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No news is good news
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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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
Sticking the wicket: America's first co-ed sport returns to Brooklyn
From: Eric Winick
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Gabriel Vaughan and Piper Goodeve have set upon a singular mission: to revive the sport of croquet in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, where it once thri...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 12:59
SITPE # 1427
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Ed Cobb Productions and other things

Bought by KWMR, WMMT, KKRN, WLPR , WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 11
Thin edge of the wedge
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:27
By the short hairs
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:41
Sarah Vowell Riffs On Satchmo, 'The Incredibles' And Andrew Jackson [Extended]
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Caption: Sarah Vowell signing books after a lecture at Lamar Univ. in Beaumont, Texas
Sarah Vowell talks to reporter Brian Friedman and producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson about Louis Armstrong, voiceover work, Andrew Jackson, New Orleans...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2014
  • Length: 11:01
140416 My Musical Debut on Radio
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.... Some call it R&B or early R&R. I'm looking for those songs from the 1950s to 70s ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:53:39
The Music of Noise
From: A. Randall Wenner
Caption: Syracuse University Design Professor Zeke Leonard demonstrates his intonarumori noise-making instruments., Credit: A. Randall Wenner
Is it possible to make “music” from “noise”? Is it possible to enjoy it? Randy Wenner reports on an experimental music genre making a comeback of s...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
SITPE # 1409
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Oh, you mean Those hits?

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, WMMT, WOUB, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Old Sturbridge Village
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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At Old Sturbridge Village, a rotating cast of men and women don period clothes while performing 19th century roles for the public. Emily Kwong take...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
SITPE # 1406
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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UK, US, Short and Long

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, WOUB, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KEOS and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
sitpe # 1403
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Moody Blue Cheer Time.

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, WMMT, WOUB, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 11
Tony Joe White on Art of the Song
From: Art of the Song
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Southern songwriter who penned Polk Salad Annie and Rainy Night In Georgia sat down with us to talk about his newest CD, Hoodoo.

Bought by KMUW, WRNC-LP, Delta College Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
SITPE # 1401
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Starting another year.

Bought by KKRN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WOUB, KSRQ, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Peter Yarrow Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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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
Type a Change in Communication: Simple Rediscovery #517
From: Teosson Wells
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One could argue that the introduction of the modern typewriter just a tad over 110 years ago did more to change the way that humans communicate tha...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2013
  • Length: 10:19
An Ode to Morse Code
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Richard Dillman transmits from KPH, Credit: Julie Caine
For nearly a hundred years, Morse Code was the official language of international communication for ships in distress. Then, at the end of the twen...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 1
SITPE # 1341
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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What do the Chambers Brothers and the Monkees have in common?

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KPVL, KMXT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
40: London Parakeets
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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A Chicagoan deals with an interesting beach situation and Londoners deal with a growing population of parakeets.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 23:07
The District
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
Caption: One of E. J. Belloqc's Storyville portraits.
This is the premier story for Storyville, about Storyville. University of New Orleans' Robin Baudier looks back on this historic district, and what...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2013
  • Length: 04:52
SITPE # 1339
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Stones, Watchband, Beatles and In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida too!

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KPVL, KMXT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Dear Sweet Mike Levey
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs: Stories Inspired by "Appetite"
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An ode to the late great infomercial host and to the realization that we all hunger for something.

Bought by KRPS, WNIJ, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 3
130831 From the French Quarter Studios of WWOZ
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of all from the golden age of Americana - the 1950s to the 1970s. A time when musicians r...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 05:54:29
Chicago Jazz
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Avant garde jazz icon Sun Ra helped light the fuse for Chicago's rich experimental music scene.
Long before New York became America's jazz capital, Chicago jazz reigned supreme. This hour, we continue our tour of America's great jazz cities wi...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Raven Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBBI Alaska, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 32
It's Not Wise to Rush About
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Sargeant Mountain Pond in Acadia National Park is the oldest pond on the east coast. Fittingly, it's amassed its fair share of lore. Two friends ad...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 1

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