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1920's
From: George Harter
Series: A Night on the Town
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Likely the most historic decade in launching the Musical Comedy as an American art form; Showboat; The Gershwins & Cole Porter

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUPR low power FM, and WRR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 3
Little Falls Students Practice for the Regional History Day Competition
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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From the discovery of a Chicken Pox vaccine to Louis Armstrong’s influence on music to the numerous ways that women have fought for equal rights ov...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:51
How Native And Non-Native Louisiana Women Found Power In Basketry
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Chitimacha basket maker Clara Darden, ca. 1900, Credit: MCILHENNY COMPANY ARCHIVES, AVERY ISLAND, LA
Laine Kaplan-Levenson returns with a story of how the family behind the famous Tabasco brand and a Native American tribe came together, over baskets.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 10:00
Eat Walk Shoot Draw: A New Film on John James Audubon
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Al Reinert will premiere Audubon, a new documentary about the renowned bird artist, eloquent writer, and...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:10
The Father of the Man In America
From: Richard Paul - with Folger Library
Series: Shakespeare in American Life with Sam Waterston
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Shakespeare in American Civic Life and Education

Bought by WCPN, WSKG, KCPW Salt Lake City, WHYY, WVPE and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 9
Shakespeare Becomes American
From: Richard Paul - with Folger Library
Series: Shakespeare in American Life with Sam Waterston
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300 years of Americanizing Shakespeare

Bought by WCPN, WSKG, KCPW Salt Lake City, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WVPE and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 12
The Ghosts of Hester Park Tell Their Stories of Murder, Tornadoes, and Immigration
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Have you ever wondered how Lake George got its name? Or who predicted the tornado of April 1886? Or even why this area hosts so many German Catholi...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 30:47
Sartell Paper Mill Public Art Project Comes to Completion in Watab Park
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack revisits a group of artists and co...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 30:35
Out of the Blocks: 400 E Patapsco (full version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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400 E Patapsco Ave: One block. Everybody's story.

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 48:30
  • Purchases: 2
Out of the Blocks: 3300 Greenmount (full version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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3300 Greenmount: One block. Everybody's story.

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 48:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Tune Under Willie Nelson's Skin
From: Michael May
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Country music legend Willie Nelson says that when he was a child, he heard a heavenly tune that's been under his skin ever since.

Bought by KCSM and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 2
South Minneapolis home to inspiring Russian Art Museum
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Spanish Colonial-Revival building at 55th Street and Stevens Avenue in south Minneapolis was originally home to the Mayflower Church. In 2005 t...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:30
Scraping the Sky: Art Deco Architecture in the Twin Cities
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: The outdoor observation deck on the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis, MN., Credit: Noel Clark
The skyline of the Twin Cities in the 1920’s and 30’s was an ever-changing sight. Buildings like the Foshay Tower, the Ramsey County Courthouse and...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 2
Sounds of Silents
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Credit: Russian Public Library via Wikipedia Commons
Silent film may be a thing of the past, but scoring music to flickering screen classics isn't. This documentary focuses on three Minneapolis bands ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 2
Georgetown Palace Theatre
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
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A Hill Country Treasure, the Georgetown Palace Theatre-from the Depression through today, a radio profile of a town’s beloved venue.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:58
Emmett and Trayvon
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Caption: Mike Wiley performing Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.

Bought by KUER and WUNC


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:22
  • Purchases: 2
Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music & Beauty, Part II
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're picking up the thread of a long conversation with Gunther Schuller. He’s the man who first mapped a Third Stream of “jazzical” music between ...

Bought by WMNR, KMUW, KPIP-LP, and WABE


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 33:10
  • Purchases: 4
Southern Folklorist Bill Ferris
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: The Storied South , Credit: Bill Ferris
Preeminent Southern folklorist Bill Ferris has spent the last 40 years documenting the South in print, photography and film. His latest book, The S...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 15:59
  • Purchases: 3
Spoken Editions #206: Romantic Modern: California Architecture 1930 to 1950, Harwell Hamilton Harris
From: Teosson Wells
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Free, audio excerpt from a book. The California of Harris’ youth was a very different place than it is today: It was a verdant oasis of orange grov...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:35
Olympics Medals for Music, Literature, and Art?
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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A lot has changed for the Olympics over the last century, including the focus on an entire discipline.

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:45
  • 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: Mulgrew Miller
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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“I think of a lot of things when I’m playing the piano and one of the last things I think about is the piano…you try to somehow think and feel li...

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


  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 11:02
  • Purchases: 3
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
HN- Thomas Nast
From: Conor Bentley
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this episode, we take an in-depth look at political cartoonist, Thomas Nast.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 09:42
A Goose for Christmas
From: Traveling 219
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A Christmas tale for the holidays

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KISU, and WMPG


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 3