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Is Your Boss Insane?
From: Merle Kessler
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A new test determines if your boss is a sociopath. Discuss.

  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 01:49
Radio Baseball That Never Was
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on the good old days of radio re-creations of baseball games

Bought by KSRQ, WTIP, KZYX, and WSHU


  • Added: Apr 09, 2005
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 4
Muddy Waters
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
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A visit to a quirky cafe in New York

  • Added: Dec 24, 2004
  • Length: 03:26
"My Daughter Knocked Out The Power On The Whole East Coast"
From: Charles Lane
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Amusing vox pop about how a girl caused the '77 Blackout

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2004
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 2
My Olympic Dream
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
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One man's olympic fantasy

  • Added: Dec 04, 2004
  • Length: 03:04
Every Day, on My Way to Work, Somebody Tries to Kill Me
From: Sarah Kobos
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Trade your car for a bicycle, and you learn a thing or two about people.

Bought by KZSC and BSR Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2004
  • Length: 11:47
  • Purchases: 2
His Holiness the Karmapa and me
From: Dan Moulthrop
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The story of how the omniscience of an 18-year-old lama led me to donate my liver.

Bought by KALW and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 30, 2004
  • Length: 22:44
  • Purchases: 2
Smells Like Camping
From: Sean O'Connor
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The author rhapsodizes about the multi-sensory joys of a camping trip.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 06, 2004
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Flag
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Street performance piece with Artist damali ayo as she panhandles around the country to create dialogue about reparations for slavery.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KRUA, WBHM and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2004
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 10
The Swedes Have It All
From: Richard Rene
Series: Here's Looking at You/USA From London
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The Hassle of changing currencies/exhange rates around the world

  • Added: Jul 07, 2004
  • Length: 02:00
Chicken Diaries
From: Jude Fletcher
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The chicken version of "The Crying Game"

Bought by KZYX and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 23, 2004
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 2
Spin Room
From: Raquel Maria Dillon
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postcard from the post-presidential debate spin room

  • Added: Apr 23, 2004
  • Length: 04:52
The Most German Day Ever
From: Brendan Greeley
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Six hours in Krautsand, a German town of 200 souls that sponsors the World Championships of Lawnmower Racing and wishes to secede from the Federal ...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW, KGLT, BSR Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2004
  • Length: 13:07
  • Purchases: 9
Wt Wd Jss Do?
From: Merle Kessler
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Christ shut down in Finland! Reaction.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Mar 10, 2004
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
Stuck on a Word
From: Patricia Priest
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In this offbeat essay the commentator examines her newfound habit of cursing, a feeble but oddly satisfying response to these Orwellian times.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2004
  • Length: 03:31
Jim Lauderdale: In his own words
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
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An eclectic country musician describes how he sent Ralph Stanley to the Dairy Queen, and a few other tricks of a songwriter's trade.

Bought by PRX Remix, KMHD, KNAU, East Village Radio, WVPE and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2004
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 7
Dangling Woman
From: Susan Barrett Price
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A social reformer runs away from work, only to get stuck in the jungle treetops of Costa Rica.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KUHB, WYSO, and KZYX


  • Added: Feb 04, 2004
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 5
January Best for Spring Cleaning
From: Dale Short
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A light-hearted manifesto for change in America's house-cleaning habits

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, KDNK, and WUAL


  • Added: Jan 06, 2004
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 3
A Cook's Notebook: Beach Mangos
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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eating mangos on the beach

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Jennifer Cecil Moore, and NET Radio (Nebraska)


  • Added: Sep 08, 2003
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4