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Choral music often consists of centuries-old compositions. But one local group—the Singers Minnesota Choral Artists—has premiered more 70 new compo...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 06:03
What does it mean to live in a world where biotech is done for and by the people? How long might it be until we are all growing our own ink, laund...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
In 1999, most of America’s tech hysteria centered around Y2K. But at that same time, a teenager in Canada was messing around in chat rooms, meeting...
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 16:26
- Purchases: 2
The Scottsboro Boys are infamous — nine black teenagers falsely accused
and convicted of raping two white women. Last year, the state of Alabama f...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 23:08
- Purchases: 1
Cuban-born pianist Nachito Herrera moved to Minnesota in 2001, and quickly made a name for himself as a jazz player, composing and performing and w...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 05:38
- Purchases: 1
Fewer Americans are watching movies in theaters—ticket sales fell by 11 percent between 2004 and 2013. For those attending the cinema, just about e...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 03:46
After Annie Cho gave birth to her son this spring, she struggled to make traditional Chinese "confinement" practices (hygiene rules + special postp...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 1
This piece was produced for the 2nd Annual KCRW 24-Hour Radio Race, by Vanessa Lowe and Kent Sparling. It made it to the top ten finalists out of ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 04:09
What are the origins of this dance? How did it begin? Who are the rising talents of this subculture based on the West Side of Chicago? And how has ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 11:57
Behind drawn shades in a brightly lit room downtown, dispatchers for the Los Angeles Police Department answer 9-1-1 calls and send officers to thei...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 1
As dawn breaks, birds serenade Eric Jones, who crosses a church parking lot in his baggy jeans, jangling an oversized key ring. The plastic wheels ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
Street Roots is a non-profit news outlet that has been addressing homelessness and poverty in Portland, Oregon since 1998.
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 03:27
This week on State of the Human we’re investigating how people use joking to create new realities for themselves and the people around them.
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:18
- Purchases: 2
Berlin, Germany - 1972. An American teenager tries to come to terms with what she sees and what she feels on both sides of the Wall while secretly ...
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 2
Herbert addresses the importance of free speech in our country.
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 2
As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...
- Added: Feb 23, 2014
- Length: 14:07
Profile of banjo maker Jimmy Cox, from Topsham, ME. Cox was born in Williamsburg, KY and makes world class banjos in his shop there. This profile i...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 06:20
Tony Lucero is a Mexican American professor at The University of Washington. In this piece, Professor Lucero tells us how he came to be an educato...
- Added: Dec 07, 2013
- Length: 08:28
Jim is a young man who has everything in the world but direction.
- Added: Nov 29, 2013
- Length: 17:10
Spoken Editions #206: Romantic Modern: California Architecture 1930 to 1950, Harwell Hamilton Harris
From: Teosson Wells
Free, audio excerpt from a book. The California of Harris’ youth was a very different place than it is today: It was a verdant oasis of orange grov...
- Added: Nov 12, 2013
- Length: 06:35
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:00
Mining provides the resources for many products we use every day, but it's more than just a big corporate enterprise. Listen in for a look at some ...
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 21:34
Don Fidel, an immigrant to the United States, opened a staple restaurant in Chicago, but for his family, it was more than restaurant.
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 16:26
In this edition of WTIP's ongoing historical series, Moments in Time, producer Carah Thomas learns about an ancient style of timber framing from so...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 07:03
- Purchases: 1
Bluegrass music is a combination of the Scots-Irish heritage of many of the first generation of bluegrass player, with the blues woven through the ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 06:33
