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Julian Fleisher explores The Great American Songbook with one of its proudest immigrants.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you three stories from three current or former Colorado springs residents, completely unknown to one...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 39:29
Caption: Poster for this year's Schmulowitz exhibit
Sometimes the things we write can cause controversy, and even end up being deadly. Early this year two gunmen opened fire in the office of the Fren...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 06:34
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An independent video rental store remains popular in age of movies on-demand.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2015
  • Length: 02:31
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The Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper in West Marin, is known for a lot of things. It won a Pulitzer Prize, it’s done muckraking reporting on a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mindy Aronoff on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, life coach and your show host, on this episode we will chat with Mindy Aronoff, Bay Area Video Coalition’s Director of Traini...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 22:16
Caption: Jamayah Parrish conducting an interview outside the WUNC Studios in Durham, Credit: Carol Jackson
Jamayah Parrish is a rising senior at Northern High School in Durham. As a part of WUNC's Youth Radio Project, she reports on teens who have found...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: In the stacks at Oddball Film and Video.
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
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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
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Cellist Jeffrey Zeigler discusses working with other artists and his new recording Something of Life

  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:04:10
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This episode is about songs that reference summer.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 20, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode deals with songs about birds or have bird(s) in the title or subject

  • Added: Sep 20, 2014
  • Length: 26:57
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This is the LONG version of the 10 Min Sound Byte - Songs about Fireworks

  • Added: Sep 20, 2014
  • Length: 25:22
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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 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
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This episode is about bands with WEEERRD spellings (no vowels and all that)

  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Caption: Pop-science author, Mary Roach
Pop science author Mary Roach tells Nerdette hosts Tricia and Greta about answering gross questions most of us are too afraid to ask. Plus a conver...

Bought by WRIR, KMXT, and KUAC


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 26:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Lost Weekend Storefront on Valencia Street., Credit: Audrey Dilling
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
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Learn about Numero Group's mission to salvage, restore, and archive neglected pieces of 20th century music history.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Photographer Dima Sharomov, Credit: Greenpeace
Dima Sharomov is Russian, a photographer and friends with many of the 'Arctic 30'. After for 100 days in prison,they were to be transferred to St P...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 1
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John Fanta recaps Seton Hall Women's Basketball WNIT game with Rutgers.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:13
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Twitter is hemorrhaging self-aggrandizement and hucksterism.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
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Join us in this episode with our guest Julia, Blake, and Jake

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:45
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Jorma Kaukonen made a name for himself by being the guitarist in bands like Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. His distinctive finger pick technique ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2014
  • Length: 08:42
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We kick off the new year with a brand new show, new producers, and new segments. This week Katie Bolin explores the world of online dating, Parker ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 15, 2014
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: DJ Lucky Siegle at Nightbeat happening at The Knockout in San Francisco, Credit: Elias Perez
In this hour long special, I’ve invited popular DJs from around the Bay Area Soul party scene to talk about where they find records, what makes the...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 57:59