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For Kids' Sake

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman

It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a lib...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Dec 26, 2019
Length: 20:41
Purchases: 1

Teens Take Over

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Dec 26, 2019
Length: 22:09
Purchases: 1

Blocks and Brownstones

From: Brooklyn Public Library

In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.

Added: Dec 26, 2019
Length: 26:22
Purchases: 1

Our Garbage, Ourselves

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Dec 23, 2019
Length: 20:50
Purchases: 1

I'd Rather Kiss A Pig

From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: See It Through My Eyes

Caption: Texas Folklife x Akins High Listening Party flyer, Credit: Jennifer (Amora) Arriaga

Akins High School has an annual fall festival called Blue and Gold Night. It's a night with many activities, including a pig kissing "contest." Pro...

Added: Dec 20, 2019
Length: 04:19

Cities Declare Climate Emergency

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Two men address their fear of climate change by getting their cities to declare a climate emergency and commit to rapidly lowering emissions.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, KICI Iowa City, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

Added: Dec 11, 2019
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 4

Christmas Stories Part 3 An Incident on Grace Street

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

A modern-day nativity story that takes place in a garage on Suitcase Alley in Richmond, Virginia's Fan District.

Added: Dec 09, 2019
Length: 24:24

Christmas Stories Part 2 A Christmas Carol on Wheels

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

A hundred years before Frank Kapra ever dreamed up a wonderful life, Charles Dickens had already penned the seminal Christmas classic. For the past...

Added: Dec 09, 2019
Length: 27:05

Christmas Stories Part 1 No Room at the Inn

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Nativities at Church of the Redeemer., Credit: Charles McGuigan

Every year, at the Church of the Redeemer in Mechanicsville, Virginia, people exhibit exhibit hundred of Nativities from all over the world. And ea...

Added: Dec 09, 2019
Length: 27:00

Friendly and Not-So-Friendly Ghosts in Richmond, Virginia

From: Charles McGuigan

Beth Houlihan and her husband Chris own and operate Haunts of Richmond. And for a city this this size, Richmond has an abundance of ghoulies and gh...

Added: Nov 12, 2019
Length: 26:58

The Big Pond #52: Puppeteering from Darmstadt to DC

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Ingrid Crepeau is a successful US-American puppeteer, performer and puppet-designer based in the Washington, DC area. Her time in Darmstadt, German...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO

Added: Oct 30, 2019
Length: 26:38
Purchases: 2

Announcing Best of the Best 2019

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2019 Third Coast Festival Broadcast

The Third Coast International Audio Festival is back with our annual Best of the Best broadcast, featuring the winners of the 2019 Third Coast / Ri...

Bought by KALW, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WJCT, WFHB, WABE and more

Added: Oct 15, 2019
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 19

The Crime of Punishment

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...

Added: Oct 01, 2019
Length: 27:05

Cold Comfort | Extra 03 | What Have You Done for Me Lately?

From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold

Join us on a journey into a permafrost tunnel in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Bought by KLCC, PRX Remix, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio

Added: Sep 24, 2019
Length: 07:57
Purchases: 3

A Wild Woman Sings the Blues

From: Ian Ruskin

Caption: Barbara Dane at the Newport Folk Festival

This documentary shines a light on one of America’s most extraordinary musicians and activists, Barbara Dane. This is a woman who lead the way in c...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WKMS, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)

Added: Sep 19, 2019
Length: 01:56:41
Purchases: 3

The Big Pond #45: The Passion of Chris Strachwitz

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Chris Strachwitz is a man possessed. A “songcatcher,” capturing and recording the traditional, regional, down-home music of the US, his adopted hom...

Bought by WDCB, KICI Iowa City, WNYO, and KWMR

Added: Sep 11, 2019
Length: 29:23
Purchases: 4

Edward Harden Peeples Garden of Liberation Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...

Bought by KVSC

Added: Sep 09, 2019
Length: 25:37
Purchases: 1

The Big Pond #44: Germans in New Orleans

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Historically, New Orleans is a cultural, spiritual and ethnic melting pot. In the streets, you immediately come across signs of French, Caribbean, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO

Added: Sep 04, 2019
Length: 13:32
Purchases: 2

David Hudson Superman Has Arrived Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: David Hudson, Credit: Charles McGuigan

David Hudson has been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...

Added: Sep 03, 2019
Length: 27:19

David Hudson Superman Has Arrived Part 1

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: David Hudson, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo

David Hudson had been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...

Added: Sep 03, 2019
Length: 27:11

Eight Days a Week

From: Israel Story

Arianna Skibell takes us to Battir, a pastoral village about three kilometers southwest of Jerusalem. Over the centuries, the serene landscape has ...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Aug 27, 2019
Length: 19:16
Purchases: 1

The Writing on the Wall

From: Israel Story

For everything the West Bank barrier represents to people on both sides, it’s easy to forget that it is an actual physical structure. And as Joel S...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Aug 26, 2019
Length: 17:45
Purchases: 1

Nobody Swung Harder: The Jazz Violin of Stuff Smith

From: David Schulman

Caption: Stuff Smith and friends, Credit: family photo

Hezekiah Leroy Gordon “Stuff” Smith was the most important American jazz violinist of the 20th Century. He recorded with Ella Fitzgerald. Oscar Pet...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio