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If you’ve spent some time on TikTok or YouTube recently, you might have stumbled across ASMR content without even knowing it. From long acrylic nai...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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You never know what you've got until it's gone.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Elena Passarello discusses her relationship to Elvis and his tribute artists during the Coronavirus pandemic.

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 17:36
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How do we get the right information without falling down the rabbit hole of misinformation? In our final installment of series on vaccine hesitanc...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 57:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Shelter in Place Podcast, Credit: Sarah Edgell
Why we're losing against COVID-19--but don't have to be.

  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 40:06
Caption: Dr. Steven Schlozman, zombified, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Zombies. I hate them the way Indiana Jones hates snakes. As part of my series Imaginary Worlds, I confront my biggest phobia with the help of a zom...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 16:54
  • Purchases: 3
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In this radio travelogue, culture writer and journalist Bilal Qureshi explores Germany’s capital Berlin to find out about local origins, regulation...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 1
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A limited series podcast produced by graduate students at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Calif...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 01:15
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What is known is that there’s something going on, something a little wilder than usual. Plus: Rachel Monroe, writer & author & Marfa volunteer fire...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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I’ve remarked more than once, here on the show, on the unique qualities that director Wes Anderson brings to his films.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 04:44
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Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel has become my favorite living director. That might sound extravagant to say about someone who has only made fou...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 08:38
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For someone who writes about films as I do, there are always cases of movies that fly under the radar, escaping my notice, maybe not even playing l...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 03:35
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Tony is best known for his collages, printmaking, paintings, and drawings. Edited by Alex Kime.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2018
  • Length: 14:00
Caption: Alexander Kime Audio Producer
In the first half of this conversation with writer Keegan Jennings Goodman reads an excerpt of his most recent book. Edited by Alex Kime.

  • Added: May 16, 2018
  • Length: 22:19
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Whip-smart and scary, yet seemingly off-the-cuff, Unsane is Steven Soderbergh’s latest contribution to genre film, in this case the suspense thrill...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 03:58
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I often hear people make the mistake of assuming that the main character of a movie should be likeable or sympathetic. This idea is a hold-over fro...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 04:11
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Current Mood: Desperate.  Mortified pays tribute to the kids who grew up in an era right before Myspace and Facebook and pioneered the idea of goin...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2018
  • Length: 27:04
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Mudbound tells the stories of people who don’t often get their stories told: poor white farmers and black sharecroppers in the South during the 194...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2018
  • Length: 04:02
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Many are indifferent to fashion, and I happen to be one of them. But I do recognize that for those who are interested, it can be a serious business...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2018
  • Length: 04:32
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This last year saw the release of Blade Runner 2049, a sequel to the 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner. It’s rather unusual for a sequel to...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:40
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Joe Lindsley was the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan?

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 40:13
Caption: Trump. Chicago. Chaos., Credit: ABC 7 Chicago
Yasmeen Elagha attends her first presidential rally, a speech by Donald Trump in Chicago. "I am a Muslim woman, I wear the hijab and I was going to...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 05:14
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. I have to admit I kind of admire the courage it took for a producer to approve such an awkward title for...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
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We can fall deeply, madly in love with late-night radio. This doesn't happen with any of the visual mediums. Never with a screen. Thing is, radi...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:50:05
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Jehan Bseiso is the Head of Communications for Doctors Without Borders in the Middle East Region by day (and some long evenings) and a poet by nigh...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 30:37