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Introducing Christian China and the end of times
From: Steve Ray
Series: Christian China and the end of times
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For the past several months I have been covering the largest religious conversion the world has ever seen, Christianity in China. It is a story tha...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:19
St. Croix Radio Callaloo
From: Jason Klarl
Series: Travelogue Media Podcasts
Caption: St. Kitts Masqueraders at Agrifest 2017, St. Croix, Credit: J. Klarl
An audio mash-up from Agrifest 2017 featuring Kamani Tait (KT the Arch Degree), Duane Howell, St. Kitts Masqueraders, “Auntie Janice” Tutein, Carl ...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 13:31
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 61: Vanish
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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People have faked death to escape criminal convictions, debts, and their spouses. In 2007, a man named Amir Vehabovic faked his death just to see w...

Bought by ABC and KUER


  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 24:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Cops of Pop
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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Two records from 1983 achieved minor novelty fame, and then faded away, only to emerge 20 years later as the originators of a curious genre of pop ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 44:02
89: An Ode to Childhood Pets
From: The Mortified Podcast
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Tales of kids whose pets weren't just their best friend, they were EVERYTHING. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. List...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:37
  • Purchases: 2
America's Defining Moment
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Election Day eve, 2016...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 02:40:48
The Cactus King
From: Mark Bramhill
Caption: Lyn's giant metal cactus towers over his plant nursery., Credit: Mark Bramhill, Houston, 2016.
Meet Lyn Rathburn: folk artist and cactus mogul.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 28, 2017
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 1
Ironies and Onion Rings: The Layered Story of the Vidalia Onion
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: The Vidalia Onion Museum in Vidalia, Georgia. , Credit: Photo by Tyler Pratt.
If you know and love the Vidalia onion—an onion sweet enough, its fans say, to eat like an apple—you likely also know it as a product of Georgia, a...

Bought by WMMT, KVLU, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 3
Jose Serebrier
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Jose Serebrier and John Clare, Credit: Casey Houtz
Jose Serebrier is an internationally respected conductor and composer. We'll speak to him about his artistry and some new recordings.

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode 57: Everyday Genius
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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To close out 2016, we’re bringing you two lighter stories of people exhibiting everyday genius under. . . unusual circumstances. Comedian Dave Holm...

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 18:44
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 55: The Shell Game
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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The Magic Castle in Hollywood has been a private club for magicians since 1963, and its walls are lined with portraits of magicians past and presen...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KHNS


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 15:42
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 14: Ana Gasteyer
From: WQXR
Series: The Naked American Songbook
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Old friends reunite in The Jonathan Channel studios to rehash their strong feelings for the Great American Songbook.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tuba Christmas in St. Cloud Honors 42 Year Old Tradition
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In this holiday installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack finds himself surrounded by ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:08
Sweeney Todd
From: WQXR
Series: For the Record
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In this episode For the Record Tom and Julian go behind the scenes of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:00
Spirit of Standing Rock
From: Jennifer Robin
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Documentary of the water protectors standing with the Standing Rock Sioux in protest of the North Dakota Access Pipeline in Cannon Ball, ND mid-Sep...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 1
Can A Song Sway A Vote? Presidential Campaign Songs Since Washington
From: KUNM
Caption: The official Flag of the President of the United States, Credit: Wiki, Creative Commons
Can a song sway a vote? Learn about the use of campaign music throughout the history of American Presidential campaigns since George Washington thr...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2016
  • Length: 19:19
The 100 Year Old Liberty Derrick at Stearns County Quarry Park and Nature Preserve
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack explores the very thing that makes St. Cloud the “Granite City” as he heads out at the Stearns Count...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
Dancing the Shrimp Dry: How Chinese Immigrants Drove Louisiana Seafood (Gravy Ep. 45)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Man with rake and drying shrimp. , Credit: Photo courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection.
Imagine this: deep in the Louisiana wetlands, a wooden platform the size of three football fields, covered in shrimp, drying in the sun… which are ...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 25:44
  • Purchases: 1
Splatter Platters Make Things Matter. Episode #528
From: Teosson Wells
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Rediscover splatter platters and how radio takes us on a ride!

  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 11:50
Sex at Vassar
From: Sophia Steinert-Evoy
Series: oversharing
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Is it possible to have a healthy relationship with sex at Vassar?

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 06:24
Rocking it out with the Bronx Wanderers
From: WCWP
Series: Taking Care of Business with Richard Solomon
Caption: Live from NYC, Credit: Richard Solomon
If the Partridge Family was from the 1950's Bronx, played oldies like the Four Seasons and Dion, and rocked it big time - you would have one of the...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 54:10
Lester Blackiston: The Pirate of Shockoe Bottom, Part 4
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Lester Blackiston
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 26:15
The Untold Story of Pokemon Go and the Unrelenting Rampage of Cuteness and Community That's Taking Over St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack finds the city of St. Cloud inund...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Genius Improviser
From: Jakob Lewis
Series: Neighbors
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Michael Kearney is a genius — he holds the Guinness World Record for being the youngest person to graduate from college, at age 10. Now he's 32, an...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Marfa Public Radio, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 17:44
  • Purchases: 4
Digging Up Myles Standish
From: Annie Sinsabaugh
Caption: Myles Standish reenactor
There’s a recent trend to question historical icons with complicated histories—Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and of course the confederate flag. ...

Bought by WCPN, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 10:32
  • Purchases: 3

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