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It's called the Looplore Experiment and it's partially funded through Kickstarter donations. This weekend-long "camp" revolves around arts and craf...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 2
A satirical look at nuclear power through the lens of a tour of the Godzilla Electrical Factory.
- Added: Aug 08, 2013
- Length: 06:02
A look at that DIY mainstay, known as the zine, through the lens of a long-running publication called Factsheet Five.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 07:18
- Purchases: 1
This short story of 4 chapters was where Barrie tried out some of the ideas that would be used in the play "Peter Pan". The main difference is that...
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 01:43:57
For my sister, eating a hamburger is a sublime experience. And recently she tried to give them up.
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Laughter is the best medicine. But, it feels that today's musicians may be taking themselves too seriously. Here are selections from the 1920s to t...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
There's only one hotel.
- Added: Mar 24, 2013
- Length: 02:43
Mentioning the Thirsty Ear Pub, which used to be in the basement of what was then the MIT graduate dorm Ashdown House, evokes a wide range of emoti...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 02:36
We kick off our Season 8 with writer, actor, and director Mark Landon Smith on our monthly Tin Roof Project reading a story about a family secret. ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 30:00
Author Vicki Leon takes us for a ride through the ages of aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs, contraception, nymphomania, bisexuality, cross-dressi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 26, 2013
- Length: 14:59
- Purchases: 1
SPR's Movies 101 film reviewers give their picks for their top holiday rentals, traditional and not-so-traditional.
Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WVPE, WRFA-LP, KVSC, WVPE and more
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 6
American icon Cole Porter learned piano and violin at age six. He became very good at both, but he disliked the violin's harsh sound and so his ene...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Charlie Drinkwater is in trouble. Not he’s done anything wrong. He’s just morphing into a mutant dinosaur.
- Added: Sep 29, 2012
- Length: 19:01
Andrew White may very well be the most famous jazz legend... you've never heard of.
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 07:00
This is 1DERFUL!: Wumbers. The new children's book by Amy Kruse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld. The idea is to take words that contain numbers, an...
- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 22:19
Mad Genius proudly presents the latest song in our "2012: A Year In Your Ear" series: "Higgs Boson!" Geeks rejoice! Researchers at the Large Hadr...
- Added: Sep 01, 2012
- Length: 04:04
Remember Dick Powell the actor? How about Dick Powell the jazz banjo player? He’s just one of many obscure early jazz performers heard in this pro...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 58:55
Mad Genius proudly presents the latest song in our "2012: A Year In Your Ear" series: "How To Build A Zombie Apocalypse." The zombie scourge goes ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2012
- Length: 03:23
Legions of fans from Boston to Buenos Aires can recite the story of the child born Kal-El, scion of the doomed planet Krypton, who was rocketed to ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jul 03, 2012
- Length: 19:58
- Purchases: 1
In 1922 composer Harry Warren created his first hit, "Rose of the Rio Grande," with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. From that successful launch came a prod...
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
He has one foot in vaudeville and one foot in jazz, and he was a show unto himself. Ted Lewis was the only popular bandleader who could show up wit...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 59:01
PERHAPS AN ANCIENT CALLING CARD...
Bought by KRCB 104.9
- Added: Mar 01, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
All about do-it-yourself projects gone wrong.
Bought by XRAY.fm, KUOW, WYSO, WRVO Public Media, KUT and more
- Added: Feb 19, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Sidney Bechet and Josephine Baker were the most recognizable expatriates on the Parisian seen in the 1920s. If you've seen the movie "Midnight in P...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 58:59
Up Next features writers/ actors/ directors sharing insight and funny stories as they work to make their break. Guest for episode 6: Actor Bill Arm...
- Added: Jan 05, 2012
- Length: 51:20
