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" A Guide To The Pharmaceutical-Industrial Complex" : What you don't know about healthcare and medical news . It's enough to make you sick
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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This is a stand alone episode of the "newsical" series "What's the Frequency, Kenneth? from former network medical producer/writer, Paul Fischer. T...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2010
  • Length: 56:16
Steve Kaul of the Brass Kings
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Arts
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We talk with Steve Kaul of the Brass Kings on fellow musicians, touring, and writing music.

  • Added: Jul 14, 2010
  • Length: 14:45
Neither Here Nor There by Paula "Lala" Bolander
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2010
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A member of Team Kuumba Lynx (an arts-in-education, not-for-profit organization in Chicago), Lala's poem depicts a shooting from the perspective of...

Bought by KUER and Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 2
A New Twist to Burlesque
From: Shannon Geis
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Megan Heckard is a hula hooping burlesque dancer.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2009
  • Length: 06:06
The Institute of Infinitely Small Things
From: Justin Grotelueschen
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I interviewed the staff of the Institute while they prepared some "unmarked" projects.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2008
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Orb: Re-entering the Ultraworld
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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The ambient house pioneers The Orb talk about their sample and slice journey.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
Not My Job: Tales From the "Degreasing Room."
From: Chelsea Merz
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Matthew Works has been living on the streets for ten years. Here he remembers one of his last paying jobs, assembling Braille typewriters, which th...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WLPR , KUT, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2007
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 7
What's the Word? On the Road, The American Road
From: Modern Language Association
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American road trips in literature and film

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 8
Interview with Tony Tasset - Bad at Sports Podcast
From: Kathryn Born
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Fun, candid interview with established artist Tony Tasset

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 57:13
  • Purchases: 1
John Waters Visits Colorado Springs
From: KRCC-FM
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Baltimore's most famous filmmaker heads west

  • Added: Nov 16, 2005
  • Length: 03:15
1975 Ted Berrigan - Heroin
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Ted Berrigan Reads his poem "Heroin"

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2
1975 Gregory Corso - The Mad Yak
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Beat great Gregory Corso reads in 1975

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 2
Armsted
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
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An elderly man prepares to take his senile wife to the nursing home, trying inarticulately to express his love.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Jun 15, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
  • Purchases: 1
Funeral Notice
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
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A man is furious at his siblings making a public show of love for their deceased mother: they never showed their love while she was alive.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
Better off on Welfare
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
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A young couple worry over their feverish infant, debating the cost of going to the emergency room.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
The Factory
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
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A college student working a summer job shares a break with a woman whose burdens seem unimaginable to her.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
The Last Christian Standing
From: Hans Anderson
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Paul hopes to die a martyr, but no one wants to kill him at first. Then they all do.

Bought by East Village Radio, WUAL, and WZBC


  • Added: Feb 24, 2004
  • Length: 14:24
  • Purchases: 3
Mme. Blavatsky and The Colonel Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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The story of the woman responsible for America's love afair with spiritualism and her modern-day descendants.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Audible, KSFR, WFIU and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 6
Mme. Blavatsky and The Colonel Part Two
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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The story of the woman responsible for America's love afair with spiritualism and her modern-day descendants.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, Audible, WFIU, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 5