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This Performance Company Wants You to Talk about Sex
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Sex Ed: A Sex Prov is a variety show that encourages talking about sex, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
Sex is hard to talk about. We often speak about it so indirectly. In Minnesota, many of us are even more adept to tiptoeing around the issue. But S...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 07:42
A Tale As Old as Tom: Getting to Know the Tom of Tom's Popcorn Shop
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Tom is ready to greet customers with a joke and a smile at Tom's Popcorn Shop, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
There’s a little popcorn shop in the Nokomis neighborhood of south Minneapolis where you can get popcorn, banter, and half off double the normal pr...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 07:10
7 Jul: Seven Wonders – Rebooted
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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‘The Seven Wonders of the World’ *sounds* impressive, but could they do with an update? That was the mission of the mysterious Swiss-based ‘New 7 W...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 09:15
4 Jul: Here Comes The Hamburger
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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Who invented the hamburger? It’s almost impossible to know, given that mincemeat has been consumed all around the world, and for centuries – but Os...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 2
Questions
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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Songs that ask questions along the spectrum ranging from bluegrass to jazz music.

  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:37
Bump
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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An inspired delivery for Mother's Day.

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, KMUN and more


  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 18
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
The Graduate
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Just one word: plastics.

Bought by KMUN, KWMR, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WPCA-LP, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:04
  • Purchases: 44
May 2023 – FINAL EDITION -- The ridiculousness of “Straight Pride”
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: "Straight Pride", Credit: OutCasting Media
Addressing the aggrieved people who lament the lack of a "Straight Pride" celebration.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Cruelest Month: Ten Poets Reflect on Love
From: New Letters on the Air
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We're celebrating National Poetry Month with a nod to what Missouri-born poet T.S. Eliot called THE CRUELEST MONTH. Listen to ten poets, reflectin...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNMU-FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 5
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sammy Marques tells stories, one-man-shows that last an hour and more. The stories within the bigger stories are chapters of his life. Because they...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 25:28
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 27:56
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 4
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sammy Marques is a raconteur. He frequently draws on personal experience to flesh out stories that seem always to embrace some humorous element. Th...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 27:30
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
For three generations, Sammy Marques’ family was stuck in a sort of revolving door of emigration from Europe to the United States and back again. I...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:24
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Sammy Marques
Sammy Marques has been a lot of things over the years. He was never a butcher, but he was certainly a baker. Twice. And armed with a wood lathe he ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 26:21
The Explorers Club
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A team of globetrotting, besotted scientists faces a new kind of terra incognita.

Bought by KFCF FM, KMUN, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 34
A Modest Proposal: How to End the Abortion Wars
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Let’s stop the abortion debate right now. We already know how. Eliminate the need for abortion. If all babies were planned and could be cared for, ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:53
StoryCorps Griot: Sydia Bell and Danny Bell
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Sydia, Danny, and Maritza Bell with their dog (not Roxanna) in 2016
Danny Bell tells his daughter Sydia about trying to teach her mother to drive.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
2210: Women of Comedy: Pamela Ribon & Sasheer Zamata, 3/10/2022
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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On this week’s episode of On Story we’re exploring all aspects of comedic writing and performing. We’ll discuss writing animated features with Disn...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 53:56
Artifact or Artifice: The Kensington Runestone Hoax
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: Reporter Matthew Schneeman poses in front of the runestone at the Kensington Runestone Museum, Credit: Mattew Scheeman
In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 25:48
Jonah Carden
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
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Jonah Carden is an Americana rock and metal inspired singer/songwriter from Southern West Virginia. We discuss the songwriting group that gave Jona...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:42
Jeopardy Flute Rock
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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At the end of 2022, Jeopardy had a category titled Classic Flute Rock. The problem is that the category did not include the one band viewers felt ...

Bought by WMTNradio, WYAP, KHNS, KWIT, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Man of the Moment
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Alan Ayckbourn’s 1988 play anticipates the popularity – and absurdity – of reality TV.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, KALW and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 29
The Return of King Ludd
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Winter Solstice is coming and the Luddites are celebrating on their flip-phones. That's all we've got to say about it. Listen on your radio in Josh...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Story Prize-winning Author George Saunders
From: New Letters on the Air
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George Saunders reads a passage from his Story Prize-winning collection, TENTH OF DECEMBER. In this public presentation, Saunders discusses his pat...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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