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Mojave Spaceport
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Is this episode about Mojave Spaceport? Well, it's a place on the journey, to put in in "hobbit speak." Tonight we get on the road, wander some sma...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
It's Not For Everyone
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Some people like it, some people don't. We are talking about the desert. And this week—challenged by a listener to stop romanticizing the desert so...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Secret Desert
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Tonight we share the tale of the Krill Papers, strange legends of Cold War space-alien conspiracies, located right in the very heart of the Nevada ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Paddling an Urban Creek in Northern Michigan
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Caption: Mitch Treadwell paddling Kid's Creek in Traverse City, Credit: Linnaea Melcarek
Mitch Treadwell is an avid paddler who kayaks a small creek in downtown Traverse City, Michigan, called Kid's Creek.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 04:20
From France To Tenerife, Spain
From: Katz Laszlo
Series: The Chain - Love Letters From One European To Another
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sedera feels light for the first time after her father's death.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 05:47
From Italy to Bosnia Herzegovina
From: Katz Laszlo
Caption: The Sutjeska memorial in Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Credit: Veronica Tosetti
Veronica Tosetti takes us on a journey around the Spomeniks - a trail of statues commemorating former Yugoslavia, and the people who died in conflict.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:13
Dark Psychic Force
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Remember last August, a year ago, when the national media found it very funny that presidential candidate Marianne Williamson mentioned the "dark p...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 81: The Ghost Of Africa
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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South Africans Chris Diedericks and Anna Calitz wanted to go on a romantic getaway, but their adventure broke down before it even began.

Bought by WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 21:41
  • Purchases: 3
Re:sound - The Chicago Show
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2020 Re:sound Specials from Third Coast
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This hour, a love letter to city of broad shoulders: Chicago.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Spokane Public Radio, 'The Sea', Troy Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Battlefield Earth
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Well you'll never guess who joined us all the way from Whitesburg, Kentucky, to talk about the particular desert landscape of SE New Mexico and Eas...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Other Room
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
In which we engage in the sort of late-night desert-talk-radio conversation we need right now: Intuition, LSD, Carl Jung, the "Conscious Life" expo...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
Svalbard: No Visa Required and Traveling Unplugged
From: World Footprints LLC
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World Footprints explores the Norwegian archipelago island of Svalbard and we hear from someone who disconnected in order to reconnect with others ...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:55
Keep Cool Or Die Trying
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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How do we not die in the desert this summer? One way is to stay underneath the swamp cooler, reading and writing letters, to and from various deniz...

Bought by KFCF FM and KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Not the Day Nor the Hour
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What is known is that there’s something going on, something a little wilder than usual. Plus: Rachel Monroe, writer & author & Marfa volunteer fire...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #30: Milwaukee’s German Heritage
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Milwaukee has been called the most German city in America – already in the 1840s, large numbers of Germans who were fleeing wars in Europe began se...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 17:28
  • Purchases: 2
Redacted (by the Aliens)
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Anna Merlan, author of Republic of Lies, joins us for a weird ride down the Conspiracy Highway, which is our main road out here in the desert.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sermon For Miley Cyrus
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Miley Cyrus climbed up a Joshua tree. For social media, of course. It's a crime to do such a thing in Joshua Tree National Park.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 05, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 53: We're Thru-(Hike)
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Emily Pennington was super in love with her boyfriend. But a backpacking trip put that to the test.

Bought by KRZA, WGCU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 16:51
  • Purchases: 3
The Big Pond #11: Germans on Harleys
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Every year, tourists from around the world flock to Southern Utah to take in the scenic landscape. Most travel by car, but some opt for a less trad...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 14:54
  • Purchases: 1
Shutdowns & Date Shakes
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Welcome to the Shutdown. Chaos in the national parks. No toilets in Joshua Tree. Trouble abounds. Guest: Food writer/editor Katherine Spiers of Sma...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
Two-Acre Nation: A Pilgrimage to Zaqistan
From: Benjamin Bombard
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In 2005, an artist in Brooklyn went on eBay, bought two acres of land in a remote part of Utah, and declared it a de facto sovereign nation: Zaqist...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 33:50
Buzludzha Is Deteriorating. Dora Ivanova Wants To Turn It Into A Museum.
From: Ian Elsner
Caption: Buzludzha as it appears today.
High in the Balkan mountains, a crazy, saucer-shaped Soviet-era communist monument is deteriorating.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 09:59
Airport Safety
From: T. G. LaFredo
Caption: PRX default Piece image
"Airport Safety" is a short, humorous satire of TSA regulations—and popular culture. This is a sound-rich protest piece, perfect for a comedy progr...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 02:19
Ooo Ahh Point
From: KXCI
Series: Southwestern Trails
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How did Ooo Ahh Point on the South Kaibab Trail in the Grand Canyon get it’s name?

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 05:03
Water For The Birds
From: KXCI
Series: Southwestern Trails
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During our drought many animals are in need of reliable water supply. Attract birds to you with a simple water feature.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:21

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