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Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 10, 2016
- Length: 27:59
Growing up, my family played a lot of music. We also performed... mostly funerals. The driving force behind it all? My dad. So, in order to better ...
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 28:53
A preview of Mannish: a show that investigates the meaning of masculinity.
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 02:32
The Mummers Day Parade is as quintessentially South Philadelphia as Ben Franklin or Willy Penn, a Philly cheese steak or Italian water ice.
It’s u...
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 08:35
A unique retrospective of the past year, including audio of the major events of 2015--the cultural highs and lows, mixed with music of the year and...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KMSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Talking Information Center, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Dec 22, 2015
- Length: 59:39
- Purchases: 7
This piece explores the duality of Halloween and Autumn.
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Live Art, sponsored by the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC), is the only program of its kind in the country. It’s th...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 25:38
Live Art,sponsored the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community, is the only program of its kind in the country, or the world for t...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 24:21
Live Art is the only program of its kind in the country, if not the world. It’s the brainchild of Erin Thomas Foley and what it manages to do is as...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 25:59
This is a story of a white immigrant troublemaker from Eastern Europe, a black revolutionary musician from New York and how one of them saves the o...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 13:56
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 05:13
My brother Thomas recounts a diving accident he lived through early in his career as a commercial diver.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 08:51
Bill Kirchen is a showman and a storyteller. Mainly though he’s a singer and a songwriter and a player of the world’s most versatile Telecaster. Th...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 27:32
He’s been called the Titan of the Telecaster, the King of Diesel Billy. Bill Kirchen is all that and a lot more. He’s a master in a league of his o...
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 27:45
The Mig Maw had a name for this place that means cradle on the waves. Which is exactly what Prince Edward Island—PEI as the people here call it—loo...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 26:31
In her native Nigeria, Cynthia Dieyi is a pop singer who celebrates her culture through her music. But here in America, she's still unknown, and h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
Luqman Barwari abandoned his career to open a Kurdish restaurant in the U.S., a meeting place where immigrant Kurds can keep memories of home alive.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 1
Our Desired Future is a 30 minute radio documentary designed for public radio to educate Texans on the interdependence of our groundwater, springs ...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio and KWBU
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 54:57
- Purchases: 2
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 25:24
In this Prelude to Summer we end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and looking up at the ...
- Added: May 22, 2015
- Length: 25:20
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
Join us for part two of our special on the legendary interviews of Studs Terkel and Big Bill Broonzy. We’ll hear stories, conversation and song, al...
Bought by WJSU
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
Join us as we take an extended look at the legendary interviews of Studs Terkel and Big Bill Broonzy. We’ll hear stories, conversation and song, al...
Bought by WJSU
- Added: Mar 02, 2015
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
3D audio trips to 'special places' on the land; supernatural spots with unusual acoustics and extraordinary sounds.
- Added: Feb 12, 2015
- Length: 11:02
A young American woman goes with her husband to inspect his business in Guatemala when local guerrilla insurgents storm the house they're staying a...
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 13:29
