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RN Documentary: Leaving a Mark - The story of an Auschwitz survivor
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Eva Schloss is the “posthumous step sister of Anne Frank”. She tells her own story of how she survived 2 years in hiding, 9 months in Auschwitz an...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Jul 05, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Is Capitalism Failing Middle America?
From: Craig Barnes
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While the Bush administration and the courts promote free markets, farmers, ranchers and consumers are suffering, making one wonder for whom modern...

Bought by WBFO


  • Added: Jun 10, 2005
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Song of a Troubled Heart
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The story behind Viennese composer Gustav Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” and his subsequent meeting with Sigmund Freud in Holland.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXDU, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WHQR


  • Added: May 17, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 5
End of a Red-Hunter's Crusade: The Censure of Joseph McCarthy
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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A review of famed Communist-chaser Senator Joseph McCarthy's legacy a half-century past his condemnation by Congress.

Bought by Listenwise, KTNA, and 2SER FM 107.3


  • Added: May 05, 2005
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: A Diary of War and Liberation
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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An 80- year-old Dutchman opens up the diary he kept as a teenager during the German occupation of Holland and the liberation by Canadian troops fo...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Apr 28, 2005
  • Length: 30:26
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: The Quest for Mechanical Man
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A Philosopher, a robot scientist and an historian talk about our obsession and fascination with the idea of creating mechanical life.

Bought by WFUV and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 26, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: A Beginner’s Guide to the "Ode to Joy"
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Radio Netherlands looks at what inspired Beethoven to write one of the most universally loved pieces of classical music.

Bought by WMNR, KPIK-LP, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WEKU, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2005
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 6
A Meeting of the Ways: Part 1
From: Pauline Bartolone
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What happens when an anti capitalist protestor and a right wing christian performer meet on the streets of New York City during the 2004 Republican...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 03:39
1975 Ted Berrigan - Heroin
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Ted Berrigan Reads his poem "Heroin"

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2
A Short History of Music as a Weapon
From: Aaron Henkin
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From Scottish bagpipes to Metallica, this radio essay takes listeners on a short tour through the history of music as a weapon.

Bought by Raven Radio, KGUA, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2005
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 11
Chasing Love
From: Miguel Macias
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A poetic and creative exploration of the notion of romantic love, and the way it drives lives and societies.

Bought by KMUD, KUT, PRX to iTunes, KCUR, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 59:46
  • Purchases: 11
Biography of 100,000 Square Feet
From: Benjamin Temchine
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How does a public space fail? Can good intentions separated from reality border on negligence?

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPFA, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KALW, WZBC and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2005
  • Length: 32:00
  • Purchases: 9
Lenny Bruce Gets Busted
From: Jonathan Mitchell
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how comedy's great free speech martyr fought the law, and how the law won

Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, Hearing Voices, KGLT, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2005
  • Length: 08:02
  • Purchases: 7
Rip, Rift, and Panic: Earthquake Stories of Life and Death Along the Faultlines
From: Susan Stone
Caption: San Francisco, Marina district, October 17, 1989
Earthquake stories from around the Pacific Rim

Bought by KPIK-LP, WUAL, KMXT, KWMR, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 29:22
  • Purchases: 11
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Path To Nonviolence -29:00 Version (Peace Talks Radio Series)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s journey to a philosophy of nonviolence and his lasting legacy as a peace proponent is recalled in interviews with his daug...

Bought by KQAL, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMU St. Louis, WFHB, KISU and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 49
Peace Talks Radio: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Path To Nonviolence (59:00/54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s journey to a philosophy of nonviolence and his lasting legacy as a peace proponent is recalled in interviews with his daug...

Bought by WKSU, RadioStPete Florida, WKAR, WKSU, KWMU St. Louis and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2005
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 104
Remembering John Lennon
From: KUT
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Rembering Lennon, with clips

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and WYSO


  • Added: Dec 08, 2004
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 3
The Gray County Seat War
From: University of Kansas Office of University Relations
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The Gray County Seat War chronicles the bitter conflict between the rival boomtowns of Cimarron and Ingalls, Kansas.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2004
  • Length: 59:55
Reconstructing Providence: Adaptive Reuse, Urban Revitalization, & Neighborhood Change
From: Robin Amer
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Artists vs. developers vs. the city. The adaptive reuse of historic mill buildings in Providence, and all the controversy that's come with it.

Bought by Central Florida Public Media, WMPG, and WZBC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2004
  • Length: 49:32
  • Purchases: 3
Lost & Found Sound and Beyond: Hour One
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Lost & Found Sound and Beyond
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Lost & Found Sound and Beyond" is the second anthology of greatest hits from the Peabody Award winning Lost & Found Sound radio series, heard over ...

Bought by KAAD-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUT, KOSU, KHNS and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2004
  • Length: 59:18
  • Purchases: 18
Stories of Love and Marriage at the Towers
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories
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Stories of love, marriage and memories at 1,377 feet.

Bought by KUT, KVNF, KUT-HD, KXOT Public Radio, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2004
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 9
Messages from NPR's Sonic Memorial Phone Line
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories
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An impressionistic gathering of sounds and stories, many of them contributed by listeners who called the Sonic Memorial Phone Line.

Bought by WRNC-LP, WMBR, KCPW Salt Lake City, WHYY, and WUAL


  • Added: Sep 09, 2004
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 5
The WTC Construction Guides: The Building Stewardesses
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories
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They were called "Construction Guides" : friendly co-eds in mini-skirted uniforms posted at corner kiosks on the WTC site to inform an inquiring pu...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WHYY, and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 09, 2004
  • Length: 22:18
  • Purchases: 3
Early Radio
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Remembering how we used to listen to radio

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 26, 2004
  • Length: 06:42
  • Purchases: 1
Banjo Pete
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Baltimore punker Pete Ross builds historically accurate gourd banjos in his basement.

Bought by KUOW, KXOT Public Radio, and Audible


  • Added: Aug 25, 2004
  • Length: 12:47
  • Purchases: 3

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