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Roadway Renaissance Man
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Toll booth operators are not what they appear to be.

Bought by SALTcast Podcast, WMPG, WUAL, and WVPE


  • Added: Feb 14, 2004
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 4
Tupperware
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Tupperware. More than a way of storing leftovers in covered plastic bowls, for many it's a way of life.

Bought by KPIK-LP, KUOW, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2004
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 16
Dear Harold
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
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Almost, but not quite, a Dear John letter

Bought by GAUF


  • Added: Feb 10, 2004
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
Squirrel Duels. . . Offramp
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Offramp - The Improvised Comedy Series
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The Noble Duels of Rodents

Bought by The Prairie Star, WCOM, and KTNA


  • Added: Feb 05, 2004
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 3
The Letter D. . . Offramp
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Offramp - The Improvised Comedy Series
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Variations on the Letter D

Bought by The Prairie Star and WCOM


  • Added: Feb 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:20
  • Purchases: 2
The Penguin Goes A Courtin'
From: Jonathan Goldstein
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Two of literature's great umbrella travelers-- The Penguin and Mary Poppins-- have dinner together in Merry Old England.

Bought by KALW, KPIP-LP, WABE, KUT, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2004
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 10
Dangling Woman
From: Susan Barrett Price
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A social reformer runs away from work, only to get stuck in the jungle treetops of Costa Rica.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KUHB, WYSO, and KZYX


  • Added: Feb 04, 2004
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 5
Queer Youth Valentine
From: outLoud Radio at Youth Radio
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender youth (and friends) riff on the theme of Valentine's Day.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, and KHSU


  • Added: Feb 04, 2004
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 3
High School Reunion
From: KUOW
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Profound, romantic and wierd experiences at High School Reunions

Bought by KPIK-LP and WTJU


  • Added: Feb 01, 2004
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 2
Nothing Predictable: Kayaking Newfoundland
From: Rob Rosenthal
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Kayaking through icebergs in Newfoundland.

Bought by Radio Newark, PRX Remix, WMPG, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jan 27, 2004
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 4
CNN's Robert Novak defines fraudulent? Now that is the pot calling the kettle black.
From: Stephen Ochry
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CNN's Robert Novak defines fraudulent? Now that is the pot calling the kettle black.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2004
  • Length: 01:29
I, Flagpole
From: David Gans
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Congressional blather recontextualized to reveal its inner truth.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jan 22, 2004
  • Length: 01:10
  • Purchases: 1
A Cook's Notebook: Blue Eggs, Home Food, No Sunday
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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Ernie and Maria find gold in their chickens

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Jan 21, 2004
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
I Can't Get It Out of My Head
From: Richard Paul
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Why advertising jingles get lodged in your brain

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, WFUV, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jan 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 4
Naked People
From: Richard Paul
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All the reasons why artists use naked people in their work

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, WHQR, and WZBC


  • Added: Jan 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
Present Progressive
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Intimate, documentary-style radio play about the author's experiences as an English teacher in the North of France - never broadcast in the US.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2004
  • Length: 29:21
Family Vacation
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Your mom's got Van Morrison on repeat, she wants to talk "mother daughter trust," and there's still hundreds of miles left to go. Trapped inside a ...

Bought by KZYX, KSFR, PRX Remix, WMPG, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2003
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 6
A Cook's Notebook: Plum Pudding
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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Good plum pudding is out there (and so is really bad plum pudding)

Bought by KZUM, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Dec 17, 2003
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 3
California
From: Jeff Brown
Series: The American State Songbook
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Do you know your state song?

  • Added: Dec 15, 2003
  • Length: 03:21
Massachusetts
From: Jeff Brown
Series: The American State Songbook
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Do you know your state song?

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 15, 2003
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 1
A Cook's Notebook: Homemade Eggnog
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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Dogs get into Franks' homemade eggnog

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KZYX, KUHB, and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 4
All Things Remixed: A Youth Radio Spoof
From: Youth Radio
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A brief spoof-advertisement for an apocryphal CD that remixes 1960s classics with hip-hop beats.

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, KSFR, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 01:24
  • Purchases: 3
Kohler Factory
From: Hillary Frank
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Hillary Frank visits the Kohler factory, where artists-in-residence make sculptures out of the same materials used to make toilets.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2003
  • Length: 05:52
50 States in 5 Minutes
From: Jeff Brown
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Medley of official state songs

Bought by Prairie Public, BSR Radio, KUCB, KMXT, WUAL and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2003
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 6
First Menstruation Stories
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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It's both terrifying and highly anticipated, and, as rites of passage often are, perhaps somewhat overrated. Blunt producer Ariel Adams set out wit...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2003
  • Length: 10:32

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