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From Paper Bags to Circular Saws -- Who Thunk 'Em Up?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" may be true, but it leaves out an important component -- the real "mothers" and "aunts" and "...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
Why you so salty? The anger episode
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Are you heated about healthcare? In a rage about racism? Are you perturbed about pumpkin spice, or salty about speaker phones in public? It’s impor...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 50:01
New Year for Trees!?
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Sounds Jewish celebrates the coming holiday of Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish New Year for trees, with Jewish tunes about inspired by the holiday and tree...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
What is moving day like at the White House?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Staff have six hours to move one first family out and a new First Family in, and it has to be seamless.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 07:55
Want a Better Country? Here's a Wish List
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
August is the month when we mark Women's Equality Day, when the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote passed in 1920. But we're still behi...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
Cook County-born musician opens for Trampled by Turtles
From: WTIP
Series: The Scenic Route
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Original Air Date - December 30 2022 Carl Hansen is a videographer based in Bozeman, Montana who grew up here in Cook County. His family has long ...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 24:42
The Forks!
From: Nicole Franklin
Caption: The Forks! Poster
Andrei and Kathryn expect to have a wonderful anniversary in magical Sedona. But the company at their table have different plans....

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 32:18
Eileen Mueller at the Frozen River Film Festival
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today on Don't Cha Know, we talk to Eileen Mueller who is the managing director at the Frozen River Film Festival. The Frozen River Film Fest is an...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 42:07
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
DWFC 2202-09: The Freethinker Mozart: Würzburg Mozart Festival, 11/28/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
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Classical music listeners often forget that long-familiar and frequently heard pieces were once totally novel – but that was precisely what was hig...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
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
220716 Songs Using Stringed Instruments From 230 to 1 Strings and Songs With Car Names
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Frogmen
A piano uses 230 strings while a diddley bow uses one string and between there's all different string counts. Tonight, we start with musicians pl...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
220402 Pre-Ska Jamaican Music is The Mash Potato Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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85 songs you've never heard but could have been titled, "the first rock and roll song" featuring musicians you've never heard of. This show ignore...

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, WQCS, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 6
4. Bug
From: Maria-Cristina Marras
Series: Micro
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True story, it happened to me in Goa, while living in a fisher's hut in Calangute. A micro narration in a minute or so.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:00
220326 Answer Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Where we search for the first rock and roll song, is where autocracies die and "hits" are a distraction. All the music you've never heard by music...

Bought by Prairie Public, KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, and WQCS


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:07
  • Purchases: 5
Fiction Writer and Essayist Charles Baxter
From: New Letters on the Air
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Fiction writer Charles Baxter reveals some of his motivations for writing short stories and novels. In this interview in front of an audience at th...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
220205 The First Rock and Roll Song and a Radio Musical
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Whyte Boots The Lori Burton and Pam Sawyer Fictitious Band
In the post World War II era a new music captured the imagination of people in the US and around the world. This music wasn't called rock and roll...

Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, and WQCS


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:02
  • Purchases: 5
220122 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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In the post World War II era a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and around the world. This music wasn't called rock ...

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WYAP, KPRG, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 5
185: Crash at Crush
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In September of 1896, the town of Crush was created for the sole purpose of crashing two steam trains together. Things did not go according to plan.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Back to the Writing Well featuring Elizabeth Gaffney, George Saunders, and the late Pat Conroy
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series continues with "Back to the Writing Well." This time we'll hear about the influence of place and family fro...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, WNJR, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Apple Seed - Onions
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode of the Apple Seed you're going to hear a story called "Onions" from Cindy Rivka Marshall. It's a Jewish folktale about a young girl...

Bought by KTXK, KSJE, KKRN, KTXK, and WVPE


  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 5
Fly Robin Fly: That Disco-Crazed Moment When The Gay 90's Came Out Of The Closet
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: The Gay 90's in downtown Minneapolis. , Credit: Minnesota Historical Society
In downtown Minneapolis, there's a gay bar with several dance floors conveniently named the Gay 90's. The Gay 90’s hasn’t always been gay. The bar...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:06
David Lindstrom with "Another Year" on Scenic Route
From: WTIP
Series: The Scenic Route
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David Lindstrom is not a person, but a whole musical group led by Matt Nelson in St. Joseph, MN. With a sprawling and atmospheric sound, their new ...

  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 17:28
Firehouse Follies Podcast Ep. 1
From: Rich Spagnola
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Today we are talking to Tom and Joe, two retired firemen with the FDNY who will share some unusual encounters and a practical- jokes that

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 25:26

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