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617: Traveling By Book / 618: What's Wrong With Work?, 9/4/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Traveling By Book' - From Africa to England, to a kamikaze cockpit, and to realms of fantasy. Books aren’t just books. They’re passports...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
565: Jazz Migrations / 566: Finding Your Voice, 3/6/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Jazz Migrations' - Jazz wasn't just born in America. There's an alternative history — a story of colonial empires, grassroots revolution...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:58
A Dog's Journey - From Sweden to France
From: Katz Laszlo
Series: The Chain - Love Letters From One European To Another
Caption: Ellie the Dog, Credit: Julie Lindahl
Ellie the nine-year-old collie-retriever set out on an unexpected journey across Europe's borders from her home in Sweden to the South of France.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 05:02
Night Has Fallen on the Desert
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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From our secure, undisclosed Mojave Desert radio studio, tonight we bring you our 100th episode, with strange tales of the Amboy Ghost Lights and a...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Re:sound - The Chicago Show
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2020 Re:sound Specials from Third Coast
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This hour, a love letter to city of broad shoulders: Chicago.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Spokane Public Radio, 'The Sea', Troy Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Redacted (by the Aliens)
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Anna Merlan, author of Republic of Lies, joins us for a weird ride down the Conspiracy Highway, which is our main road out here in the desert.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Icicles on the tiki bar -- winter on a Great Lakes island
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Ice fishing shanties sit on Lake Erie in 2011, Credit: Caroline Conrad
The town of Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie’s South Bass Island is a popular vacation spot in the summer. But once winter hits, the island’s population dr...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, WBFO and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 6
The Live Feed Presents: Chris Holm
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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Chris Holm is from Minneapolis Minnesota and is a Blues Rock musician who has performed both solo and as a member of the Fattenin' Frogs. We will t...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 17:49
The Live Feed Presents: Bae Tigre
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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Bae Tigre is the newest musical project of Minneapolis-based musician, Ranelle Johnson (previously Tiger VS). The makeup of this new music group in...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 50:44
The Live Feed Presents: Al Church at Midwest Music Fest
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed, KQAL’s Mohammad El-Rous talks with Minneapolis-based band, Al Church, as they discuss the highs and lows of a mus...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 31:44
The Live Feed Presents: Marv Wilt at Midwest Music Fest 2014
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
Caption: Marv Wilt at Broken World Records during MWMF 2014
On this episode of "The Live Feed" we visit with Winona musician Marv Wilt AKA Adam Wiltgen. Marv has described his music as dark cabaret, anti-fol...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
Jeff Klinkenberg - Alligators in B-Flat: Improbable Tales from the Files of Real Florida
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: Thirty-Four50 - Joseph Dobzynski - Florida Series
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“If Jeff Klinkenberg isn’t careful, he might give journalism a good name,’’ says the author Carl Hiaasen. “He has a rare eye for marvelous detail, ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 27:21
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Queue 8-18-13 "Time to Travel"
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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It's a real trip on this week's Culture Queue.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 30:33
  • Purchases: 1
Run For Your Lives Zombie 5K Obstacle Course!
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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On this episode Don't Cha know were going to be visiting with a person whose going to tell us about a bloody, gory, good time that's about to infec...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 13:22
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 078: Tin Roof Project with Monica Staggs
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Spring Season
Caption: Stuntwoman Monica Staggs
Hollywood stuntwoman extraordinaire Monica Staggs is here telling stories. The Tin Roof Project is a once-a-month series of Tales from the South wh...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Episode 1: Inter-Dimensional Dreaming
From: Astoria Sojourner
Series: Handmade Radio
Caption: Sedona, AZ, Credit: http://thepuffingtonhost.com/arizona-to-issue-licenses-for-medical-marijuana-dispensaries/gorgeous-sedona-arizona-sunset/
This is the premiere episode of Virtually Everything is Handmade Radio. Stori Sojourner shares the inner workings of her being: From SF to Small To...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 30, 2012
  • Length: 07:48
  • Purchases: 1
Rodeo Nights
From: Jeff Porter
Caption: Kyrgyzstani writer, Jamby Djusubalieva
On a cool October night, two dozen international writers were shuttled to Fort Madison, Iowa, home of the Tri-State Rodeo. They had come in search ...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2010
  • Length: 14:46
J Street, Traffic Circles & The Swamp That Never Was
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The Newcomer's Guide to Washington
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Was DC really built on a swamp? Why does the grid system have no J Street? And what's up with all those crazy traffic circles?

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 3
When I Met Elvis
From: Pam Mandel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Alaska Traveler Meets Elvis in Skagway

  • Added: Jan 18, 2008
  • Length: 06:41
Alaska in Da Bronx
From: Rebecca Sheir
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5,000 Alaskan tchotchkes can't be wrong.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2007
  • Length: 05:58
The joys of bad motels.
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What Ian looks for in a cheap motel.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 02:39
Importing Chicken Eggs from Key West...to Alaska
From: Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
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Taking a chicken obsession to new heights...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2007
  • Length: 04:56
Destination 64 N by 150 W
From: Ashley Gross
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Getting caught up in a worldwide quest to visit random spots on the planet

  • Added: May 17, 2006
  • Length: 08:00