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The East Side Freedom Library
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Last year, when the St. Paul Public Library vacated a building in East St. Paul, another venture moved in—and its dynamic focus is spelled out in i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 2
Inside Tow-Knight, Ep. 4: "What's your problem?"
From: Jeremy Caplan
Series: Inside Tow-Knight
Caption: Ana Ormaechea, Tow-Knight 2015 Fellow
Understanding your audience goes deeper than simply asking, "Do you like my idea?" This week, we talk about how to figure out what it is that your ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 04:49
Tiny trains, timeless tales at Hennepin Overland Railway Museum
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Every day the Hiawatha Blue Line light rail trains transport Minnesotans from Minneapolis to Bloomington for work, shopping, travel, and home again...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
True nature of time remains elusive
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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As the old year ends and a new year begins, the passage of time is on our minds. We check the time on cell phones, computer monitors, watches and w...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
Simmer 3: Democracy and Telling Our Own Stories
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Simmer
Caption: Yams simmering for fufu in Togo, West Africa, Credit: Carla Seidl
The third Simmer episode features the first part of the documentary "Telling Our Own Stories" introduced by anecdotes about democracy from Seidl's ...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
Returning from war: two young veterans tell their story
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: James Furnas in Baghdad, 2003
U.S. servicemen James Furnas and Zach Bair have been deployed multiple times to dangerous regions in the Middle East. Coming home and starting life...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
Rolanda Scott: The Art of Transformation Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Rolanda Scott, Credit: John MacLellan
Art teacher and glass sculptor Rolanda Scott was first diagnosed with breast cancer years ago, but she kept teaching and for the longest while surv...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 28:20
Rolanda Scott: The Art of Transformation Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Rolanda Scott , Credit: John MacLellan
Sometimes art can ease your pain, maybe even save your life. And the medium you started working in sometimes becomes another form all together. Rol...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 25:30
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
The High Life: Living High Up
From: Pod Academy
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Lee Millam has lived in high-rise blocks of flats in London for years. In this podcast he explores the highs and lows of living high up, and also ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2014
  • Length: 09:23
Anderson Center spearheads new residency program
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: (L to R) Jeremy Quiroga, Lilah Katcher, Raymond Luczak (w/guide dog “Rocky”), Bex Freund, Rachel Mazique
The Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota, welcomes temporary residents, but for the first time this year, they are offering a month exclusively f...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1
Not Just a Ride Home
From: Katie Klocksin
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Michael Powell is a train driver for the Chicago Transit Authority. He captivated me for years with his chatty speeches over the train's speakers. ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 1
Project Prom
From: Margaret Krauss
Series: What What Why: Stories of Life and Living
Caption: Jacqueline Belton helps Chynna Baker, 18, finish her prom outfit with heels. , Credit: Margaret J. Krauss
This week on What What Why, it's almost prom season and we're examining the event's significance. Love it, hate it, go to it or don’t, but prom is ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 07:59
How He Did It
From: Trevor Keaton Pogue
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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
Ham Radio Is Proud To Be Amateur
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Ham radio hobbyists have been DIY since day one. They build their own equipment and create their own communities.

Bought by KWMR, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
What's Manufactured in Chicago?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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Chi-town manufacturing hasn’t disappeared, you just have to know where to look for it.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Land
From: Erin Davis
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Death traps by any American standard, adventure playgrounds are every child’s dream.

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


  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 5
Mascot Boot Camp: Putting the F-U back in FUN
From: Alexis Kenyon
Caption: Dave Raymond watching Fritz the Cat at Mascot Boot Camp, Credit: Alexis Kenyon
Since retiring as the original Philie Phanatic, Dave Raymond makes his living training professional mascot performers and creating new mascot ident...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 23:31
Six Feet Above
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Chuck Lakin has a unique hobby. He builds coffins. For living people.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 3
In India, Everyone Wants To Be An Engineer
From: Bianca Vazquez Toness
Caption: Students study math at a cramschool in Kota, Rajasthan, India, Credit: Bianca Vazquez Toness
Getting into the top engineering schools in India is statistically harder than breaking into Harvard. So hard that students study for two years in ...

Bought by Outer Voices, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 3
Doctor Max Owens
From: Max Owens
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Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a birth chart by an interested skeptic. Hidden from him for years, he attempts to reconcil...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
If We Can Get The Beast Out of His Lair...
From: Radio K
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In 1913, the American Social Hygiene Association launched a campaign to eradicate sexually transmitted diseases and prostitution. The subject was c...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Island Stories: Virginia's Restless Archipelago Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Colony of American oyster catchers., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Some 40 years ago the Nature Conservancy began buying up the barrier islands of Virginia and the riparian areas on the mainland. Today they own all...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 27:13
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

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