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PEI Cradle on the Waves Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: The Jollimores raise mussels., Credit: Charles McGuigan
We return to Prince Edward Island where we’ll spend the next half hour with a father and daughter who produce what PEI has come to be known for the...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 27:06
The Last Job
From: The Truth
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Life in the Age of Leisure

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KALW, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 15, 2015
  • Length: 12:41
  • Purchases: 4
Yours, mines and ours
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 1
The Pillsbury A Mill
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:31
Coffee: Trouble Brewing?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It’s the second most-traded commodity in the world after oil but how much do you think about your cup of coffee? From coffee farmers in Colombia to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRIR, and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Working in Prudhoe Bay
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two weeks on, two weeks off.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2015
  • Length: 03:39
Art and Transition
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Samaj examines his painting. It is part of his new series, called Entry/Dropline.
An artist living in Seattle has just had to move for the fifth time in four years. As he gets older it's becoming harder and harder for him to expo...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:44
Sawbill Outfitters owner Bill Hansen on unique work credit system that keeps both employees & owners happy
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis & Dick Swanson chatted with Bill Hansen, owner of Sawbill Outfitters in Tofte with his wife Cindy, about their unique work credit...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 22:41
Working: Then & Now
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Studs Terkel
In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 10
Officer Eric Mueller, Community Liaison
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Cotter senior Liam Michener, left, talks with Winona police officer Eric Mueller during a mock crash Wednesday, April 15, 2012, behind Winona Senior High School. Michener was acting as the driver. , Credit: Andrew Link/Winona Daily News
On this episode of Culture Clique, we visit with one of Winona's finest who went from a career in public relations to an occupation in Law Enforcem...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 32:59
  • Purchases: 1
Old Sturbridge Village
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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At Old Sturbridge Village, a rotating cast of men and women don period clothes while performing 19th century roles for the public. Emily Kwong take...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
San Francisco City College – A Casualty in the War Against Public Education?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In California a surprising trend is taking place, one that is threatening precisely what makes community colleges unique – their accessibility to a...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 10:58
WIN Labor Report: December 6, 2013
From: Workers Independent News
Caption: The Voice for Working People
Fast Food Workers Strike in Over 100 Cities

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
99% Invisible #73- The Zanzibar and Other Building Poems (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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A poet makes a city.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 16
Seeing Red
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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The Guys share a little-known story about that time Stalin coined the term “American Exceptionalism"

Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:32
  • Purchases: 3
Poet B.H. Fairchild
From: New Letters on the Air
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We celebrate the working man by revisiting B.H. Fairchild's poetry collection, THE ART OF THE LATHE. This book gives insight into the life and wor...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Kim Hammer on Fair Trade and Travel to India
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today we visit with a well traveled individual that brings back products from the other side of world to South Eastern Minnesota, and in doing so i...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 31:01
  • Purchases: 1
What's Manufactured in Chicago?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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Chi-town manufacturing hasn’t disappeared, you just have to know where to look for it.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 1
Strategy & Soul
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Daniel Hunter
David was looking for a slingshot. Goliath had money and power. This is the story of the fight against proposed and granted casinos in Philadelphia.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Building a more resilient economy with Bay Bucks
From: KALW
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Forbes magazine estimates that more than $3.5 billion will move through the “sharing economy” this year, but that’s practically pennies compared wi...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:30
Culturology: "Finns In Minnesota: Crosby's Communist Mayor" by Britt Aamodt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Karl Emil Nygard
During the past year, Northern Community Radio has been running a mini-series produced by Britt Aamodt focusing on Minnesota Finns. In this segment...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 3
The License to Slow Down
From: Nancy Lin
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Since the Slow Movement stared in 1986, the business environment has become even more complex and fast-paced. Has the movement failed or is the exp...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 48:03
Advertising Through the Clutter
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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How do advertisers craft their messages to break through the clutter? Al Reid of Team One USA reveals some of the strategies that his creative tea...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 06:23
"Finns In Minnesota: The 1907 Mesabi Range Strike" by Britt Aamodt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Iron Ore Car
July 1907, nearly 15,000 miners rose up to protest low pay and unfair and dangerous work conditions on the Mesabi Iron Range. The strike would go d...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 2
Fordlandia, from Dream to Ghost Town
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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The rise and fall of Henry Ford's Fordlandia, a rubber plantation and American colony in the Amazon.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 1