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Independent Minds: John Adams (news-friendly without dates)
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds
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One hour doc. focusing on the life of America's second president

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2009
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Vanishing and Re-emerging: Reviving Biological and Cultural Diversity
From: A World of Possibilities
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Interviews about biocultural diversity.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 54:57
Who's This Economy For?
From: A World of Possibilities
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An Interview with Robert Reich

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
Impunity and Accountability in Colombia
From: A World of Possibilities
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The state of Colombia's renewed Justice system.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
A Musician's Life: The Proclaimers
From: WXPN
Series: A Musician's Life
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The Proclaimers are Scotland's Charlie and Craig Reid. Here in the States they're best known for the tune "I'm Gonna be (500 miles) popularized in ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Independent Minds: John Adams
From: Murray Street Productions
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One hour doc. focusing on the life of America's second president

Bought by KUOW, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WSKG, and WPSU


  • Added: Apr 28, 2008
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 5
Can Germany Escape the Aftermath of a U.S. Recession?
From: Alex Bakst
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With the U.S. economy in crisis, German investors wonder how a recession would affect their markets.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 03:08
Virtuoso Voices - Murray Perahia (You're Gounded)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Pianist Murray Perahia devoted a number of years to only studying and playing Bach. It was a time of great learning and healing in his life as be ...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2007
  • Length: :27
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Salzedo's Sugar)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Carlos Salzedo was an innovative man of the harp. He performed, he taught, he built instruments and composed. As a composer, Yolanda Kondonassis ...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (Copland's Career Change)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Aaron Copland is called the "Father of American classical music" for his ability to set American landscapes and the American spirit to music. Befo...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Jun 20, 2007
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (America's Debussy)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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In Classical Music, "Impressionism" means the music of Debussy and Ravel - and light washes of sound and pastel-like colors. Though impressionism ...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Jun 20, 2007
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 1
Cotopaxi Pilgrimage
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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Native artists in the Ecuadorean Andes return to their people's sacred mountain.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2007
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Martin Pearlman (What Kind of Man?)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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What makes Handel and Handel's Messiah so powerful and magnificent? That may seem like a question with no complete answer or a long list of answer...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and KWAX


  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Roy Goodman (Halstead's Horn)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The French Horn is hard enough to play in its modern-day set up of valves, extra tubing and other gadgetry. But the original French Horn, the Natu...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Nov 02, 2006
  • Length: :34
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Roy Goodman (Long Live Mozart)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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In our eternal quest to find a brilliant summary of Mozart's contribution to classical music and the world at large, here is Roy Goodman. The Brit...

Bought by WHRV, Eclectic 89.1 WBCX, WITF, and New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 28, 2006
  • Length: :34
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 2 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 2 features former poet laureates from the 1990s: Joseph Brodsky, Mona Van Duyn and Robert Pinsky. They read some of their most famous poe...

Bought by WCPN, WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:01
  • Purchases: 10