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Sod House Brings Booyah (and Theater) Beyond the Metro
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Sod House Theater brings Booyah to the people with their most recent show, “Arla Mae’s Booyah Wagon.” Conceived by Minnesota theater artist Sarah A...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2021
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
Cryptozoology
From: Gabriela Yadegari
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Folklore, myths, and magic -- what can we learn from alternative truths? The professionals weight in.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 10:10
Looking for Americana? Hot Sam's Has It
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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After Burnsville bumped an antique store from town, Hot Sam's reinvented itself as lovable, rusty tourist attraction for locals. KFAI's Mike Moen r...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 15, 2018
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 013 - Giving Compliments
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
Caption: Dear Cherry Capri, Credit: Taso Papadakis
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about how to give...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 008 - Somebody's Sick
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
Caption: Dear Cherry Capri, Credit: Taso Papadakis
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about visiting a ...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2016
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 019 - Be On Time - Part 1
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
Caption: Dear Cherry Capri, Credit: Taso Papadakis
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This is the first week about b...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 027 - Recycled Fashion
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
Caption: Dear Cherry Capri, Credit: Taso Papadakis
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about environment...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 028 - The Perfect Martini
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
Caption: Dear Cherry Capri, Credit: Taso Papadakis
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about making the ...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 007 - Valentine's Day
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
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Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about Valentines!

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 006 - Vinyl Love
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
Caption: Dear Cherry Capri, Credit: Taso Papadakis
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about old fashion...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 005 - Retro Recovery
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
Caption: Dear Cherry Capri, Credit: Taso Papadakis
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about how to supp...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 004 - Social Butterfly
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
Caption: Dear Cherry Capri, Credit: Taso Papadakis
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about how to beco...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 003 - Swing Baby, Swing
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
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Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about how to cure...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Cherry 002 - Home Town Tours
From: Mondo Frolic Productions
Series: Dear Cherry Capri
Caption: Dear Cherry Capri PRX Radio Show, Credit: Photo by Taso Papadakis
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about making up a...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Sisterhood of Beauty Pageants
From: Anne Hoffman
Series: Generation Voice
Caption: Cierra Smith on stage at the Miss Delaware Teen USA 2015 Pageant.
We all know the stereotype, beauty pageant contestants as godzillas. We’ve seen it in that show Toddlers And Tiaras. And the heat of the competitio...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 04:26
Show #3: Starin', Racin', and Partyin'
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08
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Three Weekday High interns tell personal stories using gerunds without the "g." First, DaeDae Williams stares deep into her family's psyche. Then, ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:25
StoryCorps: Dawn and Don Burke
From: StoryCorps
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Dawn Burke talks to her husband, Don, about the rat sanctuary they’ve run out of their home for the past five years.

Bought by WEZU and Prairie Public


  • Added: Oct 04, 2013
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 2
Gramophone Gods
From: VoiceBox
Caption: Meredith Axelrod
Singer and early vocal recordings champion Meredith Axelrod chats about the vocalists who pioneered recorded sound technologies in the early twenti...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
StoryCorps: John Curtis and John Wikiera
From: StoryCorps
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John Curtis talks to his son John Wikiera, who he adopted as a baby from Vietnam.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 1
When Elvis Met Nixon
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
Caption: Richard Nixon, Sonny West, Jerry Schilling and Elvis Presley, Credit: Photo courtesy of Jerry Schilling
The story of Elvis Presley's visit to the Nixon White House in 1970, told by a man who was there, Elvis' confidante Jerry Schilling.

Bought by PRX Remix, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:15
  • Purchases: 4
VoiceBox: Sing Merrily On High
From: VoiceBox
Caption: Ken Malucelli and Tim Lewis, Credit: Chloe Veltman
Ken Malucelli, a carol composer and the director of The Merrie Olde Christmas Carolers, a nationally-franchised caroling group, and jazz musician /...

Bought by KRPS, KRPS, and KISU


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Freddie and Wilma Sue Wood
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Freddie Wood and his wife Wilma Sue talk about the Wood and Swink General Store and Post Office, which has been in Freddie's family for more than a...

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 2
Pinching Pennies
From: Jessica Gould
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A D.C. Couple Pinches Pennies

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
I Didn't Know That (A Short People's History of the United States)
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
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A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 1
Eat Cake
From: The Truth
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Can coconut cake + random phone calls = love? Find out, when these two Valentine's Day traditions collide.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WDCB, Troy Public Radio, WABE, KALW and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2009
  • Length: 10:35
  • Purchases: 14