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Episode 1 - 10/16/12 - The latest headlines in academia, a bake sale for planetary science, and The Thesis Defense: A game show where the questions...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 15:41
The kids are in a frenzy for Mr. Money, a new television series starring the Koch brothers promises to deliver the laughs, the Catholic Church has ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 24:26
In this episode, we visit Leah Wade at San Francisco's Quiet Science Taxidermy Studio to learn about the art of making the dead live again ... sort...
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 27:11
- Purchases: 2
For the past ten years, drug cartels in Mexico have been worshiping a sort of grim repress, a robed skeleton lady known as Santa Muerte, or Saint D...
Bought by KENW, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 3
Minneapolis and New Orleans may be an entire country apart, but that doesn't mean we can't appreciate the feasts of Mardi Gras in our own way.
Cul...
- Added: May 12, 2012
- Length: 05:22
Off the Beat explores the concept of home! Where do you call home? What makes a home a home? Can you have more than one home? Who are you when you’...
- Added: Jan 17, 2012
- Length: 30:12
Off the Beat explores secret spaces around Providence, including the abandoned underground railroad tunnel, Keeney tunnels, and some less literal p...
- Added: Jan 17, 2012
- Length: 27:47
Off the Beat checks out the local Occupy Providence at Burnside Park. How is “Occupy Providence” distinct from other Occupations? What does OP hope...
- Added: Jan 17, 2012
- Length: 29:31
Off the Beat travels to New York City to investigate the growing Occupy movement. Who are the occupiers? How do international Occupy movements inte...
- Added: Jan 17, 2012
- Length: 27:04
Off the Beat takes a look at the astronomical costs of higher education: Where is the money going? Is it worth paying for? AND FOR GOD’S SAKES, WHA...
- Added: Jan 17, 2012
- Length: 40:58
In this week's edition of Weird News With Perry, Perry tells us the story of Jesse Ventura, a man with a titanium hip and a bone to pick with the T...
- Added: Dec 29, 2011
- Length: :51
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is not your typical drawing session. It’s held in a bar, for starters, and features models ranging from circus perfor...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 03, 2011
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 1
A look -- and listen -- inside the world's largest online database of English accents.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 24, 2011
- Length: 05:19
- Purchases: 5
The piece investigates the influence of inflation on spirit money in a Chinese temple.
- Added: May 03, 2011
- Length: 03:31
The Providence based Manton Avenue Project works to train young children in playwriting. The final result of the project is a full-fledged play pe...
- Added: Dec 28, 2010
- Length: 07:49
From "Bollywood Across Borders" 9/10/2010: War News Radio reports on the Afghans' love for Bollywood cinema.
- Added: Sep 10, 2010
- Length: 07:47
- Added: Jun 25, 2010
- Length: 29:00
From Signal Interrupted, on April 30, 2010. War News Radio reports on a new device that's interrupting communications in Iraq.
- Added: Apr 30, 2010
- Length: 06:31
Exploring internet memes with Jamie Wilkinson from Know Your Meme — what are they? how do they develop?
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 12, 2009
- Length: 06:01
- Purchases: 1
April Fool’s Day piece. New Hampshire hunters ‘discover’ 15,000 year old human remains. The finding leads to political discussion about replacing O...
- Added: Apr 01, 2009
- Length: 06:48
New Orleans bartenders attempt to break land speed record with Katrina flooded car
Bought by Remix Radio and KUOW
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 06:17
- Purchases: 2
Making the Sabbath more friendly... one innovation at a time.
Bought by Remix Radio, KUOW, WFUV, Interfaith Voices, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 05, 2009
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 5
