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Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 25:24
This is the story of the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra preparing for their final performance of the concert season. They played the Carmina Burana, a...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 30, 2015
- Length: 09:47
- Purchases: 1
In this Prelude to Summer we end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and looking up at the ...
- Added: May 22, 2015
- Length: 25:20
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
Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:52
For six decades, radio announcer and jazz enthusiast Leigh Kamman guided listeners on a musical journey through the sounds he loved: Jazz. KFAI pro...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 05:36
- Purchases: 1
Reporter Aurora Almendral visits one squatter settlement in the Philippine and finds out how one community leveraged their political power into hom...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 09:15
- Purchases: 1
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
Choral music often consists of centuries-old compositions. But one local group—the Singers Minnesota Choral Artists—has premiered more 70 new compo...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 06:03
Every once in a while, producer Nancy Rosenbaum goes out and sings together with strangers. The point isn’t to rehearse or perform or even to sing ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:11
The famous duo of radio, television and film – George Burns and Gracie Allen – were married for 38 years. We look back at how their relationship a...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 11:51
- Purchases: 3
For years, at historic plantation sites across the South, the focus was on the big house and not on the slave cabins. But as contributor Kelley Lib...
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WABE
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 3
The Scottsboro Boys are infamous — nine black teenagers falsely accused
and convicted of raping two white women. Last year, the state of Alabama f...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 23:08
- Purchases: 1
For most of the 20th Century, New York's Fire Island was virtually the only place on Earth where gay men and lesbians felt safe to live and to love...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and Wild Planet Radio
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 25:00
- Purchases: 3
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Off-Ramp's Chris Greenspon tells the fabulous and tragic story of Jim Tully, famous in the Thirties, forgotten in the Forties.
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 14:18
Thanks to a quirk of history — and a love of bananas — New Orleans has had a Honduran population for more than a century. But that population explo...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 12:42
Readers form book clubs. Bowlers join leagues. What do motorcycle enthusiasts do? They ride, of course. Some head to Sturgis, South Dakota every ye...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:04
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
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
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 04:38
- Purchases: 1
After Annie Cho gave birth to her son this spring, she struggled to make traditional Chinese "confinement" practices (hygiene rules + special postp...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 1
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
