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Alt 50's Christmas
From: Mike Flanagan
Series: Professor Mikey's Old School
Caption: ALT 50S CHRISTMAS: Satire, Rarities, Oddities, the music of the Cold War Christmas
Sure, Christmas in the 1950s was the stomping ground for Rudolph and Frosty. But underneath the marshmallow world of perfect conformity was anothe...

Bought by KDUR, WDCB, WRVO Public Media, WTIP, KUCB and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 27
Sarah Jones on Sex & Making an “Unorthodoc”
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning performer and comedian, is making a different kind of documentary. She calls it an ‘unorthodoc’ about sex, power, r...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Chavez Ravine
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Baseball and eminent domain collide in LA

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KMUN, KWMR, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 19
S2:E7 The Strange Beethoven Show
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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Leonard hits shuffle on his iPad... Surprises abound.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:56:16
Musicals by Disney
From: George Harter
Series: A Night on the Town
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Musicals by Disney from SNOW WHITE to THE LION KING

  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
The Palos Verdes Peacocks
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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The wild peacocks of Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California have inhabited the area for over 100 years and now number more than 1,000. For a...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
From Scott Joplin to Super Mario Bros.: Making Old-Time Piano New Again
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: At age 29, Martin Spitznagel is the World Champion of Old-Time Piano Playing., Credit: Martin Spitznagel
A 20-something pianist is making old-time piano new again... with a little help from Darth Vader and Super Mario Bros.

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


  • Added: Nov 14, 2011
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 4
Frank T. Hopkins (Hidalgo), November 11, 1951
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...

  • Added: May 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Ripple Rock meets its doom (short version)
From: John Ryan
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The greatest hazard to navigation on Canada's west coast, then and now.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 16, 2007
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
#5: Igor Stravinsky and the Art of the Miniature
From: Jackson Braider
Series: Stravinsky@125
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Beloved for his full-length ballets, Stravinsky also created a surprising array of very short pieces for orchestra

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 16:24
Jazz from Enceladus
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
Caption: PRX default Piece image
what's hot on Saturn's tiny moon

Bought by PRX to iTunes and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2006
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Brooklyn Christmas Tree
From: Lizzy Cooper Davis
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two minutes with Vincent van Rhyn, a Christmas tree seller in Brooklyn, NY.

Bought by WTJU, New Hampshire Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, KUT-HD, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2005
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 9
Paul Pena's Kargyraa Moan
From: Jonathan Mitchell
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a blues singer discovers a new voice

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2005
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 3