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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Apr 19, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring Actress Adria Tennor, Rapper ThraxxUP, and You by Caroline Kepnes, in our audiob...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 59:58
Jess Mador goes behind the scenes of a familiar fast food landmark: White Castle building #8.
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:05
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
Violinist Miranda Cuckson discusses her newest recording Melting The Darkness.
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 01:12:56
Cellist Jeffrey Zeigler discusses working with other artists and his new recording Something of Life
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 01:04:10
Molly Herron discusses New Music For New Instruments; Molly Thompson talks about her program featuring music from her song cycles at Spectrum.
- Added: Nov 11, 2014
- Length: 01:17:04
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
Just over the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County, a few miles from Muir Woods, lies Muir Beach. The beautiful and peaceful waterfront is a favorite...
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 06:13
It currently costs $10,000 a pound to transport material from Earth into space. If humans want to live in space someday, those transport costs alon...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 4
Robert Platshorn once spent thirty years in prison for smuggling marijuana, and in a sign of changing times, over the past weekend, Platshorn organ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2014
- Length: 17:00
World Cup fever has infected the entire world... including Kolkata, India!
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 04:30
The San Francisco Mixtape Society hosts mix exchanges at the Make Out Room in the Mission District. Music lovers meet, mingle and exchange mixes th...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 05:54
In the Oscar-nominated film "Her," director Spike Jonze imagines a world where computers are so human-like they have their own feelings. Whether th...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 08:00
A couple on an evening stroll down Valencia Street comes to a stop outside Lost Weekend Video. They’re peering in through the big front window...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 06:33
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. A dystopian novel.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
100-second module, part of our weekday readings for MAY.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
Betsy. Buttercup. Bambi. Those are not Disney characters but three of the eight female bison that live at the bison paddock in Golden Gate Park. Sa...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 1
Thao Nguyen grew up in Northern Virginia, and started playing music at age 12. Since then she has released three critically acclaimed albums, and s...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:13
Join us in this episode with our guest Julia, Blake, and Jake
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 28:45
Near dusk, you can often find Shirley Doell at Oakland Civic Center, staring at the tops of skyscrapers through her big telescope. But she isn’t sp...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 15:48
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 16:54