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Sound Ecology: Murres
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting nesting murre colonies along the northern California coast. For air during late spring and summer.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Herman Heyn and John Heyn
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Herman (L) and John Heyn
Herman Heyn tells his nephew, John, about spending almost three decades as a street corner astronomer, giving passers-by the chance to look through...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WTJU, and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Aug 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Adam Graff and Jackie Graff
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Adam (L) and Jacqueline (R) Graff
Adam Graff, a member of New Orleans' all-volunteer, mental health crisis unit, speaks with his wife, Jacqueline, about the surge in patients after ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTJU, and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2015
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 3
Crossing Over
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Master mason Victor Ayala, Credit: CharlesMcGuigan
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:06
10 From Joe: A Joe Cocker Appreciation
From: Paul Ingles
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Music host Paul Ingles presents 10 memorable performances from Joe Cocker, who died December 22, 2014 of lung cancer after a career that spanned 50...

Bought by WFAE, KMUW, XRAY.fm, KBRP Community Radio, WMMT and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
55: Restaurant Sound Design
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Clark Wolf has consulted to restaurants, hotels, and just about every type of venue where people gather to enjoy food. Part of his job is to think ...

Bought by Radio New Zealand, WABE, PRX Remix, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 17:10
  • Purchases: 4
Pathway to College
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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College-aged Latinos are the fastest growing population in Northern Virginia, yet these young adults are rarely making it through the education pip...

Bought by KENW, WXDU, and WEZU


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 3
12: Playground Sounds (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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The sounds of childhood: jokes and playground songs.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
12: Playground Sounds
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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The sounds of childhood: jokes and playground songs.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 16:28
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Texas Music History: Julius Hemphill
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of April (4/2): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a late bloomer who went on to become one of the stat...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
After the Blacklist
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In the early years of the Cold War, a number of Hollywood directors and writers were blacklisted from the motion picture industry. One author says ...

Bought by KENW and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Soundwaves
From: Shannon Geis
Caption: The mural under the BQE
An artist decided to spruce up the space underneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway by painting a mural depicting Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in a ...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:01
Brother Purham: A Steelworker's Story
From: Ayana Contreras
Caption: the Arcelor Mittal Steel Mill, East Chicago, IN. Formerly Inland Steel, Credit: Ayana Contreras
Recorded by fellow retired steelworker Joe Gutierrez, and produced by Ayana Contreras, this piece was created for Vocalo.org in conjunction with Th...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2009
  • Length: 10:00
Muni Miles
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: A Broad at Home, Credit: Walter Murch
Riding the muni on a Sunny day

  • Added: Jun 25, 2007
  • Length: 09:23
Where You Least Expect It
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
As a maintenance man at The Waynflete School and a working writer, Michael Macklin?s world is filled with sawdust, kids, and poetry.

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 1
Mary Jo's Kitchen - Mashed Potatoes
From: John Hingsbergen
Series: Mary Jo's Kitchen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Chef Mary Jo offers a simple recipe for mashed potatoes

  • Added: Feb 25, 2007
  • Length: 01:28
Mary Jo's Kitchen - Raspberry Ice Cream
From: John Hingsbergen
Series: Mary Jo's Kitchen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Chef Mary Jo offers a recipe for raspberry ice cream

  • Added: Feb 25, 2007
  • Length: 01:24
White Tea in Three Minutes
From: Paul Levinson
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an appreciation

  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 03:04
Depaving: Trading the Sidewalk for the Seedling
From: Radio Anyway
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One Northampton, Massachusetts resident chooses, for reasons both practical and philosophic, to remove her asphalt driveway and restore green space.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2006
  • Length: 05:40
Michael and the Fighting Dog
From: Jackson Braider
Series: Tales of an Irish M.D.
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Michael, a fishing scout from the west of Ireland, tried to preserve the memory of his fighting dog, but with surprising consequences.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2006
  • Length: 02:20
A tale of seven dwarves
From: Drew Leifheit
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Family of Hasidic dwarves eludes Holocaust horrors

  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 11:19
Chess On Ice
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Spend some time on the ice... curling... in Belfast, Maine.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, XRAY.fm, and KERA


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 3
Starting Anew at BU
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Blunt Responds to Hurricane Katrina
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Julia Tecada was looking forward to her sophmore year at Tulane, then came Katrina. Now she's studying at Boston University, but it's proving hard ...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 02:22
Bringing In the Sheaves
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Reverend AJ Walker and his wife, Linda, minister to truck drivers along the highways of Maine.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 2