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The Dead Celebrity Space Corps
From: William Hrdina
Series: Simple Journeys to Odd Destinations
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It sucks we lose so many talented people so young, perhaps they're not gone after all...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: 09:18
Riddles from the Border Regions, 3/6/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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I HAVE TWO LEGS, I WEAR A BELT...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Mar 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Cool Hand Luke Scenes Re-mixed "NIght in The Box"
From: Cooper St. James
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Taking scenes from the Paul Newman classic Cool Hand Luke and mixed with my own grooves.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Encounters Elk
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
Series: Encounters
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Hear the fall bugling of Elk in the North country

Bought by KMXT, KDUR, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: Sep 01, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 5
2 Minute Film Noir
From: ZBS FOUNDATION
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A compilation of a bunch of short 2 Minute Film Noir audio stories.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 18, 2009
  • Length: 53:03
  • Purchases: 3
Manufacturing Melodies
From: Zak Rosen
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A sound-rich profile of Frank Pahl, a Wyandotte, Michigan based musician and toy instrument builder.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, WILL, Remix Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 29, 2009
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 5
Not a Good Combo: Beer and Monkeys in the Phillipines
From: Brad Horn
Series: The 90-second vox pop
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A good example of why you should stay away from chained-up monkeys in the Third World.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:50
Save the Endangered Didgeridoo
From: Vermont Public
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A musician explains why the didgeridoo is special and how it saved his life.

Bought by WABE, KUT, and WTIP


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 3
Govern the Ganglia
From: Ken Cormier
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A found poem of sorts...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:55
Five Stories Chronicling the Wisdom of Items Found in a Convenience Store
From: William Hrdina
Series: Simple Journeys to Odd Destinations
Caption: www.williamhrdina.com
A series of 5 very short stories from the POV of soda, water, corn chips, cigarettes, and a can of potted meat

  • Added: Jun 13, 2008
  • Length: 09:18
When I Used To Work at My Job
From: Ken Cormier
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A tale of transcendental multi-tasking

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 04, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sly Crooner Episode #4 Pretty Girls Charming Girls
From: Geoffrey Tozer
Series: Sly Crooner
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Sly learns an important lesson about how deep beauty goes.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2008
  • Length: 28:30
The Amateur Food Podcast -- What Everyone Needs to Know
From: SCAD Radio
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All about Food and Why it is Wonderful

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Oct 21, 2007
  • Length: 20:53
  • Purchases: 1
Baking babies is wrong.
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Did terrorists bake a baby? Ian doubts it.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 02:23
Lighten up, it's just fashion.
From: SCAD Radio
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A reporter attempts at being a model.

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jul 15, 2007
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
Robot Toy Store
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Visit to New York City's Only Robot Toy Store

  • Added: May 25, 2007
  • Length: 14:33
Interstice
From: Maria Howes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
If blooper tape could talk...

  • Added: May 21, 2007
  • Length: 03:13
The International Male
From: SCAD Radio
Series: Commentary Corral
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The World's Tackiest Catalog is getting too mainstream.

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Sounds of Lunch
From: Ken Cormier
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I'm able to spend more time writing music now. I quit my job. . .

Bought by Room Tone Selects, WBEZ, and The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Feb 02, 2007
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 3
Smart Robots
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Inventor designs robots that are starting to think like humans

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KRFC


  • Added: Jan 07, 2007
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Voices in My Head
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A humorous rant

  • Added: Aug 04, 2006
  • Length: 05:22
Gravity/Massachusetts/Newton
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Three unrelated subjects connected by a musical theme.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 03:46
Vampire
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A stream-of-consciousness recitation of facts from an imagined horror film including Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney, with spooky music followed by a ra...

Bought by WRIR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Administrator and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 7
Eggs
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A march through a dozen ways to enjoy an egg.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:34
World Beard and Moustach Championships
From: Adam Allington
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Beard Clubs from around the world converge on Berlin to see who's got what it takes to be champion.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1