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Dawn Powell
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of St. Cloud's First Art Cruise in Response to the Cancellation of this Year's Art Crawls due to COVID-19
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 gets in his car and drives around St. Cloud exploring ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Thomas Alva Edison
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Look around your daily life.  There's a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere.

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2014
  • Length: 23:26
  • Purchases: 7
The Symphony of Sirens, Revisited
From: Charles Maynes
Caption: Avraamov conducting the Symphony of Sirens in Moscow. November 7, 1923., Credit: Andrey Smirnov
In November of 1923, a Soviet composer named Arseny Avraamov stepped onto a Moscow rooftop clutching two oversized flags. His plan: to conduct an ...

Bought by KUER, WABE, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, KUOW and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 13:44
  • Purchases: 7
Lyal Corliss: 81 and still shoeing horses
From: Japhet Weeks
Caption: Lyal Corliss pulls a horse shoe off a horse's hoof., Credit: Yuli Weeks
In Northern California's Humboldt County, one octogenarian just won't quit working.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2009
  • Length: 04:20
What Are You Gonna Do with 400 Fish?
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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C'mon, bait your line. Let's go smelt fishin' on the ice.

Bought by PRX to iTunes, KGLT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, The Nature Podcast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 29, 2007
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 5
Birdathon
From: Long Haul Productions
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Long Haul Productions follows two teams as they compete in the Southwest Michigan Birdathon

Bought by WWNO, KVSC, KUT, KGNU Community Radio, KGOU and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
A Radio Rorschach Test
From: Aaron Henkin
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An exploration of how six radio 'guinea pigs' react to a series of sonic inkblots...

Bought by KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, KRUA, WUAL, WBEZ and more


  • Added: May 29, 2006
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 8