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episode 6: glacier thread
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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In the last full episode of the season, we travel to the Greenland ice sheet and hear from a researcher who collects data at the face of tidewater ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 23:22
Sound Ecology: Diablotin (Black-capped petrel)
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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A rare little seabird nests in the rugged mountains between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:45
Women on the Waterfront
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...

Bought by KVNF and KCNP


  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Books Are Not Dead
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 16:48
  • Purchases: 1
Teens Take Over
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 22:09
  • Purchases: 1
Throwing It Out
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 21:06
  • Purchases: 1
Chris Yun at Eddie's Lunch
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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It has to be fresh. I cut the fish and sell the fish the exact same day.

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
Oil Spills and Moldy Paper
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Preserving history is about more than battling mold and disintegration. We took a trip to Greenpoint, Brooklyn to learn about how an environmental ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 24:49
NEA Jazz Moments with Pianist, Joanne Brackeen (round two)
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Joanne Brackeen is the only female to join Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and talks working with Stan Getz.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 8
Reuben & Patty Petersheim
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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People sometimes assume that we are part of the Amish group. But we drive cars, and we do utilize technology. We have a Facebook page.

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
Frannie and Steve
From: Justine Yan
Caption: Frannie and Steve sitting on the front lawn, Spring 2017., Credit: Photo by Justine Yan
Steve Plant was many other things before he became a caregiver for 96-year-old Frannie Cahoon. Now they spend the afternoons together. This is the ...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 1
Sound Ecology: Arcata Marsh
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the city of Arcata's Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary that also functions as an innovative wastewater treatment facility.

Bought by KZYX, WNED Buffalo, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Warblers
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology highlights the springtime arrival of orange-crowned and wilson's warblers in northwestern California. For air during ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: American Dipper
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard about the American Dipper, highlighting some behavioral and physiological aspects of this ubiquitous songbird along rivers and st...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4
A Red State Gun Owner Who's Not so Red
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Matt Knox, Credit: Amy MArtin
We go to Montana, where Making Contact Producer Amy Martin spent some time with a guy that you might think of as the stereotypical American gun own...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 09:24
  • Purchases: 3
Minnesota Native News Special Edition: Bemidji Welcomes New Chief Bemidji Statue
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
Caption: Bemidji welcomes a new statue of its Native American namesake, Chief Bemidji or Shaynowishkung., Credit: Shaynowiskung Statue Project/Facebook
On June 6th in Bemidji Minnesota a new statue of Chief Bemidji is being dedicated. He is the Native American namesake of the town. He will stand o...

Bought by MPR News Stations, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KVSC, WDSE and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 08:54
  • Purchases: 6
A New View of Loop Tattoo
From: Margaret Poethig
Caption: Close up of "Loop Tattoo" mural
The exuberant mural "Loop Tattoo" in downtown Chicago is now obscured by new buildings rising up around it. From Michigan Avenue and Lake Street, t...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2015
  • Length: 06:58
God Had Been There Forever
From: Cathy Corman
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Retired American Presbyterian missionary Barry Alter explains, in India, how the Easter story convinced her that Christianity wasn't about converti...

Bought by KZYX, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 4
Emmett and Trayvon
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Caption: Mike Wiley performing Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.

Bought by KUER and WUNC


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:22
  • Purchases: 2
A shortwave family affair
From: Veronica Simmonds
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For Michael McCormack radio was always magic

  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 06:44
Will Robinson's Brutalist Inspiration
From: Veronica Simmonds
Series: Visual Arts News podcast
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Halifax based artist Will Robinson is trying to play a library like a record.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:04
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
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
The Soul of Guatemala Part I Miracle Town
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: A woman in Almolonga, Guatemala, selling carrots and potatos wholesale., Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Yovo Song
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: friendly Togolese children, Kanté, Credit: Carla Seidl
When you visit the West African nation of Togo, you're likely to hear the "yovo song" -- a song chanted by many Togolese youth that goes: "White pe...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Ron Carter: In his own words
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
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Ron Carter is an icon of jazz. He has played his bass on more than 2000 albums. His name, however, is most vividly linked with Miles Davis. Carte...

Bought by KMUW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 2