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Some White Noise
From: kim fox
Caption: The view from my apartment in Cairo
An entry for the Third Coast International Audio Festival Short Doc Competition.

  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:15
Great Northern Radio Show: Bemidji Show
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Great Northern Radio Show
Caption: 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


  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 01:56:59
  • Purchases: 3
Hungry in Winter: The Literary Julia Child
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: Julia Child
Julia Child wanted to be a novelist, or to write for The New Yorker. "They weren't interested in me, for some reason." So she just kept reading. An...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 49:35
Lean & Hungry Theater Presents: A Midsummer Night's Dream
From: Lean & Hungry Theater
Caption: Original Broadcast Promotional Art, Credit: Aaron Hansen
A radio drama adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," set in the Prohibition Era, with live sound effects and some of the finest S...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KREV-LP, KUT, WMNF, and KUT


  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 57:49
  • Purchases: 5
Stimulus Loan Gives Laser Web Extra Ammo
From: Joe Sampson
Caption: Race Car, Credit: Alex Butler
Stimulus dollars are being poured into the American economy for projects that build schools, fix roads, put people to work and rescue small busines...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 03:47
Retro Product Proves Recession Proof
From: Todd Bookman
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A family business named Sarah's Hat Boxes is surviving the Great Recession, despite selling a product more befitting an era defined by the Great De...

Bought by WILL and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 06, 2009
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 2
Picture Day!
From: Big Shed Audio
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Spend a day with a school-portrait photographer at an elementary school in the Washington, DC.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2009
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 3
Tale Spinning Terrors!
From: Jerry Kenney
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Frighten up your holidays with 'edge of your seat' storytelling and holiday music in this 'Tale Spinning' hour of Terror from WYSO Public Radio and...

Bought by KBYS 88.3 FM and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 08, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
How to Be a Man...(sort of)
From: Ryan Scammell
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Father & sons, the woods, and our feeble attempts at trying to figure out what it means to be a man.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, PRX Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Nov 30, 2008
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cat Bath
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Ever try to give your cat a bath?

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KSFR, WABE, PRX Remix, KUT and more


  • Added: May 20, 2008
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 7
WWOZ Street Talk- Jr. Zulu Mentoring Program
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today we take a trip outside the city; to the mall with the Jr. Zulu, a youth mentoring program, to teach shoppers how to decorate the infamous Zu...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2008
  • Length: 05:55
Letter to My Mom: You Haven't Lost Me
From: Curie Youth Radio
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A letter from daughter to mom about love, hope, and Chuck E. Cheese

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUT, KSFR, PRX to iTunes, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2008
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 8
An Immigrant's Story in Four Generations
From: Melissa Townsend
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The great grandson of a Norwegian homesteader tells his family's story in five scenes.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Jan 02, 2008
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
B-Side Radio: Holiday Special
From: B-Side Radio
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Just in time for the holidays, the B-Side Radio crew brings you stories of holiday cooking, shopping, tree hunting and charity gone awry.

Bought by Louisville Public Media, KVSC, WITF, KGOU, KMUN and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 21
Matters of Love and Faith
From: Pauline Bartolone
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An Audio Portrait of a Muslim Polygamous Family

  • Added: Nov 01, 2007
  • Length: 11:32
B-Side: The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary People and Clues
From: B-Side Radio
Series: B-Side: Cure for the Weekend Blues
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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


  • Added: Oct 02, 2007
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
B-Side: Food and Coping
From: B-Side Radio
Series: B-Side: Cure for the Weekend Blues
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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


  • Added: Oct 02, 2007
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
B-Side: Family and Dads
From: B-Side Radio
Series: B-Side: Cure for the Weekend Blues
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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


  • Added: Oct 02, 2007
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 19
B-Side: Indoor Space and One of Us
From: B-Side Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this edition of B-Side we're trying to figure out what it is to belong, in high school, in college and in the Cheroke Nation. And from feeling...

Bought by Remix Radio, KXOT Public Radio, KUOW, and KVNF


  • Added: Oct 02, 2007
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 4
That's My Song: Thanks A Lot!
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Series: That's My Song!
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Leslie Wise reminisces about loving Ernest Tubb's song "Thanks A Lot" as a child, and what it means to her.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 03, 2006
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 1
Hope of Future Triumph
From: Michael Kraskin
Series: Catalogue of Ships
Caption: PRX default Piece image
David takes solace in the unconditional love of the former leader of the free world.

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Feb 27, 2006
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 1
A Bosnian Christmas Carol
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN EuroQuest: Public Radio's Weekly European Journal
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Jonathan Groubert follows his Bosnian in laws up a mountain to take part in a Serbian Orthodox tradition and discovers the true mean of Christmas.

Bought by 'The Sea', KMXT, KZYX, WRNC-LP, KUT and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2005
  • Length: 13:37
  • Purchases: 11
Think Piece: Days of Our Teenage Lives
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Series: Talk of Alaska - Kids These Days
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This Think Piece relating to developing character and values presents a series of scenarios in which kids need good morals to make the right choices.

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
Virginia Red Sox fans celebrate World Series win (shorter version)
From: Charlottesville Podcasting Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Virginia Red Sox fans anticipate and then celebrate World Series win (shorter version)

Bought by WUML


  • Added: Oct 28, 2004
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 1
Virginia Red Sox Fans Celebrate (longer version)
From: Charlottesville Podcasting Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Boston fans in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley anticipate and then celebrate the Red Sox Victory (shorter version)

  • Added: Oct 28, 2004
  • Length: 06:51