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Caption: Dudley Riggs in 2012, Credit: Sheila Regan
"Instant Theater" was a term that Dudley Riggs, founder of the Brave New Workshop theater came up with in the 1950s. The former circus and vaudevil...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 17:42
Caption: Fans at the Beatles only concert in Minnesota, Credit: Minnesota Historical Society
In the summer of 1965, the Beatles were the hottest act in the world. And for the first — and only time — John, Paul, George and Ringo were coming ...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 35:39
Caption: HUGE Improv Theater has purchased the Art Materials building and will transform the south half of the building into a theater., Credit: Sheila Regan
After learning that their landlord had donated to a former KKK leader, HUGE Improv Theater knew they needed to move. So how did a small arts non-pr...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 05:24
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Hermann Rorschach’s inkblot test has become ubiquitous in pop-culture as shorthand for both psychiatry and the subconscious. The first biography of...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 1
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La la la, dum di di dum, a wop bop a loo bop a wop bom bom - what are all those non-words doing masquerading as words in songs? Hrishikesh Hirway f...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2015
  • Length: 13:44
Caption: Taxidermist Janet Messineo in her basement workshop, Credit: Emily Hsiao
Janet Messineo is a taxidermist on Martha's Vineyard. But you won't find any deer heads or bears in her workshop--just lots and lots of fish.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT


  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 12:56
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Never Judge A Show by it's Pilot: Journeyman.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2007
  • Length: 10:17
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On this edition of B-Side, we're talking about gossip and other ways we share information as host Tamara Keith leads the crew in a virtual game of ...

Bought by KGOU and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2007
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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A short investigation of the age-old question, "are animals creative?"

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KCPW Salt Lake City, 'The Sea', New Hampshire Public Radio, The Story and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 14
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A Portland, Maine kindergarten class and illustrator Judy Labrasca explain why crayons might be the perfect object

Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, WMPG, KGLT, and WYSO


  • Added: Feb 19, 2004
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Hillary Frank visits the Kohler factory, where artists-in-residence make sculptures out of the same materials used to make toilets.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2003
  • Length: 05:52