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Books Are Not Dead
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 16:48
  • Purchases: 1
Teens Take Over
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 22:09
  • Purchases: 1
Throwing It Out
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 21:06
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 06: Dhow Ship Building Soundscape
From: American University of Sharjah
Series: 7eraff : UAE Craft SOUNDSCAPES
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Listen to the art and craft of dhow ship building through a soundscape. Audio was captured during a field investigation with a master craftspersons...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
Episode 08: Weapons Soundscape
From: American University of Sharjah
Series: 7eraff : UAE Craft SOUNDSCAPES
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He was no where to be found. After our time going in vain to find Abdul Razk. Khanjar craftsman. We changed our strategy and decided to look for a...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:22
Episode 07: Pottery Soundscape
From: American University of Sharjah
Series: 7eraff : UAE Craft SOUNDSCAPES
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Listen to the art and craft of pottery making through a soundscape. Audio was captured during a field investigation with a master craftspersons in ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: :47
Episode 05: Weaving Soundscape
From: American University of Sharjah
Series: 7eraff : UAE Craft SOUNDSCAPES
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Listen to the art and craft in a soundscape focusing on weaving. Audio was captured during a field investigation with a master craftspersons in the...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:10
Episode 04: Jewelry Soundscape
From: American University of Sharjah
Series: 7eraff : UAE Craft SOUNDSCAPES
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Listen to the art and craft of jewelry making in a soundscape. Audio was captured during a field investigation with a master craftspersons in the U...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: :54
Episode 03: Architecture & Tile Soundscape
From: American University of Sharjah
Series: 7eraff : UAE Craft SOUNDSCAPES
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Listen to the art and craft involved in the Architecture and Tiles of the United Arab Emirates through soundscape. Audio was captured during a fiel...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
Episode 01 : Perfume Soundscape
From: American University of Sharjah
Series: 7eraff : UAE Craft SOUNDSCAPES
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Listen to the art and craft in perfume making in a soundscape. Audio was captured during a field investigation with a master craftspersons in the U...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: :44
Sound Ecology: Marsh Wren
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology highlights the diverse songs and calls of the marsh wren in northern California. For air during spring and summer.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Warblers
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology highlights the springtime arrival of orange-crowned and wilson's warblers in northwestern California. For air during ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Aleutian Geese
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology focuses on the recovery of the once-endangered Aleutian Geese that winter in northern California.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Cetaceans
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the wide variety of whales, porpoises and dolphins that inhabit the waters along northern California and southern Or...

Bought by KLCC, WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
Sound Ecology: American Dipper
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard about the American Dipper, highlighting some behavioral and physiological aspects of this ubiquitous songbird along rivers and st...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4
Guitar Legends: Paco de Lucía
From: Matthew Cochran
Series: Goes2Eleven
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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
God Had Been There Forever
From: Cathy Corman
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Retired American Presbyterian missionary Barry Alter explains, in India, how the Easter story convinced her that Christianity wasn't about converti...

Bought by KZYX, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 4
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
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
Mediterrania - taste of the music of people of Catalunya and the mediterranian shores
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: Canzioniere
A musician and a restauranteur from Liverpool visit a festival of performances with traditional roots in Catalonia in North East Spain. They meet m...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 33:33
May Your Days
From: Julie Shapiro
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Ghana sounds like everything you might imagine, and some things you never could.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2008
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 2
Beauty and Pain - Science and Medicine in Berlin
From: Elizabeth Green Musselman
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Syphilitic skulls, racial science, and some of the oldest non-western music recordings in history - come explore the beauty and pathos that is the ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2008
  • Length: 32:55
A Taste of America: Fireworks
From: Jake Warga
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International Fireworks Contest, Macau China

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Prairie Public, KVNF, Prairie Public, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2007
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 14