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The Pride
From: Matt Gajewski
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A young lion's hapless father aspires to be King of the Jungle.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2008
  • Length: 48:30
6. Jesy Fortino, indie songstress and burrito maker
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job (2007-2008 series)
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Day Job is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KLCC


  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
Show 9: Quinntessence
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Quinntessence: Dylan's Spiritual Quest

Bought by KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 59:36
  • Purchases: 6
Show 5: Ballads, Part II
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Fate in Dylan's Long Ballads

Bought by KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2008
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
early musing subway
From: Cambra Moniz-Edwards
Caption: PRX default Piece image
newly-New Yorked, contemplating subway zen

  • Added: Jul 24, 2008
  • Length: 01:56
My T-shirt Says it All
From: Jacob Fenston
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Three T-shirt designers use the garments as a way to fight racism, communicate cultural identity, and mourn friends whove passed away.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jul 08, 2008
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
Residents of Carnegie Towers Holding On
From: Jonah Engle
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Profile of artists in the famed Carnegie Towers fighting eviction

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 2
"One side is windy, the other is not."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The thoughts of two women traveling on the same ferry...but very much alone.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Apr 09, 2007
  • Length: 11:40
  • Purchases: 1
Have You Met My Cousin, Feng Shui?
From: Mary Ketarkus Brown
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Humor piece about new age and metaphysical consumer goods

  • Added: Feb 10, 2007
  • Length: 02:21
Church Yoga
From: Mary Ketarkus Brown
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Non-fiction humor essay yoga class held inside a church reminds woman of her Catholic childhood.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:30
Calling All Owls
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Using cellphones to call up the wild world of owls

  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 07:44
Agincourt
From: KVNF
Series: Belief Systems and Other B.S.
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Recent disputes about various features of this historical battle highlight the difficulty of being certain about any past event

  • Added: Jan 17, 2006
  • Length: 03:33
Sectional Strangeness
From: KVNF
Series: Belief Systems and Other B.S.
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Peculiarities of United States land surveying.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 17, 2006
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
Belief Systems
From: KVNF
Series: Belief Systems and Other B.S.
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A meditation on belief and reality.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2006
  • Length: 03:32
1975 Ted Berrigan - Heroin
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Ted Berrigan Reads his poem "Heroin"

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2
The Walls
From: Laura Vitale
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Girls' bathroom graffiti

Bought by KSFR, WBEZ, East Village Radio, and WYSO


  • Added: Oct 31, 2004
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 4
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
Skull 'N' Bones
From: Kerry Seed
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A vox-pop that asks: "What do you think happens to people when they die?"

  • Added: Feb 18, 2004
  • Length: 02:06
The Letter D. . . Offramp
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Offramp - The Improvised Comedy Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Variations on the Letter D

Bought by The Prairie Star and WCOM


  • Added: Feb 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:20
  • Purchases: 2
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