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Collaborating with the Mystery
From: Mary Quintas
Caption: Bud Brown with his trumpazoo and washboard, Credit: Mary Quintas
Bud Brown is known for singing Iris DeMent's "Let the Mystery Be". A few years ago, his relationship to the song changed: Bud's wife became termin...

Bought by XRAY.fm, PRX Remix, KALW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 13, 2014
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 4
Day Job 10: The Window Washer
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Mike Notter of the Seattle bands Motopony and Hannalee cleans windows for a living, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 16:10
  • Purchases: 1
Cobblestones: Jim Henson from A to Zoe
From: Andrew Hiller
Caption: Five-time Emmy Award winner Fran Brill, the first woman hired by Jim Henson for Sesame Street (seen here with Zoe) is retiring after 42 years , Credit: Jim Henson Legacy
Cobblestones: Jim Henson from A to Zoe is a sound rich special that includes original interviews, clips, music, and new skits with many of the orig...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 55:05
  • Purchases: 1
Romance, Intrigue and Senior Citizens
From: Nancy Klingener
Caption: Marilyn Colburn of Provincetown, Mass., author of "Maudie & Sophie," the first novel published by the Provincetown Public Press, Credit: Nancy Klingener
The Provincetown Public Library, a tiny library at the end of Cape Cod, has become the first public library in the country to create its own digita...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 2
Song Story S0.E2 - Sarah Donner's "Signs of Life" (pre-season sneak-peek)
From: Eric Ginsberg
Series: Song Story
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Song Story features songwriters telling the true stories behind their original songs. This pre-season sneak-peek features singer/songwriter/creativ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2014
  • Length: 10:06
What is your definition of Love?
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
Caption: Folk Journalist/Teacher
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


  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
Don't Mess With This Squirrel Baby
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Petey's dinner time.
When an animal lover and her non-animal-loving friend take over the care of tiny Petey, cuteness ensues. Two-voice, non-narrated feature produced...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 05:31
Finding Treatment
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Being diagnosed with a disease is hard enough. Imagine living hours away from the closest place you could receive treatment.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:24
Follow That Cat
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Deserving Kitty Cat, Credit: AniMeals Weblog
Producer Cody Blum's feature about Animeals, a no-kill cat shelter in Missoula, Montana, follows Marlo to his new home amid "biosolids" at Eko Comp...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Fatima Learns to Drive
From: Sarah Bromer
Caption: Fatima and Her Daughter, Rana
Fatima Alsamawi, a recent immigrant to the United States from Iraq, experiences the sweet freedom of driving for the first time.

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 2
First Kiss
From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio
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A dead squid in your mouth. Slugs. A mollusk. We're talking about your first kiss.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 03:16
Page Wilson: Into The Blue
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 55:45
Handclapping Games
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Children have their own kind of oral history in the form of rhymes and handclapping games that are passed down from generation to generation. What ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 2
History of music therapy
From: Adi Narayan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is the first of a 3-part documentary examining the history of music therapy and it's applications.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2011
  • Length: 07:54
The Friendship Center
From: Emilie Ritter Saunders
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A local sewing group is making a difference for women who are forced to start over...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2010
  • Length: 05:11
I Didn't Know That (A Short People's History of the United States)
From: Stephanie Coleman
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A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KSRQ, KHNS, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 8
East Hundred: A Rock Band Waiting To Make It
From: Abbie Fentress Swanson
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East Hundred is a five-piece rock band waiting to make it.

  • Added: May 08, 2010
  • Length: 05:22
Violinist Anna Schaad's Dream Within a Dream
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Violinist Anna Schaad’s music is steeped in fantasy and inspired by her Navy pilot husband. Though heavily Celtic influenced, she takes an electro...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Hot Lunch
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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For many, the term "lunch lady" conjures an image of a grouchy woman in a hair net, who's just as scary as the unidentifiable food she's serving.

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, SALTcast Podcast, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 4
Happy One hundredth Birthday
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Arthur and Aggie, Credit: Walter Murch
The Santa Monica Pier and Arthur Lessac turned 100 years old on September 9th

  • Added: Sep 14, 2009
  • Length: 11:20
A Long Way from Baghdad
From: Addie Goss
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A profile of the one Iraqi student at the University of Wyoming

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2009
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 2
Birth Plan
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Preparing for a major moment in unusual circumstances.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:19
Opera Underage
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A look into the teenage world of opera, give it a try, it's cooler than you think!

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 1
Pelham Bay
From: WFUV
Series: Sound Poetry
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Remembering days at a gritty but still summery Bronx beach.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2009
  • Length: 04:51
A Hope Thing
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine sells lab mice to medical research facilities all over the world.

Bought by KUOW and CKMO


  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2