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The Brazen Belles
From: Sara Robberson
Caption: Back stage with the Brazen Belles
This piece was created for WCAI's Creative Life Series. Producer Sara Robberson takes us to the world of sequence and bras, humor and strip tease –...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 2
Sounds Familiar #6: Series in Decline
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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It's happened again. Your favorite TV show is beginning to lose its appeal. Now the shark has been jumped, and there's no going back. Now what?

Bought by XRAY.fm and KUT


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 2
Riddles from the Border Regions, 06/09/12
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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LIKE A MOUSE, HIS FUR IS BROWN...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jun 07, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Buck, Naked
From: Andrew Norton
Caption: Buck Dietz poses at an afternoon life drawing session at the Cape Cod Art Association in Barnstable, MA. , Credit: Andrew Norton
Buck Dietz is a figure model. That means he has to stand naked and completely still for long sessions while artists sketch him. But for Buck, it's ...

Bought by HowSound, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: May 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 7
The Stress Test: Or another piece of my heart now, baby
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
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A reflective piece about a middle aged man's visit to the cardiologist for his annual stress test.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 04:58
Bay Area bands tackle tour on two wheels
From: KALW
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Two Bay Area bands, Rupa and the April Fishes and Shake Your Peace, prepare to kick off a 10-day, 200-mile bike tour.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2012
  • Length: 07:44
Riddles from the Border Regions, 04/07/12
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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WHAT IS IT THAT WE LEAVE BEHIND...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Death Guild, an alternative club for everyone
From: KALW
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The San Francisco goth club Death Guild opened it's doors in 1992. The club started as a showcase for alternative music, including Goth, Industrial...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 06:50
At the Exploratorium, there's no such thing as too much Pi
From: KALW
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The basic definition of the number pi is that it’s doesn’t have an exact value – it’s an infinite calculation. But it is possible to know the exact...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
Revivalist Radio...on Stage
From: Daniel Gross
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It kind of destroys the point of radio plays if you have to show up in costume. But two quirky guys built one quirky radio troupe anyway. This is r...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2012
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 2
"Animals In The News!"
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Have you noticed? No matter what else is going on in the world...the cable news channels and the network evening news broadcasts always have time f...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2012
  • Length: 56:05
Pop-up shop revives Jewish American music
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In San Francisco, the idea of "pop up" is ubiquitous. Pop-ups are temporary businesses, venues, or events that happen suddenly, in unexpected locat...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
The Exile Files, Part 1: "Outlandish"
From: The Tibet Connection
Series: The Exile Files
Caption: Thupten Kelsang Dakpa, Credit: TibetConnection.org
A Tibetan writer tries to make sense of sex, gender issues and relationships in exile.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:08
COMEDY isn't Pretty to Hear!...this proves it!
From: Bryan Cox
Series: Hey Get Off My Lawn
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So many of our guests want to tell TV to "get off their lawn." So we came up with this, just for the TV Industry

  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:12
Desperately Seeking Steampunk
From: Teresa Chin
Caption: What would Jules Verne do? The Steampunk aesthetic combines elements of victorian fashion, sci-fi, and punk DIY., Credit: Photo by SoulStealer.co.uk
Steampunk is quickly moving from a quirky Victorian sci-fi subculture to a major inspiration for mainstream artists like Panic at the Disco and Rus...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1
IBRT Season 1, Episode 4; 'QICE: The Pilot' & 'QICE: Waiting for Ruddleman'
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: The Icebox Radio Theater
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The Icebox Radio Theater has been creating great stories about life in the Far-North since 2004. Award-winning, mind bending, spine chilling, laug...

Bought by KRUA and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Jan 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 2
As book prices rise, so do libraries
From: KALW
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California is facing a $13 billion budget shortfall over the next year and a half, and it’s safe to say that the pain will be felt across public se...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 2
Berkeley’s Shotgun Players celebrates their 20th season
From: KALW
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The Berkeley theater company Shotgun Players started performing twenty years ago in the basement of a Berkeley pizzeria. Now it’s got its own build...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:30
2011 Comment Kamikaze Mix
From: Civic Commons
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Citizen voices from the Civic Commons Radio Show, set to hip-hop

  • Added: Jan 15, 2012
  • Length: 03:39
StoryCorps: Martin Levin, Jennifer Goebel and Zoe Crowe
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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92-year-old Martin Levin tells his granddaughters Jennifer Goebel and Zoe Crowe about a college classmate he didn't like.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WVBI-LP, WEZU, WEZU, Blue Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 6
StoryCorps: Scott Wall and Isabel Sobozinsky-Wall
From: StoryCorps
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Scott Wall and his wife, Isabel Sobozinsky-Wall, talk about their long-distance courtship that began on New Year's Eve.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KUER, WEZU, KRZA, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 10
The ROYGBIV Diet
From: Amanda Thieroff
Caption: BLUE DAY
My buddy Sean and I decided to embark on a challenge: the ROYGBIV diet - spending a week eating only one color of food per day, according to the co...

Bought by KUT, Vocalo.org, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:34
  • Purchases: 3
Riddles from the Border Regions, 12/17/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
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IN DECEMBER SEE HER NEST...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
The Vinyl Countdown -- album #132: Jim Bartow
From: Alexa Lim
Series: The Vinyl Countdown
Caption: Jim Bartow's "An American Poets Song Book" 1975, Credit: Blues Blood
Jim Bartow a man with a stunning voice, a powerful inflection, a precise execution and almost totally unknown.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 08:49
Clever Apes: Paper covers rock
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Rock paper scissors, and its variations, may lie hidden in the math that underlies natural systems. (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer), Credit: (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer)
Behind the workings of nature, there is math. It's the blueprint for galaxies and atoms. But WBEZ's science experiment is about to make it look eas...

Bought by WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 08:15
  • Purchases: 3

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