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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
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
RN Documentary: Hollands' Black Page
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Former dutch veterans of the colonial conflict in Indonesia talk of their guilty past and of atonement.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2004
  • Length: 29:02
RN Documentary: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times - War and Memory
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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How war influences identity and memory in both the individual and the national sense.

Bought by KVSC, KMXT, KFAI Minneapolis, KVMR, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2004
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 12
Sinking of the Reuben James
From: Adam Allington
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Retired Petty Officer Robert Howard Recalls being torpedoed by a German U Boat over a month before Pearl Harbor

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Jun 19, 2004
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 1
Behind Barbed Wire
From: Adam Allington
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A small farming community in northern Maine reconnects with it's history as a WWII POW camp

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 1
Nightfall in Chester County
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In Pennsylvania farmland that was the first stop on the Underground Railroad, a strike by Mexican mushroom pickers polarizes a Quaker community.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, WRIR, KMUN and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 16
Hollister
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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On July 4, 1947 thousands of bikers roared into a small California town and changed our assumptions about America. A new investigation raises prov...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WRPI, KUT, PRX Remix, KALW and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
"Out of the Ashes: Teatro la Fenice"
From: Angela Taylor
Caption: PRX default Piece image
"Out of the Ashes: Teatro la Fenice" is a feature on the tragedy and triumphant return of this iconic Venetian opera and music house.

Bought by WHQR


  • Added: May 25, 2004
  • Length: 17:14
  • Purchases: 1
Vagy/Szomjusag/Thirst
From: FNR (Moscow, Russia)
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Vagy/Szomjusag/Thirst was commissioned by the 2003 Third Coast International Audio Festival for its 'Variation on a Thirst' ShortDoc competition.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 24, 2004
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Olive Rediscovered
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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Californians rediscover their olive groves.

Bought by KVNF, KZSC, and WYSO


  • Added: Dec 02, 2003
  • Length: 15:45
  • Purchases: 3
Christmas in the Trenches
From: Scott Gurian
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Folksinger John McCutcheon describes a lesser-known chapter in world history, a 1914 Christmas Eve truce between British and German soldiers in the...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WTJU, WTJU and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2003
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 29
Surviving Church
From: Bruce Gerstman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two people who joined Jim Jones's cult, The People's Temple, and got married 20 years after the Jonestown Massacre.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2003
  • Length: 10:22

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