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The Big Pond #27: Welcome to Motherland
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Three women, two countries, one shared experience: Motherhood. From giving birth to receiving support – our producer Melissa Gerr looks at the role...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 24:46
  • Purchases: 3
Power Tools to The People!
From: Scott Schlegel
Caption: Repair Cafe bike fix., Credit: Scott Schlegel
A tool lending library builds confidence and community.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 15:28
E02 / Capturing Pets
From: Sarah Hoyles
Series: Pet Sounds
Caption: Mike O'Neill & Fruitjack, Credit: Stephanie Clattenburg
We'll find out why people love to capture pets in photos, even though they don't behave for the camera.

Bought by North State Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:35
  • Purchases: 3
E01 / Your Pet Hates Your Music
From: Sarah Hoyles
Series: Pet Sounds
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You leave the radio on for your pet, before you leave the apartment. We'll find out if the cat and dog wish you hadn't.

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, North State Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 13:41
  • Purchases: 4
Easy, Cheap, and Fast to Make: How to make Spaghetti by Nicolas Pena
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
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Nicolas interviews his dad while making spaghetti, who emphasizes how important it is to know how to cook-especially when you are single, and/or wh...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 03:55
Liliana & Jacob's "Why Hunt?"
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
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Cousins Juliana & Jacob explore hunting in this piece. Hunting seems to be a family tradition-stemming from their granddad who killed goats on his ...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 07:52
4 Year Old Adventure Seeker
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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High adventure does not scare this 4-year old! Bikes, and boating are just part of his life. However, listen to find out the one thing that’s even ...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 04:05
Birds (in Music) Version One - EXPANDED EDITION
From: Shawn McCullough
Series: 10 Min Sound Byte (EXPANDED EDITION)
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This episode deals with songs about birds or have bird(s) in the title or subject

  • Added: Sep 20, 2014
  • Length: 26:57
Haunting
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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October is full of ghosts, but in our show we will not be talking about little kids who wear white sheets.

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Moving By Bike
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Moving all your belongings by bike might sound crazy, but if enough people get involved, it can be both fun and efficient.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 104 - "How to Train Your Camel"
From: Dot Cannon
Series: Over Coffee™
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Gil Riegler, of the Oasis Camel Dairy, discusses training his camels for milking and public appearances

  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 05:45
A Mother's Solution
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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With jobs, chores, and family obligations, working mothers can lose themselves to their many commitments. A group of moms in Maine have a unique so...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 2
Placenta Fruit
From: Will Rogers
Series: Compostmodernist
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Taste the fruit of a tree that has a placenta buried beneath it... it's tart and crisp. Learn about how the placenta, which connects mother and chi...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:04
'Til Death Do Us Part
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2006 Third Coast ShortDocs: 99 Ways To Tell a Radio Story
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Producer Sasha Aslanian's divorced parents listen to audio of their 1963 wedding vows, remember what went wrong, but still can't get over each other.

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Casa Rico
From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York
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Lenny Rico and wife Cindy talk about inheriting the longest running Italian-American radio show from Lenny’s parents, Emelino and Mary Rico. Their...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 06:52
Funtown
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Funtown/Splashtown USA is the largest family-run amusement park in the Northeast. Half a million people visit the park in Saco, Maine every summer.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 4
Skin Deep
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In Maine, there are two organized naturist, or nudist clubs: the Dirigo Naturist Association and the Maine Coast Solar Bares.

Bought by WMPG and WORLDcompass.org


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 2
My Not So Sweet Home
From: Radio Rookies
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14-year-old Radio Rookie Krystle Monclova has been living in a group home in Manhattan since last summer. She never expected to wind up in "the sys...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 09, 2009
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 1
A Young Birder's Field Guide
From: Gretta Cohn
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Luke Seitz is a 14-year-old birder with a lot on his mind- life lists, nemesis birds, and how to balance his secret passion with the confusing worl...

Bought by The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Nov 17, 2008
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 1
A Missile Base Called Home
From: Eric Molinsky
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A peace activist turns an abandoned nuclear missile base into his family home.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX to iTunes, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2008
  • Length: 09:43
  • Purchases: 3
Trespassing and Other Crimes
From: Briana O'Higgins
Caption: PRX default Piece image
11 Year-old entrepreneur.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2007
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 2
Banana Pudding
From: Bria Dolnick
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Interviews with banana pudding lovers in North Carolina

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Feb 19, 2007
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 1
Salida Oral History Project
From: KRCC-FM
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Local history project releases CD of interviews

  • Added: Jan 11, 2006
  • Length: 08:29
They Lied
From: Judith Sloan
Series: Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America
Caption: Crossing the BLVD, Credit: Judith Sloan, Warren Lehrer, Scott Johnson
Born in Poland, Joanna Pittner thought she was only visiting America for a vacation.

Bought by WERU


  • Added: Oct 22, 2005
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
My Dad's Records
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Kent Hoffman draws an intimate portrait of his late father through the memories triggered by an inherited record collection.

Bought by XRAY.fm, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WBEZ and more


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 14:04
  • Purchases: 7