on their own society's music and traditions. Brandon decided to deviate from this social norm...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Veterans of the Second Sudanese Civil War stand under the new flag of South Sudan., Credit: Alyce Ornella
Portland, Maine is home to one of the largest Southern Sudanese refugee communities in the United States, many of whom settled in the city after fl...

Bought by WMPG and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 2
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One hour special traces the creation and rise of Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, Radio New Zealand, CBC Inside the Music and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 24
Caption: The new baby, Avery Arena, Credit: Katy Sewall
It is good to have a birth plan. The one problem? The birth of a child can be unpredictable. Radio Producer Katy Sewall brings us the story of on...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2010
  • Length: 11:56
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Veterans' stories presented and reflected on by students.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2009
  • Length: 33:48