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Folktale of Communication
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Communication, Credit: Julia Meek
According to Chip Heath: “The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.” If we may have yours, this episode 'transmits' a sampl...

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KLCC, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 10
Folktale of Cover Songs
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Cover Songs, Credit: Julia Meek
This week, our faders are primed and beats matched for a chart-topping Folktale of Cover Songs! Better tune in, if you catch my riff?

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Beat: Linda Back McKay - "Larry The Typing Horse"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Linda Back McKay is an independent advertising and marketing writer and director in the Twin Cities. Her most recent books are "The Next Best Thing...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:21
From Frogs To Wands of Destiny: The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test
From: Mother
Caption: Meg Crane's home pregnancy test prototype, 1968., Credit: Courtesy of Bonhams.
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 3
Folktale of Fashion Statements
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Fashion Statements, Credit: Julia Meek
As Isaac Bashevis Singer observed: "What a strange power there is in clothing." Hear for yourself this week on the Folktale of Fashion Statements.

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 8
Playboy
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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In light of the news that Playboy magazine will no longer feature full frontal nudity. We are gonna talk about and play music by female musicians ...

Bought by KSKQ, WOUB, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 153: Ho-Ward West!
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: The Final Edition Radio Hour: Full Episodes
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Once again, the California crew takes over and drives The Final Edition off a cliff. A Cliff Of Funny, that is.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 58:58
Episode 151: A Pig In A Pope
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: The Final Edition Radio Hour: Full Episodes
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His Holiness Comes To America While His Holy-sh*t Comes In The UK

  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 55:45
American Book Award-winning Poet Nikki Giovanni
From: New Letters on the Air
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The infamous poet Nikki Giovanni reads from her recent books, CHASING UTOPIA, BICYCLES, and ACOLYTES and discusses the influence of history, commun...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WMUU-LP, WNJR, and WABE


  • Added: Sep 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Folktale of Education
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: Folktale of Education, Credit: Julia Meek
We're traveling around the world of knowledge on this week's back-to-school edition of Folktales, in the finest of 'musical continuing ed' traditio...

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR , KCMJ Community Radio, and WFIU


  • Added: Sep 16, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 5
A visit to San Quentin Museum
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Lt. Robinson points out the warden who died at his desk, Credit: Chris Hambrick
They had me at homemade shiv wall. “Shiv” is a slang term for an improvised weapon. I heard the San Quentin Museum has enough shivs to make an enti...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:27
Show 530 Summer Grilling
From: Thomas Florek
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This week, Tom and Doug are outside enjoying a nice end-of-summer grilled meal.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
The Moviegoer
From: Andrew Leland
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Jan sees every film that comes to Columbia, MO's arthouse cinema. Sometimes she'll see a film five or even ten times. Andrew Leland investigates wh...

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Mike Finley "Bumper Stickers"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 01:24
Only In Malibu...
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: AUGUST, 2015
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Does life seem too oh-so-serious? Then let's dive into the semi-ridiculous, often-caustic universe of celeb Chelsea Handler as she reads here from ...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Where "Time" Went
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: AUGUST, 2015
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A perverse inversion has occurred, according to author Mark Taylor: "The less time you have, the more money you have... the less money you have, th...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
The Apocalypse
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The "Get to Know Me" occasional series
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I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:19
King Buzzo, Godfather of Sludge
From: Elias Schutzman
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Elias Schutzman talks with Melvins frontman Buzz Osbourne a.k.a "King Buzzo"...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2015
  • Length: 09:33
The Beat: Danny Klecko - "What You Learn Working At A Trade Show"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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The poet, Danny Klecko runs a bakery in St. Paul. Some of his poems are written while his Capital City bread is in the oven. If you listen to "The ...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:45
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1484 (Hour 1 & 2) - 07/09/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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The late Red Holloway inspires the opening of this swinging session with Ray Brown, Jack McDuff and Geo Benson as his sidemen, so you know it's rig...

Bought by KPVL, WVBI-LP, and WOUB


  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 3
Jazz trumpeter Willie Waldman rocks The Roadhouse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Willie Waldman brought a few friends, Clint Wagner on guitar and Bill Hansen on dobro, to WTIP's Wooden Boat Show broadcast at North House Folk Sch...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 32:38
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 142: Shooting Up The Trump
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: The Final Edition Radio Hour: Full Episodes
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A lot of guns, a lot of Trump, a lot of laughs. You need two of those three things.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 50:06
Serotonin Day
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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A Public Service Announcement For Neurotransmitters

  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:14
Folktale of Libations
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: The Folktale of Libations, Credit: Julia Meek
We’re imbibing in music for, from and about intoxicating beverages around the world of good cheer this week. So here's to your joining us for the F...

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 9
The Ballad of Maggi
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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India has tied itself in knots thanks to a noodle problem. The country has been in an uproar since tests alleged that some packets of Maggi instan...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1

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