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Portland Fruit Tree Project
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Shiro plums picked by the Portland Fruit Tree Project (after this photo was taken), Credit: Portland Fruit Tree Project
The Portland Fruit Tree Project harvests fruit that would otherwise go to waste and gives it to area food banks, where fresh produce is scarce.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 1
The Austin Aces
From: KUT
Series: Texas Music Matters
Caption: Stephen Bruton, of the 10 Austin Aces
Janis Joplin. Roky Erikson. Doug Sahm. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Names like these helped establish Austin’s global reputation as hothouse for great music...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:00
Washington Square - A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Actress Annette Bening breathes new life into this classic by the prolific Henry James. Commentary from a diverse range of cultural figures - Colin...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 5
The Liar Paradox
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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This paradox resists a solution and inspires major advances from Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass #1104: Ralph Peer and the Careers of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil head shot, Credit: Karen Van Norman
For regular users, Gem for Jan 22-28, 2011. Others use anytime.

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
Breastfeeding Beyond Infancy
From: vanessa lowe
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An hour-long radio documentary, featuring the voices of fourteen women who have breastfed their children between one and four years. Some of the m...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZYX


  • Added: Oct 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 2
Message in a Bottle
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Award Winning Radio Programs
Caption: Czech composer Karel Anerl conducting the Terenzin Strings Orchestra. Photo from propaganda film made by the Nazis, Credit: Courtesy of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
The story of two brilliant and celebrated composers whose music was lost during the Holocaust. 'Message In A Bottle is a Gold World Medal winner at...

Bought by WFIU, KFAI Minneapolis, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WRPI, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2010
  • Length: 53:23
  • Purchases: 5
IN PRAISE OF RINGO: THE SINGER (Hour 2) [59:00 / 54:00)
From: Paul Ingles
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In this second hour of the program celebrating the work of musician Ringo Starr, the focus is on the songs Ringo Starr sang as a member of The Beat...

Bought by KVLU, WMNF, KXOT Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2010
  • Length: 59:56
  • Purchases: 7
The Beatles Finale: Let It Be (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: The Beatles: Let It Be, Credit: Apple Records
Music writers, musicians and fans offer a track-by-track assessment of the 12th and last official Beatles album, LET IT BE, released in May of 1970.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WORT, Prairie Public, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, MPR News Stations and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
Giving Women The Vote
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
Caption: Votes For Women!, Credit: Library of Congress
2010 was the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave American women the right to vote. Women got the vote, in part, because of a promise ...

Bought by WWNO, KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Hark!, WSGE and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2010
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 9
Texas Nuggets: Three Chords and a Station Wagon
From: KUT
Series: Texas Music Matters
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The incredible story of a lost chapter of music history...and the equally incredible songs now rediscovered.

Bought by KGLT, Marfa Public Radio, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2010
  • Length: 56:34
  • Purchases: 3
Taco Land
From: Big Shed Audio
Series: Place + Memory
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San Antonio is home to underground music mecca--an understated cinderblock shrine on the banks of the San Antonio river--Taco Land.

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 2
The Rabbit Hutch
From: Big Shed Audio
Series: Place + Memory
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Have you ever eaten Fried Rabbit? Barbecued Rabbit? Rice with Rabbit Gravy? They were standard fare at the Venz Rabbit Hutch Restaurant in Logan, ...

Bought by WBHM, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 3
Into the Music of Bob Dylan (3 Hours)
From: Hwy. 61 Productions
Series: Into the Music
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A 3-part chronological profile of Dylan's career from the early 1960's until his most recent work. Each part has a :60 intro and 2 segments of app...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 25, 2009
  • Length: 02:49:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Year In The Life of The Beatles - 1969/1970
From: Paul Ingles
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A two-hour special that chronologically follows The Beatles through 1969 and 1970 as they record their final tracks, struggle with their company, s...

Bought by WCBE, KBBI Alaska, WYSO, KLCC, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 39
A Spin Down Abbey Road (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Paul Ingles
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Music writers, musicians and Beatles fans weigh in on The Beatles' Abbey Road, the album that turned out to have the last songs the band ever recor...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Prairie Public, CI Dolphin Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 40
Peace Efforts at the Rainbow Gatherings (54:00 / 59:00) [Peace Talks Radio]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: A "Welcome Home" Sign from a Rainbow Gathering
Are the annual Rainbow Gatherings, on National Forest Land each Fourth of July, just free-wheeling havens for hippies or are they serious experimen...

Bought by KUOW, KXOT Public Radio, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 26, 2009
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 4
Michael Jackson- Remix
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: The King of Pop
A tribute mix to the "King of Pop" who changed and shocked the world over his short fifty years in front of us all.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2009
  • Length: 28:23
Peace Talks Radio: The Peace Work of John Lennon & Yoko Ono (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: John Lennon + Yoko Ono at Montreal Bed-in (1969), Credit: Ivor Sharp (c) Yoko Ono
In 1969, musician John Lennon and his wife, performance artist Yoko Ono, were among the most high profile peace advocates on the planet. We'll spot...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KVNF


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Peace Work of John Lennon and Yoko Ono (54:00 / 59:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: John & Yoko at Montreal Bed In 1969, Credit: Photo by Ivor Sharp/©Yoko Ono
In 1969, musician John Lennon and his wife, performance artist Yoko Ono, were among the most high profile peace advocates on the planet. We'll spot...

Bought by KUOW, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUOW, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
Back To The Garden: Woodstock Remembered (2 x 59:00 or 2 x 54:00)
From: Paul Ingles
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Woodstock organizers, artists and audience members recall the 1969 music festival that rocked the world in more ways than one. Music and memories ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, KGLP, KRVS, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2009
  • Length: 01:57:40
  • Purchases: 72
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: An American Terrorist
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 3
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -3: Democracy's Denial: Revolutions in Wilmington (1898 --
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: Wilmington's black newspaper--after the "riot" and coup
In 1898, White Supremacist Democrats in North Carolina overthrew Wilmington's integrated administration. The plotters killed dozens of African Amer...

Bought by WCPN and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 2
Between Civil War and Civil Rights - 5: White Protestant Nation (1915-25)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
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An exploration of American racism as cultural and commercial mass-phenomenon, covering the "reincarnation" of the Klan as a fraternal movement whic...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Real Story of the Buena Vista Social Club
From: Reese Erlich
Caption: poster in Havana, Cuba, Credit: (c) 2008 Julia Adame
Most people think the Buena Vista musicians were impoverished and forgotten prior to the release of their CD. In this 54:00 documentary, Reese Erli...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Radio New Zealand, and KGLT


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3

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