Blank on Blank

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Blank on Blank is building and broadcasting an archive of journalists' lost interviews.

Interviews gathering dust on tapes and hard drives are transformed for new audiences online, on mobile devices, and on the radio.

Listen to unexpected stories from famous names and universal tales from everyday Americans. They're all sprinkled with music and storytelling.

Why should journalists record interviews only to help write a story? They should also be heard.


86 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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"I’m pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time" - Wayne Coyne, as told to Jennifer Van Evra by phone in 2002. The Flamin...

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


  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 3
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"Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal." - Robin Williams, as told to Lawrence Grobel...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 1
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"The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you’re greedy, you’re set up." - Maya Angelou, as told to Studs Terkel in ...

Bought by KZYX, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and WABE


  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 06:42
  • Purchases: 3
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"Anyone that dares begrudge what i have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it" - Liberace in 1968, as told to Jay Kent Ha...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 06:23
  • Purchases: 2
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""I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman." - Bette Davis, 1963. Interview by Shirley Eder. Bette Davis w...

Bought by KZYX, WABE, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 4
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"My singing… I’ll just say it simple as possible: it’s just godly." - Michael Jackson at 21. We uncovered a rare interview MJ gave in 1980 before h...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 2
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"The thing that was relentless for me here was how you look… I couldn’t put up with it." - Meryl Streep. In our new episode, Meryl Streep is called...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 2
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"AUDIENCE APPRECIATION IS ONLY GOING TO BE PERIODIC AT THE BEST OF TIMES. YOU WILL FALL IN AND OUT OF FAVOR CONTINUALLY." - David Bowie. How can yo...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WDCB, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 12
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"Learning how to die ... is learning how to live” - Philip Seymour Hoffman. What is happiness? Can we ever truly be happy? Or does the past alway...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, Troy Public Radio, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 10, 2014
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 5
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"ON STAGE OR IN THE MOVIES I COULD DO WHATEVER I WANTED TO. I WAS FREE." - Gene Wilder, 2007. The man synonymous with Willy Wonka doesn’t do many i...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KHNS, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KVNF, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 6
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"It's all true folks; all you need is love" - John Lennon. From 1969 - 1971, the journalist Howard Smith interviewed Lennon and Yoko Ono five times...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Apr 23, 2014
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
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"I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on" - Johnny Cash in a previously unheard interview recorded in 1996. The man in black covers sidebur...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZYX, WABE, KVNF, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 8
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Stan Getz, the legendary saxophonist, was one of jazz music’s most well known musicians. And a few years before he died of liver cancer at age 64, ...

Bought by KALW, KJZZ, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 10:38
  • Purchases: 3
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"My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into." - Heath Ledger. One afternoon back in the fall of 2005, the actor, Heath Le...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, KJZZ, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 4
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On September 11, 1970, Jimi Hendrix gave an interview to Keith Altham. A week later Hendrix was dead. This was his final interview. It's Hendrix on...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBGA 89.9 FM and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 7
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"When a man's making love, the last thing he thinks about is war" - Barry White. A lost interview with Joe Smith. April 3, 1987, Los Angeles. Reco...

Bought by KALW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KJZZ, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 4
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"There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say" - John Updike. The iconic author on how he discovered himself by...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 05:45
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"I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play" - Tupac Shakur in 1994. From an unheard interview recorded by Benjamin Svetkey, then a writer for...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVNF, KJZZ, PRX Remix, and KALW


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 5
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"He turned to me suddenly and asked: 'Is that a Givenchy you’re wearing?' And I said, 'why how clever of you, Mr. President! However did you kno...

Bought by WABE, Troy Public Radio, WSLR, PRX Remix, and KZYX


  • Added: Nov 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 5
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"When we fell in with the Acid Tests we a started having the most fun we had ever had" - Jerry Garcia in a previously unheard interview.

Bought by KALW, KVNF, KZYX, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 5