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Whit Stillman, Episode 3: Cynicism in the Optimism
From: KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio
Series: The Entertainment
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This episode focuses on the making of Whit Stillman's third film, The Last Days of Disco, the conclusion in what is often referred to as his Doomed...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Northern Community Radio - "Bicentennials and Beginnings."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Radio essays recorded in the writer's own voice about topics related to northern Minnesota art, culture and history. Made possible in part by the M...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
Do Video Games Kill? Episode 5 - Finalé
From: Andrew Mingyar
Series: Do Video Games Kill?
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In which I finally give my opinion.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 12:58
A Curse on Time Warner
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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Why the Dodgers Will Lose

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:19
Letter from New Jersey: Civil Liberties New Jersey-style
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Species: Corruptjodchuckcasaliz Newjerseyish, Credit: Susan Cook
Coming through the transom today, a letter from New Jersey to share. Civil Liberties: New Jersey-style!! How are they taken? Oh, I guess they mean ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
Sounds Familiar #4: The Rule of Threes
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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Is three really the magic number?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUT


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 2
Sounds Familiar #3: The Loudness War
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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Why is music getting louder? And why is it bad? Is it bad?

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 13:06
Trapped in a Small Space
From: Blake Cooper
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From Archie Bunker to Murphy Brown, TV characters have been getting trapped in elevators, freezers and all other manner of small spaces for decades...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 2
From The National Press Club: Harvey Levin
From: National Press Club
Caption: Harvey Levin, Credit: NPC
The founder of TMZ, Harvey Levin, talks to the National Press Club about his website, and of the business of celebrity news.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 53:56
Igor's Halloween Jazz Party
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
Caption: Philly Joe Jones - Blues for Dracula , Credit: Fantasy Records
Hey! It's Halloween, it's Jazz and it's a party! Join Igor as he presents Halloween Jazz classics from John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Lambert Hendrick...

Bought by KHNS, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, Delmarva Public Media, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2011
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 12
KERA Commentary: The Flip-Flop Test
From: KERA
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What separates a "flip-flop" from a valid change of mind

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Nature of Advertising
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
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A short rant about the nature of advertising

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
Exit Polls: If Asked, Don't Tell
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary urging voters to combat the excesses of exit polls \by exercising their fundamental right to the secret ballot.

Bought by BallotVox


  • Added: Feb 06, 2008
  • Length: 02:03
  • Purchases: 1
Say No to Christmas Zombies
From: Dick Meister
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Christmas Shoppers Alert: Beware of those popular personal audio players that are turning people into near-zombies living in their own electronica...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 02:46
We've Lost America's Team
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on how we're losing what has been in effect the hometown baseball team of millions of Americans.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2007
  • Length: 02:34
Science Fiction Friction
From: Jonathan Ellis
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Tongue-in-cheek conflict of nerds vs geeks

Bought by PRX Remix, The Story, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and The PRX Podcast


  • Added: May 17, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 5
AD Review- COMCAST'S SLOWSKYS COMMERCIALS
From: SCAD Radio
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Review of Currently Airing Commercial

  • Added: Apr 18, 2007
  • Length: 02:04
AD Review- SONIC'S "DUMB GUY" SERIES
From: SCAD Radio
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Review of Currently Airing Commercial

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Apr 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 1
Radio Active Voices
From: Julie Sabatier
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voices from community radio stations around the country

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZSC


  • Added: Mar 20, 2007
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 2
2006: A Look Back
From: Merle Kessler
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Ian Shoales tackles a potpourri of foolishness from 2006.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2007
  • Length: 02:39
So Very Sorry
From: Merle Kessler
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2006: Kerry, Richards, Gibson, Etc. Watching the Sorry Parade.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2007
  • Length: 02:02
Both My Houses (Mes Deux Maisons)
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Essay on media and politics for TCF's 99 Ways

  • Added: Nov 27, 2006
  • Length: 02:30
Novel-Writing Marathon (NaNoWriMo)
From: Janis Jaquith
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I have one month in which to write a 50,000-word novel--and this is the month.

Bought by WSCS-FM


  • Added: Nov 15, 2005
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
Local News Sucks
From: KBOO Youth Collective
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a pice on how and why local news SUCKS

Bought by WXLV-FM and KOOP


  • Added: Apr 15, 2005
  • Length: 07:57
  • Purchases: 2