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28 and Single
From: kim fox
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In Egypt, family, marriage and love all mix together in an unexpected way, especially when it comes to arranged marriages. The American University ...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 10:31
  • Purchases: 1
Mission: Gastroclub
From: Alison Byrne
Caption: Gastroclub Dinner, April 2013, Credit: Alison Byrne
An underground supper club pairs beers with dinner, served in a Mission District apartment kitchen in San Francisco.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
The Un-Road Trip
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Boaz Frankel toured the U.S. on 101 modes of transportation — everything except a car.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
What's Dinner Like at your House?
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The food can be good, bad, ugly and gross!

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 03:48
Old Ashdown: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
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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
Tales from the South 109: Best Laid Plans
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Fall Season
Caption: Wayne Ball reads "The Secret"
This week it's stories about best laid plans, and how those plans go amiss. Stories by Wayne Ball, Peter O'Connell, and Mark Isbell. All stories ar...

  • Added: Dec 25, 2012
  • Length: :00
Movies That Make Your Holidays
From: Spokane Public Radio
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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
Reflections on China's Bureaucracy: Standing in my Underwear in a Shanghai Supermarket
From: STephen ASma
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Humorous and philosophical essay about a brush with Chinese Security Guards in Shanghai

  • Added: Jun 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
Summer Session Friends
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bandleader Merle Johnston
This is a glimpse at some of those talented bands of the 1920s and ‘30s who only recorded a few sides in their brief careers. There is some buried...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 58:54
WWII Army Musician Remembers
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Homer Parce playing the cornet at his home., Credit: Greg Latza, greglatza.com
Love of music prompted Homer Parce to sign up for an army band. Military service whisked the small town South Dakota boy across the Pacific just a...

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 06:18
Hungry at the Homesick Restaurant: the Literary Julia Child
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
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Anne Tyler has a new book out! "The Beginner's Goodbye." Here Julia Child presents passages from an earlier Anne Tyler favorite, "Dinner at the Hom...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2012
  • Length: 24:58
Warren's Notes
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Harry Warren
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
Satchmo
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong
There are three audible stages in the career of Louis Armstrong: The years prior to recording when he performed with Fate Marable, Oscar Celestin a...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Compact Discoveries 195: Strange Musical Animals
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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"Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant" features such strange musical animals as the Pop-up toadsters, the Circular Sawtoise, the Clocktopus, and the Ballp...

Bought by KENW and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 24, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
Jews & American Pop: A Tin Pan Alley Parade
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: George Gershwin
In recognition of Hanukkah, this show is dedicated to the Jews who catapulted popular music to stage and radio from the 1900 to the early 1930s.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KWIT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cobblestones: Going Gonzo for Jim Henson
From: Andrew Hiller
Caption: Dave Goelz on set, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Dave Goelz
A one hour special featuring performers, writers, and puppeteers who worked with Jim Henson from the beginning. The program includes interviews, o...

Bought by The Pulse--Messiah College Radio, KWMR, WNIN, KZYX, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2011
  • Length: 58:07
  • Purchases: 6
Drawing from Nightlife
From: Thomas Dodson
Series: Champs Not Chumps
Caption: Bunnies posing at Dr. Sketchy's, Credit: Justin Moore
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is not your typical drawing session. It’s held in a bar, for starters, and features models ranging from circus perfor...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 03, 2011
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 1
George Raymond Wagner, December 26, 1963
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The Greeks may have invented wrestling, but it took one man ... Gorgeous George ... to really put the shine on it.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
CHICKEN A LA STEINBECK
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: John Steinbeck, Credit: FANPIX.net
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. In "Cannery Row" the hobos poach a chicken over a campfire, in a 5-gallon coffee can. What they don't know,...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, KRCB 104.9, KZYX, and KUT


  • Added: Sep 17, 2010
  • Length: 26:55
  • Purchases: 5
Riddles from the Border Regions, 9/4/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THREE FEET I HAVE ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 7/3/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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ANIMAL, VEGETABLE I AM NOT...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Reenacting Like They're Related
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Confederate Civil War reenactors in Maine? The 15th Alabama is the largest Confederate Civil War reenacting group in the state.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
Sesame Street Memories
From: andrew walsh
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We hit the streets to find out what people remember best (and worst) about Sesame Street.

Bought by PRX Remix, KPIK-LP, WTIP, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2009
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 4
We're Not Couch Potatoes: TV Fans Get Politically Active Online
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A fan protests in front of Fox Studios in Century City, Los Angeles., Credit: nohodamon/Flickr
When TV writers went on strike in 2007, the couch potatoes got active. We look back at the writers strike, and see how the largest political force ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
The Hartville Flea Market
From: Matt Pryor
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A day at the Hartville Flea Market

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Oct 21, 2008
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1