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Little Gray Book Lecture: How to Communicate Without the Use of Wires
From: The Little Gray Book Lectures
Series: The Little Gray Book Lectures
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Lectures by Paul Tough and Starlee Kine, walkie-talkie banter and a song about NY ME host Soterios Johnson

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WVPE, WBEZ, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Feb 21, 2005
  • Length: 57:27
  • Purchases: 4
How Long Do You Keep a Polluting Heap?
From: The Environment Report
Series: Your Choice; Your Planet series
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What to do when you're the biggest polluter you know.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KTNA


  • Added: Feb 16, 2005
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 2
Jeremy & Virginia Twice Wed--Not Your Typical Love Story
From: Sue Mell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Even after getting married to each other twice, a couple still grapples with commitment.

Bought by WRNC-LP, KUT, KXOT Public Radio, PRX Lovesick Stream, and WYSO


  • Added: Feb 07, 2005
  • Length: 15:18
  • Purchases: 5
Slots of Fun
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Who knew racing four inch "slot cars" could be so much fun?

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 1
Kicking Ass and Changing Names
From: Shea Shackelford
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Female wrestler Amanda Storm, 40, would love to just take your head off.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 1
Size Isn't Everything
From: Shea Shackelford
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Joel Eckhaus makes and plays ukuleles in South Portland, Maine.

Bought by WMPG and WBHM


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 2
Right Wing Specter Haunts Specter
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Hardliners aim the redline Arlen Specter.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2004
  • Length: 01:36
What's It All About, Redux
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What was THAT all about, Alfie?

  • Added: Nov 30, 2004
  • Length: 01:33
Mustang Stevie
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Do dead movie stars sell cars?

  • Added: Nov 30, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
Sounds in a Cowboy's Head
From: Claes Andreasson
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Cowboy Poetry in Elko, Nevada

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Nov 18, 2004
  • Length: 10:23
  • Purchases: 2
The Lone Ranger of Looney Valley
From: Rupa Marya
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No better place to see the widening gap between conservatives and liberals than in front of Harry Aleo's storefront window in San Francisco.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Oct 18, 2004
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1
Lost at Sea: One VW Microbus
From: Jackson Braider
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How my parents managed to create a navigational obstacle in Dublin Bay

Bought by PRX Remix and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2004
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 2
My Drug of Choice
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
If steroids are outlawed, is coffee far behind?

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: Sep 23, 2004
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 1
Finally: A Cure For Nervous Sheep
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Scientists find way to soothe anxious sheep. But how do you know when sheep are nervous?

Bought by KUSP


  • Added: Sep 23, 2004
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 1
Finding Emo
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look at the music genre "emo," and what it has to do with, well, me.

Bought by KUHB


  • Added: Sep 22, 2004
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 1
Das Fuhrer Clean
From: Robert Nowak
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A satire that gives the BEST and most inventive use for the Patriot Act.

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Sep 04, 2004
  • Length: 13:12
  • Purchases: 1
A Man on Horse Back
From: Claes Andreasson
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Hollywood makes few Westerns, but the genre is still loved

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, KZSC, and WHQR


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 4
Dead of Summer and other poems.
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
Caption: NYC, Credit: M. Van Halteren
2" audio poem about summer, part of group of four. available separately.

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZYX, and WMBR


  • Added: Aug 29, 2004
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 4
Fiat 500 Fan
From: monika mueller
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Her best travel companion - a Fiat 500

  • Added: Aug 08, 2004
  • Length: 03:05
Alaska Beckons
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Disillusioned with their teaching jobs in California, Ray takes a job at a one room school house in Alaska and their adventure begins.

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 14:04
  • Purchases: 1
A lesson in ROCK!
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Eighteen-year-old Mick Pratt writes a letter to his thirty-year-old self, reminding him to ROCK!

  • Added: Jul 26, 2004
  • Length: 05:49
Three Days Before Christmas in the Zombie Hut
From: Brendan Greeley
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Several people in a tiki bar respond to the question "What's the worst gift you've ever received?"

Bought by KMXT, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KUT, KVNF, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 10
Orphan Opossums
From: Worth Bishop
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Even killing a varmint has consequences.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2004
  • Length: 05:33
The Zildjian Cymbal Tester
From: Jackson Braider
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Leon Cippini wanted to be a great drummer; he became a great cymbal tester instead.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Apr 20, 2004
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Yo-Yo Ma: In his own words
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
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Have cello, will travel: Yo-Yo Ma describes how he works his way inside the "DNA" of musical styles from all over the world, and finds joy in "the...

Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, KMHD, KNAU, WCVE and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2004
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 6

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