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What does it mean to love an object? And does that love...wear off?
- Added: Feb 15, 2015
- Length: 15:20
Yonder Mountain String Band has always played music by its own set of rules. Bending bluegrass, rock and countless other influences, Yonder has pi...
- Added: Feb 01, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 8
Gypsy bling, James Bond, Google Trends and brilliant business owners turn passion and personality into profit.
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 20:03
What do square dancing and the AIDS crisis have in common?
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 03:30
With the Olympics in progress, the Weekday High Interns thought it appropriate to ask people about their own Olympic moments. You know, those times...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 05:32
Three Weekday High interns tell personal stories using gerunds without the "g." First, DaeDae Williams stares deep into her family's psyche. Then, ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 07:25
Turn on the television at any hour, and you're bound to find a reality television show on. Many of these shows feature businesses - there are shows...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 07:39
Ever wonder what happens to films too bizarre for the big, or even small screen? Many of them end up at Oddball Film and Video, a stock footage com...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
If you look beyond the new restaurants, cafés and boutique shops, on Valencia Street there are hints of what gave this neighborhood the reputation ...
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 08:24
Provincetown has long been known as a bastion of tolerance, but hate crimes in the late eighties and early nineties threatened the town's reputatio...
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 11:48
Doug Butler is something of a Renaissance man: he’s an inventor, a tailor, an engineer. And whether he’s imagining gadgets from the future or recon...
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 04:50
It's a fair question. Fun little voxpop by Sean Robb. Produced as part of an audio class at the University of Montana School of Journalism.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 01:03
- Purchases: 1
Andy Schneider IS the Chicken Whisperer. He doesn't profess to talk to chickens, but he does know everything you need to raise backyard poultry AND...
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 09:16
- Purchases: 1
How a cat travels from Texas to North Carolina to the Great Beyond. And then maybe back to North Carolina.
- Added: Nov 26, 2014
- Length: 13:06
Joanna Ebenstein, founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, tells her father, Bob, about the childhood...
Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 3
A Spanish-language audio postcard from the cemetery at San Felipe del Agua in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 03:07
- Purchases: 1
California seems to be getting it from both sides. The state is in a serious drought at the same time coastal areas are studying ways to avoid bein...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:46
Some guys are passionate about their pickup trucks. So I drove around and spoke with a few. Here's what they said.
- Added: Sep 29, 2014
- Length: 09:48
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Sep 07, 2014
- Length: 01:46
Rita Fischer (90) and Jay Fischer (65) recall the moment that Jay came out as gay.
Bought by WEZU, Public Radio for All, and WTJU
- Added: Sep 03, 2014
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 3
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Sep 01, 2014
- Length: 01:53
The word "gesture" isn't typically associated with sound; but verbal gestures have become a major part of the English language.
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 05:47
THIS WEEK: Is it a bird…or a cowboy boot? Help is on the way for the Wood Thrush, but will it arrive in time? And we answer a listener's question a...
- Added: Aug 14, 2014
- Length: 30:00
In car-choked LA, riding the bus is a sign that you can’t afford your own wheels. But Joshua Salazar's overnight routes are often full of people be...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:58
The final episode of the series looks at the future of Irish experimental music. We find out how techniques like ‘Live Coding’ (where computer prog...
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 30:01