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Afghan Refugees
From: War News Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From "Uploading the War" (7/16/10): War News Radio reports on a refugee who fled Afghanistan and is currently residing in Norway.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 07:26
Restrepo
From: War News Radio
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From "The Invisible Threat" (7/9/10): War News Radio reports on the new documentary Restrepo.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 05:48
#55 - How I Get By
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
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Focus. Focus. Focus.

Bought by Radio Newark, KUT, WMPG, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 14:35
  • Purchases: 4
Passing Time
From: War News Radio
Caption: US soldiers in Afghanistan watch movies on their laptops., Credit: Reuters.
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
Virtuoso Voices - Yuja Wang (Transformation)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Yuja Wang
Pianist Yuja Wang has a CD that includes a Theme and Variations and two orchestral works that have been transcribed for piano. But that’s not the ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: :21
Peaceful Protection in Hot Spots (Peace Talks Radio) [59:00 / 54:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: PBI Volunteer Dana Brown Accompanies Local Activists in Colombia, Credit: Dana Brown
This time on Peace Talks Radio, we hear about two organizations working in conflict-ridden parts of the world. Both organizations make use of unarm...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Scare Those Ghosts Away
From: Littleglobe
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Yumei Lay, whose parents immigrated to Chile from China, explores how Chinese and Japanese schools teach the Sino-Japanese wars differently.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 05:01
Robert Boswell
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Robert Boswell is the author of six novels, three story collections, and two nonfiction books.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Frances McCue
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Forty years after Richard Hugo wrote poems about towns in Montana, Idaho, and Washington state, Frances McCue followed his legend to those places. ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 01, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Piotr Anderszewski (Intimate Aristocrat)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Piotr Anderszewski
Think Chopin, and maybe you think of something virtuosic and heroic. When pianist Piotr Anderszewski thinks Chopin, virtuosic and heroic are the l...

  • Added: May 30, 2010
  • Length: :20
Virtuoso Voices - Carol Wincenc (Carol of All Trades)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Carol Wincenc, Credit: Cori Wells Braun
Flutist Carol Wincenc has been around – standing in front of the orchestra, playing a wide range of chamber music with the who’s who of classical m...

  • Added: May 30, 2010
  • Length: :15
“Bohemian Rhapsody” Major James Lockridge
From: Jake Warga
Series: Soldiers Soundtracks to War--IRAQ
Caption: Lockridge after IED explosion, Credit: Jake Warga
To Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Major James Lockridge tells us, “The United States Army can go anywhere at anytime or anyplace. I learned that duri...

Bought by KZYX, KHNS, KCRW, The Story, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: May 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 6
Postcards from Cuba #1
From: Pat Duggins
Series: "Postcards from Cuba"
Caption: Alabama Public Radio's "Postcards from Cuba" student commentators, Credit: Chip Cooper
University of Alabama students took audio recorders along while studying abroad in Cuba. Part one deals with the "in's and out's" of the marketplac...

  • Added: May 13, 2010
  • Length: 03:18
Virtuoso Voices - Simone Dinnerstein (Sleepless Night)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Simone Dinnerstein
On a warm New York night in August, 2007, an unknown pianist went to bed not knowing that she was about to become an overnight sensation. Her name...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: :25
Life Through a New Lens
From: Learning Matters
Series: Paul Vallas in New Orleans
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One actor from the cast of the new HBO television show "Treme" is doing more than just acting.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
Colleston Morgan - "The Realist"
From: Learning Matters
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Meet Harvard graduate Colleston Morgan. His first two years as a Teach for America teacher were highly successful. So why did he leave the classro...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 1
"The Perfectionist"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
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She graduated from Princeton. She enrolled in Teach for America, worked hard and really wanted to be a role model. So why didn’t this teacher get t...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:47
Lindsay Ordower - "The Go Getter"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
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Meet Lindsay Ordower from Mount Holyoke College. She came to Teach for America determined to succeed. But on any given school day, Lindsay’s classr...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:41
Daniel Hoffman - "The Idealist"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Meet Yale graduate Daniel Hoffman. He entered Teach for America with high hopes, but one year later, Daniel was out of the classroom. Sometimes eve...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 06:14
Truth and Justice Day.
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Crowds at the Plaza de Mayo, Credit: Walter Murch
March 24th is Truth and Justice Day, a national holiday in Argentina.

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 09:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Needle Drop: Gonjasufi
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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Experimental, psychedelic hip hop from Gonjasufi and more.

Bought by KPVL, KZYX, KSRQ, WTIP, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 57:09
  • Purchases: 6
Making Contact: Soul of a Citizen
From: Making Contact
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Author Paul Loeb is re-releasing his book, ‘Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times’. On this edition, we’ll hear from Loeb...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Zuill Bailey (Exhausted Virtuoso)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Zuill Bailey, Credit: Lisa Marie Mazzucco
Cellist Zuill Bailey recorded a CD containing the six Suites for Solo Cello by Bach - and recorded them over an eight-day period. That's two CDs, s...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Till Fellner (Big Chamber Music)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Till Fellner
Small or "soft" are not concepts we normally associate with Beethoven's music, and especially the Beethoven Piano Concertos. Pianist Till Fellner ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: :23
Mexico Mission Trip
From: Bjorn Bagnall
Caption: Adam Hale building a shelter for families in Mexico, Credit: Megan Gray
Adam Hale shares his story over his Mission Trip to Mexico.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2010
  • Length: 04:45

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