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The heartbeat of a Middle Eastern drummer
From: KALW
Caption: Percussionist Mary Ellen Donald
When Mary Ellen Donald was eight years old, she fell in love with the piano. Around that same time, she was also diagnosed with macular degeneratio...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:12
Zibia and Clyde
From: Jesse Newcomb
Caption: PRX default Piece image
6-year-old Zibia can be sweet and thoughtful, but she also has a wild temper. She can be mean and she knows it. This is a story about a clash bet...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2011
  • Length: 08:23
  • Purchases: 1
The Yodeler
From: clay scott
Series: Mountain West Voices
Caption: brigid reedy plays her fiddle, Credit: clay scott
The traditional art of Western-style yodeling is extremely difficult to master. That's why it's surprising that one of the most gifted yodelers ar...

Bought by KGLT, Yellowstone Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
Revelations In the Mudflats
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Coastal Studies for Girls is a hands-on marine science and leadership program for sophomores in high school. But for 15-year-old Laura, it’s more ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMPG, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2011
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 4
Virtuoso Voices: Funders - Orion Weiss (More than a Recording)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
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For your Fundraising campaign, the young and upcoming pianist Orion Weiss talks about classical music's ability to take you to the places where gre...

Bought by WSMC, KMUN, KVNO, WMNR, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 21
Will There Ever Be Peace On Earth?
From: With Good Reason
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Something always seems to get in the way of peace. Land disputes, nuclear weapons, natural disasters, financial collapses, ethnic divisions… the l...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2010
  • Length: 28:58
Despite Budget Cuts, Youth Meet Their Own Needs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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When the City of Oakland cut their after school homework help program, High school senior Nora Rose started volunteering at her library to help fil...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:18
Polar Prom
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Award Winning Radio Programs
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The first prom in the history of a small isolated Arctic town in Nunavut, northern Canada. 'Polar Prom' won a Bronze Medal at the 2010 New York Fes...

Bought by WRPI and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: 21:59
  • Purchases: 2
Flip out!
From: Jen Towner
Series: Radio Go Girl!
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A variety show for women.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2010
  • Length: 51:51
Judy Becomes Rose
From: Andrew Hiller
Series: Andrew Hiller's Commentaries
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Commentator Andrew Hiller leads a sing-a-long with senior citizens suffering from dimentia, multiple strokes, and alzheimers with surpising results...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 02:23
East Hundred: A Rock Band Waiting To Make It
From: Abbie Fentress Swanson
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East Hundred is a five-piece rock band waiting to make it.

  • Added: May 08, 2010
  • Length: 05:22
Episode #56 Pretty Money
From: Geoffrey Tozer
Series: Sly Crooner
Caption: Sly Crooner of Swanktown
Sly has a heart rending conversation with a young mother who has chosen to live on the street and forego her son's help.

  • Added: May 04, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
Horse Therapy
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Caption: Grace Kurlychek, Credit: Dmae Roberts
A girl with disabilities receives emotional and physical therapy through horse-riding.

Bought by KGUA and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: May 01, 2010
  • Length: 05:08
  • Purchases: 2
One of a Kind
From: WHJE
Caption: Matt Kress
Getting to know someone from the hallway

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Apr 21, 2010
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
Los Reyes de Albuquerque y La Familia Martinez (59:00 / 53:00)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Roberto Martinez, Sr., Credit: Genevieve Russell
The story of one of the most long-lived and influential traditional New Mexican Hispanic musical groups in the state, Los Reyes de Albuquerque. Th...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUPR low power FM, WVTF, WUFT, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Native Harvest for a Modern World
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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An agricultural renaissance has taken root among the Taos Pueblo people in New Mexico. Sustainable agriculture is returning, after years of unheal...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Odyssey of the Mind
From: jessica lockhart
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A group of senior citizens provide a surprising twist on a kids competition

  • Added: Jun 24, 2009
  • Length: 05:36
Soundbank Funders - Hilary Hahn (All About You)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Caption: Hilary Hahn
For your fundraising campaign, this clips features violinist Hilary Hahn. She strives to give her audience more than just the gift of great music ...

Bought by KTXK, New Hampshire Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio, KUHF, WSKG and more


  • Added: May 14, 2009
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 7
A Horse Named "Buckwheat"
From: Rogi Riverstone
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
Virtuoso Voices - Bach Mix "Bach Beyond Music"
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: J.S. Bach
Three Bach playing pianists talk about a possible spiritual presence in music by Bach. Use this 59 second "Mix" for Bach's Birthday (March 21) or ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: :44
Bach Mix "Bach on the Inside"
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Classical Music in 60 Seconds(tm)
Caption: JS Bach
Three musical giants reflect on what they feel when they play and hear Bach. For any format, the 60 second drop-in is ideal for Bach's Birthday (Ma...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Come Soul, I Have Need Of Thee
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A Maine folk singer struggles with his identity, since losing his voice to cancer.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 2
My Dad the World Champion
From: Laura Spero
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Just before the opening of the 2008 Bejing Olympics, Don Spero tells his daughter, for the billionth time, of the epic rivalry he once had with gre...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 05:09
Hummingbird Bander
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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audio postcard of man who bands hummingbirds

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 1
Mondo's
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A portrait of a local Moab coffee shop as a reflection of community

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:26

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