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Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
“Sounds Jewish” helps folks prepare to return to school with tunes from around the Jewish world about teachers, students, schools, and other places...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The story of a cryptic children’s book, a real-life treasure hunt, and its very mysterious winner: “He refused to be on camera. It’s just his voice...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 37:07
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This week, we’re back in the studio, and we’ve got new music from The Deedle Deedle Dees’ new album “How To Save America” and Suzanne Jamieson’s “B...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 56:31
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Stories about adventures that arise at the end of the day.

Bought by KTXK


  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 57:21
  • Purchases: 1
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Author, professor and autism advocate Temple Grandin talks with editor Laura Hohnhold.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 05, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Carol Kane
Carol Kane and Jeremy Shamos in A HEDGEHOG AND A SPATULA. The show features recordings of the winners of Playing on Air's 2018 James Stevenson Priz...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR) and KUNM


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 53:05
  • Purchases: 2
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A collaborative "Short List" poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: :41
  • Purchases: 1
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A collaborative "Short List" poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: :42
  • Purchases: 1
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A collaborative "Short List" poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: :47
  • Purchases: 1
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“German baseball” may sound like an oxymoron, but the Bonn Capitals have successfully maintained a leading position in the German baseball league f...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 18:52
Caption: Amandla,  Imani, Angela, and Eunhea, readers from Robert Goddard Montessori School, Grace Christian School, Fairhaven School, and St. Anne's School – all in Maryland.
What role did African-Americans play in the Revolutionary War? "Chains" - the first in a trilogy by Laurie Hulse Anderson - takes us to Manhattan i...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 21:04
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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
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We've got new music from Turkey Andersen and Lloyd Miller, plus an in-studio song from Danny Weinkauf, music from Red Yarn, Lunch Money, Baby Loves...

Bought by WNKU


  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 55:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Today's show features an essay on the cultural impact of Harry Potter.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for rock and dancing and chickens.

Bought by KDUR and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 25, 2013
  • Length: 51:36
  • Purchases: 2
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With MST3K's Mary Jo Pehl chatting, The Ohmies singing in-studio, and a ton of new stuff.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 1
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For those of us who attended grammar school long before the arrival of the in-classroom computer, one of the greatest rites of passage (right up th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 09:08
  • Purchases: 1
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It's (in part) a Riot Fest retrospective, plus new music from Red Yarn, Superchunk, and the Bright Siders!

  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:13:00
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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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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Uncle Jack and Donald

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
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Join Mr. Money as he teaches the neighborhood kids about finance.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 04:02
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A true story told live in London. As a child, David visits the home of British millionaire Richard Branson. Which happens to be on an island. Despi...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 10:39
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Two rich farmers in Ireland envy the tiny slip of land owned by Donald O'Neary who has but one cow to his name. But Donald is a clever lad who is e...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 13:28