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Short program with songs about work.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:33
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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
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...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2011
  • Length: 54:58
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On the State of Televised Weather Reports

  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 06:03
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Yea, Though I Walk Through the Valley of South Coast Plaza, I Fear No Evil

  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:20
Caption: Graham Shelby visits a class at Burr Elementary School in Chicago., Credit: Kumiko Suzuki
An itinerant worker reflects on the ups and downs of his chosen profession: Teaching writing workshops in elementary schools.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Oct 20, 2011
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
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
Caption: The Old Pastor, Credit: Painting: William Matthews
From the creaking, haunted Church of the Nifty Blue Chrysler, former Telluride Bluegrass Festival emcee Pastor Mustard and his undead sidekicks dig...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 12, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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You’re probably hearing a whole bunch of back to school nonsense right now: features about homeschooling, tracking, uniforms, extended school hours...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
  • Length: 07:50
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Lifelong journalist and cyclist, Paul Fischer, on what it takes to survive urban cycling in 2011...told thru soundbites, music and narration. Helme...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2011
  • Length: 58:32
Caption: Bunnies posing at Dr. Sketchy's, Credit: Justin Moore
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is not your typical drawing session. It’s held in a bar, for starters, and features models ranging from circus perfor...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 03, 2011
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Monthly short film fest acts as proving ground for next generation of talent.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
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This program explores the infusion of "infotainment" values into the network evening newscasts..and is written, produced and hosted by an award win...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2011
  • Length: 59:55
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At last weekend's 41st Annual Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lauren Peterson spoke with a member of the Muses, an all-female...

  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:01
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A series of strange people tell where they hide a familiar object.

  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:40
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Artist and composer Tyson Ayers builds new instruments out of cast-off pieces of old ones. But his instruments aren’t your usual guitars and drums....

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
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What is disgust, and where does it come from? Host Gabriel Spitzer explores why we've evolved with this emotion and what it says about us.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: www.fuzzybunnyradio.com, Credit: Fuzzy Bunny Radio
Short days, long nights, cold weather and cabin fever will soon be over. Spring is just around the corner and to get you ready, Dirk is gonna play ...

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 01:56:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Child rappers are hot right now, but do they have a future beyond their viral videos? Turnstyle’s Brandon McFarland tells us whether he thinks thes...

Bought by KISU, Vocalo.org, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 3
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What makes a neighborhood known for cool...cool? The people? The places? A little of both. This is a SilverLake Tale about Joe Keeper and his shop-...

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 2
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The writer Peter Hessler decodes the hidden messages of Chinese cigarettes in business deals.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WBEZ, and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 3
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Megan Abbott is an Edgar Award winning novelist."Bury Me Deep" is her fourth book.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 28:55
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Grant Jerkins is a writer and bookseller in Georgia.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 29:40
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Set to the entire score of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet, Vanessa White's The Slutcracker is a wholesome kind of raunchy...

Bought by WFHB, KUT, and KUT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 21:14
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: The Gentlemen's Club
An advertisement for the jolly handy "Duel-O-Matic.:

  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: :33