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Blooming Underground with Mai'a Williams
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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KQAL's Jiovani Bermudez meets with Mai'a Williams to discuss her project, Blooming Underground. Blooming Underground is a centers on their relation...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 26:03
Episode 153: The Max Headroom Incident
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 23:35
When Doomsday Came Calling by Mistake
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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Our producer Flawn Williams once got caught up in a sticky situation that triggered fears of a nuclear attack while working at a Chicago TV station...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 1
Rediscovered Radio: WYSO’s Lost Tapes
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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Listen to this story on how an act of benign neglect transformed Southwest Ohio based WYSO from a small public radio station into a community.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 30:33
  • Purchases: 1
WRM08 Will Starts Writing
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will Rogers becomes wildly popular in the newspapers

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Story of 'Veggie Tales'
From: KUER
Series: Preach Specials
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The behind-the-scenes history of a '90s cultural phenomenon that put singing vegetables in living rooms across America. A one-hour radio special fr...

Bought by KOSU, WBEZ, KUHF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WVPE


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 5
Historic Tug Of War: 10,000 Kids vs. House
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: John H. Stevens House in transit., Credit: Star Tribune. May 29, 1896, Minneapolis, Minn.
Next to Minnehaha Falls sits an old house that hosts exhibits recalling Minneapolis history. The house itself is the site of early business deals d...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 05:52
BPP 115 | ROGER STONE — BOBBY PICKLES’ PODCAST™️
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: BOBBY PICKLES, ROGER STONE, MATTHEW PIAZZA
Pickles and Pizza conduct this 115th Episode of Bobby Pickles’ Podcast with Full Stomachs ON-LOCATION from the Sunny South Florida Home of Infamous...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:13:07
The Lime Stone Cube
From: Rick Brewer
Caption: Herman B Wells Library, Credit: Indiana University Archives
An audio story about working in the Herman B Wells Library.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
Panic, Mayhem, Hysteria – War of the Worlds
From: Roger McDonough
Caption: Orson Welles news conference, 1938, Credit: WikiCommons
On October 30th, 1938, American radio audiences - believing that a Martian invasion was underway - went absolutely nuts. Panicked masses fled to th...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 3
FRDH: How America Got This Way
From: MIchael Goldfarb
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Veteran overseas journalists look at America as it enters the Age of Donald Trump

  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 49:16
Episode 9: Three Degrees of Lorne Greene
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you three stories from three current or former Colorado springs residents, completely unknown to one...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 39:29
Peter Carlson, author of a lively tale about intrepid journalists
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra and Carlson discuss "Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey."

  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
Interchange - The Hoarders: Pathologizing the Packrat
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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We’re joined by Scott Herring, author of <em>The Hoarders</em>, a cultural history of the recent DSM-5 diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder. We talk abou...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 59:36
Blue screen of death
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
Working: Then & Now
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Studs Terkel
In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 10
On the same wavelength
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, WORT, and GraceRadio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 3
Top 100 Americans?
From: Jeff Karr
Series: The Jeff Karr Show
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What's wrong with this list?

  • Added: Jun 10, 2014
  • Length: 03:24
The Peter Yarrow Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
Quiet In The House! Rediscover Silent Movies: Simple Rediscovery #514
From: Teosson Wells
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It’s generally agreed that the silent film era lasted from 1894 to 1929; however, the history of projected images is much longer. Beginning in the ...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:02
Miss Subways
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Beauty pageants promote the fantasy of the ideal woman. But for 35 years, the Miss Subways contest in New York City celebrated the everyday working...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz-O-Rama #13: "Teddy with & without Billie"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
Caption: Joe Bev hosts an hour of Teddy Wilson & Billie Holiday 78s., Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
"A Sunbonnet Blue", "Jumpin' On The Blacks And Whites", and "Eeny Meeny Miney Mo" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 13th edition of Joe Bev...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 3
"Never Too Late: A 90 year-old's Pursuit of A Whirlwind Life"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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JOURNALIST ROY ROWAN, HAS WRITTEN A NEW BOOK “NEVER TOO LATE: A 90-YEAR OLD’S PURSUIT OF A WHIRLWIND LIFE”. IN WHICH HE SHARES HIS VIEWS OF THE PL...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:34
The (de)Evolution of the Political Speech
From: Kevin Jones
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An investigation into the disappearance of great speeches from politics.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 01, 2007
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1