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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 (Auto Download Version)
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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
Lonely Hearts Cub #10
From: KXCI
Series: Lonely Hearts Club
Caption: Bridgitte in Downtown Tucson, Credit: Piamedea photography
Bridgitte’s back with her 10th episode.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2017
  • Length: 19:00
Everything In It's Right Place?
From: Terence Mickey
Series: Memory Motel
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With the help of memories, whether joyful or heartbreaking, an ordinary object can become a time machine. Since objects hold our memories how do we...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 32:40
161210 The Only Radio Musical
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)
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In a theatrical musical, a song springs up interrupting the narrative. In a radio musical, a narrative springs up interrupting the music. Okay, s...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 43:56
  • Purchases: 1
Female Millennials Love Wine!
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program
Caption: wine drinking millennial
Our Millennial Wine Panel members discuss female millennial-centered wine marketing efforts. We also get into the Mailbag & Wine News. A jovial &...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:00
Episode 14: It’s All Downwind From Here
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Sophie May grew up in Alaska, spending lots of time outside. But when it came time to explore the wilderness as an adult, she found out she had mor...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KUER, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 4
Fluidity (Part 4 of 4)
From: Lisa Cantrell
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Women might more readily fall in love with people of any gender... because of our fluid sexual nature and where love is in our brain.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 17:11
Game Maven
From: Lacy Roberts
Caption: Janyce Hill, Credit: Lacy Jane Roberts
Janyce Hill is a gamer. Not video games, but tabletop role-playing games – just think Dungeons and Dragons. Since 1981, she’s been a game master, t...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Sharon Long and Steve Sutter
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Enrolling in college at 40 to study art, Sharon Long had no idea an anthropology class would put her on a path to a career as a forensic artist.

Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
Roller Derby Skates Into Mainstream Sports
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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Roller Derby is moving to the mainstream as the sport begins to emphasize its athleticism and gain national exposure. On the cusp of widespread pop...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 1
Targeting Boomers / Reentering The Job Market / Modern Guide to Manners / Sacrifices of Military Families / Crossword Puzzles!
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Segment 1: Matt Thornhill/boomer marketing Segment 2&3: Gwen Rosener and Linda Murphy/women's employment Segment 4: Henry Alford/manners Segment 5:...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Mar 12, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 11 - Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Lila Trujillo and Julia Cooper join writer Meg Medina to discuss her book.
Book Club for Kids goes to Hooray For Books! bookstore in Alexandria, Virginia to talk about Meg Medina's novel about bullying and mother-daughter ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 22:33
J. California Cooper
From: Facts About Fiction
Caption: J. California Cooper, Credit: Ellen Banner / The New York Times
J. California Cooper loved playing with paper dolls--even as an adult.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
The Blue House
From: Lucia Duncan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What happens when someone does something to their house that stands out in the neighborhood? Lucia Duncan, from Somerville, Massachusetts, went to ...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
Creating the Subject: Hildegard Keller's Annemarie Mahler
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Host Doug Storm is joined by literary critic, author, and filmmaker, Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, who teaches German literature at Indiana Universit...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 58:43
The Sisterhood of Beauty Pageants
From: Anne Hoffman
Series: Generation Voice
Caption: Cierra Smith on stage at the Miss Delaware Teen USA 2015 Pageant.
We all know the stereotype, beauty pageant contestants as godzillas. We’ve seen it in that show Toddlers And Tiaras. And the heat of the competitio...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 04:26
Amy Poehler in Front of a Mirror
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: APRIL 2015
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Have some chuckles as Amy Poehler reads from her new book, Yes Please. Another example of our daily 100-second compelling readings you don't want y...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2015
  • Length: 01:40

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