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Still Rooted in Potatoes
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In Aroostook County, life still revolves around the potato harvest even though few family potato farms are left.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:16
Conservation Gamification
From: Denis Du Bois
Caption: UW students pose for photos at a kickoff event for the 2014 Campus Conservation Nationals, Credit: Energy Priorities
Earth Day 2014 -- The University of Washington is participating in a national competition to conserve energy and water on campus this month. The c...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 2: How To Do Science: Eat Lunch and Drink Coffee
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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Two professors walk up to a lunch truck, and the conversation they have there may change the way we study microbiology. Sometimes science has a lot...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:21
10,000 Tries
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Rebecca Lee has lived with a brain injury since shortly after birth. Throughout her life many people have helped her with the resulting physical a...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 3
Race and America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Professor Lawrence Blum
In his new book, professor Lawrence Blum provides insight into a rigorous high school course on race and racism.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Knocked Out
From: American Student Radio
Caption: Knocked Out, Credit: Daniel Brown
This award-winning story profiles one student athlete who suffered a sports-related concussion, and it follows the physical, emotional, & mental tr...

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 19:21
Louder Than A Bomb 2013 Radio Special
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: 2013 Team Finals stage at the Cadillac Palace Theater, Credit: (TimeOut/Jeff Kroll)
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...

Bought by WJSU, KMXT, and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 1: Stealth in School
From: Callum Angus
Series: Transwaves
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Join hosts Devon and Cal for this first episode that follows the emotional journey of Female-to-Male transsexual Kyle Smith and his mother, Leslie,...

Bought by Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 1
Stubborn Roots
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Department of Education logo
American and South Africa’s schools are similar. Both have fallen short of producing an educational system consistent with its national goals of e...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 14:46
Show Me The Money: Volcano Edition
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
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Terrascope Youth Radio's Alexandros Zervos tests Eitan Stern-Robbins' knowledge of Super Volcanos.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 05:53
The No Principal Principle
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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At the Reiche School, you'll never be sent to the principal's office.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 2
Growing with Oysters
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Using shellfish to build confidence in middle schoolers.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WMPG, KUT, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 7
New Sounds of China Episode 3: The Beijing Scene (Beyond Maybe Mars)
From: Peter Vautier
Series: New Sounds of China
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Episode three explores the diversity of Beijing's underground music scene.

Bought by WLRH, WNJR, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3
The Guru of Quince Dances
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
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Youth producers Oscar Hernandez and Domingo Diaz talk with the person who makes quinceanaras work: the dance choreographer. Produced at LBJ High ...

Bought by KUT and YouthCast


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 2
Facts about the new street drug Spice or K2: synthetic cannabinoids
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Spice packet, Credit: Wikimedia
Jahan Marcu is one of the few cannabinoid scientists in America. Chris Goldstein interviews him on the substances containing synthetic cannabinoids.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2010
  • Length: 14:13
AN IMPORTANT LABOR LESSON
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Advocates of teaching labor in public schools have scored an important victory.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:19
From Boston to Berlin with college radio host Chance Dorland
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Series: Across the Ocean - the first Transatlantic Radio for kids
Caption: Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange
Ten´s of thousands of students from the States and Europe take part in exchange programmes every year. In this show, Radijojo's American intern a...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 18:44
School on Wheels
From: Leslie Griffin
Series: Los Angeles features
Caption: school on wheels logo, Credit: www.schoolonwheels.org
School on Wheels is a non-profit program located in Los Angeles which pairs volunteer tutors to homeless students.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and CKMO


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 3
Erica Fernandez vs. BHP Billiton Petroleum
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Erica Fernandez, environmental activist who helped prevent a liquefied natural gas plant from being built near her hometown of Oxnard, Califonia., Credit: www.nbconference.org
We hear from 18-year-old Erica Fernandez. Winner of the 2007 Brower Youth Award, this fierce young woman took on the world’s largest mining compan...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
A Local Texas School with a Global Focus
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Caption: Teacher Kevin Gillion gives Spanish lessons, Credit: Ruxandra Guidi
Against a backdrop of failing public schools throughout the state of Texas, there is a new program at Austin High School showing new initiative. It...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 13, 2009
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 2
Here on Earth: Language Camp (:20 Promo)
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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"Here on Earth - Radio Without Borders" is Wisconsin Public Radio's live international talk program and podcast. (Promo for program "Language Camp")

  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: :20
Here on Earth: Language Camp (Billboard)
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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The billboard for the "Here on Earth" program "Language Camp."

  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: 01:00
Here on Earth: Language Camp
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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Preview "Here on Earth," Wisconsin Public Radio's international talk program and podcast. In this edition, host Jean Feraca takes you to Language C...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: 52:35
The Children of Immigrants
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Many immigrant and refugee families often experience a serious culture clash between parents and children--whether they hail from Afghanistan or Za...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jul 10, 2008
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
The First Amendment and Me
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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In Agnes' neighborhood the police never let people gather around when something is going down. But what, she wonders, about the right to assemble? ...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2008
  • Length: 03:22