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What’s it like to own an electric car?
From: Possibly
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We did it. My family finally bought an electric car. What’s it like? Should you get one too? Here to help me explain is my husband, Ryan T Conaty.

Bought by PRX Remix, Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 4
Transgender Experience: Musician, educator details transition in song and talk
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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In the condensed version of our March special, hear about transgender experience from singer-songwriter and foster-parent educator Nick Lawrence. H...

Bought by WORT and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
‘Changeling’ dives deep and sings about transition
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Hear about the transgender experience from singer-songwriter Nick Lawrence, a former foster-parent educator on LGBTQ topics. His album, "I Am A Man...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
A 'RadioActive' Showcase Of The Magic Of Writing
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
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Nothing is more powerful than the magic that comes from your mind, down your arm, through your fingertips, down your pen and onto the page. The Mar...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2015
  • Length: 19:59
You Got Served!
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Summer Soundwave
Caption: WeHigh intern Aarti Chandorkar with TIPS executive director Cathy Michelac
Hosts Aarti Chandorkar and Sarah Dillard kick off the second week of Summer Soundwave with a show that'll make you feel good! Join Aarti as she pro...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 17:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Blackbirds of 1928
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Blackbirds Sheet Music
The review, Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1928, opened at the Liberty Theatre on 42nd Street in May of that year.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Jimmy Blythe - The Enigma
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Alley Rat by Jimmy Blythe
Pianist and composer James Louis Blythe is lost in obscurity today, but during his all too brief career, he was considered among the very best. Bly...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 05, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Turn on the Heat
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sam Lanin
Largely forgotten, bandleader Sam Lanin is possibly the most prolific recording artist of the 1920s. No one really knows just how many records he ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Odd Couple
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow
Sidney Bechet was one of the early jazz virtuosos. Born in New Orleans, he began his professional career long before jazz was put to wax. Then the...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 119: The South in the 30's and 40's
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Season 8, 2013 Spring Season
Caption: Catherine King reads at Tales from the South
We go way back in time for this very special show, featuring true stories from the 1930's and 40's, told by the Southerners who lived them. Stories...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 34:00
Tales from the South 088: North Little Rock History
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Summer Season
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This week, we hear stories from two North Little Rock mayors: former mayor Terry Hartwick, and current Mayor Patrick Hays. True stories told by the...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Extra Innings#5 - Dallas Braden's Present to Grandma
From: Thom Butler
Series: Extra Innings
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On Mother's Day 2010, in front of a crowd of 12,227 fans and one very proud and happy gramma, Dallas Braden pitched A PERFECT GAME!

  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:57
The Garden Ladies of Elwell Farms
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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For a group of retired women in Maine, a garden grows more than just plants.

Bought by KZYX and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 2
America Swings
From: Sallie Bodie
Caption: Chester Whitmore
The Golden Age of Harlem dance comes alive in Seattle

  • Added: Nov 02, 2008
  • Length: 06:51
My family history of radio
From: Matt Pryor
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Essay about my grandpa and his Ham Radio

  • Added: Apr 19, 2008
  • Length: 03:09
WWOZ Street Talk- The Peace Nomad
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
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An interview with Matt Garicki, who is walking and biking across the country in the name of peace.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2008
  • Length: 06:01
I Like Beer
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
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In a minor way about the pleasures of beer. Mostly a treatise on children, spoken with genuine affection and admiration.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1