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pedigree - word of the day
From: Charles Hodgson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story behind the word "pedigree"

  • Added: Nov 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:32
assassin - word of the day
From: Charles Hodgson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story behind the word "assassin"

  • Added: Nov 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:50
Kasper Hauser: Phone Call to the 14th Century
From: Jesse Thorn
Series: Comedy From Kasper Hauser
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Comedy Sketch from Kasper Hauser

Bought by Radio Newark, KUT, KRCC-FM, The PRX Podcast, KUSP and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2006
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 6
Compact Discoveries 11: Radio Revisited
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Host Fred Flaxman explores classical music used as themes of radio and TV programs.

Bought by WUAL, KENW, WMRT, KAMU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2006
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 17
Interview with Tony Tasset - Bad at Sports Podcast
From: Kathryn Born
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Fun, candid interview with established artist Tony Tasset

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 57:13
  • Purchases: 1
First Day in America; Madeline Kunin and Edgar May
From: Vermont Public
Series: VPR Presents StoryCorps in Vermont
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Edgar May speaks with his sister Madeline Kunin about their first day in America.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2006
  • Length: 04:38
The Soda Fountain of Youth
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The soda fountain was once an important neighborhood fixture.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 28, 2006
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
Minerals and Moon
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An unconventional and wrong-headed telling of European history (Napoleon and Hitler) and the space race.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 1
Dinosaurs
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A bombastic but friendly, fictional history of dinosaurs.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 01:28
This I Believe - Josh Rittenberg
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Despite of his parents' fears, teenager Josh Rittenberg believes his generation will see a better world.

Bought by WLRH, WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 4
This I Believe - Mark Shields
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Even after 40 years in the business, Mark Shields still believes there is good to be found in politics.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 3
Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Early history of Hawaiians settling along the West Coast

Bought by KREV-LP, KLCC, KSUT, and KUOW


  • Added: May 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 4
'The Mad Russian': Reflections of a Cold War Wrestling Villain
From: Aaron Henkin
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Pro wrestler Nikolai Volkoff used to infuriate Cold War crowds with his singing of the Soviet National Anthem --- now he's a 55-year-old grandfathe...

Bought by WXDU and WMPG


  • Added: Mar 29, 2006
  • Length: 15:28
  • Purchases: 2
Darondo
From: Chris Roose
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A long-lost Bay Area soul singer, newly found.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WMPG


  • Added: Mar 12, 2006
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 2
Doolin Tales _1 Jack Garrihy and the Charm Cure
From: elizabeth hart
Caption: PRX default Piece image
humorous true story from an Irishman's memories of a "charm cure"

  • Added: Mar 11, 2006
  • Length: 06:13
How to Observe Presidents' Day, Observed
From: The Little Gray Book Lectures
Series: The Little Gray Book Lectures
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Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman and Joshuah Bearman on Presidents' Day, along with a fifteen-piece marching band and a new song about all forty-three pr...

Bought by KWIT, Nevada Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2006
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 13
RN Documentary: The Story of the Carmina Burana
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Its got to be one of the most recognizable pieces of music we know, spanning classical and pop cultures, yet not many people would recognize the Ca...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2005
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 1
Jincho
From: WAMU
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When Josue arrived in the US he was surprised to find that some of the Latino students in his school weren't as welcoming as he thought they'd be.

Bought by WMNF and YouthCast


  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 2
The Unfashionable Boys of Summer
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A commentary on today's dreadfully tacky Major League Baseball uniforms.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:33
Speak The Speech: Acting Shakespeare.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mr. York explains the benefits of studying Shakespeare.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, KUHB, WGBH Radio Boston, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 4
Visitor Center Fever: Catch It!
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Visitor Centers Replace Museums. Discuss.

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 01:51
RN Documentary: A Diary of War and Liberation
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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An 80- year-old Dutchman opens up the diary he kept as a teenager during the German occupation of Holland and the liberation by Canadian troops fo...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Apr 28, 2005
  • Length: 30:26
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: The Quest for Mechanical Man
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A Philosopher, a robot scientist and an historian talk about our obsession and fascination with the idea of creating mechanical life.

Bought by WFUV and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 26, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
1976 Allen Ginsberg - End Vietnam War
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Caption: PRX default Piece image
great pro peace performance by Ginsberg

Bought by KZYX and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Hoppin’Alive
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A Radio Netherlands’ program about the revival of the 30’s swing jazz dance Lindy Hop

  • Added: Dec 21, 2004
  • Length: 29:30

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