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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 27:43
- Purchases: 1
Most of us spend close to half of our waking adult lives at work, but I would venture to guess that less than five percent of narrative films take ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 03:56
A young black man yearns to reclaim the old San Francisco house that he grew up in, but which his father lost, in this film about home, friendship,...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 03:39
On this show I want to cover two films about people trying to do something no one else has done; both of them played in theaters during the past ye...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 04:26
Elisabeth Moss dominates the screen as a crash-and-burn rock star in Alex Ross Perry’s latest provocative drama.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 03:54
“From almost every kind of responsibility and tie from engagement and from faith. So the artist--our task is to move ourselves and the rest of us i...
Bought by KALW, KFAI Minneapolis, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Along the road, stretches from Louisville to New Mexico, there are moments that never live up to the pictures we take. But they're what we always s...
Bought by KUPR low power FM
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 11:04
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 10:25
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 11:11
A cold-water, slap on the face, static-electric jolt reminder of just how powerfully spaces can affect the way we think and act.
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 3
In this humorous piece, Nick, a music teacher, tells the story of two Celine Dion songs and how they have helped him understand the value of music ...
- Added: May 09, 2014
- Length: 06:38
On March 11th, 2011 Justine Beed was sitting in an English classroom outside of Tokyo, when the 9.0 Earthquake hit near Fukushima.
Bought by MPR News Stations
- Added: Mar 06, 2014
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 1
A post- post-9/11 podcast. This episode examines New Jersey's Empty Sky Memorial & Bruce Springsteen's song “Empty Sky”
- Added: Jan 09, 2014
- Length: 13:53
a post- post-9/11 podcast. Pilot.
- Added: Jan 09, 2014
- Length: 16:51
Free, audio book excerpt. Once upon a time, there was a girl who imagined a bear. Actually, she imagined a lot of bears. And then she drew them—bea...
- Added: Nov 23, 2013
- Length: 13:16
Lots of people talk about how addicted we are to our screens. We spend our days staring at smartphones, tablets, and computers. But the first digit...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 08:33
- Purchases: 1
A sentimental look at the closing of Andrew Hiller's favorite used book store.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 02:09
- Purchases: 1
How does a lifelong passion for books transform itself into an acute fear?
- Added: Jan 18, 2010
- Length: 06:30
The U.N. estimates three million Colombians have been displaced from their homes because of the ongoing war for land between guerrilla fighters, pa...
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 04:47
We learned from the Velveteen Rabbit how toys become real. But all things become real and emerge daily from the secret source at the back of my clo...
- Added: Feb 05, 2009
- Length: 05:00
