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Heavenly Harp
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Harpist Kirsten Agresta Copley, Credit: courtesy of the artist
New Releases with Harp

Bought by KMUN, KWAX, Interlochen Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
National Writers Series: Lisa Scottoline
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Thriller writer Lisa Scottoline talks with Michigan Radio producer Cynthia Canty.

Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio


  • Added: May 08, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Educating a Cybersecurity Professional
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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In this age of growing internet technology and connected computers, cybersecurity engineers and computer scientists will be more critical. Softwar...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 53:19
VIVA LA MUJER TERESA DE LA ROSA
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: Viva La Mujer
Caption: women power, Credit: npr
In Viva La Mujer we speak to different Latinas creating spaces and power in different platforms around the country.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 01:00
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
54: Exploding Ants
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Meet C. explodens; worker ants who rupture their own abdomens--filled with toxic goo--to protect the colony from predators.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Non-RomCom
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Molly Bernard
NON-ROMCOM features two short plays by young female playwrights. Both Patricia Cotter's RULES OF COMEDY and Chiara Atik's 52ND TO BOWERY TO COBBLE ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
34: Wombat Poop
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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It's there and it's square. And now we know why.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:47
Sandra Cisneros, Latina author of the classic "The House on Mango Street"
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues National Hispanic Heritage Month with a look back at Latina author Sandra Cisneros, who received the National Med...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNJR, KRZA, XRAY.fm, KHNS and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Episode 89: Shadowing Sheila
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to our first episode about Sheila, Episode 88: Cold Case, before you listen to this one. This episode contains descr...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 27:44
Ladies of Comedy - S2
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Native Fest 2018
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Interviews with native comedians Adrianne Chalepah, Tonia Jo Hall, and Deanna Mad.

  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 04:17
I Love You / I Love You Not
From: Andy Sewell
Caption: Some of Doris Kelly's handmade cards.
In the early 1930s, a boy played a prank on a girl. The girl, Doris Kelly Hall, swore revenge. What followed was over 70 years of harassing limeric...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2018
  • Length: 21:29
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 24
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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“Bearded Ladies” A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Paleobotanist Ellen Currano noticed a lack of other women in her field. So she...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Kay Johnston Massar and Cy Massar
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Kay Johnston Massar tells her husband, Cy Massar, about being the first girl to play Little League baseball.

Bought by WVBI-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 2
Art and Motorcycles
From: Rachel Ishikawa
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Fall off your bike, get a band aid. Have a headache, take an ibuprofen. Pain is often fleeting…and there’s a cure. But what happens when pain is co...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 3
Comedian Maggie Ferris
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed we talk with Minnesota based comedian Maggie Ferris. She tells us what its like to be a female comedian, a dog wal...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 40:20
Episode 75: The Gatekeeper
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“I keep saying ‘where’s the body? Kill someone,’” Marilyn Stasio told us. She reads at least 200 crime novels a year to determine which are worthy ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 23:58
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 73: Carry A. Nation
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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At the turn of the century, Carry Nation was “America’s foremost lady hellraiser” and “the apostle of reform violence.” In her own words, she was “...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 23:24
  • Purchases: 1
Listening to Ladies: Beth Anderson
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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Composer Beth Anderson on phoning up John Cage, not "looking like" a composer, and the collage that is life. 

  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 27:19
Dig #167
From: Kim Clark
Series: Dig!
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We'll listen to one by the Houston band where ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons got his start, a pre-Motown cut by Rare Earth, a rare cut from one of Motown's...

Bought by KMXT, GCR (Global Community Radio), KWIT, KRZA, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Dig #165
From: Kim Clark
Series: Dig!
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We'll listen to surprising covers of tunes written by Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, and Janis Ian; a couple of husband-and-wife acts that were on the pop...

Bought by KRZA, KMXT, Delmarva Public Media, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 17, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Sleeping Knowledge
From: The Organist
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How can sound heal a body? With our guides, Susan Rogers—who recorded albums for Prince and David Byrne—and hypnotherapist Daniel Ryan, we explore ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 35:28
Nerdette's Summer Homework Special
From: WBEZ
Series: Nerdette
Caption: Actor Tom Hanks on Nerdette
Guests on Nerdette always assign listeners homework, and we’ve compiled the BEST OF THE BEST into this hour-long Nerdette summer homework special. ...

Bought by KUNM, KZYX, WCNY, KOSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 30
Sixteen Years Old 170527
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Music about being 16 years old. Not 15 or 17 or any other age. Just 16 years old. A segment from the 170527 broadcasts.

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 39:12
Listening to Ladies: Whitney George
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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New York City-based composer and conductor Whitney George talks about rebellion in the bathtub, the relative loudnesses of sexism, and the beauty i...

  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 24:19

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