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Larry Jameson
From: Brian Bahouth
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I walked the Truckee River Trail through downtown Reno this past Saturday and recorded an interview with a man selling cds and playing a drum. Lar...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:29
Going Undercover for the Arctic 30
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
Caption: Photographer Dima Sharomov, Credit: Greenpeace
Dima Sharomov is Russian, a photographer and friends with many of the 'Arctic 30'. After for 100 days in prison,they were to be transferred to St P...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Mike Forbes - "February"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:34
A Conversation with Jazz Master, Sheila Jordan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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2011 NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan talks about her life in jazz. [34:48]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 34:49
  • Purchases: 1
The Music of Noise
From: A. Randall Wenner
Caption: Syracuse University Design Professor Zeke Leonard demonstrates his intonarumori noise-making instruments., Credit: A. Randall Wenner
Is it possible to make “music” from “noise”? Is it possible to enjoy it? Randy Wenner reports on an experimental music genre making a comeback of s...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
Acoustic Stories: Robert Jevne On Romance In the Polar Vortex - "Is Freezing Your Assets the Same As Dwindling Royalties? Ask A Muskrat With A Hat."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Robert Jevne lives, works, and talks about himself in the third person in the greater Jacobson area. This manner of speaking is most likely an outg...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 25, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
Old Sturbridge Village
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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At Old Sturbridge Village, a rotating cast of men and women don period clothes while performing 19th century roles for the public. Emily Kwong take...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
Science Straight Up (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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There’s a national conversation about promoting science education for students, but what about science after graduation? Allison Quantz has the sto...

Bought by WABE, WXDU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 3
Culture Queue 01/12/2014: Finding What You're Looking For
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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We kick off the new year with a brand new show, new producers, and new segments. This week Katie Bolin explores the world of online dating, Parker ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 15, 2014
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
Quick Queue 01/12/13: Polar Vortex
From: Radio K
Series: Quick Queue
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Producer Katie Bolin refutes all complaints about the questionably-dubbed "Polar Vortex," suggesting it's the perfect excuse to avoid everything yo...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:04
Searching for the Peregrine Falcon
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Near dusk, you can often find Shirley Doell at Oakland Civic Center, staring at the tops of skyscrapers through her big telescope. But she isn’t sp...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 15:48
Quick Queue 10-10-13: "Seemingly Useless Things"
From: Radio K
Series: Quick Queue
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Sonja Peterson in Minneapolis.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:37
Quick Queue 9-25-13: Game Time
From: Radio K
Series: Quick Queue
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Culture Queue's game show!

  • Added: Oct 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:37
Culture Queue 10-13-13: Bodies In Motion
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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This week on Culture Queue, we look at motion in three stages.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 26, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Queue 10-6-13: One Hit Wonders
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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In Culture Queue 10-6-13: One Hit Wonders from 10-06-13 we rerun this week, but with a new spin.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 26, 2013
  • Length: 27:11
  • Purchases: 1
Deleter
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Off The Record; On To Video
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Deleter are in Studio K for a live in-studio with Radio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 17:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Cloak Ox
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Off The Record; On To Video
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The Cloak Ox are in Studio K for a live in-studio with Off The Record.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 13:36
  • Purchases: 1
Chambermaids
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Off The Record; On To Video
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The Chambermaids are in Studio K for a live in-studio with Radio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:46
  • Purchases: 1
40: London Parakeets
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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A Chicagoan deals with an interesting beach situation and Londoners deal with a growing population of parakeets.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 23:07
Chicago Jazz
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Avant garde jazz icon Sun Ra helped light the fuse for Chicago's rich experimental music scene.
Long before New York became America's jazz capital, Chicago jazz reigned supreme. This hour, we continue our tour of America's great jazz cities wi...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Raven Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBBI Alaska, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 32
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
The EverGreen Grass Band plays The Roadhouse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson & Ann Possis recently welcomed the EverGreen Grass Band to Studio A. The four-piece group (banjo, mandolin, guitar & bass guitar...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
NEA Jazz Moments with Lou Donaldson [second installment]
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Three more short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, Lou Donaldson. In this batch, we learn about two of Lou's hits, Whiskey Drinkin' Woman a...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, Prairie Public, KBEM, WRTI and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 13
A Wireless Message
From: Brian Bahouth
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Tom Strekal reads the Ambrose Bierce short story, A Wireless Message – a mix of words, sounds and music.

  • Added: Jul 04, 2013
  • Length: 06:14
Body Parts
From: Brian Bahouth
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Marlene Azoulai reads her poem, Body Parts.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:59

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