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142: I'm No Princess
From: The Mortified Podcast
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The pitfalls of teenagers and tiaras.  This week, Mortified explores the obsession kids have with becoming a princess. The Mortified Podcast is a p...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2018
  • Length: 27:45
An Interview with Parquet Courts
From: Alex Kime
Series: Alex Kime
Caption: Alex Kime
Following their sold-out show in Chicago, Parquet Courts sat down to discuss life on the road and their writing process. Edited by Alex Kime.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 18:30
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1622 (Hour 1 & 2) 03/01/2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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A good mixture of our usual salsa/blues/bop in retrogressive groove, the late Michael Burks shuffling at start. Afro-Cuban sounds from master Mach...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, WJSU and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 9
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1619 (Hour 1 & 2) 02/08/2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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One hundred miles an hour comes trumpeter Terrell Stafford, Dexter Gordon tempers considerably. We get on an Antonio Carlos Jobim kick, alternating...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, KCMJ Community Radio, WJSU, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 9
I Don't Know by James McLindon
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Jay O. Sanders
In James McLindon’s I Don’t Know, an old school drill sergeant is faulted by his new recruits and desperately, hysterically longs for the time when...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 23:39
115: The Only Living Lesbian on Long Island
From: The Mortified Podcast
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A teenage metal head gets desperate when she can't find any other lesbians in her school. Because, the 80s. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2017
  • Length: 25:07
Drawing Ideas with Roz Chast
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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In this audio piece, among other things, we learn how she joined The New Yorker’s staff and how her illustrations are infused with a particular kin...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 06:26
Folktale of Hope
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Hope, Credit: Julia Meek
This week's edition of Folktales is dedicated to music from around the globe, all of a hope-building nature. Need some? Gotta have it! Here's hopin...

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), 'The Sea', WFIU, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 8
radio UNLEASHED #1459 - 4th of July Freedom Show
From: radio UNLEASHED with Dave Leonard
Series: radio UNLEASHED
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Three broadcast-ready segments with out-cues (one hour total) of weekly new music show, radio UNLEASHED, based out of Woodstock NY.

Bought by WSGE and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 55:32
  • Purchases: 2
Folktale of Liberty
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Liberty, Credit: Julia Meek
It's independence this Folktale salutes, with a look at freedom, and its pursuit, around the musical globe. A powerful tour de force? Hear for your...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WFIU, WCPN, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 12
101 Bren: My Best Friends are Movies of the Week
From: The Mortified Podcast
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The story of girl who copes with feeling like a misfit by inventing imaginary pen pal relationships with Movie of the Week characters. The Mortifie...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 24:06
radio UNLEASHED #1434 - Best of 2016, Part 2
From: radio UNLEASHED with Dave Leonard
Series: radio UNLEASHED
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Three broadcast-ready segments with out-cues (one hour total) of weekly new music show, radio UNLEASHED, based out of Woodstock NY.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 55:18
  • Purchases: 1
Tasha Walks by Kim Merrill
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Marsha Mason
Starring Marsha Mason and Steven Boyer. In the short comedy, TASHA WALKS, a young man (Steven Boyer, Tony nominee for HAND TO GOD, NBC's "Trial & E...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 16:14
The Language of the Road
From: Lacy Roberts
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Lacy Jane Roberts comes from a long line of truck drivers. As a kid, she used ride along with her grandparents on trips from Montana to California....

  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:15
Folktale of Going Nowhere
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folkale of Going Nowhere, Credit: Julia Meek
A dead-end street is a good place to turn around--and that's the musical direction this week's edition of Folktales is headed--ready to follow along?

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, WLPR and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 6
Voices of Youth Keep Lushootseed Language Alive
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Maria Martin teaches Lushootseed to preschoolers at the Tulalip Montessori School., Credit: KUOW Photo/Ben Gauld
Linguists say that by the end of the century, 80% of all world languages will fall out of use. The spread of global languages like English and Span...

Bought by KALW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 2
Teenagers: The Agony and the Ecstasy - Two short plays by Christopher Sullivan
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Lucy DeVito
Two short plays about teenagers facing their futures. With summer imminent, they look ahead with anxiety, optimism, resignation, possibility. In th...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, WHRV, and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Apocalypse
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The "Get to Know Me" occasional series
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I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:19
Fifteen and Aromantic
From: City High Radio
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Mina, a high school freshman, has always been bored by love. This year she found an identity that seemed to fit: aromantic. Mina interviews her mom...

  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:05
For the Love of the (Video) Game
From: Jack D'Isidoro
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An underground--literally--DIY video game tournament in New York City's Chinatown.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Mar 25, 2015
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Small town movie theaters surviving in the digital age
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The downtown movie theater has long been a fixture of small town Minnesota. But with advent of multiplexes, DVDs and on-demand viewing, small town ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Larry Gavin "Chinese Poets"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Larry Gavin teaches English at Faribault High School. He's had three collections of poetry published by Red Dragonfly Press and he's a nationally ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:42
The Beat: Mike Finley "Coin Flip"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:12
Forging a Path from Metal
From: Christopher Mosson
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Made in the Transom traveling workshop: Welding large metal structures takes its toll on an aging sculptor. What's an artist's retirement plan?

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 03:59
You just never know
From: Ellie Gordon-Moershel
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Ellie and Michelle move to Vancouver after their graduation from University. On the flight over Ellie learns about a certain extra-terrestrial plot...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 1