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Whose Monkey Chant Is It Anyway?
From: Dale McGowan
Series: How Music Does That
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The electrifying Ramayana Monkey Chant, performed for thousands of visitors to Bali each year, was created by a guy named...Walter?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 17:05
The Apple Seed: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Join us for our Independence Day special. It’s an hour of entertaining stories and songs about this great country.

Bought by KETR-FM, KSTK, WPCA-LP, Troy Public Radio, KSJE and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Ranger's Life
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What does it mean to be a ranger? It means you are married to the mission, a soldier for your planetary home, armed with a moral compass and a Smok...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk, 2020
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Do you love history? This Thursday on Culture Clique Winona history comes to life with the Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk. This years theme is ce...

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 01:05:29
Nerd Nite: Jesus and War
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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It’s time to release your inner geek! Today on Culture Clique we take you to Nerd Nite at Ed’s No Name Bar in Winona, MN. The topic? “Jesus and the...

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 35:15
Pandemic Special Episode: Voices From Around The World
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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We talk with people in six different countries, learning how they're coping during the pandemic, and learning about their hopes for the future.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KOWS


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 48:16
  • Purchases: 2
Newton-flix
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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The bubonic plague forced a young Isaac Newton from his studies. How did he turn catastrophe into a year of wonders? For one, he didn’t have Netflix!

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Silver Lining
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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2020 has felt like one disaster after another. Is there light at the end of this tunnel? Luckily, history suggests calamities spark innovations tha...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bill Withers: Just As He Is
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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A deep look into the late Bill Withers early life in music that set up the making of his debut album, "Just As I Am." Please consider this free on...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, WOMR, WKMS, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Trophy Hair & Antiques
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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My mom raised us to be honest and and sell things not tell someone a big story about them that wasn't true

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Man Behind the Projector
From: Out of the Blocks
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It was a good living. If you can stay in business 53 years, that says a lot.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
Salem Bewitched
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Local women perform witch trials in costume for the tourists., Credit: Eric Molinsky
To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 16:34
  • Purchases: 3
Soli Deo Gloria
From: Kate O'Connell
Caption: The organ loft at St. Anne's Church Fall River, Massachusetts
An empty church, an orphaned organ, a solo organist. Scott Lariviere is 26 years old and volunteers to try to keep a magnificent 4,500 pipe Casavan...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 2
New Pine Valley Restaurant
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Dr. Martin Luther King, I waited on him. He had ham and egg and hash browns.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 2
VIVA LA MUJER HISTORIA 1
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: Viva La Mujer
Caption: women power, Credit: npr
In Viva La Mujer we speak to different Latinas creating spaces and power in different platforms around the country.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: :59
The Big Pond #16: Culture of Coffee
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Coffee is more than just a beverage – it can be a jumpstart to a day at work or a relaxing afternoon with friends. This episode explores the meanin...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 15:56
  • Purchases: 2
Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science
From: Distillations
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This Valentine’s Day we could have just brought you some sappy love stories from science’s past. But instead we offer you three tales of lust, lone...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:17:06
One heart. One mind. One prayer.
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Our house was always getting raided because it was a drop-off point for the supply route that was going into Wounded Knee.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Lime Stone Cube
From: Rick Brewer
Caption: Herman B Wells Library, Credit: Indiana University Archives
An audio story about working in the Herman B Wells Library.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
Love and Samosas: How a Massachusetts town backed a local general store owner
From: James Szkobel-Wolff
Caption: Storefront of Sangar General Store, Credit: http://musingsinmass.blogspot.com
Sangar General Store, in Windsor, MA, is owned by Prem Sangar. Prem wasn't born in Windsor and doesn't quite fit the mold of the town, but the comm...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
Velma Maia Thomas
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Once you forget the struggle, you won’t appreciate where you are.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 04:15
normal
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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This is not normal. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Nov 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
170923 Band Box Records of Denver Colorado
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:56:19
Chinese Ensembles (10 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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About 2,500 years ago, the body of a Chinese nobleman was placed in a tomb with items he cherished most: furnishings, bronze vessels, weapons and s...

Bought by KBYI


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Saving the Last Ocean
From: Generation Anthropocene
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We hear a lot in the news about the Antarctic ice sheet melting – but what else threatens a place so cold, so remote, and so seemingly barren? In t...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 21:32

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