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17 Shutting In
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy explains how cramped conditions led to a brutal massacre of cats in episode seventeen of Noise: A Human History, 'Shutting In'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:40
  • Purchases: 1
18 Master and Servant
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy eavesdrops with the servants in episode eighteen of Noise: A Human History, 'Master and Servant'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 1
19 Slavery and Rebellion
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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From Ghana's Gate of No Return to the Carolina plantations - David Hendy explores the soundscape of slavery in episode nineteen of Noise: A Human H...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:46
  • Purchases: 1
20 Revolution and War
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy considers the soundscape of civil conflict in 18th century Paris and 19th century America in episode twenty of Noise: A Human History, ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:46
  • Purchases: 2
21 The Conquering Engines: Industrial Revolution
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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The sounds of nature give way before the coming of the industrial din. Episode twenty-one of Noise: A Human History, ‘The Conquering Engines: Indus...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:25
  • Purchases: 1
22 The Beat of a Heart, the Tramp of a Fly
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy on medicine’s listening revolution - episode twenty-two of Noise: A Human History, ‘The Beat of a Heart, the Tramp of a Fly'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 2
23 The New Art of Listening
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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How the Victorians learned to listen all over again. Episode twenty-three of Noise: A Human History, 'The New Art of Listening'.

Bought by KALW and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:41
  • Purchases: 2
26 Shell Shock
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
Caption: Assistant producer Cathy FitzGerald on location in Flanders, France.
Soldiers in WW1 experienced a sonic onslaught. Professor David Hendy considers life under bombardment in episode twenty-six of Noise: A Human Histo...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 2
27 Radio Everywhere!
From: Matt Thompson
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Radio seemed like magic to begin with. Then the Nazis exploited its darker powers. Episode twenty-seven of Noise: A Human History, Radio Everywhere!'

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 1
28 Music While You Shop, Music While You Work
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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How music can make us work, rest and play - episode twenty-eight of Noise: A Human History, 'Music While You Shop, Music While You Work'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:52
  • Purchases: 2
06 Epic Tales
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
Caption: Orkney, Scotland
Epic tales could take days to perform, yet storytellers recited them from memory. David Hendy explains how ancient tales were remembered and passed...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:41
  • Purchases: 3
29 An Ever Noisier World
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy on the sounds of revolution and war in episode twenty-nine of Noise: A Human History, ‘An Ever Noisier World'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:47
  • Purchases: 2
30 The Search for Silence
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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Professor David Hendy considers the modern quest for quiet in episode thirty of Noise: A Human History, 'The Search for Silence'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:36
  • Purchases: 3
Going plastic free (almost)
From: Veronica Simmonds
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My sincere but silly attempt to live without plastic for a week.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 06:36
Brown Bag
From: American Student Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Beep, beep, beep. Welcome Valued Customer. A college student profiles late-night grocery shopping in a college town, and what she finds is unexpected.

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:05
The Python Challenge
From: casey schelhorn
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Two first time radio producers travel to the Everglades intending to tell the story of a state-sanctioned Python hunt, but end up telling an altoge...

Bought by KGOU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 09, 2013
  • Length: 15:34
  • Purchases: 2
Head Over Heels for Cooking
From: Philly Youth Radio
Series: At the Heart, From the Heart
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It's often said that love can be transformative. For Philly Youth Radio's Dinh To, the saying couldn't be more true. Two years ago, Dinh moved from...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 04:01
Diane Belnavis
From: You're U.S.
Series: You're U.S.
Caption: Detail of Diane's Portrait, Credit: Painting by Emile B. Klein
When playing with bugs became macabre Diane started inviting people on "the spectrum" to live with her.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 06:32
The Album Leaf look forward, and return to simplicity
From: Kimberly Haas
Caption: "Forward/Return" by The Album Leaf
Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf talks about the band's EP "Forward/Return."

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 04:17
The 113th Annual Army-Navy Pageant
From: War News Radio
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The annual Army-Navy football game is one of the few opportunities for civilian types to have a front row seat to military culture. War News Radio’...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 08:40
They Are Three Together
From: Cuchulain Kelly
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"Bees and Cheer" is a rollicking good time. It's a huge folk concert that happens twice yearly at Yale University, and the show features the underg...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 05:23
2012: A Year In Your Ear - "Amend The Constitution!"
From: Mad Genius
Series: 2012: A Year In Your Ear
Caption: The only known image of Mad Genius
Mad Genius proudly presents the latest song in our "2012: A Year In Your Ear" series: "Amend The Constitution!" Meet James Christophersen, a conse...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:23
The Yovo Song
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: friendly Togolese children, Kanté, Credit: Carla Seidl
When you visit the West African nation of Togo, you're likely to hear the "yovo song" -- a song chanted by many Togolese youth that goes: "White pe...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Shuffle, a meditation on life, weather and work ... or the lack of it.
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
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Here's an excerpt from an essay by Springfield, Oregon writer Lawrence Elliott. Out of work and afoot in the scruffy neighborhood he calls home, fo...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 03:39
In Off-Season Tulum, More Turtles Than Tourists
From: Valerie Hamilton
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If the Caribbean’s balmy turquoise charms are doubled by wintry weather at home, the argument could be made they’re halved in close succession to a...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 2

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