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Enrolling in college at 40 to study art, Sharon Long had no idea an anthropology class would put her on a path to a career as a forensic artist.

Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: WBOI's Folkale of Financial Affairs, Credit: Julia Meek
This week on Folktales, it's a world of finance we're investing in, through a most musical rate of exchange--you can bank on it!

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR , and WFIU


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 4
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After fronting Delta Spirit for the last decade, Matthew Logan Vasquez decided it was finally time to try out his solo side. Not that he has any p...

Bought by KUCB, KRCB 104.9, and KSUT


  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Hayley Quinn, with Olly Mann
Dating. In this age of Tinder, Grindr, no-strings sex and fourth-wave feminism, it's all got rather complicated. How do you find someone you want ...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 18:26
Caption: The League of Legends World Championship in 2012. In 2014, the World Championship attracted 27 million viewers., Credit: Flickr Photo/Chris Yunker (CC BY-SA 2.0)
RadioActive Youth Media Producer Ben Yan takes us into the world of competitive video gaming and tells the story of one of the sports young stars.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 05:43
Caption: Captain Gravitone CD Cover, Credit: Al Fack
The group’s leader plays the banjo but this is no bluegrass band. It’s part acoustic group, part theatrical troupe and 100% fun. And it’s available...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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This is Distillations’s 200th episode, and we’re celebrating! We pored through hundreds of shows and pieced together some of the funniest, grossest...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 37:10
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After 13 years of being backed by The Nocturnals, Grace Potter has taken 2015 to strike out on her own. Her debut solo disc, Midnight, is full of ...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Paper Plate Moon (Tunnel) , Credit: Liz Nielsen
A want-to-be ghost hunting narrator thinks she finds Electronic Voice Phenomenon when she playfully searches hard enough for it.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 12:53
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This day we broadcast from Rayner's Chocolate and Coffee Shop in Glendale Arizona as it enters into it's third year of financially supporting Hacks...

Bought by WVBI-LP and WOUB


  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A stone tablet honors author Robert Louis Stevenson
Most people who visit Calistoga -- a town in the Napa Valley -- come for the wine and the spa treatments; few come for the literary history. But th...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 10:19
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This week we follow cues from the paper ""The evolution of popular music: USA 1960–2010" as we attempt to find out what tomorrow's popular music wi...

Bought by WOUB, KPVL, KSKQ, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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There's a difference between taking risks and just asking for trouble, right?. One is a bold and confident affirmation of one's talents. The other ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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They weren't intended to be the hit, but someone made them so.

Bought by KSKQ, KPVL, WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A man named Jim Deans arrives in Rockland, Maine to set up a recording studio in the back of the old American Legion Hall, but where did he come fr...

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:14
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This Women's Words features Marie Zhuikov reading an excerpt from her book "Plover Landing."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Mum is not always the word, and cats DO have a way of getting let out of the bag...musical proof will be uncovered this week on the Folktale of Sec...

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, WEZU and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 6
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Teens may talk about health, but the fast foods beckon

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WXLV-FM, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Judy Tenuta, Stuart Pankin, and Bob Camp Ring in the New Year, Credit: Lorie Kellogg
Bob Camp, Stuart Pankin and Judy Tenuta help The Comedy-O-Rama Hour ring in the New Year, presenting some of the funniest moments from the improvis...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 59:57
Caption: Chef Ian in Cafe 128's kitchen., Credit: Michael May
Michael May has known chef Ian Pierce since high school. He was sort of a hippie and class clown -- so May was a bit surprised when he read the rev...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Our tour guide: Christopher Verdosi, assistant costume director, Credit: David Boyer
San Francisco seems to jump at any excuse to throw off daily wear in favor of something more theatrical. That explains why around 2500 people showe...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 1
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WTIP's Bob Carter chatted with Marc Abrahams, editor of "Annals of Improbable Research, " about the 2014 Ig Nobel prizes recently awarded at Harvar...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 21:18
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:43