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On Stage: Making Art That "Matters"
From: Alison Jenkins
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Is live theatre still relevant? Why do I spend my summers doing family-friendly theatre in small towns?

  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:27
Finding Humanity
From: Talena Sanders
Series: On Summer (Creative Pulse 2015)
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The Creative Pulse is an intense summer graduate program offered through the University of Montana. The perception of many is teachers have their “...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 06:24
16 Brooke: I Was A Teenage Witch
From: The Mortified Podcast
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The diaries of a teenager on a quest to become an empowered witch.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: May 24, 2015
  • Length: 17:08
  • Purchases: 1
The Tune Under Willie Nelson's Skin
From: Michael May
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Country music legend Willie Nelson says that when he was a child, he heard a heavenly tune that's been under his skin ever since.

Bought by KCSM and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 2
Some Thoughts On Mercy: An Essay on Race and Redemption, written and read by Ross Gay
From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow
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In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Chasing a Dream
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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Steffi’s passion, dedication, and strength contributed to achieving her goal of playing softball at a collegiate level.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 04:24
Easy, Cheap, and Fast to Make: How to make Spaghetti by Nicolas Pena
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
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Nicolas interviews his dad while making spaghetti, who emphasizes how important it is to know how to cook-especially when you are single, and/or wh...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 03:55
Teajay and the (Berlin) Wall
From: Olivia Oyama
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For the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Teajay details his world, before and after the event through his lens as a youth.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 18:40
Part 2: Freda and Toghestiy
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en
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Freda Huson and Toghestiy live full time at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade. The kind folks at radio-net.com lent me some audio to use for this p...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:23
Jack and Rose
From: Emma Miller
Caption: Gloria and Rose
Sassy and sagacious Gloria, 85, shares stories of being in both a conventional heterosexual marriage and a long-time same-sex relationship.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 2
Multi-Generational Living
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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Where do you turn when you can’t afford to live in the city?

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1
Anything Can Happen - Road Trip: Part1
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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How do you plan a road trip from one side of the continent to the other – or Can you?

  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 05:37
NEA Jazz Moments with JAMEY AEBERSOLD
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2014 NEA Jazz Master, Jamey Aebersold. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn abou...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 14
Not a Weapon
From: Ethan Chiel
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Sam Densmore is an artist. He's painted, made shoes, and even built custom bicycle frames. But these days he's making something different, somethin...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Parts of Speech
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Doug Harlow isn't afraid to use his voice. He works as reporter in Maine and churns out seven, sometimes eight, articles a week. Doug is a born com...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 4
The Life of a 16 Year Old Actress
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: Fresh Picked by Open Orchard Productions
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Meet Annika, a 16 year old actress who appeared in the movie JOBS as Steve Jobs' (Ashton Kutcher's) daughter. Annika shares many behind-the-scenes ...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2013
  • Length: 07:34
The Cost of a Break-Up
From: Game Theory Academy
Series: Money Diaries
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La' Trisha Dillon has to confront the financial consequences of a serious relationship coming to an end. In doing so, she's pushed to her limits.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:18
JazzStories: Warren Wolf
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"I did a lot of practicing with my dad. We were practicing five days a week Monday through Friday for 90 minutes a day starting at the age of 3 up ...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 14:23
  • Purchases: 3
Small Town Pride
From: Jennifer Jerrett
Caption: 2012 Moab Pride Visibility March, Credit: Moab Pride
Red state, rural America isn't exactly the first place that pops into your mind when you think about pioneering LGBTQ pride movements.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Radio Catskill, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 10
A Passion for Bharata Natyam
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2013
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A Passion for Bharata Natyam: Classical Indian dance comes to central Texas

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Appetite for Home -- Bitter-Sweet Memories of Learning to Cook & Eat in America
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Olga Colon., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
In this short documentary, longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home lost to immigration.

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:52
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Learning to Like Roast Turkey and Other Memories of a Jewish Refugee Childhood
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Margot Karp., Credit: Photo courtesy of Margot Karp.
Margot Karp, 86, moved with her family to Washington Heights, Manhattan, in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. Karp has fond memories of her mother's str...

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 03:04
Life in a Song
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: Fresh Picked by Open Orchard Productions
Caption: Jordan Corey
Not many aspirational musicians can claim their songs rated alongside groups like Maroon 5 and Gwen Stefani. But, Jordan Corey can! And, she did ...

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 07:00
JazzStories: Stefon Harris
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"When I started to play jazz... I started in the middle. I wanted to play Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and all of that stuff first... When I started c...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 4
M4M
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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With the legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine, Barton Girdwood got to wondering, what about all the gay men in Maine who never found love? S...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1