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New Year's Day in South Philly with the Mummers
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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The Mummers Day Parade is as quintessentially South Philadelphia as Ben Franklin or Willy Penn, a Philly cheese steak or Italian water ice. It’s u...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 08:35
Lilian Alfonso, Metal Scrapper
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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At USA Recycling in East LA, a two-story yellow crane smashes cars, refrigerators and stoves into neat piles of wreckage all day. The mistress of t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
Pittsburgh, PA
From: American Student Radio
Caption: The Harlan Twins, Credit: Chaz Mottinger
The music of Pittsburgh's own rockers, The Harlan Twins, rings true, "I can't be blue in Bloomfield."

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:33
Into the World of Synesthesia
From: Alex Lewis
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Synesthesia is a rare neurological condition. It usually involves the involuntary coupling together of two unrelated sensory or cognitive experienc...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 1
A Reason for the Purpose
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Maybe you know where your food comes from. But have you seen and heard about farming through a 13-year-old boy’s eyes? Colby Perron shares his thou...

Bought by KRZA and WMPG


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 2
Lou, the Crossing Guide
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: Lou takes a break., Credit: photograph by David Foster
Portrait of Lou Alexander, a crossing guide in Portland, Maine

  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 06:56
We're Not Couch Potatoes: TV Fans Get Politically Active Online
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A fan protests in front of Fox Studios in Century City, Los Angeles., Credit: nohodamon/Flickr
When TV writers went on strike in 2007, the couch potatoes got active. We look back at the writers strike, and see how the largest political force ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
The Devil's Violin
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The story of the birth of a violin.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
What Cheer Brigade? Plays Recess (narrated)
From: Megan Hall
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Our best gig ever: What Cheer? Brigade marching band performs at local elementary schools

Bought by KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 29, 2007
  • Length: 05:39
  • Purchases: 3
The One-Room School in the Twenty-First Century
From: Neenah Ellis
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Veteran producer Neenah Ellis travels to rural communities in the US to visit some of the last remaining one-room schools.

Bought by WNIJ, KUT-HD, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WCBU, WKSU and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 32
The Accordion Files
From: Amber Edwards
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audio postcard from an Accordion Convention

  • Added: May 17, 2005
  • Length: 05:49
The Lone Ranger of Looney Valley
From: Rupa Marya
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No better place to see the widening gap between conservatives and liberals than in front of Harry Aleo's storefront window in San Francisco.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Oct 18, 2004
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1