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Exactly Who We Are: The Portraiture of Jana Marcus
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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What happens when a photographer, a mature woman herself, welcomes older women into her studio to get the full glamour treatment? In this episode o...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
Songs of the Doomed
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Looking down the barrel at 2024, from our perch in the High Desert. Mojave thunderstorms, the strange maxims of the ancient temples, Christmas-tree...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
OHR167: OHR Presents: Songs of Farewell, 7/10/2023
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio
Caption: Lula Wiles
Songs about saying goodbye performed by a variety of artists recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Mark Jones ...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
The Night Watcher
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The hilarious and heartfelt saga of a childless godparent.

Bought by KMUN, KFCF FM, KWMR, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:05
  • Purchases: 29
004 Helen Wheels
From: Tim Ayres
Series: Borderland Jukebox
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The life and music of Helen Wheels. Her band performed at CBGB's in New York during the height of the punk movement in the 70s, before her untimely...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:30
Mountain Time Podcast Hour 1
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Modern West-Part 1 of 12 in our Ghost Towning Series and HumaNature... close encounters of the wild kind.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 51:16
  • Purchases: 2
Metro's oldest pet cemetery reflects enduring sentiments towards furry friends
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: A gravestone for a pet named Juan Jose at Memorial Pet Cemetery with the epitaph "so small, so sweet, so soon.", Credit: Matthew Schneeman, KFAI
The metro area hosts a variety of cemeteries and mausoleums. You may have a favorite – Uptown’s Lakewood perhaps? Or maybe a smaller, more secluded...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 06:34
Steve Post-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Steve P{ost
Interview with film maker Rosemarie Reed about Free Form Radio Pioneer, Stevie Post on her documentary "Playing In The FM Band-The Steve Post Story...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:04
The Apple Seed - It's Tricky
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Who's the Slavic folk character who lives in a house on top of giant chicken legs? Well, it's Baba Yaga. This story is told by the great storytelle...

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and WVPE


  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 54:35
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 36: The Magpie of Heart Mountain
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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When Shigeru Yabu was a little boy he made a new friend in an unexpected place. “That bird walked up my arm all the way to my shoulder, and we look...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2021
  • Length: 34:47
The Apple Seed - Look it Up
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode of the Apple Seed, the great North Carolina storyteller Donald Davis talks about a time when he was a little kid and they decided t...

Bought by KKRN, WVPE, and KTXK


  • Added: Aug 04, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Apple Seed - The Teacher's Lounge
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode of the Apple Seed, we share a hilarious story about the biggest mystery in the world: What might be behind the door of the teacher'...

Bought by KKRN and WVPE


  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Jeffrey Sherman
From: StoryCorps
Caption: A 5-year-old Jeffrey Sherman is pictured with his father, songwriter Robert Sherman, in the early 1960s., Credit: Courtesy of Jeffrey Sherman.
Jeffrey Sherman sits down with his wife, Wendy Liebman, to remember his father, music composer Robert B. Sherman, and how getting a vaccine as a ch...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
GN_4.24_GrandmaKnowsBest
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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One man's Grandma becomes a social media icon for humerous advice.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
The Untold Story of Tuscaloosa the Movie with Executive Director Erik Helgeson
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes us to the movies with a very unlikely journey. ...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Lives in Music: Brian Travers of UB40
From: Robin Valk
Series: Lives in Music
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When life slaps you down, getting up and getting stuck in is great therapy. The UB40 sax man takes this to a new level.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 26:42
Appropriate Be Damned: Poet Staceyann Chin on her Journey to See Herself as a Poet Worthy of an Anthology
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Award-winning poet, performer, novelist, and activist Staceyann Chin has just published her first anthology of poems. She has been featured on Bro...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Story of 'Veggie Tales'
From: KUER
Series: Preach Specials
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The behind-the-scenes history of a '90s cultural phenomenon that put singing vegetables in living rooms across America. A one-hour radio special fr...

Bought by KOSU, WBEZ, KUHF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WVPE


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 5
Season 2, Episode 6
From: Wendy Love Edge
Series: The Wendy Love Edge Show with Topher Kogen
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Wendy and Topher Interview Ginger Doss, Andrea Sumers and John D. Miller

  • Added: Jul 28, 2019
  • Length: 59:30
CESAR CHAVEZ STORY 2
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: CESAR CHAVEZ ANECDOTES
Caption: resist, Credit: flocabulary
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:01
Spectrum 03/12/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: My computer and me - Addicted to your smartphone? Just wait 'til you hear about what's coming next. Come follow us throug...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
#19-10 VSO Goes to the Movies
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra plays music written for film and more

Bought by KPOV, KWAX, Rhythm & News Service, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Noble Works
From: Giovana Romano Sanchez
Caption: Maggie and Noble
Maggie Bernard is a teenager with cerebral palsy. She overcame her disability with the help of her best friend. Now, he is the one who needs to be ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 1
Love and Samosas: How a Massachusetts town backed a local general store owner
From: James Szkobel-Wolff
Caption: Storefront of Sangar General Store, Credit: http://musingsinmass.blogspot.com
Sangar General Store, in Windsor, MA, is owned by Prem Sangar. Prem wasn't born in Windsor and doesn't quite fit the mold of the town, but the comm...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #01: The Things We Brought
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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​There are things that hold history for each of us – a stitch, a book, a hat – things that we carry around for our whole lives. In this episode, we...

Bought by KSFR and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 12, 2018
  • Length: 10:43
  • Purchases: 2