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Roz's Soapbox - Valentine's Day Shopping
From: Roslyn Allen
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Businesses find new and ridiculous ways to cash in at Valentine's Day.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2005
  • Length: 05:14
High School Reunion
From: Roslyn Allen
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Columnist Roz Allen suffers high school reunion angst - to go or not to go?

  • Added: Sep 29, 2005
  • Length: 04:30
Roz's Soapbox - Seasonal Vertigo
From: Roslyn Allen
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Time changes wreak hilarious havoc on our daily lives.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2005
  • Length: 05:49
The Accordion Files
From: Amber Edwards
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audio postcard from an Accordion Convention

  • Added: May 17, 2005
  • Length: 05:49
Stepped on by an AT-AT Walker
From: Aaron Henkin
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John Morton landed the role of Dak, Luke Skywalker's ill-fated gunner in the 1980 blockbuster, The Empire Strikes Back. His life has never been th...

Bought by WHQR


  • Added: May 13, 2005
  • Length: 15:15
  • Purchases: 1
Music from the Ether
From: Amber Edwards
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a weird-sounding musical instrument that's nearly impossible to play still attracts followers

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMBR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 3
First Love
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Vox collage with men and women of various ages talking about their first love.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WABE, XRAY.fm, KMXT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2005
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 11
Lenny Bruce Gets Busted
From: Jonathan Mitchell
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how comedy's great free speech martyr fought the law, and how the law won

Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, Hearing Voices, KGLT, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2005
  • Length: 08:02
  • Purchases: 7
"My Daughter Knocked Out The Power On The Whole East Coast"
From: Charles Lane
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Amusing vox pop about how a girl caused the '77 Blackout

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2004
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 2
Keeping Pace with Professional Dog Walker Matt Fisher
From: Aaron Henkin
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An afternoon on the streets of Baltimore with professional dog walker Matt Fisher

Bought by KZSC and Audible


  • Added: Dec 03, 2004
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 2
Pimp my PC! Portrait of a LAN Party
From: Aaron Henkin
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This story answers the burning question "What's it like to hang out with a bunch of guys at a fourteen-hour video game marathon?"

Bought by WZBC, Audible, Public Radio East, and East Village Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2004
  • Length: 09:33
  • Purchases: 4
Election Signs
From: Hillary Frank
Caption: An attempt in vain to try something new., Credit: Campaign poster by Larry Rivers.
Graphic designer Michael Bierut answers the question: Why do all election signs look the same?

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


  • Added: Sep 27, 2004
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 8
Working the Night Shift
From: WFUV
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Night shift workers share their perspective on life after dark, family obligations and the big question -- when do they sleep ?

Bought by KMSU, WAER Syracuse, NY, KZYX, KFCF FM, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2004
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 32
The Attack on Black
From: Jessica Seigel
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Why basic black remains basic in fashion despite yearly marketing assaults.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2004
  • Length: 06:19
A Disturbance in the Force
From: Aaron Henkin
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An internet video game addict loses all bearing on the boundary between fantasy and reality.

Bought by PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, WBHM, New Hampshire Public Radio, Audible and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2004
  • Length: 16:00
  • Purchases: 7
Singing Sanitation Worker
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
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On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, a sanitation worker sings his way through a very lat...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, PRX Remix, WEKU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser) and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 21
The Pierogi-eating contest
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
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An essay 'snapshot' of an ethnic neighborhood fair in Cleveland, Ohio

  • Added: Aug 23, 2004
  • Length: 03:37
Ken Best/Stephen John Dunkley
From: Noah Reibel
Series: Playing for Change
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another musician/songwriter playing for change in the subway

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 1
Sawlady
From: Noah Reibel
Series: Playing for Change
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a light profile of a subway musician

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 1
Alaska Beckons
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
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Disillusioned with their teaching jobs in California, Ray takes a job at a one room school house in Alaska and their adventure begins.

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 14:04
  • Purchases: 1
First Dance
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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First time experiences of dancing told though a variety of voices.

  • Added: Jul 21, 2004
  • Length: 03:36
Office Artist
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Office Artist Larissa Brown finds beauty in ordinary office supplies.

Bought by KUOW, WHQR, and WZBC


  • Added: May 16, 2004
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 3
Naked Barbies and Deflated Basketballs: A look inside the world of collectors
From: paul overton
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A day in the life of collectors.

Bought by KVMR, WUNC, KUOW, and WZBC


  • Added: Apr 13, 2004
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 4
The Most German Day Ever
From: Brendan Greeley
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Six hours in Krautsand, a German town of 200 souls that sponsors the World Championships of Lawnmower Racing and wishes to secede from the Federal ...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW, KGLT, BSR Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2004
  • Length: 13:07
  • Purchases: 9
Spam-o-Rama!
From: John Basile
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SquareToes Restaurant patrons in Kennebunk, ME pay their annual homage to the processed meat product. Spam-o-Rama '04 is THIS WEEKEND! (3/13/04)

Bought by KPIK-LP and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 09, 2004
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2