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A sound-rich portrait of America's oldest Vietnamese Catholic Church

  • Added: Nov 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:19
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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The big quake is coming

  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 04:47
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On this edition we hear the story of La Llorona (the weeping woman)-- a story that's been told since the time of the Spanish conquest, all over Mex...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KVNF, KZYX, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 24

  • Added: Sep 18, 2008
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 1
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Recorded at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square on the 50th anniversary of the day the Club 47 opened in 1958, the program (in the best of folk t...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMNF, Chris Boros, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2008
  • Length: 58:24
  • Purchases: 4
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The extraordinary popularity of the pilgrimage to Lourdes 150 years on.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2008
  • Length: 14:48
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Interviews with John Houseman and Howard Koch highlight this 1988 documentary, reissued for the 70th anniversary of the infamous Orson Welles radio...

Bought by KHNS, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KVSC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2008
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 14

  • Added: Jul 05, 2008
  • Length: 11:50
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Apocalyptic tv, the sounds of The End and the quirk (and power) of memory.

Bought by WDBM, XRAY.fm, PRX Remix, and WXDU


  • Added: Mar 10, 2008
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 4

  • Added: Feb 15, 2008
  • Length: 37:32
  • Purchases: 4
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The great grandson of a Norwegian homesteader tells his family's story in five scenes.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Jan 02, 2008
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
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This narrationless soundscape commemorates the 80th anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 25, 2007
  • Length: 15:38
  • Purchases: 1
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A nomadic chief leaves the Bolivian jungle to live with evangelical missionaries.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 10, 2007
  • Length: 21:14
  • Purchases: 1
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The Kitchen Sisters take us to Vienna to Mozart's Hidden Kitchen and The Tables of New Crowned Hope

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, PRX Remix, and WEKU


  • Added: Jan 26, 2007
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 4
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Mongolia in the 21st century must choose which aspects of modernity and tradition will shape its identity in the 21st century.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WFUV


  • Added: Jan 04, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Either a two-hour program (with optional 5:00 newscast length content in each hour that can be dropped), or a one-hour program (with additional new...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WSKG, KSRQ, WCBE, WRGY and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 43
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Rembrandt?s image through the ages, and interviews with a copyist, a collector, and curators of Rembrandt , marking the 400th anniversary of the p...

Bought by WFUV, KXOT Public Radio, NPR Illinois, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Rembrandt , as he has been seen and portrayed through the ages by admirers and critics, from his contemporaries to the present-day, in various coun...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KFAI Minneapolis, KREV-LP, and WYSO


  • Added: May 31, 2006
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 4
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Lessons learned and lost from a century's catastrophes

Bought by WRIR, KUT-HD, WETA, Central Florida Public Media, WKUF-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2006
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: The crew of Apollo 1, Credit: NASA photo
The fire on Apollo 1 killed three astronauts and nearly destroyed the space program

Bought by WCPN, KVCR, KUNM, KUT, MPR News Stations and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2006
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 34
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Sound-rich reflection on origins of wireless and radio broadcasting

Bought by KWMR, KZSC, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 23, 2005
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Documentary composition featuring six widows in remembrance of Lockerbie tragedy - on 17th anniversary

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KRPS, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 17, 2005
  • Length: 24:31
  • Purchases: 4
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A first hand account of the dawn of aviation using re-discovered archival recordings of people who knew and worked with Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, KXOT Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WYSO


  • Added: Jul 22, 2005
  • Length: 16:33
  • Purchases: 5
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A profile of Greek immigrant and restaurauter Xenophon Kohilas

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Brief history of the music played on ocean liners past and present, including the last song heard as the Titanic sank

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUT-HD, WKMS, NPR Station Showcase with PRX and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2005
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 8