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PPW 12: Lomax’s and Prison Poetry
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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Alan Lomax traveled the south visiting prisons and recording songs and interviews. Lomax was a great collector of folk music of the 20th century an...

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 09:21
  • Purchases: 3
PPW 03: Workshop with Kyes Stevens
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: Kyes Stevens
We asked poet Kyes Steven of Auburn University's Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project to record a workshop for us. Take a listen. Prison Poetr...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
Scott and the Calypsonians
From: Ethan Chiel
Caption: The Mighty Sparrow
Scott Britton has never been to Trinidad, but he really loves calypso.

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 2
Not a Weapon
From: Ethan Chiel
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Sam Densmore is an artist. He's painted, made shoes, and even built custom bicycle frames. But these days he's making something different, somethin...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Howard Smith interviews Dennis Hopper & Peter Fonda 6/1969
From: Ezra Bookstein
Series: The Smith Tapes
Caption: Collection 6 - The New Hollywood, Credit: Masaki Koike
Howard Smith's interview with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda-their first since arriving back in the US following Easy Rider's premiere at Cannes.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 1
Silence
From: Conor Gillies
Series: Stylus
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Is there such a thing as true silence?

Bought by KALW, WZEN.org, WRIR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., HowSound and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
JazzStories: Chris Potter
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"The music is not just the music. It's a reflection of how to live. I think I started out I just really liked the sound of the music and I had no i...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 20:34
  • Purchases: 3
JazzStories: Michael Cuscuna
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"I guess it was about 3rd or 4th grade that I got hooked on R & B and early rock & roll. I just became a fanatical record collector even at that ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KREV-LP


  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 17:26
  • Purchases: 2
JazzStories: Reid Anderson
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"Smells Like Teen Spirit," in particular sounds like a modal jazz tune. That's one of the funniest things to me. It says so much about people's att...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 16:32
  • Purchases: 3
JazzStories: Stefon Harris
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"When I started to play jazz... I started in the middle. I wanted to play Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and all of that stuff first... When I started c...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 4
Photo Styles
From: Dave Cook
Series: Photography: Everything Essential
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This episode will cover seven different photographic styles and elements that make each of them unique and interesting.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 08:49
Albert Appel
From: You're U.S.
Series: You're U.S.
Caption: Detail from Albert Appel's Portrait, Credit: Painting by Emile B. Klein
In the nether regions of New Jersey is a summer camp that uses pianos and shovels to break social barriers...they've been at it since the 1960s. A...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 09:16
Corn Mo Portrait
From: Jamie Courville
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Corn Mo has had an amazing career as a performer but still continues to fly under the radar.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
You're the Driver?
From: Jennifer Swann
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A documentary on Adrian Chi Tenney, a female professional driver in Los Angeles, CA.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
Painter, Marion Schroeder
From: KSRQ
Series: Happy Talk
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Marion Schroeder looks back on her life.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 12:17
Weekend of Songs Festival
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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The art of songwriting was the focus of the Local Blend Coffee Shop's second annual Weekend of Songs songwriter festival. The three day festival o...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 29:50
On the Day I Died, It Was Mostly the Blues
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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I live next to the Westwood Cemetery in Carrboro, North Carolina and my neighbors are the ghosts who reside there.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
“Solveig”: MN filmmaker documents Duluth-based Arctic indigenous painter
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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The indigenous people from the far north of Scandinavia have endured years of abuse. Governments in the region tried their best to eliminate their...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 2
JazzStories: Vijay Iyer
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Vijay Iyer
"I kind of had a revelation once seeing him [Randy Weston] play live. It happened for me in a particular time in my life when I recently made the d...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 12:02
  • Purchases: 3
Adam as Machine
From: Ed Prosser
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Electricity, pumps & shunts: A forensic pathologist on life.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:23
Alder Hey's Dawn Chorus
From: Ed Prosser
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Find out how Europe's largest children's hospital is experimenting with the use of birdsong.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Roland Scott: The Art of Transformation
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Rolanda Scott can take a chunk of solid glass, drop it in a flower pot then super heat it in her kiln, turning it into liquid, which she then pours...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2011
  • Length: 53:46
Walking a Labyrinth
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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A labyrinth is a circular path that leads to a center. Walking a labyrinth is an ancient ritual that pre-dates religion. Eunice Schroeder found a n...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 3
The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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“On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.” This half-hou...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
A Wizard of Earthsea: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Hear acclaimed authors including Michael Chabon (Wonderboys), Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game), and Walter Mosley discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's coming...

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 6

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