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A new device called the Total Artificial Heart replaces the human heart and can save the lives of patients who may have died while awaiting transpl...
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 28:59
Meet Morris Robinson, who was an All-American at The Citadel, started studying voice at the age of 30, and sings at the great opera houses througho...
- Added: Oct 11, 2011
- Length: 27:03
Not commonly known, John Wilkes Booth had been part of a long-standing conspiracy to kidnap Lincoln before he shot the president in Ford's Theater.
- Added: Sep 12, 2011
- Length: 28:59
Max Good and Nate Wollman talk passion, law-breaking, and late-night stake-outs in the world of graffiti artists and the buffers who hate them.
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 19:10
When we imagine Antarctica, we often think of an empty place: big expanses of ice, almost no other people on the entire continent. It might even se...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 29, 2011
- Length: 09:59
- Purchases: 2
Farmer and artist, Jay Salinas talks about Wormfarm, the inventive organization he co-founded where art, agriculture, community, and creativity blo...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 08, 2011
- Length: 25:35
- Purchases: 1
John Maeda is the President of Rhode Island School of Design and he's passionate about the intersection of art and technology.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 08, 2011
- Length: 29:43
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 29:22
- Purchases: 1
Linda Murray talks about her organization Solas Nua, the only organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to contemporary Irish arts.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Writer Julia Alvarez discusses how her life as a reader led to her life as a writer and the rich source material she finds in her family's immigran...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 22:05
- Purchases: 1
Imagine living in one of the quietest places possible, a place where you can hear a pin drop. A place where no one else is living but you. A mortua...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 07:42
- Purchases: 1
One of America's most beloved stars spills some backstage secrets while discussing career highlights. Arguably most famous for her role as Melanie ...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 27:53
- Purchases: 1
An hour long reading and interview with Ann Patchett recorded in front of a live audience at the Portsmouth Music Hall in June, 2011.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 29, 2011
- Length: 53:30
- Purchases: 1
Right now, there are 17,000 inmates in California prisons serving life with the possibility of parole. For years, no one has really known how many ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2011
- Length: 04:50
In part two in our series, “Greed is Now Respectable” we visit again with Attorney Prescott Cole, employed by California Advocates for Nursing Home...
- Added: Jun 23, 2011
- Length: 28:56
Elder financial abuse may result from intentional deception promoted under the guise of "seminar," sometimes with a "free lunch" included.
"Livin...
- Added: Jun 23, 2011
- Length: 29:00
A man in his early forties decides to take a job in Afghanistan.
- Added: Jun 19, 2011
- Length: 03:43
Trinity Ordona and Desiree Thompson have been married for 22 years; their first ceremony occurred in 1988. But their same-sex marriage was not acce...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 15, 2011
- Length: 02:18
- Purchases: 4
One night, Elizabeth woke to a voice in her head. She tried to ignore it, but it wouldn't go away. Elizabeth shares how a series of doctors, a long...
- Added: Jun 10, 2011
- Length: 14:52
- Purchases: 3
Marine reservist Nina D’Amato used to teach in East Palo Alto as part of Teach for America and served as assistant principal at AP Giannini Middle ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2011
- Length: 08:38
Interview about Quist's novel God's Angry Man, the true story of a Minnesota boy orphaned at age seven during te Greaat Depression and indentured a...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 02, 2011
- Length: 17:57
- Purchases: 1
Winona State University President Dr. Judith Ramaley talks to us about the Teach 21 Campaign and NEXT (Network for Excellence in Teaching) through...
- Added: Jun 01, 2011
- Length: 16:41
Did you know that according to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, 16 of the 20 fastest growing occupations in the sta...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 01, 2011
- Length: 56:20
- Purchases: 1
Rachel Salazar and her husband, Ruben, remember how their romance started with a typo.
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WXPR, WEZU, and KUOW
- Added: May 17, 2011
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 4
A recent college graduate receives an unexpected job offer from his uncle: teach English in Ciudad Juárez.
- Added: May 03, 2011
- Length: 03:25
