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Tales from the South 38: Summer Season 2011 Kickoff
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
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This kickoff show is steeped in Southern heat as the writers take us back to childhood summers. Sarah Mattingly takes a vacation to meet family, Sa...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sounds of summer - skateboard
From: Veronique LaCapra
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A personal essay about my memory of skateboarding around my neighborhood as a kid. This aired as part of the first installment of NPR's 2011 series...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:21
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
Palestinian Hoop Dreams
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by: spaceameoba, Flicker.com
“Palestinian Hoop Dreams” is a thoughtful story by Ahmed Hemeid, a Palestinian student at United World College. Ahmed’s tells us an amazing story t...

Bought by PRX Remix and YouthCast


  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 2
Volleyball
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: April Nelson, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
When you play high school volleyball, you have to learn the moves that make your team competitive. April Nelson tells us about it.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Minneapolis Edison Girls' Basketball
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: Lee Mier, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
Lee Mier is a student manager of the Minneapolis Edison girls basketball team. It was exciting to get to the championship game last year.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Edison High School's Football defensive philosophy
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: Jesse Clabo, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
At Minneapolis Edison High School, the football coach places a lot of defensive responsibility on the linebackers. And that suits student Jesse Cla...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
John Register on Hurdling Adversity & Disability: Mind Over Matter Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: John Register, Credit: johnregister.com
This week on Culture Clique, Olympian John Register speaks to us about the disabled community. While training for the 1996 Olympics, Register fell ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 27:47
John Register on Hurdling Adversity & Disability: Mind Over Matter
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: John Register, Credit: johnregister.com
This week on Culture Clique, Olympian John Register speaks to us about the disabled community. While training for the 1996 Olympics, Register fell ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 31:46
  • Purchases: 1
A Difference Between People And Animals
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
People can do things animals can't do.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Oct 29, 2010
  • Length: 01:42
  • Purchases: 1
MA-150 Field of Dreams
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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Little League baseball offers training in a field of dreams

  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 05:27
Swimming in the Old Quarry Hole
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Quarries Are Deep

  • Added: Aug 02, 2010
  • Length: :56
Soccer is also a sport for girls (Youth radio production from western Zambia)
From: michal rahfaldt
Series: World Cup in My Village
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For fourteen year-old Inonge Sitali, a radio dialogue with her peers about the 2010 FIFA World Cup is an opportunity for her to talk about gender i...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jul 07, 2010
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Feeling Is Mutual
From: City High Radio
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Joe is a skater--as in skateboarder. He hates bike cops, and he's sure they hate him, too. In this short personal essay, Joe explains where his pre...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2010
  • Length: 03:33
The Tiger Woods Press Conference
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Why the press hounds Tiger Woods

  • Added: Apr 06, 2010
  • Length: :31
Kostaman Reporter's Notebook
From: World Vision Report
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Just call it snowboarding for Haiti. That’s one of the offshoots of this year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The games provide an international ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 03:41
Group 3 Comm 373 Documentary
From: Melissa Kahmeyer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Interview discussing radio broadcasting opportunities at Saint Cloud State University, with KVSC sports director Matt Bishop.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2010
  • Length: 01:07
He Never Had A Life
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The first time an olympic gold medal winner had to think for himself, he did something stupid.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: :55
Tiger Woods
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Now we know why Tiger Woods was always smiling

  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: :19
Ten Girlfriends
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you are a famous married man who keeps 10 or 20 girlfriends on the side to take up the slack, sooner or later everyone in the world is going to ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Muhammad Ali
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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To be the “Greatest of All Time,” boxing legend Muhammad Ali says you have to believe in yourself.

Bought by WEZU, KRZA, KFAI Minneapolis, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: May 13, 2009
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 10
White Water Rafting
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You should know what you're doing before you go white water rafting.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: :29
The Wimpy Football Player
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A football player for the Boston Redskins made the Guineas Book of Records by playing 12 months without having broken knees or cartilage repaired b...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: :41
Golf
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A man who is 107 plays golf every day

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Dec 18, 2008
  • Length: :35
  • Purchases: 2