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The Head Water Blues Opry
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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What is The Blues? Arts and Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack looks for the answer as he explores the Head Water Blues Opry, performed at th...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:25
The Big Ponder #40: The Farm
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Ira Karp lives on a farm in northern Vermont, surrounded by music, puppets, and a family of incredible storytellers. Over his brief lifetime, he ha...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #37: Street Names
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #31: Winterreise
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the endless sunshine of Dubai, Bilal Qureshi revisits Franz Schubert’s acclaimed song cycle “Winterreise.” The lyrics of a heartbroken man’s jou...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #27: Immersion
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Immersive artwork breaks down the border between the viewer and the artist, submerging the spectator in the exhibit. Nancy Pettinicchio discusses t...

Bought by KVSC, KMXT, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 27:02
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Jockey
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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When he was first interviewed by Studs Terkel in 1971, jockey Eddie Arroyo had been racing for 6 years. He said it was the hardest and most dangero...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 3
The Pullman Strike & Kim Davis is Arrested
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Do you know how we got Labor Day? Winston Smith's torture has begun, and Kim Davis' arrest is ordered by the Supreme Court

  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:34:32
Episode 40: David Orenstein, Tyson Gill – Bobby Pickles’ Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Bobby Pickles, Credit: Adrien de Martini
Bobby and Martini podcast from Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, NY, with Dr. David Orenstein, Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY system senior ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:26:32
Mapping Mark
From: Kristina Loring
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Meet Mark Adams. Mark’s a cartographer and an artist in Truro Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. In this story from producer Kristina Loring, Mark’s our g...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 09:37
  • Purchases: 1
UnFictional : The Angel of Death
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Two stories about that key life moment many of us spend a lifetime dreading. It's a key life event that none of us live to tell about. The moment. ...

Bought by Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 3
Adam as Machine
From: Ed Prosser
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Electricity, pumps & shunts: A forensic pathologist on life.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:23
Work in Progress
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: Gloria Lowe instructs her apprentice, Travis Rushon., Credit: Amanda Le Claire
How Detroiters are reimagining, redefining, and reconsidering what it means to work in the 21st century.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 17:50
  • Purchases: 2
LiveHopeLove
From: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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Writer and Poet Kwame Dawes explores HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, produced by Outer Voices, in association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WSKG, KBRP Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2008
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 22
Hardly Davidson
From: David Maxon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Foreign bike enthusiats in the heart of Hog country

Bought by WILL and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2008
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 2
Unintended Detours Episode 6: Derailed
From: Sue Mell
Series: Unintended Detours
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Four interwoven stories of lives derailed by serious illness or accident.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2008
  • Length: 27:13
  • Purchases: 2
Unintended Detours Episode 4: Road/Trip
From: Sue Mell
Series: Unintended Detours
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Stumbling and stranded, in one way or another, on the road.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 27:08
  • Purchases: 2
Subway of Mind
From: Judith Weber
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promo for THE LABYRINTHINE SUBWAY GAME

  • Added: Feb 27, 2007
  • Length: 07:26
Arctic Solitude
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Chose a random place (Antarctica), found a blogger to talk about it

Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, and KZSC


  • Added: Nov 01, 2006
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 3
After 23: Conversations on Direction
From: Carlin Corrigan
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Abstract audio documentary/sound art hybrid

  • Added: Jun 21, 2006
  • Length: 22:53
Living on the Fringe
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2003
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Stories of folks who lead their lives off the well-worn path of gay life in America.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WGDR, and KWCW


  • Added: May 27, 2006
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: Whether Diaries
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Two women living on opposite sides of the world imagine a life elsewhere.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, KFAI Minneapolis, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2006
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 4
Bringing home the bones
From: Allan Coukell
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Indigenous people re-bury their stolen ancestors

Bought by KLCC, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KSUT, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 5
Lost In The Stacks
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For researcher Andre Picher, the library is a noble place, a place full of potential, discovery and wonder.

Bought by WMPG, WTIP, and WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 11, 2005
  • Length: 13:15
  • Purchases: 3
The Secret
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Jarrod Livingstone was once officially dead for three minutes and his sister Carma wants to know what this experience was like.

Bought by HowSound, Vocalo.org, WBEZ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 4
A Beginner's Guide to Hitchhiking
From: Jonathan Mitchell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
the pros and cons of hitching a ride

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Remix Radio, KGLT and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2005
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 7