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Lost and Found, Lost in Thought
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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New views of getting lost

  • Added: Nov 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:14
How Place Shapes Us
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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From Hawaiia, a tropical canvas.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
Marilyn Crispell
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
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Crispell combines classical training with great jazz skills

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 07, 2008
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 2
Hardly Davidson
From: David Maxon
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Foreign bike enthusiats in the heart of Hog country

Bought by WILL and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2008
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 2
A Musician's Life: Jim White
From: WXPN
Series: A Musician's Life
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The on-line All Music Guide calls Jim White "a uniquely twisted talent". On this edition of A Musician's Life the Athens, Georgia based artist tal...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio, KMXT, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WMNF and more


  • Added: May 21, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 6
Ballroom Redux
From: Jenna Hammerich
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Social partner dancing is in for the first time since the '50s. A look at why more and more of us are trading in our weekends for ballroom, and a g...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: May 19, 2008
  • Length: 21:27
  • Purchases: 1
A Musician's Life: Mary Gauthier
From: WXPN
Series: A Musician's Life
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Mary Gauthier quit drugs and alcohol and discovered songwriting. She's attracted critics and fans with her empathic depictions of people on the ma...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio, KMXT, and WMNF


  • Added: May 01, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4
Are There Any More Rare, Plastic Ponies?
From: Julie Shapiro
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An unknown pastime to most, competitive model horse collecting is a serious passion for girls and women of all ages. But why?

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 20:00
  • Purchases: 3
Remembering Remus - Music and Fine Arts
From: Jacob C. Norman
Series: Remembering Remus
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Growing up in small town Michigan during the 70's.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2007
  • Length: 10:42
Raider of the Lost Ark
From: Jake Warga
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Looking for the not-so-lost Ark and finding something else

Bought by PRX Remix, The Story, KUOW, and KUT


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 4
Weep Not for Kidnapped
From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media
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'tis the network that's dying, not fine television

  • Added: Dec 03, 2006
  • Length: 01:56
RN Documentary: No Laughing Matter
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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After the attacks on Sept 11, the world and especially the US created a new subject that was taboo ? the idea of linking the Twin Towers attacks wi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KWCW, and WCOM


  • Added: Oct 19, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
A Musician's Life: Laura Veirs
From: WXPN
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Seattle based musician Laura Veirs says she had to appreciate the little victories in her quest to become a full-time performer.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, and KUT


  • Added: Oct 17, 2006
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 3
A Musician's Life: Joseph Arthur
From: WXPN
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For singer songwriter Joseph Arthur making music is an act of liberation.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
A Musician's Life: Charlie Musselwhite
From: WXPN
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Blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite reflects on his life as a blues musician. The blues has helped him through hard times, including the mu...

Bought by KCSM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WQJC, and KUT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 4
A Musician's Life: Janis Ian
From: WXPN
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Folk singer Janis Ian reflects on her long career including mistakes she's made along the way.

Bought by KMXT and KUT


  • Added: Oct 11, 2006
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 2
Wheels within Wheels: Jazz Percussionist Nasar Abadey Contemplates Rhythm
From: Aaron Henkin
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Jazz drummer Nasar Abadey demonstrates his skills and shares his thoughts on the nature of rhythm

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and KVMR


  • Added: Oct 02, 2006
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 2
Mind Control: Neural Rhythms and the Beat of the Brain
From: Aaron Henkin
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An exploration of the therapeutic technique of neurofeedback and its goal of recalibrating the rhythms of the brain

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUOW, and CKMO


  • Added: Sep 29, 2006
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: A Conversation with James Meek
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A conversation with novelist and journalist James Meek about his latest novel, ?A People?s Act of Love.?

  • Added: Aug 03, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
"What's your opinion of memory?"
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Have you ever been crossing the street and felt the hand of memory close around the back of your head?

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 2
"He did not drop the glass."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Sometimes the most trivial of accidents can devide our lives into before and after.

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 2
You Don't Watch TV?
From: Jacob C. Norman
Series: Practical Perspecitves
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Perception on being a Producer and not a Consumer

Bought by KTUH


  • Added: Apr 29, 2006
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 1
Women Making Music: Dar Williams
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Folk singer Dar Williams reflects on the craft of songwriting

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, KVNF, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2006
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 6
US Army Theater
From: Adam Allington
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Meet the United States Army's touring theater company--Bravo!

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Indian Courtesans
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A look at the surprising roots of the rich tradition of Indian classical vocal music.

Bought by WCOM


  • Added: Feb 08, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1