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Listening to Ladies: Pamela Z
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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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 ...

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
Learning to ride a bike when you're an adult
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Kumi Naidoo admits that when he learnt to ride a bike in the alleys of Oxford, UK - he thought the median lines on the roads were the bike lanes.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:04
Slime Style
From: Todd Whitney
Caption: Mike hitting a boardslide, Credit: Josh Chapman
Mike Riordan and Josh Chapman commemorate their friendship and stave off drug addiction by creating skateboarding videos. Listen and meet an artist...

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


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 3
The Importance of a Good School Nurse
From: Anne Hoffman
Series: Generation Voice
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Across the US, fewer than half of all public schools have a nurse available to kids all day, every day, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Founda...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
The Wrong Omar makes the right music
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Twin Cities band The Wrong Omar joined Buck & Dick recently for great music, fun conversation, and general hilarity.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 31:18
  • Purchases: 1
The Bear Story
From: Sarah Cannon
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Sarah's dad George and his friend Terry have been hunting and fishing together for years and years. Like any pair of old fishing buddies, they love...

  • Added: May 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:31
The Clearwater Hot Club brings gypsy jazz to The Roadhouse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson & Dick Swanson welcomed the Clearwater Hot Club to Studio A recently for some hot jazz on a cold night. The band is Sam Miltich,...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 38:27
  • Purchases: 1
Gordon Thorne, Roadhouse favorite, brings great blues to Studio A
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Deb Benedict and Buck Benson welcomed blues master Gordon Thorne to Studio A recently during our "Spring Forward" membership drive for lots ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 24:44
Jimi Hendrix on The Experience
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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On September 11, 1970, Jimi Hendrix gave an interview to Keith Altham. A week later Hendrix was dead. This was his final interview. It's Hendrix on...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBGA 89.9 FM and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 7
Briand Morrison & Roxann Berglund make holiday music for your listening pleasure
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Jazz guitarist Briand Morrison & vocalist Roxann Berglund joined WTIP's Buck Benson & Dick Swanson in Studio A recently for a delightful session of...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 23, 2013
  • Length: 38:59
  • Purchases: 1
Auveed & Mateen's Excellent Adventure
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2013
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Auveed & Mateen's Excellent Adventure: A story about two cousins and a luthier.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 31, 2013
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 1
Tattoo Artist
From: Whitney Jones
Caption: Angel Quinonez
Angel Quinonez first became interested in tattoos growing up next to a motorcycle club. He got his first tattoo when he was 17 and starting tattooi...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 3
Portrait of the "Artiste" as a Young Man by Ali M. Rahman
From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio
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What do you get when you have a naïve twenty something year old writer with delusions of grandeur who is constantly butting heads with his family a...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 08:42
Worth A Listen: Danny Lukovic
From: WHJE
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Great music from an artist you've never heard of.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
Clark Park
From: Philly Youth Radio
Series: Teen Sanctuaries
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Cavhanah Baht T’om is a junior at Friends Select School in Philadelphia. She’s got a hectic life, but has developed a special strategy to deal.

Bought by WHYY


  • Added: May 20, 2012
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
From: Joyride Media
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One hour special traces the creation and rise of Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, Radio New Zealand, CBC Inside the Music and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 24
How to Endure Winter
From: Suzanne Pekow
Caption: Christopher Wright walks outside in Minneapolis on some of the coldest days of the year., Credit: Suzanne Pekow
A winter-phobic learns to enjoy outdoor activities in one of the country's coldest climates.

Bought by KSKA, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, and WBEZ


  • Added: Feb 08, 2010
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 5
One Reason When Visiting Sacred Sites, It Is Important To Remember That You Are Not An Aboriginal But Actually Grew Up In The Suburbs
From: Ryan Scammell
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How not to commune with other cultures.

Bought by American Voices


  • Added: Jun 01, 2008
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
A Musician's Life: Amy Rigby
From: WXPN
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Amy Rigby sees herself as a mild mannered woman unless of course, she's writing a song or performing in front of an audience.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Oct 16, 2006
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
Sixty Second Season: Teenagers' Memories of Fall and Winter
From: Curie Youth Radio
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Funny and touching teenage memories of fall and winter, mixed with seasonal sounds.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WXLV-FM, KOOP, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Nov 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 5
Dear Piano
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Dear Piano is a musical conversation, a duet perhaps, and certainly a love story.

Bought by WTIP, KXOT Public Radio, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 21, 2005
  • Length: 12:35
  • Purchases: 3
Sounds in a Cowboy's Head
From: Claes Andreasson
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Cowboy Poetry in Elko, Nevada

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Nov 18, 2004
  • Length: 10:23
  • Purchases: 2
Diversified Farming with Charles "Turkey" Goodin
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works
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a day in the life of a Kentucky farmer

  • Added: Nov 08, 2004
  • Length: 09:30