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How Did Beethoven Compose When He Was Deaf?

From: Colorado Public Radio
Series: Beethoven 250

Caption: Composer and multi-percussionist Evelyn Glennie, Credit: James Callaghan/Courtesy of the Artist

Scottish multi-percussionist Evelyn Glennie has been profoundly deaf since she was 12 years old. We asked her how someone who is deaf can "hear" wi...

Bought by WHRV

7: ODE TO THE FLY

From: matthew schneeman
Series: AT NiGHT I FLY

Spoon talks about the strange nature time takes on when serving a life sentence. Spoon reads a poem about bugs and Matthew visits the blooming of t...

Listening to Ladies: Pamela Z

From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies

Composer Pamela Z lets us know what a phonolog was, how great the Museum of Jurassic Technology is (about which she co-wrote an opera), and how to ...

The Jazz-O-Rama Hour #45: Satchmo Meets Pops

From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour

Caption: Louis Armstrong young and old on Jazz-O-Rama!, Credit: Lorie Kellogg

Host Joe Bev presents an hour of early an late recordings of Louis Armstrong, including: Willie The Weeper; Mack The Knife; Down In Honky Tonk Town...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio

Show #11: Take Me Out to the Night Market

From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08

Today?s show explores exotic foods. First, three interns review two places to get bubble tea. Only one leaves satisfied. Then, Lillian Warner samp...

Show #6: Community Market, Family Table

From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08

In a series of audio postcards, the Weekday High Interns take you through the Pike Place Market ? stopping along the way at Marakesh Leathers, Gold...

VoxPod #3 - A Pike Place Postcard

From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod

Today's show features an audio postcard of Seattle's Pike Place Market.

Bought by KZSC and WXLV-FM

Various dates

From: KMSU
Series: Clandestino

Somewhat time sensitive

Bought by KPIP-LP

Future Docs 7: Sarah and Peter Reach a Milestone

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: Future Docs

Caption: Second year medical student Sarah Rapoport grabs the mic and interviews fellow student Peter Kaminski., Credit: Kristin Gourlay

For the past school year, the series "Future Docs" has been following two Brown University medical students to see how their training is evolving w...

Future Docs 4: Flirting with Specialties, Treating Real Patients

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: Future Docs

Caption: Second year medical student Sarah Rapoport, in Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School., Credit: Kristin Gourlay

We're checking in on our Future Docs, Sarah and Peter, who've nearly reached the mid-way point of their second year of medical school. Reporter Kri...

Miss Subways

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

Beauty pageants promote the fantasy of the ideal woman. But for 35 years, the Miss Subways contest in New York City celebrated the everyday working...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix

Worth A Listen: Danny Lukovic

From: WHJE

Great music from an artist you've never heard of.

Great Northern Radio Show: Bemidji Show

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Great Northern Radio Show

Presented by Producer and Writer Aaron Brown along with Northern Community Radio (KAXE/KBXE), this live variety show features Jim Miller, Two Many ...

Bought by KSRQ, WDSE, and WTIP

Dressing the Part

From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad

Caption: Felix Angelini-Hurll, Credit: Walter Murch

Sometimes we need help when dressing for a special occasion. In England Moss Bros. will 'give only the best service.'

Bought by KWMR

Without Comment: The First 100 Days-Week Six"

From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "Without Comment:The First 100 Days"

Without Comment is a 13 week series looking at the first 100 days of the Barack presidency.

MAN OF THE PEOPLE: "Episode 8 - Save the String Kids!"

From: Jeremy Desmon
Series: MAN OF THE PEOPLE: The Only-Recently Discovered Secret Political Recordings of Acting Mayor Francis "Woody" Woodson

Episode Eight of the weekly audio sitcom/political satire MAN OF THE PEOPLE (The "Financial Crisis" Episode).

FIRST DRAFT PLAYHOUSE: HARD BOILED MYSTERY #327-J

From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: Icebox Radio Theater: Short Subjects

Do Over! Detective Style.

Blue Highways Day Trip #3 - Where Have All the Artists Gone?

From: Eric Mack
Series: Blue Highways

In recent years, many artists have been heading for the hills, or the desert or the prairie. Thousands of artists of all ages have been leaving bi...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio

B-Side: The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary People and Clues

From: B-Side Radio
Series: B-Side: Cure for the Weekend Blues

Kind of like the cool songs found on the back side of a vinyl 45, we've dug up stories about people who may seem ordinary at first. But, are any o...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, Remix Radio, KXOT Public Radio, and KUOW

B-Side: Food and Coping

From: B-Side Radio
Series: B-Side: Cure for the Weekend Blues

How do you cope with a rough day? Perhaps some comfort food? This is B-Side and we're talking about food?and coping.

Bought by WLRH, WRVO Public Media, KXOT Public Radio, and KUOW

B-Side: Dawn and Dusk, aka The Life Crepuscular

From: B-Side Radio
Series: B-Side: Cure for the Weekend Blues

What happens just before dawn and just before dusk? More than you'd expect. On this edition of B-Side we explore the life crepuscular.

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KXOT Public Radio, KUOW, and KVNF

B-Side: Family and Dads

From: B-Side Radio
Series: B-Side: Cure for the Weekend Blues

On this edition of B-Side we're offering a little unsolicited advice, and some fatherly humor as we explore our relationships with people we're tie...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUNM, WGBH Radio Boston, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WESM 91.3 FM and more