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Culturology: "Summer Nights, Summer Lights," an essay by Michael Forbes
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Michael Forbes
Bemidji area writer Michael Forbes recites his essay written in contemplation of Aurora Borealis, family, and home.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Linda Back McKay - "Regrets"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Linda Back McKay is an independent advertising and marketing director. She is widely published. Linda Back McKay is also a long time volunteer and ...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:23
Peggy and Hugh: An Oral History
From: Laura Herberg
Caption: Peggy and Hugh, then and now.
Peggy grew up on the Canadian prairie listening to big band on the radio. Hugh grew up in Seattle and tried to stay out of trouble from his Welsh ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2012
  • Length: 17:18
Julia Maki: "My Mom Hunts Submarines" on Real Good Words
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: Julia Maki
Deer River native Julia Maki talks with Heidi Holtan about her book "My Mom Hunts Submarines." Julia discusses seeing the world as a anti-submarine...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 12:13
  • Purchases: 1
Jim and Martha - 56 years and karaoke
From: Sara Paul
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jim and Martha were married in 1955 - and took up karaoke "a week ago". It might have made their love stronger. Might have. Found sound from the...

Bought by KALW, Prairie Public, WABE, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 4
Graham's "That's My Song"
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Series: That's My Song!
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A introduction to the Youth Spin listeners, as well as a personal story where the song is the main character in the plot. That's My Song weaves tog...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 03:53
Embroidered Love Stories
From: Shannon Geis
Caption: Iviva Olenick with her pieces., Credit: Shannon Geis
Iviva Olenick documented love stories from all over Brooklyn in embroidered pieces.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:27
Songbird: Lee Morse - part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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Lee Morse & her Blue Grass Boys (All Jazz!)

  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 58:57
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: Kate Graves on The Dark Knight Returns
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: Kate Graves, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Kate Graves discusses her song inspired by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, written and performed for the monthly showcase The Bu...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: BC Campbell discussing his approach to writing songs inspired by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: BC Campbell, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter BC Campbell discusses his approach to writing songs inspired by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns

  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
My Antonia: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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A beloved American classic, Willa Cather's My Ántonia is best summarized by its epigraph---"the best days are the first to flee." Garrison Keillor ...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, and KQED


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
Jim Morrison 40th anniversary
From: Henrik Persson
Caption: The Doors members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger laying down flowers and incense at Jim Morrison's grave at Pere Lachaise cemetery., Credit: Henrik Persson
Report from the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, where the 40th anniversary of the death of The Doors singer Jim Morrison was celebrated July 3rd.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:40
The People Could Fly
From: Miles Tokunow
Caption: It's Superman!, Credit: by Dude Crush
This is a telling of Virginia Hamilton's American Black Folktale "The People Could Fly."

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioFreePalmer, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WSLR, WDBM and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
The Great Snowstorm of '78
From: Emily Corwin
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Ed Doyle is a retired Boston Police Officer. In this short, non-narrated story, he recalls his experiences on-duty during the great snowstorm of '...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Dec 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 2
Holiday Greetings
From: Sunday X
Series: original church reviews
Caption: PRX default Piece image
George remembers singing Christmas carols

  • Added: Aug 08, 2010
  • Length: 07:42
A Stereotype by Any Other Name...
From: NBPC
Series: Rip And Rebind
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Backpack vs. Gangsta, Rap vs. Hip-Hop, Church vs. Secular. This episode will explore the ever changing labels that have divided our culture and why...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 11:49
  • Purchases: 1
Tribute to Walter Cronkite and Don Hewitt
From: National Press Club
Series: From the National Press Club
Caption: Marc Wojno (standing) with (L to R); Dan Rather, Marvin Kalb, Bob Schieffer and Daniel Schorr., Credit: Michael Foley
Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, Dan Schorr, and Moderator Marvin Kalb reflect on their personal and professional friendships with Walter Cronkite and Do...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2010
  • Length: 54:01
It's Right For Me
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Alice Loesch has lived through a century that has seen some of history’s most sweeping changes in the lives of women.

Bought by WTIP, Delta College Public Radio, KSFR, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 10
The Last Dairy Farm
From: Logan Hasson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A short portrait of Billy Latta, a North Carolina dairy farmer.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 10:57
Bill Monroe Special
From: WAMU
Series: Special Programming
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Featuring Del McCoury [http://www.delmccouryband.com/], David Peterson of David Peterson and 1946 [http://www.1946band.com/], Phil Nusbaum [http://...

Bought by KHNS and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 12, 2009
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 2
Father's Day Special - Me & Dad
From: WAMU
Series: Special Programming
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WAMU's Bluegrass Country presents a Father's Day Special - Me & Dad

  • Added: Oct 12, 2009
  • Length: 23:00
The Davey Joe
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
For 42 years, one family called a small cottage in the Camp Ellis area of Saco, Maine their "haven away from home".

  • Added: Mar 03, 2009
  • Length: 05:47
Virtuoso Voices - Vladimir Ashkenazy (Sibelius Deep Inside)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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It's hard to describe the magical dialogue that takes place between the strings and the winds at the beginning of the Symphony No. 2 by Sibelius. ...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2008
  • Length: :25
This I Believe - Anne Donahue
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Listener Anne Donahue has a few things she believes her newborn daughter should know about her.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KXOT Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 4
Snake River Outlaws Retrospective
From: Western Folklife Center Media
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A look at one of the hottest cowboy bands in the west in the 1950s and the times in which they lived.

Bought by KISU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Prairie Public, Marfa Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 6