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Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Cold - "Goodness That Appears Painful. Why Must I Be So Cold?"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:42
Let's Travel Long Island
From: Let's Travel! Radio
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September show, Discover Long Island's Wine Country, presents an interesting overview on the exploding phenomenon of wine production on Long Island...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2013
  • Length: 01:20:37
The Beat: Marsh Muirhead - "Interstate Rest Stop"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Marsh Muirhead is a well-known Bemidji poet who published his newest collection of Haiku, "Her Cold Martini," during July of 2013. Here, Marsh read...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:01
Disneyland: Lost and Found
From: Jake Warga
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A day in the life of Disneyland's Lost and Found office. It's not a Small World.

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:44
  • Purchases: 1
The Cart Men of Catalina
From: Alexander Ward
Caption: A golf cart for towing golf carts, Credit: Alex Ward
Golf carts are the primary vehicles for residents in Avalon, CA. This is about the guys that make them go.

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 2
Pike Place Market Seattle
From: Jake Warga
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Non-narrated tour of Seattle's famous Pike Place Market and the eccentric characters that jump out at you.

Bought by KUOW and KLCC


  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 28: Wacky, Coletti, Eddie Lugo - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Brian "Wacky" Wechsler (left); Ben Coletti (right)
Bobby banters back and forth incorrigibly with lifelong friends (Brian "Wacky" Wechsler & A. Benjamin Coletti). This "drunk-cast" begins from the b...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:06:21
Episode 26: Tobia Spinelli, Part 1 - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Tobia Spinelli (upper left); Bobby Pickles (upper right); Tobia, Coletti & Bobby (bottom left); Ben Coletti (bottom right)
Bobby speaks, from a boat, off the coast of Shell Island, located in the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, with Tobia Spinelli, Ben Coletti and a co...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:19:14
The Sounds of Whiskey
From: Hal B Klein
Caption: Whiskey in the barrel, Credit: Hal B. Klein
Most people know what whiskey tastes like...but what does it sound like? Booze columnist Hal B. Klein takes us inside Wigle Whiskey, an organic dis...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:22
Escape from hippo attack in the Okovango Delta
From: Paula Kahumbu
Caption: David Coulson at a rock art site in Nairobi Park (sitting), Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Have you ever stared a charging hippo in the face? David Coulson did! Reputed to be Africa's most dangerous animal the hippo is known to be able to...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:26
Busking In Vegas - The Journey Of Marc Drama
From: Samuel Robinson
Caption: Busking on Freemont Street, Credit: Ciaron Mullarkey
Competing with all the lights and noise - it takes a brave person to busk in Las Vegas - but armed with just an acoustic guitar and his lungs, Marc...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Dingmantics: The Unbearable Amstel Lightness of Being
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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One drunken afternoon at an Irish Pub in lower Manhattan, a fellow bellhop co-worker of mine informed me that he could see the future. This is an ...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 17:54
Mucho Car
From: Dick Meister
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After more than 30 years together, my beloved British sports car and I have parted. We've become too old to continue our exciting adventures together.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2011
  • Length: 05:47
Postcard from The National Cornbread Festival
From: Big Shed Audio
Caption: Shea Shackelford enjoying a barbecue sundae at the 2005 National Cornbread Festival, Credit: Jennifer Deer
"Oh, I love it. You can't live without corn bread. And you gotta cook it in that skillet, too! ... Corn bread basically was poor man's food that ...

Bought by Raven Radio, KALW, KTXK, Raven Radio, Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 10
This is Hilltop
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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The snowboarding season is winding down in Anchorage. So that means the final mountain push has begun.

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 01:11
  • Purchases: 1
DRP: A Wedding in Nyala, Darfur, Sudan
From: Sudan Radio Project
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From the Darfur Radio Project: we hear the story of one Sudanese family who recently took a trip to Darfur to attend an old friend's wedding.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2009
  • Length: 05:42
Hiking in Australia
From: Jake Warga
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A travel writer gets lost in Australia's outback

Bought by The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Jan 21, 2008
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 1
An Immigrant's Story in Four Generations
From: Melissa Townsend
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The great grandson of a Norwegian homesteader tells his family's story in five scenes.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Jan 02, 2008
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
A Taste of America: Fireworks
From: Jake Warga
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International Fireworks Contest, Macau China

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Prairie Public, KVNF, Prairie Public, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2007
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 14
The Perfect Photo
From: Jake Warga
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An attempt to take a photo just like in the Nationa Geographic

Bought by PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: May 29, 2007
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 3
SxSw from the sidewalks of Austin
From: David Weinberg
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Music and Mayhem from South by Southwest

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Mar 23, 2007
  • Length: 13:34
  • Purchases: 1
Bells
From: Lisa Tharpe
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Thomas Mackay remembers the church bells in his childhood home of Kingshill, St. Croix (US Virgin Islands).

  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 02:03