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Summertime: Movie Nights at Once Upon A Vine

From: Charles McGuigan

Caption: Movie Night at Once Upon A Vine, Credit: Charles McGuigan

Host Lede (Over a sound bed of In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry) 0:15 Summer is a time of rituals. Grilling out. Camping trips. Beach excursions...

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From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions

XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by WORT

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From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions

XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM

Carrots help you see in the dark

From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions

XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM

Malapropisms 3

From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions

XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM

Better the devil you know

From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions

XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM

A Pepper for Dinner

From: Carla Seidl

Caption: Sir Charles Gardner and Carl Johnson, Credit: Earth Flavors

This food-justice-related audio collage features the voices of Sir Charles Gardner and Carl Johnson, co-managers of Gardens United, a community gar...

Day Job 6: The Mind Reader

From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)

Caption: Ivan Galvez of Picoso, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job

Ivan Gálvez plays timbales with the Seattle band Picoso. He also scans my brainwaves with an electroencephalogram machine at the hospital where he ...

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW

Day Job 5: Fear And The Flying Trapeze

From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)

Caption: A trapeze student, Credit: Joshua McNichols

Kari Kirkland stands on a narrow platform high above the ground. As a trapeze instructor, her job is to convince students to jump off that platform...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Delmarva Public Media, and KUOW

What is your definition of Love?

From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism

For Valentine's Day folk journalist Hank Rosenfeld asked 5th graders about love.

Bought by KUER, KRZA, PRX Remix, KAOS, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more

First Kiss

From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio

A dead squid in your mouth. Slugs. A mollusk. We're talking about your first kiss.

Booksmellers Unite

From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio

The smell of a book can like that of a lover - musky and old with experience, brand new, immature and innocent. Or, knowledgeable and hard-covered....

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio

Hiding

From: Will Dewees

A series of strange people tell where they hide a familiar object.

Elementary Education

From: Lauren Peterson

For some, education is a global debate involving scholarly theories and reform strategies; for others, it's something a little more...elementary. O...

The Origins of Rock -- on ThoughtCast!

From: Jenny Attiyeh

Rock and Roll. A term we all know well. But what does the word rock mean? Simple enough question. But how did the term originate? Where -- and ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WMUB

Google Cooking, Griefer and other Neologisms - on ThoughtCast!

From: Jenny Attiyeh

Google Cooking is a new phrase - a neologism - born on the Internet. Listen to this short ThoughtCast program for a definition...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Steve Reich's Different Trains meets the Borromeo String Quartet -- on ThoughtCast!

From: Jenny Attiyeh

The Borromeo String Quartet tackles renowned composer Steve Reich's notoriously difficult "Different Trains for String Quartet and Tape" with stirr...

Bought by WBHM, WDAV Classical Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio