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Learning to Sing
From: Aaron Henkin
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a choral program teaches children the universal language of music...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2007
  • Length: 07:45
Not All Bad things
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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A twelve year-old's audio diary about life with a mom in prison.

Bought by The Story, KGLT, KLCC, and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2007
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 4
Dance Dance Revolution
From: Laura Kwerel
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A young man's obsession with the arcade game Pump It Up

Bought by WSHU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2007
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Break Up Project Performance (Clean)
From: Megan Hall
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Clean version of a recording of a live mix of Providence break-up stories

Bought by KUT and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: 49:03
  • Purchases: 2
Mandy Carter
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Series: Passionate Citizens
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Social justice activists Mandy Carter organizes to connect struggles

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 19, 2007
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 1
Mayor Bill Bell
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Series: Passionate Citizens
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Producer Emmanuel Watson discovers Durham NC's mayor Bill Bell is an R.Kelly fan

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 19, 2007
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Person I Admire the Most
From: Jake Warga
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Following my best friend to Ethiopia

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, and KUT


  • Added: Feb 16, 2007
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 3
The Break Up Project Performance
From: Megan Hall
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recording of a live mix of Providence break-up stories

  • Added: Feb 15, 2007
  • Length: 49:00
Raider of the Lost Ark
From: Jake Warga
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Looking for the not-so-lost Ark and finding something else

Bought by PRX Remix, The Story, KUOW, and KUT


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 4
Nebraska's first Heisman Trophy winner honors another pioneer black Nebraska athlete.
From: Deborah Van Fleet
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Johnny, "The Jet" Rodgers, Heisman '72, honors another pioneer Nebraska athlete, Marion Hudson, and talks about the importance of black communities...

Bought by WTIP and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2
Saturdays with Koo Nimo
From: amara hark-weber
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Every Saturday morning, Ghanaian musician Koo Nimo hosts a group for children. This is his description.

Bought by Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland


  • Added: Jan 04, 2007
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Seamus Heaney: Bogging In Again
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Poet and Nobel laureate revisits dark past in response to recent wars and violence

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIK-LP, KUAC, KWMR, WABE and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 12
Story Time
From: amara hark-weber
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This is a sound piece using fragments of stories that children wrote and told in Kumasi, Ghana.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2006
  • Length: 02:04
The Hive
From: amara hark-weber
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The story of a new comer to Athens, Greece, and what she finds in her life there.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2006
  • Length: 03:39
Thanksgiving in Athens
From: amara hark-weber
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This is a narrative piece about living in a foreign country during Thanksgiving.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 21, 2006
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 2
Where Credit is Due 5-min version
From: Sean Kelly
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Microcredit documentary short

  • Added: Nov 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:20
Silvio
From: Zak Rosen
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Italian American, outsider artist speaks his mind

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2006
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
Seven O'Clock in the Morning
From: Jefferey Sweeton
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Jose Luiz speaks from a dirty and weed filled lot, begging the City of Chicago to let him keep the broken and abandoned land...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2006
  • Length: 12:09
Hunting Companions
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
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Some hunters will only hunt alone. Others choose their companions carefully. In this program, you'll find out why.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
Ms Tris Beats: A Rumination on the Art of Cooking Big Beats
From: Aaron Henkin
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Hip hop producer Ms Tris Beats shares some of her secret recipes for cooking up heavy-hitting beats

  • Added: Oct 05, 2006
  • Length: 06:21
The last Cubs game of the season
From: Laura Kwerel
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An audio postcard from the last Cubs game of the year

  • Added: Oct 02, 2006
  • Length: 02:18
Second Line in New Orleans
From: Mary Rose Madden
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This is one snapshot of the New Orleans tradition taken in the summer of 2006

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2006
  • Length: 12:45
  • Purchases: 1
Homeless Veterans
From: Philip Graitcer
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One-quarter of the homeless are Veterans

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KKWE Niijii Radio, KZSC, WSCS-FM, and KTNA


  • Added: Sep 25, 2006
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 5
Kevin Goodman, Big Chief of the Flaming Arrows
From: Sarah Yahm
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the Big Chief of the Flaming Arrows mardi gras indian tribe talks about his new life post-katrina in Austin

  • Added: Sep 06, 2006
  • Length: 04:12
Episode 5 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 5 features former poet laureates Anthony Hecht, Maxine Kumin, Reed Whittemore, and newly appointed laureate Donald Hall.

Bought by WCPN, WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:05
  • Purchases: 8

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