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Catching Up with National Poetry Out Loud Champion, Maeva Ordaz.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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Alaska's own, Maeva Ordaz, on winning the 2015 Poetry Out Loud national title;

  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:59
Braised Pork with Coconut by Nhu-Y Pham
From: Jennifer Cecil Moore
Series: Voices of the Market
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Nhu-Y Pham tells a live audience how to make Braised Pork with Coconut, a special dish from Vietnam.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 1
Spices
From: Let's Travel! Radio
Caption: Spices
Back at it again! Let's Travel! Radio's spices up this months show with tasty topics on restaurant, home-made, and exotic seasonings that'll spark ...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 50:57
Coming of Age
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Anton Disclafani discusses the writing process behind her acclaimed debut novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 13:33
He's Kicking Out Doubt and Scoring Big
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism - 2
Caption: Peyton Sefick plays weekly on the local CNY United Power Soccer Team for extra practice for the 2017 World Cup, Credit: © 2015 Elissa Candiotti
One young man in Syracuse is preparing to embark on a journey across the world all for the love of a game. In 2017, Peyton Sefick will compete in t...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 03:54
Fallen Heroes of 2015
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Juan Evans
Thousands of local social justice organizers passed away this year. People doing crucial work in their communities, whose deaths didn t make the he...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Rodney Learns to Fly
From: Ari Daniel
Caption: Mr. Hoots is a Eurasian eagle owl, and one of Rodney Stotts' favorite raptors., Credit: Ari Daniel
Rodney grew up selling dope and guns. But he's always loved caring for birds. The drugs landed him in jail. The birds helped set him free.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 11:23
  • Purchases: 4
RDD: Art, Death, and Things of That Nature (Part 1)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
Caption: Dani at home, Credit: Haley Taylor
We meet Dani Herrera, a local artist whose artistic journey has been just as unusual as the art she creates.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #6: Express It
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: The Mixing Board
Caption: Lizzie Kirschner interviews Jamil, an intern at the Seattle Art Museum about his work for the Design Your 'hood project, Credit: Nate Hearth
Did you know Bryce is secretly Michael Jackson? And that Lizzie can play the violin? This show is all about showing off teen’s different artistic t...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 10:34
Bill Morrissey on Art of the Song
From: Art of the Song
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A 3 year anniversary memorial to the great Bill Morrissey.

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
'You're The Best Friend/Pen Pal/Third Grade Teacher Ever'
From: Will Michaels
Series: My Teacher
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Carrboro High School sophomore Carolyn Macleod credits her third grade teacher Hannah Stang with her passion for writing. They have written letters...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
Remember the Veterans
From: John Messmer
Caption: John A. Messmer, Jr. says:
During this time of year remember the veterans.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: :10
  • Purchases: 1
The Golden Lions - The Battle of the Bulge (Sample Reading)
From: John Messmer
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My Dad never wanted to be a hero. Survival was the only option.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:01
Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music & Beauty, Part I
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Gunther Schuller is a composer, conductor, horn virtuoso, jazz historian and critic who had the nerve and the authority years ago to decree that “a...

Bought by WMNR, KMUW, KPIP-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 36:26
  • Purchases: 5
Echoes from Rwanda: Twenty Years After the Genocide
From: Barbara Simmons
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In April 2014, the world is taking time to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide and to remember the more than 800,000 lives that...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 12:27
Lost and Found - Surviving Cancer
From: WMNF
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A piece developed in workshops with cancer survivors, and performed by seven women who survived the disease.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2013
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 1
Stephen Kellogg "Thanksgiving" Interview Segment
From: Michael Krumper
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Canned interview segment with singer/songwriter Stephen Kellogg about his song "Thanksgiving" from his recent solo release Blunderstone Rookery.

Bought by KRZA, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 16:15
  • Purchases: 3
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Marginalized People in Media Justice
From: KUNM
Caption: Jonquilyn Hill, amalia deloney
Generation Justice attended the 2013 National Conference for Media Reform in Denver. While at the conference Generation Justice Alumni, Jonquilyn H...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 14:59
Maria, from Mangalia to Europe
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Maria in Mangalia, Credit: Anton Foek
Maria is a young and vibrant woman from Mangalia in Romenia and doing her international studies about European integration in Maastricht, Holland.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2013
  • Length: 14:33
Sarah Vaughan
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Sarah Vaughan
With her ability to banter with the audience and outspoken sense of humor Sarah Vaughn was best described as “sassy.” Her first big break came afte...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Price of Admission: A Musical Biography of Florence Beatrice Price
From: WQXR
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Florence Beatrice Price wrote more than 300 musical compositions. Some of her works have been lost, others are unpublished, and some of piano and v...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, WUGA (part of GPB), WFMT Station Account, Troy Public Radio, WVIA and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
Autism Grows Up
From: Capital Public Radio
Series: The View From Here
Caption: Freddie Topete at Adult Transition Program, Credit: Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio
2013 Sigma Delta Chi Award winning one-hour documentary explores what's happening twenty years after a sharp rise in autism rates. Thousands of chi...

Bought by WLRH, KCPW Salt Lake City, KOSU, KICI Iowa City, WERA-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 34
KUT's Views and Brews: Leonard Cohen-A Life in Art
From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix
Caption: Leonard Cohen
The Cactus Cafe was packed for this magical evening. We hope you enjoy this Views and Brews Remix highlighting four of Cohen’s tunes along with the...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:24:21
  • Purchases: 1