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Yellow-Bellied White Woman Fights the Blues
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Hello neighbor the weather is fine outside and my old stuff is all yours all free, well, kind of.

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Man With A Blue Truck
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Who knew a hit and run could end in friendship?

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Loving Charcoal
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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A portrait of Anna, who lives one floor below me, and her hamster.

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


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Durham's Music Man
From: Grace West
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Kayden Jenkins-Deal, owner of "The Brass Band", repairs school band instruments in his Durham, North Carolina home studio.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 1
Page Wilson: Into The Blue
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 55:45
Into the World of Synesthesia
From: Alex Lewis
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Synesthesia is a rare neurological condition. It usually involves the involuntary coupling together of two unrelated sensory or cognitive experienc...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 1
Moonwalk: A Memorial for MJ Pt. III
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Michael Jackson - Bad, Credit: Sony
The musical history of MICHAEL JACKSON. The music of THE JACKSON FIVE (J5), THE JACKSONS and solo music of MICHAEL JACKSON are covered in this thre...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2011
  • Length: 55:13
Joyce Family Musicians
From: Meghan Vigeant
Series: Swan's Island Memory Project
Caption: Joyce Family musicians, Credit: courtesy of Sharon Joyce Butterfield (Swan's Island Memory Project)
Families that play music together stay together. The Joyce family on Swan's Island made their own entertainment.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 04:45
Island Childhood
From: Meghan Vigeant
Series: Swan's Island Memory Project
Caption: 1948, Credit: Swan's Island Memory Project
Swan’s Islanders share their childhood memories of growing up on the island.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
The Jackknife Incident
From: Meghan Vigeant
Series: Swan's Island Memory Project
Caption: Bernita Joyce, Credit: Meghan Vigeant
The battle between a kid’s fun and her parents.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:31
Pooptown Adventure
From: Will Rogers
Series: Compostmodernist
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This tour of a Texas wastewater treatment plant will inspire you to “Do what you love; Love what you doo”

  • Added: Aug 27, 2011
  • Length: 03:59
Luli Gray -- author interview
From: Eileen Heyes
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Children's author Luli Gray talks about her new picture book, "Ant and Grasshopper."

  • Added: Jun 12, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
The Pigeon Race
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Pigeon racers across New England get out their lawn chairs and wait for their birds. The flocks are released 150 miles away from home. The pigeons ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, WMPG, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
Dear Z
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
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A love letter to a super-horse.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, PRX Remix, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, KUT, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 30, 2011
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 5
Casa Rico
From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York
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Lenny Rico and wife Cindy talk about inheriting the longest running Italian-American radio show from Lenny’s parents, Emelino and Mary Rico. Their...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 06:52
Polka at Rollie's Rednecks & Longnecks
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack heads out to Rollie's Rednecks and Longnecks in St Cloud not to ride the mecha...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 27, 2011
  • Length: 23:27
  • Purchases: 1
Encounters Solitude
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
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I want to be alone.... in the wilderness!

Bought by KHNS


  • Added: Jan 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Twister and Son
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A story about a family...and pretzels.

Bought by WMPG, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 3
George Raymond Wagner, December 26, 1963
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The Greeks may have invented wrestling, but it took one man ... Gorgeous George ... to really put the shine on it.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Erroll Garner, January 2, 1977
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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His friends called him "Hoochie Coo," and he was one of the great jazz pianists ... composer of hundreds of songs, but best known for writing the t...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
The Day the Music Died
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: Nancy Faust, White Sox organist for 41 Seasons, Credit: Philip Graitcer
Nancy Faust, Chicago White Sox ballpark organist for 41 seasons, is retiring at the end of this season, bringing to an end an era of baseball organ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Vocalo.org, KUT, and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 22, 2010
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 4
Powered By Laughter
From: Avery Moore Kloss
Caption: Katie West celebrating life!
A Maine woman tries to create social change with laughter and play.

Bought by SALTcast Podcast and WILL


  • Added: Jul 27, 2010
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 2
The Love Boat
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
Caption: Gigi at the Canal Cafe Theatre, London
A true love story for those who have loved, lost and then gone on a cruise to forget... if only she hadn't picked the same cruise as her ex.

Bought by PRX Remix and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 11:15
  • Purchases: 2
Malort
From: Robin Amer
Caption: Malort and me. , Credit: Robin Amer
You might say that Malort is Chicago's signature drink. Which would be fine, if it weren't so disgusting. For the uninitiated, here is the story of...

Bought by KUT and WILL


  • Added: Jun 15, 2010
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 2
A Reason for the Purpose
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Maybe you know where your food comes from. But have you seen and heard about farming through a 13-year-old boy’s eyes? Colby Perron shares his thou...

Bought by KRZA and WMPG


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 2

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