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Live Wire! Radio - Episode 217 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: NYTimes Best Selling Author Augusten Burroughs, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author of the NYT best seller "Running with Scissors", AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The Oregonians musical editor, RYAN WHITE Musical Guests, RADIATION CITY

Bought by WBEZ, KUT, and KUOW


  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 3
The Sour Taste of Potlucks
From: Lauren Ober
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My mom and I don't agree on much, but we can agree on one thing — potlucks are the pits. Produced for the 2013 ShortDocs Challenge.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 4/27/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THE WORLD IS HELD ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
WSU's "Straw Into Gold"
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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The Winona State University Department of Theatre and Dance will presented the 46th annual children’s show, “Straw Into Gold: The Classic Tale of R...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 17:57
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Mark Christensen - "The Next Class"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
The Apocalypse (or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the Anthropocene)
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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One month after the Mayan apocalypse of 2012, the Generation Anthropocene team of Leslie Chang, Mike Osborne, and Miles Traer chat about the relati...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 23:30
Episode 21: Leesa Dean/Chilltown, Adrien De Martini - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Leesa Dean (right), Credit: Adrien De Martini
Bobby speaks with, writer and animator, Leesa Dean about her three fully developed animated series – Chilltown, The Danger Squad and Lele’s Ratchet...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2013
  • Length: 55:22
Pendulum
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
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Finding each other, when it just might be too late.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:19
Turkey Party
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: Short Audio Fiction
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A trendy catering idea lurches off the ground in this thoughtfully contemporary short story first published in the literary magazine 971 Menu. Wri...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 13:06
Record Bin Roulette - Real Events
From: John Kessler
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Weekly 4 minute binge of musical rarities, oddities and classics. This time we get real with songs about stuff that actually happened. With Deep Pu...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
"My Brunch with A"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bev Shorts
Caption: Joe Bev & Lorie Kellogg read "My Brunch with A", Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
A short fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bev and Lorie Kellogg. Great for Wallace Shawn's birthday, the anniversary of "My Dinner with Andre", ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 09:31
"Godot (Not Home) Revisited"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bev Shorts
Caption: Joe Bev & Lorie Kellogg Read "Godot (Not Home) Revisited", Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
A short fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg. Great for Samuel Beckett's birthday, the anniversary of "Waiting for Go...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 09:34
Record Bin Roulette - Tattoos
From: John Kessler
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Weekly 4 minute binge of musical rarities, oddities and classics. This time we tattoo you with songs and stories of INK. Illustrated by Groucho Mar...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WTIP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 2
UnFictional: Women's Work
From: KCRW
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A woman arms herself before leaving for work; an 18 year old girl spends three months in an Alaskan cannery; and that woman on the phone is not who...

Bought by KUAC, XRAY.fm, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Aspen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 6
2/22/13 DSR2 Friday Morning Show - Shout Out
From: Michael Lawer
Series: The Dead Sexy Radio Show
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2/22/13 DSR Morning Show Featuring Ben Gallaher -DJ Wild Willy reporting from interstate 95 in, Washington, D.C.-tunes up Ben Gallaher's new hit s...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 14:46
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 206
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Author of Quiet, Susan Cain, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author - SUSAN CAIN Cuban Pianist - ALFREDO RODRIQUEZ Comedian - IAN KARMEL

Bought by KUT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, KWMR, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 6
Audie Winner - Adele Park
From: Cyrus Emerson
Caption: Adele Park, Credit: http://www.jittersaudiobook.com/
What happens when a female shock jock from Hackensack, New Jersey finds herself working at a radio station near a polygamist enclave in Utah?

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 14:22
Lake Superior State U. Banished Words list for 2013 trending now!
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Lake Superior State University recently released their 38th annual Banished Words list. WTIP's Buck Benson chatted with John Shibley of the univers...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 16:20
  • Purchases: 1
Record Bin Roulette - Oscar-Winning Music
From: John Kessler
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Weekly 4 minute spritz of musical rarities, oddities and classics. This time we go to the Oscars with Ginger Rogers, Frank Sinatra, Jiminy Cricket,...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Chapter 15 - A Turning Point
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard’s leadership of the Student League for Industrial Democracy on the Wooster campus has not gone unnoticed. On of Richard's professors confro...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 19:17
Record Bin Roulette - Lascivious Love Songs
From: John Kessler
Caption: Let's Get It On!
4 minute weekly binge of musical rarities, oddities and classics, this week diving deep into the velvety cushion of love songs. From "Voulez Vouz C...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:55
Jazz-O-Rama #7: "The Hutton Sisters"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
Caption: Joe Bev presents 78 RPM Jazz with a Sense of Humor: "The Hutton Sisters, Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
Joe Bev hosts an hour of 78 RPM records of Marion & Betty Hutton.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, WNMU-FM, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 55:54
  • Purchases: 4
The Fifty Shades Caper
From: Sean Rasmussen
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True (and humorous) story about Mark and Eric who find a stack of brand-new copies of Fifty Shades of Grey, just sitting on the sidewalk.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 06:48
Record Bin Roulette - Jilted
From: John Kessler
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4 minute weekly thrill-ride through musical rarities, oddities and classics. This time: JILTED, with Hank Williams, Billy Paul, Sam Kinison and The...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Record Bin Roulette - Super Bowl Halftime Shows
From: John Kessler
Caption: He Played SuperBowl #1
Weekly 4 minute nose-dive into a sea of musical oddities, rarities and classics. This time, the strange history of Super Bowl Halftime Shows. In th...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 2

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