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Full Moon Hacksaw #1935 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02/29/2024
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Past is future, and to prove it, the Buselli-Wallarab Orchestra have re-arranged ditties from 100 years ago (from their station of Richmond Indiana...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KRZA, KECG, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 11
Full Moon Hacksaw #1924 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/14/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Stumbling but hopefully forward we find ourselves once again after-ground-under-hours. From trumpeter Miles Davis’ famous “Cookin’” collection, “It...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KRZA, KHNS, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
Full Moon Hacksaw #1907 (Hour 1 & 2) - 08/24/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Tell the truth, shame the devil: New jazz releases, and artists today, still deliver. We feature a batch from the Origin label, as well as their OA...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WYAP, KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 11
Full Moon Hacksaw #1893 (Hour 1 & 2) - 05/11/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Return to sender? Hacksaw unknown: From a large orchestra composition, Dizzy Gillespie’s horn is heard with two drum sets and conga player. Then th...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KECG, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WOUB and more


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 11
Full Moon Hacksaw #1884 (Hour 1 & 2) - 03/09/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Herbie Mann is a jazz flute player remembered today, but his cohort also playing flute is Bobby Jaspar on our vintage opening number, continuing in...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WVBI-LP, KHNS, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
Full Moon Hacksaw #1869 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11/24/2022
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Blues men and vocalists of any kind fall out this entire episode, in fact not a big band to be heard for a solid mile. THESE ARE CRIMES. As we awai...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KMXT, KHNS, KRZA, WOUB and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
Full Moon Hacksaw #1862 (Hour 1 & 2) - 10/06/2022
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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For starters it’s the ultimate tribute irony: Leader Joey DeFrancesco on organ, who died in August 2022, welcoming guest saxophonist Pharaoh Sander...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WOUB, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
Vod's Here
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Michelle Atkinson goes by her roller derby name, Vod. She also named her craft business after the same moniker, Vod's Here. The venture is a brand ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw #1827 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02/03/2022
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Lively and fun, the bouncing of Barney Kessell’s guitar resounds among our reception areas, with Jimmy Witherspoon the only next logical bearer of ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, WMOT, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
Local artist Tim Young returns to Grand Marais with a new creative project
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Tim Young is a local artist known for a wide body of work, including Flash Meridian, an ongoing online sci-fi story that just hit its 100th episode...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 17:24
At The Water's Edge, Wet by Jonathan Bernstein
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Callie Thorne
Starring Jeremy Shamos and Callie Thorne, in the short-play At The Water’s Edge, Wet, a Production Stage Manager and his Sound and Light Board oper...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 20:18
Father/Daughter Poets, Willis and Aliki Barnstone
From: New Letters on the Air
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Father and daughter poets Willis and Aliki Barnstone share their work, talk about how they influence each other, and read from poems old and new.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Live Feed Presents: Gospel Machine
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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This group from north east Minneapolis describes themselves as a garage gospel band; a little bit soul, a little bit rock and roll. KQAL’s Mohammed...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:26:49
  • Purchases: 1
Coach, Teacher, Painter: David Freeman
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
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Retired O. Henry teacher and counselor, David Freeman, talks with the Mustangs about the middle school's gym dedication, baseball, and his current ...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 04:23
The Blue House
From: Lucia Duncan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What happens when someone does something to their house that stands out in the neighborhood? Lucia Duncan, from Somerville, Massachusetts, went to ...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
Creating the Subject: Hildegard Keller's Annemarie Mahler
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Host Doug Storm is joined by literary critic, author, and filmmaker, Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, who teaches German literature at Indiana Universit...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 58:43
Nina Paley sings!
From: Thomas Florek
Series: The Tom and Doug Show
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Filmmaker and Cartoonist Nina Paley joins Tom and Doug for a lighthearted discussion of what qualities it takes for a work to be considered to be "...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1461 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/29/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Our favorite Serbian blues guitarist Ana Popovic starts a Hacksaw groove, then from Ruthie Foster's seasoned voice thru samba snow and vintage main...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WKAR, WOUB, KPVL, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:53
  • Purchases: 7
Self-taught
From: Neena Pathak
Caption: Matt Heinlein wears chain-mail he made.
Usually when we need something, we go out and buy it. Matt Heinlein’s a little different. If Matt needs something, his first impulse is to make it…...

Bought by KUER, WABE, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 3
The Art of MN Author, Rachael Hanel
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of "Art Beat" we visit with Waseca native Rachael Hanel. Rachael's memoir "We'll Be The Last Ones To Let You Down" explores her mem...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
Timothy Thompson Gives Historical Markers an Update
From: John Tynan
Caption: Historical marker describing the drain pipe installed by Vernon Villareal, Credit: John Tynan
Baltimore-based sculptor Timothy Thompson's take on the Historical Markers we see along roads and beside old buildings has an unintended effect in ...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 10:01
You're the Driver?
From: Jennifer Swann
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A documentary on Adrian Chi Tenney, a female professional driver in Los Angeles, CA.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
Dr. Bronze
From: nancy udell
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Come with me on a tour of Santa Fe Bronze and hear the story of its new owner, Cheryl Kirk.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 28:36
The Live Feed Presents: Koo Koo Kanga Roo
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed, KQAL's Teri Tenseth interviews two former St. Mary's University of Minnesota Students who now specialize in music...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 34:11
  • Purchases: 1
Even In Bleak Times, The Ukulele Thrives
From: Kyle Norris
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When times are tough, people cut-back on spending. But one little item has been selling quite well lately.

Bought by KUT and KUOW


  • Added: May 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 2