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UnFictional: The Road Warriors
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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When it comes to crazy, immoral and stupid decisions, nothing can match a teenager looking for a good time. So it's lucky that a story about teenag...

Bought by WCNY, XRAY.fm, KFAI Minneapolis, KOSU, Aspen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 7
Don't Hate the Player
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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A charity basketball game pitting a team of little people against a team of law enforcement officers goes very wrong.

Bought by WCNY and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 13, 2012
  • Length: 15:24
  • Purchases: 2
Wild Card Wednesday: Grapefruit Juicy Fruit
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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In honor of my dear friend Ben Masten's imminent move away from NYC, here is my favorite of the many comedy sketches we've written together.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2012
  • Length: 15:45
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 175
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis & Illustrator Mike Oeming, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Comic book writer and former artist for Marvel comics, BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS. International Cheesemonger winner, STEVE JONES. Portland based alter...

Bought by WNJR and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Mar 01, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 174 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: The poetic folk band, Hey Marseilles, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
ELIZABETH WEIL - Author of "No Cheating, No Dying: I had a Good Marriage and I Tried to Make it Better." IAN KARMEL - Stand-up comic, winner of t...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 174
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: The poetic folk band, Hey Marseilles, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
ELIZABETH WEIL - Author of "No Cheating, No Dying: I had a Good Marriage and I Tried to Make it Better." IAN KARMEL - Stand-up comic, winner of t...

Bought by 90.5 WESA, WNJR, and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Edith Piaf at the Plaza
From: Gumbeater
Series: Edith Piaf at the Plaza
Caption: PRX default Piece image
For Quenna and Von, life is a tragedy.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2012
  • Length: 11:00
Sketchy Thursday: The Valley of Kerlag
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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Sketchy Thursday takes you on a harrowing journey to The Valley of Kerlag, where wild veelfs lurk around every corner, and citizens live in fear of...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 15:58
Vital Topics: Improvised Love Songs (w/ Marshall York)
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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In honor of everyone’s least-favorite “holiday,” Marshall York and his guitar join us to improvise “love” songs based on suggestions submitted by y...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 57:31
Doomsday
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The world is ending soon...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:48
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
The Mikie Show #46, Wake
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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It’s episode forty-six! Fresh on the heels of episode forty-five. Maybe not so fresh, it’s been a while, but what matters is, you’re here! Yes, thi...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 168 - NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Eric D. Johnson, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author, BRIAN DOYLE. Storyteller, AMBER JO. Musical Guests, FRUIT BATS.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2011
  • Length: 54:41
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 Ransom of Red Chief
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two swindlers are short of the amount they need to mount a land scheme so they decide to make up the short-fall by kidnapping the son of the wealth...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2011
  • Length: 26:34
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
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 136 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Mimicking Birds, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: writer and therumpus.net founder Stephen Elliott, Harriet Fasenfest and musical guests Mimicking Birds.

Bought by Jefferson Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
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

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