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Six Minutes
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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A motorcyclist hits the only tree standing in an otherwise empty field.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
NOVA Minute: Loneliness in Space
From: NOVA
Series: NOVA Minute
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NASA psychologist Al Holland describes the mental challenges astronauts might face during a 3-year mission to Mars.

Bought by 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WEZU, WXDU, Radio Newark, KRUA and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 6
Groundhog and Mirror
From: Ronan Kelly
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Jane O'Connor is a young woman from Dublin whose mother was a big fan of the film Groundhog day. The irony of her beloved film choice was that when...

Bought by KUT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 11:28
  • Purchases: 5
A Cold Freezin Night
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
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Was it just a dream? I can't remember now.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 2
Talk to Me About Love
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2006 Third Coast ShortDocs: 99 Ways To Tell a Radio Story
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Two curious siblings finally get what they think they've always wanted.

Bought by KZYX, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Young Hearts of Soul! The Chee Chee & Peppy Story (Part C): Interview with Dottie Moore-Thomas
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Chee Chee & Peppy circa 1981 , Credit: Branding Iron
"CHEE CHEE & PEPPY" was a pre-teen / teenage R&B act of the early 1970's. They were a cross between MARVIN GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL and PEACHES and HER...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 56:04
Jesse James
From: Katie Hargrave
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Jesse James was shot in April 1882. The objects in the home were sold at auction, photographs of the dead outlaw were reproduced, and the house in ...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2011
  • Length: 10:17
Kingwood Kowboy's Country Songs: Part 1
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: Country Songs
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Return to Yesteryear with "Kingwood Kowboy's Country Songs", classic and vintage country, cowboy and western songs written by the Kingwood Kowboy, ...

Bought by Raven Radio and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Mar 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 2
Kingwood Kowboy's Country Songs: Part 2
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: Country Songs
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Return to Yesteryear with "Kingwood Kowboy's Country Songs", classic and vintage country, cowboy and western songs written by the Kingwood Kowboy, ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:00
We Are All Underground
From: Tom Tenney
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Exploring the solitary space of underground subway musicians in NYC as they play soulful duets with the trains, the tunnels, and each other.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2011
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 1
Alone and Left Out at Valentine's time
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Theo Lichter
High school senior Theo Lichter ponders a life of no sweetheart at Valentine's day, or any day, of getting left out and just accepting life for wha...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Feb 14, 2011
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 1
A Day in the life of a Singing Telegram
From: Becky Palmstrom
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Becky Palmstrom follows a day in a life of a singing telegram and asks – who uses singing telegrams in the 21st century? This segment profiles Gran...

Bought by KUT and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 2
This Week in Social Media: Week of February 10
From: Jessica Weil
Series: PJA Live: This Week in Social Media
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My Way or the AOL Way? How Good Content Can Thrive

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 32:08
The Saddest Day
From: Masaki Araya
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Greg King recounts Isabelle Bélance-King's final days.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
More Than Just Houses
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Portland, Maine’s Little Italy was one of many neighborhoods across America that was demolished as a result of Urban Renewal.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, WMPG, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Dec 14, 2010
  • Length: 08:17
  • Purchases: 4
No Turnaround: Old Age, Alzheimer's and Identity
From: Rosemary Langford
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This short, fully produced audio essay – with music and sound effects – is a rumination on growing old, with a nod to the effects of Alzheimer's. I...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:38
The Soper Story
From: Sam Greenspan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Seeing a bully in a new light.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
Home Again
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Pearl Harbor, Credit: Rich Engelbrecht
A poignant tale of a returning veteran who witnessed December 7, 1941.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 47:48
What Is Your Favorite Childhood Book?
From: City High Radio
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Victoria, a freshman at City High, asks people in her community, "What was your favorite childhood book?"

  • Added: Nov 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:40
One Last Word — Tomatoes
From: Mark Blackmon
Series: One Last Word
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There's a dish of small tomatoes sitting in my refrigerator this afternoon. I think they are the last ones I'm going to get this year. I don't li...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:25
The Last Word on Back to School
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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When the bell rings, you are supposed to be in your seat. You are now one of 27 child units in a classroom.

Bought by KZYX and WTIP


  • Added: Aug 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 2
Hard Times - Craig Taylor
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
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Moving into an apartment in Camden, Canadian Craig Taylor can't help but feel the past coming to get him...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 07:57
Crawford Texas After the Bush Years
From: KUT
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Crawford, Texas became the adopted home of George W. Bush during his presidency. But the small town west of Waco has undergone some big changes si...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 03:25
Music effects the way we feel
From: Larry Carlson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Music effects behavior and taps into the soul of the listener. Music is a universal language, and transcends and communicates non verbally. As we l...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 03:16
Southern Ties: Nourishment and Death
From: Carroll Dale Short
Caption: The omnipresent casserole
A brief reflection, upon the death of my grandmother, on the ways that food and death are inextricably linked in Southern culture.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 14, 2010
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1

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