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AN EASY TIME TO LIVE
From: clay scott
Series: Mountain West Voices
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A retired history professor from Montana reflects on a childhood during the Depression, and on the nature of poverty...and happiness.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGLT, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 5
ThoughtCast: The Impact of the Written Word
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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This new ThoughtCast series explores the impact of the written word. It examines a specific piece of writing — be it a poem, play, novel, short sto...

Bought by KUT and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
The Liar Paradox
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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This paradox resists a solution and inspires major advances from Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 2
Paradoxes
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Paradoxes - What are they? What do they mean? How should we think about them? Experts weigh in.

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 36:09
  • Purchases: 1
To The Fallen: Memorial Day - Part 1
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Memorial Day Poster, Credit: Beverly & Pack
Part one of a two-hour remembrance for Memorial Day... Since the ending of the Civil War in 1865, America has lost over 700,000 soldiers. For Memor...

Bought by KTXK


  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 44:32
  • Purchases: 1
Aldo Leopold and the Emerging Land Ethic (59:00 / 54:00 - Free Program)
From: Jack Loeffler
Caption: Aldo Leopold, Credit: Aldo Leopold Foundation
A celebration of the life Aldo Leopold, the man who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” in 1949, and introduced Ethics as the fundamental concept that sh...

Bought by KZYX, WRGY, KUPR low power FM, WMUU-LP, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
This WE Believe - Race
From: Phil Mariage
Caption: PRX default Piece image
3 'This I Believe' essays from older, middle and young generations on Race

  • Added: Feb 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Dean Urdahl and the 1862 Dakota War
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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Minnesota State Representative, retired teacher and author Dean Urdahl discusses the 1862 Dakota War and Its Aftermath. Urdahl not only has a fami...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WRPI


  • Added: Feb 03, 2011
  • Length: 36:06
  • Purchases: 2
Author Molly Gloss and the Heroines of the American West
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Stage and Studio
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This show profiles novelist Molly Gloss, whose books have shed light on untold stories of women in the American West.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
Interracial Marriage
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A comparative generational discussion about interracial marriage

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Sep 22, 2010
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Restoring Old New York
From: Avishay Artsy
Caption: A still from the 1920 film "Manhatta."
The early American experimental film "Manhatta" gets a much-needed facelift.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 28, 2010
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 1
National Debt
From: Robin Amer
Caption: Women at the Tulle Lake War Relocation Camp, circa 1942. , Credit: Bob Bobster.
Two survivors of Japanese American internment describe how they went from being seen as model citizens to being seen as the enemy. In the story of ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXDU, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 9
The Fountain City
From: Caleb Pringle
Caption: RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, Columbus, GA
An observation on the city of Columbus, GA and the arts departments of Columbus State University told with sounds of the street and downtown founta...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 04:14
Dead and Gone
From: Chatterbox Audio Theater
Caption: Dead and Gone, 2009 - Ink on paper, Credit: Samantha Sherry
A Southern retelling of James Joyce's classic story "The Dead." In early-20th-century Memphis, an insecure schoolteacher struggles to navigate the ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2009
  • Length: 01:03:20
Hark! - the acoustic world of Elizabethan England
From: Battery Radio
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Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now? How different were the sounds they heard? And can we tune into their aud...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, HowSound, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 52:24
  • Purchases: 8
Our American Culture
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Re-broadcast of 2005 program featuring older, middle and younger generations discussing the changes in our culture

  • Added: Sep 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Virgil's Georgics: ThoughtCast interviews the poet and translator David Ferry
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Virgil's Georgics: an interview with poet David Ferry, who recently translated Virgil's second great poem, The Georgics. We're joined by Virgil sch...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
What's the Word? Seeing 9/11
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Remembering 9/11
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Three representations of the events of September 11th.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2009
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 8
Virtuoso Voices - Bach Mix "Bach Beyond Music"
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: J.S. Bach
Three Bach playing pianists talk about a possible spiritual presence in music by Bach. Use this 59 second "Mix" for Bach's Birthday (March 21) or ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: :44
This I Believe - Veterans Day Feature
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Veterans from World War I through the Iraq War discuss how their combat experiences shaped their beliefs.

Bought by WUTC, KKWE Niijii Radio, WEZU, KBGA 89.9 FM, Vocalo.org and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 6
Columbus Park
From: David Maxon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Reflection Manhattan's Columbus Park and the fluid nature of place.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:13
The Northwest African American Museum
From: KUOW
Series: Sound Focus
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A young black man learns about his identity through local African American history. KRAK

  • Added: Jun 16, 2008
  • Length: 09:13
Beauty and Pain - Science and Medicine in Berlin
From: Elizabeth Green Musselman
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Syphilitic skulls, racial science, and some of the oldest non-western music recordings in history - come explore the beauty and pathos that is the ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2008
  • Length: 32:55
The Spring & the Pipeline
From: KVNF
Series: Belief Systems and Other B.S.
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We're many generations removed from most religion's founders: does it matter?

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 28, 2008
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
KERA Commentary: Public Sense of Identity
From: KERA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How much our place of origin determines our sense of identity

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1