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Caption: Superman by Random House, Credit: Jacket design by David Stevenson
Legions of fans from Boston to Buenos Aires can recite the story of the child born Kal-El, scion of the doomed planet Krypton, who was rocketed to ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 03, 2012
  • Length: 19:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen wrote some of the greatest hits jazz and popular music, including the entire score to the classic movie, The Wizard of Oz. But there a...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Judith Jones
Judith Jones, Julia Child's editor, discusses her favorite author with Canada's food sleuth, Marion Kane.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 09:12
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MPR meteorologist Paul Huttner visited Grand Marais, Minn., recently, stopping by the WTIP studios to talk with The Roadhouse host Buck Benson abou...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 26:49
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Up Next features writers/ actors/ directors sharing insight and funny stories as they work to make their break. Guest for episode 6: Actor Bill Arm...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2012
  • Length: 51:20
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Just shy of their 100th birthday, the Girl Scouts are working to shed their cookie and campfire image with new badges that focus on skills like rob...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2011
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 4
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In 1793, the American circus was born, and ever since, it has been a large part of our culture. Also featured: A professor of organic chemistry sha...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Fold.It screen shot
A web-based video game called FoldIt uses crowd-sourcing in the hopes of solving some very big -- er, tiny -- biological problems.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:17
Caption: Behind the register at Moveable Feast Geneva , Credit: Niala Boodhoo
Over the years, the Oprah Winfrey show and its famous host have influenced politics, literacy - and hundreds of small businesses – who have been se...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:48
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From great grandson of William Dawes, midnight rider with Paul Revere, to U.S. Vice President under Calvin Coolidge ... to co-writer of a number on...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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Hallie Ephron is a journalist and fiction writer living in New England.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
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Eating and drinking in a library are always forbidden – and with good reason. But that doesn’t mean you can’t learn a lot about eating and drinking...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 04:52
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The author of seventeen novels, Parker lives in Southern California.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 30:12
Caption: SAfari ant
A conversation between David Inoue and Dino Martins about the value of African insects to the worlds favourite things. Without bugs there would be ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2010
  • Length: 04:49
Caption: Mass of maggots
One of the most disgusting creatures is in fact one of the most useful. Join Paula Kahumbu and Dino Martins on a smelly journey of discovery.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2010
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Misha Dichter, Credit: Stefan Cohen
A regular part of Misha Dichter’s performance schedule includes playing music for two pianos with his wife, Cipa Dichter. The two practically grew...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :23
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On today's show I talk with Dr. Louis Hyman, an expert in the history of debt. Not only was it great talking with him but we chatted just as long o...

Bought by KZYX and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Danielle de Niese, Credit: hansspeekenbrink-nl
The career of soprano Danielle de Niese really took off when she performed the role of Cleopatra in the Handel opera, Julius Caesar. Her operatic ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: :25
Caption: Hilary Hahn
Violinist Hilary Hahn performed on the Tonight Show in March 2010. Her strategy for playing in front of a huge audience of 100's of thousands is to...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Jan 13, 2010
  • Length: :37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pascal Roge
All children go through phases and stages. They can be cute, adorable, precocious and obnoxious. Pianist Pascal Roge went through each of these p...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: :15
  • Purchases: 1
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Voices of past and present residents of an Ojibwe mixed blood community, near Lake Superior, tell of their survival for six generations in a valley...

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Mar 13, 2009
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Without Comment is a 13 week series looking at the first 100 days of the Barack presidency.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 09:45
Caption: Marty Walsh hangs his sign at Geekhouse Bicycles., Credit: Jonathan Simmons
Marty Walsh of Boston's Geekhouse Bicycles received $70,000 in state-monitored federal money in November. Geekhouse is thriving, giving listeners ...

Bought by The Neighborhood


  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Yefim Bronfman
The Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 is a part of nearly every pianist's concert repertoire, and for many Russian pianists, it's often the first ma...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: :26
Caption: 90 Second Naturalist Logo
90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life

  • Added: Dec 23, 2008
  • Length: 33:00