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Hoofie the Deer
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This story was first told on July 10, 2012, and later produced for radio broadcast by Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Nina Feldman. The theme of that eve...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2012
  • Length: 33:19
The Porch Swing: Episode 77
From: WFHB
Series: The Porch Swing
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An avid backpacker shares mishaps and marvels encountered while exploring a national park; A vagabond finds the Lone Star State more worrisome than...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2012
  • Length: 29:08
Life as a Chimpanzee Keeper
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Poco- one of the orphaned Chimpanzees, Credit: Elleni Stephanou
Joseph Mayo was hired as the first chimpanzee keeper for the Sweet Waters Chimpanzee Sanctuary at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in 1993 and has worked ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2012
  • Length: 08:16
The Art of Chris Mixon
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: Chris Mixon (center) with Brian White (right) and Christopher Gerson (left) in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
Today on Art Beat, we feature a real character. This individual has been an acting company member of The Great River Shakespeare Festival for 6 sea...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 42:34
  • Purchases: 3
The Art of Brian White
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: Brian White
On this episode of "Art Beat" we visit with the very funny Brian White. Brian is part of the acting company at The Great River Shakespeare Festival...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KVSC


  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 26:56
  • Purchases: 2
Paula Poundstone
From: Dawn Newton
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All things Poundstone! Comedic inspirations, political aspirations and her 2001 'legal debacle'.

  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 11:22
Peter Straub On His Love for Soap Operas
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I’ll do email and work until 1:30, 2 because at two is the holy hour when I must watch 'One Life to Live.' My Soap." - Horror Author Peter Straub...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 1
Peter Smith's "A Cavalcade of Lesser Horrors" is the subject
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Advertising industry veteran Peter Smith explores life's minor trauma's in his sometimes humorous, sometimes raw "A Cavalcade of Lesser Horrors."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 19:06
  • Purchases: 1
04 – ‘If ye can see the mountains ...’
From: Raymond McCullough
Series: Celtic Roots Radio
Caption: Celtic Roots Radio logo, Credit: Raymond McCullough
Celtic 'n' roots music, 'n' craic from Northern Ireland, hosted by Raymond McCullough, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with music from: Pól O'Ceall...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 2
The Shed #4
From: Mark Coles
Series: The Shed: A Whole New World Of Music
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The best new music from around the planet. This week trance music from Morocco, Lebanese folk rock, Persian lullabies, Kenyan house and a jam in a ...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tom Keith: Sound Effects Man from "A Prairie Home Companion"
From: Katy Sewall
Caption: Tom Keith takes a bow with his sound effects behind him, Credit: Katy Sewall
Tom Keith, long time sound effects man for A Prairie Home Companion, could have worked during the Golden Age of Radio. He preferred to create sound...

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Nov 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 1
Did Tommy Chong fire Jimmi Hendrix
From: Bryan Cox
Series: Hey Get Off My Lawn
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Tommy Chong talks about his music career and the secret to comedy

  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:33
Door Belle
From: Ryan Scammell
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The alternate title for this was going to be the Isaac Hayes-esque "Girl, I Wanna Get You Into My Belly Button T-Shirt Hole" but the mp3 title fiel...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:38
Bobby Collins on the Lawn
From: Bryan Cox
Series: Hey Get Off My Lawn
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What it takes to become a World Class entertainer!

  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:44
Tales from the South 005
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Lee Cowan goes for a walk in the woods with her furry children, Jillian Burgess returns to her small, childhood school with her own young boys, and...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
The Live Feed Presents: The Comedy of Shane Mauss
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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Braving the day after the December 11th blizzard that brought down the metrodome and dumped 26 inches of snow here in Winona MN, comedian Shane Mau...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 39:10
Chris Elliott and His Dad On Family Comedy
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I can remember trying to impress my dad with my sense of humor. Sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing." - Chris Elliott with his dad, Ray Elliott.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KSFR, XRAY.fm, KJZZ, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2011
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 7
What if Vanilla Ice Kept it Real?
From: NBPC
Series: Rip And Rebind
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A journey into ideas of self-love. Can we be ourselves, and still be accepted?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 03, 2011
  • Length: 15:50
  • Purchases: 1
How I Learned To Tell Time
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Notes From the Huntley Project
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The inability to tell time has forced six-year-old Jaybird to become an outlaw and to face a darkness that did not exist to him before now.

Bought by KMXT, KUT, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 26, 2010
  • Length: 57:48
  • Purchases: 3
I Think You Should Shut Up
From: Tom Pappalardo
Series: The Optimist
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A grumpy & annoyed person person speaks into a microphone for one minute and fifty seconds.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2010
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 2
Earl Wild at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam
From: Boyce Lancaster
Caption: Pianist Earl Wild
Pianist Earl Wild performed before an enthusiastic audience at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam to celebrate his 90th birthday.

Bought by WFIU and BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
Ringo Starr "Liverpool 8" One-Hour Radio Special
From: Nicole Haldeman
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This radio special celebrates the release of Ringo Starr's new studio album "Liverpool 8" as Ringo shares his thoughts on the album, plays songs fr...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2008
  • Length: 55:10
Meet the Bees
From: Lu Olkowski
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How I roped my parents into becoming characters on Creature Comforts, a claymation show on CBS. (Come on, listen to it... my parents are funny peo...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 20, 2007
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 3
Me and George W (No good deed goes unpunished)
From: Richard Frohlich
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Storyteller De Cee Cornish tells a tale of two boys from very different worlds who met one day in Houston, TX

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2007
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
HEAT -- Stories We Can Tell
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: HEAT with JOHN HOCKENBERRY
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John swaps stories with Singer/Songwriter Luka Bloom, Storyteller Mike Feder and Lynda Barry

Bought by WCPN, KLCC, WGBH Radio Boston, KERA, and WCQS


  • Added: Feb 28, 2007
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 5