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A free and democratic conservatory of music
From: KALW
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On Saturday mornings, any number of jazz musicians can be found tucked away in tunnel in Golden Gate Park, improvising melodies and wooing passers-...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 05:58
Yard Aged Whiskey, Jazz Beer, the Italians make what?
From: One Tan Hand Productions
Series: Sips, Suds, & Smokes
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SIPS segment with a tasting of whiskey from Texas and SUDS segment on collaboration beer.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2013
  • Length: 42:33
Rockin the Craft Beer Bubble
From: One Tan Hand Productions
Series: Sips, Suds, & Smokes
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SUDS segment with a review of several craft beers and a lively discussion on the validity of the craft beer bubble.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2013
  • Length: 31:01
3 Gins and No Tonic
From: One Tan Hand Productions
Series: Sips, Suds, & Smokes
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SIPS segment- 3 small batch craft distiller gins reviewed by our co-hosts.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2013
  • Length: 24:02
An Expat's Exploration of Americans and Hockey*
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Anna's old team: The Carstairs Bruins of Alberta
*They just don't get it.

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM


  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Sour Taste of Potlucks
From: Lauren Ober
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My mom and I don't agree on much, but we can agree on one thing — potlucks are the pits. Produced for the 2013 ShortDocs Challenge.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories : Robert Jevne : The Sermon of Spring
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Robert Jevne discusses his former love of the Chicago Cubs in a lighthearted tone and how their incessant losing seasons defeated his passion for b...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1
Letterboxing - Hide and seek for the young and not-so-young
From: Nancy Greenleese
Caption: The Hartigan family’s journal is full of stamps and memories of their letterboxing outings in Virginia, Ireland, the Pacific Northwest and other destinations. , Credit: Nancy Greenleese
There is a breed of modern day treasure hunters who need the Internet, a knack for orienting and solving puzzles, and a sense of adventure. They w...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 28, 2013
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
New book on Minnesota know-how, from carving ice sculpture to singing like a voyageur
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Bob Carter was joined recently by former Pioneer Press outdoors writer (and current communications director for the MN DNR) Chris Niskanen t...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 23:25
  • Purchases: 2
Design professor Barry Kudrowitz talks toys, creativity, and why play matters
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis chatted recently with Barry Kudrowitz, assistant professor of product design at the U of MN, just in time for the holiday toy sea...

Bought by KVSC, KSRQ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 17:41
  • Purchases: 3
The Field Trip Podcast: Human-Powered Ferris Wheels
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: Field Trip Podcast icon, Credit: Mike Smith
This week Field Trip Correspondent Becky Palmstrom takes us to a festival in Taung Byone, Myanmar, where we learn how to run a ferris wheel … using...

Bought by KUER and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 10:28
  • Purchases: 2
Otters make art at the Great Lakes Aquarium
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Otters are painting at the Great Lakes Aquarium! WTIP's Bob Carter chatted recently with Tara Lieberg, otter keeper at the aquarium in Duluth, abou...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 15:38
The Shed #26 Mice On Sticks
From: Mark Coles
Series: The Shed: A Whole New World Of Music
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From the shed at the bottom of his garden, the award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles (Today/The Strand) brings you his pick of the best new musi...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 53:56
National Accordion Awareness Month...music, jokes and more
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: Leah Thomas with the Splinters
June is National Accordion Awareness Month...who knew? Grand Marais accordionist and singer Leah Thomas stopped by WTIP's The Roadhouse June 22 to ...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 18:55
Reflections on China's Bureaucracy: Standing in my Underwear in a Shanghai Supermarket
From: STephen ASma
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Humorous and philosophical essay about a brush with Chinese Security Guards in Shanghai

  • Added: Jun 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
Holier Than Thou
From: Janean Jorgensen
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen
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Broadway musicals evangelize with a light-hearted style

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, KKRN, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 4
Parody Tonight!
From: Janean Jorgensen
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen
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A listen to some of the sharpest skewers of musical theater from Forbidden Broadway

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 4
COMEDY isn't Pretty to Hear!...this proves it!
From: Bryan Cox
Series: Hey Get Off My Lawn
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So many of our guests want to tell TV to "get off their lawn." So we came up with this, just for the TV Industry

  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:12
Xmas Lights in Austin Texas
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
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This piece is a description of the best christmas light setups in Austin, Texas.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:23
Sounds like space
From: Rose Eveleth
Series: Scienceline Podcast
Caption: If you stuck your ear out the window of the space ship you wouldn't hear anything. In fact, you'd probably die. But recording devices on the ship can turn electromagnetic waves into sounds you can hear., Credit: NASA
This week we’re listening to sounds in space. Before you all go berserk, I know there’s no sound in space. I saw Alien, or at least the previews: “...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 05:53
Terravoice Show 1 Fall 2011
From: Maria Cassidy
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Silly MIT nerds that love talking about and music of anything relating to the environment!

  • Added: Nov 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:16
fjngers
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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the yankee yarn tells of a different time

  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 03:19
StoryCorps: Mort Segal and Joan Feldman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Mort Segal and his sister, Joan Feldman, remember their father, Jack Segal, a booking agent for novelty acts in the Catskills.

Bought by WEZU, KERA, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 01, 2011
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
Tales from the South 020 with P. Allen Smith
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Garden and Lifestyle Expert P. Allen Smith reads his own true boyhood story about a goat, a chicken, and being trapped in a lady's dressing room ti...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Pigeon Race
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Pigeon racers across New England get out their lawn chairs and wait for their birds. The flocks are released 150 miles away from home. The pigeons ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, WMPG, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4