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Skywalkers of Akwesane
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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How the dangerous skill of high steel became a rite of passage for a Mohawk tribe.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WFHB, KMXT, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 26
Georgia Market Bulletin
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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A chronicle of rural life in Georgia unfolds between the lines of a farmers' newspaper.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Nancarrow and the Player Piano
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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The life and work of a renegade composer who blazed a trail to the future by using an instrument that sounded like the past.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Stranger in Paradise
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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The strange life and haunting work of outside artist Achilles Rizzoli.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:25
  • Purchases: 1
In Love with the Mob
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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One hundred years of mob rule in Youngstown, Ohio.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Bioprospecting in Chiapas
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
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Traditional Mexican healers have stopped "bioprospecting projects of foreign pharmaceutical companies.

Bought by KSUT, KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, WAER Syracuse, NY, Here and Now and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 6
Roads on the Isthmus
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
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Improved roads were supposed to be a side-benefit of NAFTA, but some poor Mexicans are convinced that highways won't improve their lives.

Bought by KUNM and Here and Now


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 2
Corn in Oaxaca
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
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US corn imports in Mexico are making it hard for traditional farmers to maintain precious biodiversity.

Bought by KSUT, KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, and Here and Now


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 4
Timber in Durango
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
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Community-owned forests in Mexico are tapping into the demand for eco-friendly wood -- at least for now.

Bought by KUNM, Here and Now, and WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 3
Worlds of Difference: Finding a Niche
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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A sound-rich documentary about the efforts of traditional societies to find a niche in the global marketplace, with stories from Peru, Canada, Scot...

Bought by KUNM, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, WPSU, WUMB and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2005
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 27
What's the Word? Poet Michael S. Harper on the Poet's Art
From: Modern Language Association
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Michael S. Harper talks about what he teaches in his poetry classes and reads some his favorite poems.

Bought by WLIW, KUER, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 8
What's the Word? Poetry in Performance
From: Modern Language Association
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From Homer to slam, the special appeal of poetry in performance.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 20
What's the Word? Chinese Women's Poetry
From: Modern Language Association
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A celebration of Chinese women poets.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCPN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 30:03
  • Purchases: 11
Women Making Music: Mary Gauthier
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Mary Gauthier is a Nashville based performer who has used her rich life experience as fodder for her material.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, Public Interactive, NPR Station Showcase with PRX and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 7
Women Making Music: Tori Amos
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Tori Amos has always had a one of a kind take on music making. In this three minute vignette she talks about the changes pregnancy and motherhood...

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, WCOM and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 7
Women Making Music: Joan Baez
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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In this "Women Making Music" vignette folk icon Joan Baez ponders her evolution in both her personal and artistic life since her beginnings as a pe...

Bought by WHQR, WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WYOU and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 10
Women Making Music: Erin McKeown
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Singer songwriter Erin McKeown muses about her artistic process and fascination with Judy Garland in WXPN's continuing series of short modules call...

Bought by PRX Remix, WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 9
Women Making Music: Jolie Holland
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Jolie Holland is a Texas-born singer-songwriter with an impressive musical vocabulary and a wandering spirit. The newcomer muses about her life in...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Vermont Public, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 9
Women Making Music: k.d. lang
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Genre defying performer k.d. lang remarks on her life in music as WXPN continues it's "Women Making Music" vignettes.

Bought by WHQR, WSGE, KSRQ, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 10
Women Making Music: Lucinda Williams
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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In celebration of Women's History Month our Women Making Music series continues with words and music from Alt. Country singer-songwriter Lucinda Wi...

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, WCOM and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2005
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 8
Women Making Music: Suzanne Vega
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Veteran singer songwriter shares insights about her music as part of WXPN's Women's history month series Women Making Music.

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2005
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 9
Living Well Show - Dr. Noreena Hertz - The Debt Threat
From: KRZA
Series: Living Well Show
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Dr. Noreena Herts discusses the burden of thrid world debt and how it effects us all.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2005
  • Length: 29:45
Leaving on a Rather Low Note
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Janensch on the Media
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Commentary on Dan Rather's departure at CBS

Bought by KRFC


  • Added: Mar 03, 2005
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
A Century of Heroes: Week Twenty
From: David Bear
Series: A Century of Heroes
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Five 90-second programs, each recounting a remarkable act of everyday courage drawn from the Carnegie Hero Fund archives.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2005
  • Length: 07:43
A Century of Heroes: Week Nineteen
From: David Bear
Series: A Century of Heroes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Five 90-second programs, each recounting a remarkable act of everyday courage drawn from the Carnegie Hero Fund archives.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2005
  • Length: 07:45

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