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Live Wire! Radio Episode 173 - Special Studio Session NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Improvisational Comedian Reggie Watts, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Comedian Reggie Watts, Musician and Author Josh Ritter, Radio Talk Show Host Peter Sagal and Author Sarah Vowell.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 54:58
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 157 NEWSHOLE Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Blind Pilot, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Musical guests Blind Pilot, Radio Host Adam Klugman, Poetic force of nature Anis Mojgani.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio- Episode 157 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Blind Pilot, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Musical guests Blind Pilot, Radio Host Adam Klugman, Poetic force of nature Anis Mojgani.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 2
JR Comes to Town - Joanna Coffey
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
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Another true story told live in London. Joanna LOVES Dallas, so when Larry Hagman (JR) visits a nearby TV studio, Jo does everything in her power t...

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2
Cultural Vampirism, aka Hipsters Are Vampires
From: Tom Pappalardo
Series: The Optimist
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The nebulously-named Hipster is defined and ridiculed.

Bought by KBRP Community Radio and KUT


  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Live Feed Presents: Boom! An International Lost & Found Family Marching Band
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this edition of The Live Feed, KQAL's Teri Tenseth talks with Boom - an eclectic group of musicians that incorporate marching band elements into...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 45:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Shed #3
From: Mark Coles
Series: The Shed: A Whole New World Of Music
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From his shed at the bottom of the garden, award winning broadcaster Mark Coles brings you Bulgarian choirs, Tuareg rock'n'roll, Brazilian indie an...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 53:56
The Shed #2
From: Mark Coles
Series: The Shed: A Whole New World Of Music
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The best new music on the planet. This week, debt crisis blues, a Turkish diva, 17 German Hippies, some galloping Mongolian horses and a Japanese r...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 53:58
Live Wire! Radio Episode 164
From: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Eclectic Indie Band Typhoon, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Current Oregon Poet Laureate PAULANN PETERSEN. Her latest book is The Voluptuary. KATE BEATON, cartoonist for The New Yorker, brings her highly a...

Bought by KUT, Rhythm & News Service, WNJR, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
A Scary Home Companion
From: Doug Gordon
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What happens when you create a monster mash-up of "A Prairie Home Companion" and "Radiolab"? Here's the answer.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:28
Live Wire! Radio Episode 161
From: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Isabel Wilkerson, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Graphic Novelist Craig Thompson, Pulitzer Prize winning Author Isabel Wilkerson, Musical guest Stephanie Schneiderman w/ chorus and string quartet.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, KUOW, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Door Belle
From: Ryan Scammell
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The alternate title for this was going to be the Isaac Hayes-esque "Girl, I Wanna Get You Into My Belly Button T-Shirt Hole" but the mp3 title fiel...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:38
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 157 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Blind Pilot, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: radio talk show host Adam Klugman, award-winning poet Anis Mojgani, musical guests Blind Pilot.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Sep 15, 2011
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 133 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Erin McKeown, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: rising star filmmaker Andy Blubaugh, food critic Karen Brooks and singer/songwriter Erin McKeown.

Bought by Jefferson Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Meat-Pastry Rap Threatens China's Security
From: The Tibet Connection
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In March, a young Swiss-Tibetan named Karma Emchi pro­duced a funny rap song about a Tibetan meat pas­try and posted it on YouTube. But he couldn't...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2011
  • Length: 05:35
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 143 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Wesley Stace
Guests include: Author Wesley Stace aka musician John Wesley Harding, Eastern European gypsy/jazz/klezmer punk band Chervona and storyteller Aaron ...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 148
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: AGESANDAGES, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include writer and filmmaker Jon Raymond, the Third Angle Ensemble with composer Eve Beglarian and 7 peice band AGESANDAGES.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 101 Encore, Best of Combos
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: John Roderick, Jonathan Coulton, John Hodgeman
Guests include: Chuck Barris, Dave Frishberg, Bruce Campbell, John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton and John Roderick, Alison Bechdel and Lynda Barry and...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 124 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Lizz Winstead, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire
Guests include: comedian Lizz Winstead, singer/songwriter Bobby Bare, Jr., and The Portland Opera.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
A Taste of PIE
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Major cities like Boston and New York are known for their theater, comedy and improv troupes. But further north, Maine also has a thriving improv ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jan 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
Mighty Fleiss Radio - Pilot
From: Glenn Richards
Caption: Mighty Fleiss Radio Show Avatar, Credit: Stephen J Proctor Jr
Skippy Records (Snap, Crackle, & Pop). This is the test Pilot epidose of Mighty Fleiss Radio, an hour long radio show of indie & alternative music ...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2010
  • Length: 57:28
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 137
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Todd Levin, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: writer & comedian Todd Levin, essayist Justin Hocking and musical guest Laura Veirs.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
I Remember Radio #7: Thanksgiving
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Jack Benny, Flamingo, 1958, Credit: Dan Perry
Great names and great memories—Thanksgiving with Stan Freberg, Jack Benny, and Eve Arden.

Bought by KMXT, KRCB 104.9, KMXT, and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 45:13
  • Purchases: 4
Board
From: Tom Pappalardo
Series: The Optimist
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The author considers a childhood toy.

Bought by KMXT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 02, 2010
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 2
Poem: Labor Day Blues (Humor/Satire)
From: Glenn Richards
Caption: Glen ugly Naughty plays Harmonica, Credit: Gay Murdoch
Make your listeners smile with something new. A funny one. Labor Day Blues is an original spoken word poem written & performed by Glen ugly Naughty...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2010
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1