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Pigments

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

From Victorian parlors to Starbucks, pigments have defined and connected societies.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: May 09, 2012
Length: 01:51
Purchases: 1

Bull-Baiting

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

The violent pastime known as bull baiting entertained the wealthy and poor alike and shaped the breed we now know as the bulldog.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Apr 17, 2012
Length: 01:48
Purchases: 1

Library Of Congress Preserves A Treasure Trove... Underground

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: The Packard Campus is roughly 500,000 square feet, built into the side of a mountain in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains., Credit: Library of Congress Photo/ Matt Raymond

What do you get when you take a former Cold War bunker and fill it with the world’s largest collection of films, TV shows, radio broadcasts and sou...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio and more

Added: Apr 11, 2012
Length: 06:38
Purchases: 6

99% Invisible #44- The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

How a St. Louis public housing marvel became "hell on earth."

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio and more

Added: Feb 15, 2012
Length: 04:30
Purchases: 15

Exotica

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

The rise of exotica, a mysterious musical genre of the '50s and '60s.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Feb 03, 2012
Length: 03:58
Purchases: 1

Tremolo

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

Tremolo, one of music's most basic effects, has an incomplete history. What we do know links centuries of composition.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Feb 03, 2012
Length: 01:53
Purchases: 1

99% Invisible #40- Billy Possum (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

The children's fad that has never swept the nation

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio and more

Added: Dec 20, 2011
Length: 04:30
Purchases: 18

99% Invisible #34- The Speed of Light for Pyramids (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

What we can learn from architects who lived thousands of years ago: make buildings last longer.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more

Added: Dec 20, 2011
Length: 04:30
Purchases: 16

99% Invisible #29- Cul-de-sac (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

If the suburbs had a flag, it would probably have a cul-de-sac on it. But what would it stand for?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more

Added: Dec 20, 2011
Length: 04:31
Purchases: 15

People Without A Nation

From: Charles McGuigan

There are eleven tribes of Indians who call Virginia home, among them the Chickahominy. And though they all now enjoy state recognition, the federa...

Bought by KVSC, Prairie Public, XRAY.fm, WRIR, KZYX and more

Added: Oct 19, 2011
Length: 09:58
Purchases: 7

James Irwin (Astronaut), August 8, 1991

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

As a child in the 1930s, Irwin predicted he would travel to the moon ... at a time when anything written on the topic was clearly labeled "science ...

Added: Aug 10, 2011
Length: 03:00

Simeon Taylor Webb (Casey Jones' Fireman), July 13, 1957

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

Who was Sim Webb? Well, fifty-seven years earlier, April of 1900, he was the man who lived. It happened like this ...

Added: Jul 04, 2011
Length: 03:00

3 Great American Voices

From: Leet and Litwin

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, and Julia Child: All loved to eat. Here's a Cather story about a priest who loved his food more t...

Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, WXXI Rochester, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more

Added: Jun 25, 2011
Length: 55:08
Purchases: 6

The Man Who Recorded the World - Alan Lomax

From: Open Source

Caption: Alan Lomax with unidentified man. [Library of Congress photo]

Open Source "Shorties" are 7 to 8 minute cuts of our best timely and evergreen material. Today, we're joining biographer John Szwed in thanking the...

Bought by PRX Remix, KPIP-LP, KMXT, and Louisville Public Media

Added: Mar 25, 2011
Length: 07:47
Purchases: 4

Clever Apes: Apes in space

From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes

Caption: Ham, the first chimp in space, Credit: NASA

In this episode, host Gabriel Spitzer considers what science has to learn from flying saucers, what it might take for humans to colonize space in o...

Bought by WVTF, WTJU, KBGA 89.9 FM, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix and more

Added: Jan 28, 2011
Length: 12:59
Purchases: 6

A Conversation with Norman Corwin: Renowned Writer and Director from Radio’s Golden Age

From: KUOW

Caption: Norman Corwin with producer Katy Sewall, Credit: Corwin's staff

You’re probably familiar with Jack Benny and Orsen Wells - but do you know Norman Corwin? The widely acclaimed writer, director, and producer from ...

Bought by WRPI

Added: Nov 29, 2010
Length: 50:01
Purchases: 1

The 2nd Most Haunted House In D.C.

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: D.C.'s Octagon House is legendary for its ghostly lore., Credit: Rebecca Sheir

A ghostly tour of Washington, D.C.'s second-most haunted house, where many a thing may -- or may not -- go bump in the night...

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix

Added: Nov 22, 2010
Length: 06:11
Purchases: 2

Newmarket: Birthplace of American horseracing faces threat to 350-year tradition

From: Liz Ruskin

Stand on a street corner at dawn in Newmarket, England and you'll see a spectacle unique in the world: 3,000 racehorses parade through town every d...

Added: Apr 22, 2010
Length: 05:38

Georges Auric 10-15

From: All Classical Public Media
Series: The Score with Edmund Stone

This week on The Score with Edmund Stone The Film Music of Georges Auric.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KPVL, WEKU, and WNMU-FM

Added: Apr 15, 2010
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 4

King's Last March

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

Although it was one of the most challenging and controversial chapters of his career, the final year of King's life has not been the focus of signi...

Bought by KANW, KUAT, WABE, WWNO, RadioStPete Florida and more

Added: Nov 19, 2009
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 249

Black Chefs, White House

From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens

Caption: George Washington's Chef, Hercules

Hidden Kitchens explores the food of the founding fathers through the stories of Hercules and James Hemings, enslaved chefs of George Washington an...

Bought by KWMR, KZYX, Prairie Public, Marfa Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio and more

Added: Feb 03, 2009
Length: 06:55
Purchases: 12

Bridging the Shores: The Hmong-American Experience

From: Wisconsin Public Radio

Sound-rich documentary about Hmong-Americans living in the U.S.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WESM 91.3 FM, KWIT, KHEN-LP, KUNM and more

Added: Sep 10, 2008
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 10

The Beat Goes On #109: "The Bebop Singers"

From: Travis Parkin
Series: The Beat Goes On

A handpicked selection of songs showcasing the best of the bebop jazz singers of the 40's, 50's and 60's--as well as a few modern era interpretatio...

Added: Apr 03, 2008
Length: 58:55

Berlin Without Walls - The Sound

From: WNYC
Series: Berlin Without Walls

In this series, we examine various aspects of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, in both modern and historical context. From the players themselves...

Bought by WDAV Classical Public Radio and WETS