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Veteran Jazz Pianist Laura Caviani Reinvents Herself and Performs New Work at Jazz Central in Minneapolis
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
The world knows Laura Caviani as a jazz pianist. She’s recorded 7 CDs including some original work, leads bands, and tours as members of the bands ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
StoryCorps: Father Noel Hickie and Marcia Hilton
From: StoryCorps
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Father Noel Hickie was working as a hospital chaplain when he met Marcia Hilton, a bereavement counselor, at a hospital in Eugene, Oregon. For 25 y...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Aug 01, 2017
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 1
WWII Life in the Navy
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Joining the US Navy at 18, John Baker was called to duty after the United States had been fighting in WWII for three years. His two year experience...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 06:02
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1591 (Hour 1 & 2) - 07/27/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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From New Orleans, the young Wessell Anderson is a fierce swinger, Sunnyland Slim has the Patience of Jobe (sic). Florida’s JP Soars leads his Red H...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 6
#11: Wafa, Missiles, Wheat, and Gardens
From: Nadia Abuelezam
Series: Palestinians Podcast
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On this episode of Palestinians Podcast we hear from author Wafa Ghnaim about her struggle with being the daughter of immigrants in the United Stat...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 37:13
StoryCorps: Tom Sullivan and Terry Sullivan
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Tom and Terry Sullivan holding a photo of their son, Alex
On July 20, 2012, a gunman shot and killed 12 people in a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. One of the victims was Alex Sullivan. He was ce...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Five Mualimm-ak and Omar Mualimmak
From: StoryCorps
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StoryCorps gives people the chance to sit down together and have a conversation they’ve never had before. Five Mualimm-ak did just that with his so...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Gary Koivu and Kim Koivu
From: StoryCorps
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Vincent Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman living near Detroit. On a June night in 1982, he and a group of friends went out to celebrate his wedding,...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 2
Four Quartets
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Norman Rockwell's Sharp Harmony, Credit: Ebay
We’ll feature four modern masterpieces for string quartet by Walter Mays, John Adams, Andrzej Panufnik, and John Corigliano on this episode of What...

Bought by KMUN, WETS, KMUN, KVNO, WETS and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
We'll Be Fine: Three Short Plays by Donald Margulies, Julia Cho, and Max Baker
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Timothee Chalamet
Timothee Chalamet, Zoe Kazan, Ciaran Hinds, Geraldine Hughes star in three humorous shorts in which love trumps panic, insecurity and anxiety! In ...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Georgia Public Broadcasting, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Jam
From: Jerome Whittingham
Series: Moved - personal stories of artistic experiences.
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Gary, now in his 50s, recalls how Paul Weller and The Jam impacted upon his younger years.

  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:49
3 Weeks: Dying a Good Death
From: Julia Caulfield
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In February 2017, Claire Woodward died at home with the support of her family and hospice care. This is a documentary about the final three weeks o...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
From: Devon Strolovitch
Series: Inside the National Recording Registry
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Originally released as a B-side, so many deejays began playing Gloria Gaynor's “I Will Survive” that the record company reissued it as a single. It...

Bought by PRX Demo Station, KPIK-LP, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 8
Lottery Walk
From: Hillary Rea
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Part 1 in a series on the lottery and the people who play it, work for it, and dream about it. Produced by Hillary Rea

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 1
Oly Via Sherkole
From: Robert Smith
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A boy's escape from war and the beginning of a new life in the United States.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 18:59
Snap 808: Boxed In, 4/6/2017
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
Caption: Snap Judgment
On the next all-NEW Snap..."Boxed In." When you feel the walls coming closer and closer, where do you go? Where do you hide?

  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
StoryCorps: Joanne Nucho and Jeff Ono
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Joanne Nucho tells her husband, Jeff Ono, about her grandmother, Isabel, who was born in a refugee camp after her parents fled the Armenian Genocide.

Bought by Public Radio for All, WGUC/ WVXU, WEZU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 4
PN 16-36 "Family Dollar" by Hannah Brooks-Motl
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Hannah Brooks-Motl, poet, Credit: CS Ward
Hannah Brooks-Motl reflects on the course of a life and its future

Bought by PRX Remix, KENW, and KALW


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1567 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02/09/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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We have three tributes and a sub-theme of gypsy jazz this radio episode. First, jazz photographer Chuck Stewart, who just left us, was one of the f...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 5
J.D. Vance, author of "Hillbilly Elegy"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews J.D. Vance about his bestselling memoir.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
PN 16-32 “Warm Life” by Garrett Caples
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Garrett Caples, Credit: Suzanne Kleid
Garrett Caples pays tribute to poet Bill Berkson, a personal friend and a central figure in American poetry since the 1960s.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, and KENW


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Kayla Wilson and Wendy Founds
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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A story told in two parts: Kayla Wilson came to StoryCorps in 2006 to talk about her mom’s drug addition and incarceration. Ten years later, she re...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:57
The Muse on the Inside
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:19
Richard Mosse Brings Beauty, Suffering Into Focus At Dayton Art Institute Exhibit
From: renee wilde
Series: Culture Couch
Caption: Richard Mosse in front of one of his Aerochrome images
Richard Mosse’s images of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of The Congo, are shot on film which is no longer made. In the past, it ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
Area Voices: Voices from Standing Rock
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Mace , Credit: npr.org
A conversation with Simone Senogles and Noreen Hautala about the state of affairs in Standing Rock. This segment aired October 28, 2016.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 15:57

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