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How Place Shapes Us
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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From Hawaiia, a tropical canvas.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
Fernwood: Acoustic Americana world chamber music
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Fernwood mixes Americana sounds with Appalachian strings, along with bouzoukis from the Middle East and Ireland and sitars from India.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
Obama and Israel
From: PRX PromCom
Series: Promise Commentaries
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Does Barack Obama really have a "Jewish Problem"?

Bought by Interfaith Voices, KFAI Minneapolis, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 11, 2008
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 3
Simon Jeffes and the Penguin Cafe Orchestra
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Still endearing after 20 years, the quirky Penguin Cafe Orchestra's CDs are re-released to a new audience

Bought by WBHM


  • Added: Aug 18, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Whether you like it or not, it affects you too.
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The 150th anniversary of the Civil War is fast approaching. Nancy King, with the radio program "With Good Reason," discovered that many of our cur...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Origins of Rock -- on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Rock and Roll. A term we all know well. But what does the word rock mean? Simple enough question. But how did the term originate? Where -- and ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WMUB


  • Added: Jul 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Google Cooking, Griefer and other Neologisms - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Google Cooking is a new phrase - a neologism - born on the Internet. Listen to this short ThoughtCast program for a definition...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1
Comedy: Pay Per View Art
From: Dan Epstein
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Cable TV marketing meets fine art

  • Added: Jul 22, 2008
  • Length: 02:56
The macabre imagery and dream world of Alu
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Singer-songwriter delves into dark and quirky places

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 17, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Turn the Tradio Up
From: Rebecca Sheir
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An on-air garage sale where one person's trash is another person's treasure.

Bought by Here and Now


  • Added: May 20, 2008
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
Unleavened Alaska: Passover in the Last Frontier
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: Soundbites: A Series On Food
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When it comes to Passover, why is this state different from all other states?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPIK-LP, Louisville Public Media, KZYX and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2008
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 6
Leaplings and Lunar-cy: The Science of Leap Year
From: Rebecca Sheir
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Every four years, February packs a whole extra day... but why?

Bought by KHNS, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, KISU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2008
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 6
The Cult of Colin (Firth)
From: kitty felde
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confessions of a Colin Firth groupie

  • Added: Feb 15, 2008
  • Length: 05:25
A Jew Grows in Rockland
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Amita Jarmon discusses what it's like to be Rockland's first rabbi since 1937.

Bought by SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Feb 01, 2008
  • Length: 06:26
  • Purchases: 1
Insomnia
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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During the day, Michael White works at the concession booth, handing out popcorn and candy at the movie theatre. But when night comes, he cannot sl...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KCRW, KUOW, SALTcast Podcast, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2008
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 6
IPR : Irrational Public Radio - full 44:00 version "Good Morning. You Smell Nice."
From: Irrational Public Radio
Series: IPR : Irrational Public Radio - our premiere LP "Good Morning. You Smell Nice."
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a public radio parody program. The full 44:00 version of our premiere LP, "Good Morning. You Smell Nice."

  • Added: Jan 20, 2008
  • Length: 43:59
IPR : Irrational Public Radio - 26:05 version "Good Morning. You Smell Nice."
From: Irrational Public Radio
Series: IPR : Irrational Public Radio - our premiere LP "Good Morning. You Smell Nice."
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a public radio parody program. A 26:05 version of our premiere LP, "Good Morning. You Smell Nice."

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jan 14, 2008
  • Length: 26:06
  • Purchases: 1
Joe Jennings' Farm
From: Warren Black
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"I'm going to my J-O-Y, not my J-O-B."

  • Added: Dec 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:35
The Beat Goes On #102: "Jukebox Jamboree"
From: Travis Parkin
Series: The Beat Goes On
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Great songs about the jukebox from a wide variety of musical genres.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 07, 2007
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
Alaska in Da Bronx
From: Rebecca Sheir
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5,000 Alaskan tchotchkes can't be wrong.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2007
  • Length: 05:58
Reason #816 to Give to Public Radio: Chicks
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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Why give to public radio? Live Wire Radio offers a reason you may not have heard yet.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2007
  • Length: 01:08
The joys of bad motels.
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What Ian looks for in a cheap motel.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 02:39
Porn again
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
New study reveals Christians are into porn. Ian has doubts.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 1
Selling the US, One Inch at a Time
From: Rebecca Sheir
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For a mere $3.95, you can own a piece of America.

Bought by Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WILL


  • Added: Jul 31, 2007
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 3
What Cheer? Brigade Plays Recess
From: Megan Hall
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Our best gig ever: What Cheer? Brigade marching band performs at local elementary schools

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 27, 2007
  • Length: 01:42
  • Purchases: 1