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From a skeletal homesteader cabin on a cold Mojave night, it's the annual Desert Oracle Christmas Special. New Mexico writer Anna Merlin joins us t...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
It's almost the Great Conjunction and we've been on the run, on the road, rambling around. It was time to visit the devastation on Cima Dome, where...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
The perfectly nice lady behind one of TV's most menacing overdubs
- Added: Oct 23, 2019
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 2
Hong Kong Mixtape introduces our first guest producer: composer and artist Samson Young, and the sound art community of Southeastern China. Young o...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 55:58
On this episode of Culture Clique we meet Tom Schneider of Winona. At a quiet intersection in Winona, MN, sits a small unassuming brown building. O...
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 06:44
My great grandfather started the business in 1917. He came from China. This was the built-in childcare/daycare for me. My parents would come to w...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 1
After the fall of the Soviet Union Ukrainian-born opera director Julia Lwowski was able to come to Germany because she was a Jew. But was she?
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 26:59
Eric Kaiser started wood carving for a simple reason: he wanted a creative challenge. He decided to focus on one subject only, over and over. Birds...
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 04:26
Preyas Roy has performed in famous venues like the Jazz Showcase. But he makes his living on a downtown Chicago street corner — despite the unwield...
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 02:56
A sport for the twenty-first century? Two words: rocket racing. Ann Kane explores this real-life combination of NASA and NASCAR. Then, Lillian Warn...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 06:21
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 04:38
- Purchases: 1
Having your hair braided can be a matter of life or death
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 02:53
Lacar Musgrove reads "A Moveable Race" about a 19th Century bicycle race on Thanksgiving Day in New Orleans.
Bought by Raven Radio, KTXK, Raven Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KSFR and more
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 7
Tributes to Sid Caesar, Ralph Waite and Shirley Temple with introductions from Eleanor Roosevelt, Rodney Dangerfield and Maggie Estep.
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 29:34
From Paradise City to Death Valley, Lisa Lipton drummed her way around North America in search of the Impossible Blue Rose
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 06:59
Ben Weisz discovers the vibrant street tradition of Candombe drumming, and explores its origins among Montevideo's Afro-Uruguayan community.
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 08:28
A couple years ago, this young composer discovered that rhythm manipulation affects us on a deeper level than anyone had imagined. This piece was p...
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 04:42
Sixty years after polio was eradicated in America, a dozen survivors still rely on their iron lungs to breathe. Come inside the machine Martha Lill...
Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, KOSU, Hark! and more
- Added: Jul 11, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 14
This feature looks at the greening of Prather Ranch, a sustainable cattle hay and farming operation in Northern California. Through a partnership ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2013
- Length: 10:25
From the red eyes of a periodical cicada looking out: a bug's first person rendition from emergence til death.
Bought by KSJD, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, Radio Newark, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Jun 19, 2013
- Length: 07:42
- Purchases: 8
Two biodiesel enthusiasts discuss their involvement in the Hudson Valley biodiesel community.
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 04:47
Reporter Britta Conroy-Randall took a trip with blind advocate Romeo Edmead to find out how easy to is for him to get around town.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Accessible Media Inc.
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 2
In this episode of The Loop, Chris Medders talks about his transition from rapper to "beat" artist, his musical roots, and how his music is a perso...
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 06:00
Part of a series called The Loop, which examines Austin's burgeoning electronic scene. Andrew Thaggard (BoomBaptist) talks about the musicality of ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 05:54
Part of a series called The Loop, which examines Austin's burgeoning electronic scene. On this edition of The Loop, Michael D. White (Kinder) talks...
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 05:26
