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Leap Year
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
“Sounds Jewish” marks Leap Year – both on the Gregorian Calendar and the Hebrew Calendar -- with Jewish tunes about leaping and jumping, experienci...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Unusual Jewish Tunes
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Jewish music has developed new melodies, harmonies and styles over many centuries. Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for some of the most creativel...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tou Gher Xiong: Teaching Culture Through Laughter
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we catch up with Hmong activist and educator Tou Gher Xiong. Tou teaches cultural awareness through a routine of...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 19:45
Only In Malibu...
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: AUGUST, 2015
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Does life seem too oh-so-serious? Then let's dive into the semi-ridiculous, often-caustic universe of celeb Chelsea Handler as she reads here from ...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Wiarton Willie, Canadian Groundhog
From: Bryan Ward
Caption: Fiberglass Wiarton Willie, Credit: Bryan Ward
Alta Blue Skies contributor Catherine Breese offers a brief look at Canada's version of Punxsutawney Phil and the town that created him, Wiarton, O...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 04:05
Chaotic Parliament
From: wendy hendrickson
Caption: A carriage passes by the front of the Austrian Parliament traveling along the Ringstrasse., Credit: Photo by: Wendy Hendrickson
Politics doesn't run smoothly when the language to be used is left as an option.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2013
  • Length: 08:25
Smetnjak On the Couch..in Slovenia
From: Constance A. Dunn
Series: On the Couch...
Caption: Smetnjak "trashcan", Credit: Constance A. Dunn
An enactment of the anonymous collective's words. Smetnjak wrote the answers, Constance A. Dunn interprets them. Smetnjak is an anonymous collecti...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 20:26
Global Guru-Tasmanian Devils
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru risks life and limb to learn how to track Tasmanian devils in the wild.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 3
Those Disppointing British Sailors
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Whatever happened to name rank and serial number?

  • Added: May 05, 2007
  • Length: 01:55
Decorated Border Fence
From: Michele Ulriksen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A humorous look at how the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico might be decorated to make it politically and culturally acceptable.? Perfect f...

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: Feb 06, 2007
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
Alpendub
From: monika mueller
Caption: PRX default Piece image
New Twist on Germanic Alpine Music

Bought by BSR Radio


  • Added: Aug 08, 2004
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Swedes Have It All
From: Richard Rene
Series: Here's Looking at You/USA From London
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Hassle of changing currencies/exhange rates around the world

  • Added: Jul 07, 2004
  • Length: 02:00
Dangling Woman
From: Susan Barrett Price
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A social reformer runs away from work, only to get stuck in the jungle treetops of Costa Rica.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KUHB, WYSO, and KZYX


  • Added: Feb 04, 2004
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 5