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A Cook's Notebook: Mrs. Clark's Cornbread
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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Mrs. Clark likes her cornbread sweet.

Bought by WKMS, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Jul 14, 2004
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 3
Celebrity Stupidity
From: Richard Rene
Series: Here's Looking at You/USA From London
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In inane behavior surrounding Celebrity

  • Added: Jul 07, 2004
  • Length: 02:00
New Jersey Honesty
From: Vermont Public
Series: 10 in Their 20s
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A crunchy-granola environmentalist professes a love for New Jersey.

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 11, 2004
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 2
Support the Expos
From: Vermont Public
Series: 10 in Their 20s
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A baseball fan pleads for others to join in his support for the fading Montreal Expos.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 11, 2004
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
Office Artist
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Office Artist Larissa Brown finds beauty in ordinary office supplies.

Bought by KUOW, WHQR, and WZBC


  • Added: May 16, 2004
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 3
Personals
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Casey Brackett takes a tour through the personals section of a local newspaper.

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Apr 19, 2004
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
RN documentary: At the Circus
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A rediscovery of a child's delight at the circus and an adults exploration of the life of circus performers

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WETA, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 13, 2004
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 3
Spam-o-Rama!
From: John Basile
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SquareToes Restaurant patrons in Kennebunk, ME pay their annual homage to the processed meat product. Spam-o-Rama '04 is THIS WEEKEND! (3/13/04)

Bought by KPIK-LP and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 09, 2004
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Allure of Karaoke Singing
From: Scott Gurian
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Regular singers describe what attracts them to karaoke

Bought by WABE, KALW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUNM, and PRX


  • Added: Mar 06, 2004
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 5
Mock BBC Sportscast
From: Abby Goldstein
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A witty parody of a typical BBC sportscast

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 27, 2004
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Mock Funding Credits
From: Abby Goldstein
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A smart and funny mockery of our typical NPR funding credits

Bought by XRAY.fm, KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis, and WKSU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2004
  • Length: 01:08
  • Purchases: 4
Fred Christina Remembers Everything
From: Jamie York
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A portrait of Fred Christina who waited tables for 64 years.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2004
  • Length: 05:42
8 Minute Soulmate
From: Evan Roberts
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Will Rich find his soulmate in eight minutes?

Bought by PRX Lovesick Stream


  • Added: Feb 18, 2004
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 1
Tango!
From: Evan Roberts
Caption: PRX default Piece image
There once was a woman who loved the tango so much, she married it.

Bought by WBHM, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Feb 17, 2004
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 5
I Can't Get It Out of My Head
From: Richard Paul
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Why advertising jingles get lodged in your brain

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


  • Added: Jan 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 4
Naked People
From: Richard Paul
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All the reasons why artists use naked people in their work

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, WHQR, and WZBC


  • Added: Jan 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
Family Vacation
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Your mom's got Van Morrison on repeat, she wants to talk "mother daughter trust," and there's still hundreds of miles left to go. Trapped inside a ...

Bought by KZYX, KSFR, PRX Remix, WMPG, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2003
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 6
A Cook's Notebook: Plum Pudding
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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Good plum pudding is out there (and so is really bad plum pudding)

Bought by KZUM, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Dec 17, 2003
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 3
A Cook's Notebook: Homemade Eggnog
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Dogs get into Franks' homemade eggnog

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KZYX, KUHB, and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 4
All Things Remixed: A Youth Radio Spoof
From: Youth Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A brief spoof-advertisement for an apocryphal CD that remixes 1960s classics with hip-hop beats.

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, KSFR, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 01:24
  • Purchases: 3
A Cook's Notebook: Turducken: Three Birds - One Stone
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A chicken inside of a duck inside of a turkey. Go figure.

Bought by KSFR, Delta College Public Radio, WRNC-LP, WTIP, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2003
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 8
The Control Room
From: Jarod Bishop
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A story about the graveyard shift at the t.v. station.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2003
  • Length: 13:03
Chicken In Every Pot
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: In Julia's Kitchen
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Julia Child Makes Chicken Soup

Bought by KUER, KPIK-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KERA, KBOO and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2003
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 9
A Cook's Notebook: Deep-Fried Turkey
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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Deep-frying a turkey for Thanksgiving

Bought by KTXK, KUAC, KDNK, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUHB and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2003
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 8

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