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Two pianists with new releases start the party, Antonio Adolfo on electric piano with bossa ensemble work and Monty Alexander on acoustic fusing h...

Bought by WJSU, WOUB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 4
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Blobs + Heartbreak is the third episode of the podcast Last Best Stories produced by Jule Banville. It features two stories: The first (9:06), "Cri...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 15:05

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 05:13
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Size matters in band sound, brass on woodwinds on rhythm from little big to Twilight, blues in vintage Woody Herman, and twelve tone too with Bill ...

Bought by KPVL, WYAP, WVBI-LP, and WOUB


  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 4
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Emotion at the right tempos with seasoned Sonny Stitt and Duke Ellington's quartet, ground-cutting by Frank Morgan, as expected after years of bein...

Bought by KPVL, WVBI-LP, WYAP, and WOUB


  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 4
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Vietnam veteran and widower Don Thomas needed a kidney. Hooters waitress Mariana Villarreal had an extra.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 18:25
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Since forming, Chicago’s The Hudson Branch have been combining folk rock melodies with, sometimes, offbeat arrangements and rhythms to craft their ...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 57:20
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Stephanie has had a stutter for sixteen years. In those sixteen years, she never identified with her stutter. That is, until she finally learned to...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 10:19
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It was National Best Friend in Canada; I interviewed my two best friends

  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 54:25
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Science fiction drama.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Josh in 2013., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
In high school, Josh documented his life with Tourette’s Syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics and involuntary verbal o...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 19:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Stories of the unwanted: a teenager, unwanted by those closest to him, visits his troubled past. Plus, the people who take your burdensome possessi...

Bought by Louisville Public Media, KUOW, KOSU, and Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Radio Curious brings you an archived interview with Maria Stewart, as portrayed by scholar, Sandra Kamusakiri. Stewart was a free black woman who l...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
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We bring animals into our lives for companionship. And this newly formed relationship redefines the idea of family. This is a look at pet love and ...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 15:11
Caption: WiLSoN & Ball, Credit: Paul Messing
Animal communicator David Louis speaks extemporaneously about pets and their nicknames.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 13, 2009
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 3
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The discovery of art in the New York subway system

  • Added: Aug 26, 2008
  • Length: 35:12
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The adult daughter hasn't called; the parents are desperate; but at least there's a message on the machine.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
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A man wants his wife of 25 years to renew their lapsed intimacy, but she resists opening the wounds.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
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A teenager whose parents are divorcing sees that she has become a pawn of negotiation, in competition with the family dog.

Bought by WQJC and East Village Radio


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 2
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A suicidal youth dials the wrong number for the crisis help-line and gets Sam.

Bought by WQJC


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
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He couldn't be with his dying lover because he wasn't family. "What does it take to be family?"

  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:38