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Books as Babysitters
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Mary Finch on books.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:56
Is Virginia Really For Lovers?
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: The original Virginia Is For Lovers slogan/logo, created by Martin & Woltz (now The Martin Agency) in 1968., Credit: The Martin Agency
The real story behind one of the most famous tourism slogans of all time.

Bought by WTJU, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Steven and Alexandra Ketcham
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Steven and Alexandra Ketcham
Steven Ketcham and his wife Alexandra remember being set up by their parents.

Bought by WEZU, KMUD, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 3
There is No Dog
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: G.P. Putnam's Sons jacket cover, Credit: Natalie C. Sousa, cover design
Meg Rosoff, a Printz Award-winning author, returns to the young adult marketplace with "There is No Dog," a provocative and imaginative novel starr...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 21:06
A Conversation with Kerry Henderson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Baritone Kerry Henderson talks about co-creating a festival from scratch in a small mountain town with little money and a lot of help from friends ...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2011
  • Length: 25:10
Audubon's Birds of America - the World's Most Valuable Book
From: Susan Gray
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Only 120 copies of John Audubon’s Birds of America are known to exist and one complete set is stored in a climate controlled vault at the Minneapol...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:30
Typewriter's Broken
From: Jeanne Burns
Caption: Period, Credit: Benjamin Earwicker, http://garrisonphoto.org/
One menopausal woman's search for the meaning of thong menstrual pads.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
Tales from the South 41
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
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Church holds unexpected surprises. George S. Smith challenges his Sunday school teacher, Marvin Schwartz witnesses a resurrection, and Wetzel LaGro...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Between You and Me: Time
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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It's Crunch Time this week; sharing stories of the times you were late or just barely made it as we get through the Crunch Time of our summer fundr...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:08
San Francisco Stories from StoryCorps and KALW: A predetermined friendship
From: KALW
Caption: Gregory Bartlett and Corinn Flaherty., Credit: Photo courtesy of StoryCorps.
Corinn Flaherty and Gregory Bartlett are best friends. And like many best friends, they share a similar sensibility about life. Though Gregory live...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Guardian's Science Weekly: Ham the astrochimp and the LHC keeps going
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Ham at work, Credit: Nasa
It's 50 years since the first American went into space; why the Large Hadron Collider isn't going to shut down for a year as planned; and we trick ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 34:10
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 9/11/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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He was born underground...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 10, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 7/24/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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I HAVE A HORSE I DO NOT RIDE...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jul 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Cartoon Carnival #11
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Cartoon Carnival with Joe Bev.
Caption: Jay Ward's "Peabody and Sherman" are featured on the 11th "Cartoon Carnival" with Joe Bev.
An hour of rare and classic cartoon audio, and documentary with June Foray, Bill Scott, Paul Frees, rare Huckleberry Hound.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 52:33
Global Guru-Tanzania's Barbershops
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru explores why there are so many barbershops -- sometimes a dozen in a single block -- in Tanzania.

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 3
Neither Fish Nor Fund Drive
From: Rebecca Sheir
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For a public radio station in rural Alaska, something smelled fishy come fund-drive time...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Jan 26, 2009
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fun, Intentional or Not
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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Fun can happen by mistake.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Marin Alsop (Good Job)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The spoken language of classical music is filled with foreign names and phrases, and even conductors like Marin Alsop find it challenging to be mul...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: :22
Thom Steinbeck Shares His Father John Steinbeck's Ways of Encouraging Reading
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Literary Moments
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Thom Steinbeck, son of novelist John Steinbeck, discusses his father's unique method of encouraging his sons to read.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
How I Lost Religion
From: Susan Kottler
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A childhood encounter with a supposedly punitive God

  • Added: Mar 16, 2008
  • Length: 02:44
Audio postcard from Costa Rica: The Search for the Red-eyed Tree frog
From: ComRadio
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WPSU student intern David Klatt is in Costa Rica this semester. Recently, he ventured into the rainforest in search of the red-eyed tree-frog . . ....

  • Added: Oct 24, 2007
  • Length: 03:34
NPR's All Songs Considered: From David Byrne to Shivaree
From: NPR Music
Series: All Songs Considered from NPR Music
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Hear a rare re-issue from David Byrne, plus new music from the band Beirut, Tender Forever, Nellie McKay, Dirty Projectors and Shivaree

Bought by KTRL, WFSU, and WUKY


  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 3
Why Give to Public Radio
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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Piece created for Oregon Public Broadcasting regarding why the president of the Fiona Richie fan club might give to public radio.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2007
  • Length: 02:54
Does God need salespeople?
From: SCAD Radio
Series: Commentary Corral
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Erica doubts the need for God to have a messenger.

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


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 2
gnome - word of the day
From: Charles Hodgson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story behind the word "gnome"

  • Added: Nov 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:48