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From Paradise City to Death Valley, Lisa Lipton drummed her way around North America in search of the Impossible Blue Rose

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:59
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Radio Curious visits with Rob Schroeder, a water well driller and dowser, as he hunts for water in the northern California mountains. Dowsing is a...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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When your appetite is for nature and for unusual sounds then you have to go on the odd adventure...

Bought by KRPS and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Photo of Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) reading as Hugh Brannum (Mr. Green Jeans) comes with a surprise cake to announce the fifth anniversary of the television program Captain Kangaroo., Credit: CBS Television
A box of sound effects from the Captain Kangaroo show opens the door to a bygone era of live television production. Interviews with key players on ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:50
  • Purchases: 1
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I recently suffered a philosophical crisis and solved the problem at a minor league baseball game, words, sounds and music …

  • Added: Jul 31, 2013
  • Length: 09:24
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From the famous to the obscure...a journey of sorts

Bought by KWMR, KMXT, KKRN, KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Brooke's tattoo.
Meet Brooke, Pickle, and their clunky collections.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 11, 2013
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Before it was called DIY or even “do it yourself,” self-sufficiency had value. Our parents and grandparents called it “making do.” This episode exp...

Bought by WYSO, XRAY.fm, KUT, and Oregon Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Marlene Azoulai reads her poem "Memories."

  • Added: Jun 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:17
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Poet Marlene Azoulai reads three poems, a memorable mix of words, sounds and music. Poem titles: "Mental Dis-order," "Blood Love," and "Mute."

  • Added: Jun 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
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WTIP's Buck Benson & Ann Possis welcomed percussionist, educator, and world traveler Mark Powers recently to Studio A with buckets, pots & pans, an...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 26:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Betse Ellis performs live at the Magnolia Studios of KDHX in St. Louis on March 23, 2013. Sarah Jaffe performs live at KDHX on November 13, 2012 an...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:21
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Mitch Skinner looks at the use of bikes as a symbol for freedom and for protest.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 04:58
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Choice Cuts, Scratchy Records and Long Album Tracks

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KPVL, KEOS and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Part documentary, part sound-collage, this special explores Costa Rica, considered one of the "greenest" countries in the world, and its national e...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 21:19
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On this episode of "The Live Feed" we will be talking with a local musician who calls himself Doctor Bob. He lives right here in Winona and even pr...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 33:42
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On this episode of "The Live Feed" we visit with the band "Animalist". A progressive hardcore group from the La Crosse area. They will explain to u...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 39:40
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In the age before television and the internet, traveling carnivals brought a glimpse of the exotic and the bizarre to the modest everyday lives of ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:21
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A Christmas tale for the holidays

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


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of the Market Place, Credit: Julia Meek
This week's edition of Folktales finds us "Shopping 'til we drop", in a wide variety of musical fashions-- and as J.C. Penney would say: It's all i...

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


  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Conversation with author James Ellroy about his online book "Shakedown" featuring Confidential magazine and LA Detective Fred Otash. Featuring clas...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 58:08
Caption: Whiskey in the barrel, Credit: Hal B. Klein
Most people know what whiskey tastes like...but what does it sound like? Booze columnist Hal B. Klein takes us inside Wigle Whiskey, an organic dis...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:22
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An interview with Pinback founders Zach Smith and Rob Crow featuring music from their latest release "Information Retrieved" and all mixed up in th...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 58:31
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Back to what passes for normal on this show.

Bought by KWMR, KSRQ, KSJD, KKRN, KPVL and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
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A story by Kurt Anderson about melting icecaps and extraterrestrial spies.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 22:43
  • Purchases: 6