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Caption: You bet this story is about fish.
American cod fishermen are broke. Norwegian cod fishermen make $100,000/year. What's up with that?

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 2
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The third edition of the Great Northern Radio Show has us at the John Chalberg Theater in Brainerd. Titled "Maybe About Trains," this radio variety...

Bought by KSRQ and WTIP


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:59:22
  • Purchases: 2
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Let the games begin, it's time for Watch Your Langauge

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 30:40
  • Purchases: 1
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U.S. Navy veteran Denny Meyer remembers what it was like to be gay and a sailor in the late 1960s.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WDBM, WEZU, KMUD, KISU and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 8
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High school sophomore Samantha O'Connell has just won a math award, and Gary Vosot is on the story.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 18, 2012
  • Length: 12:18
  • Purchases: 2
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A program containing 3 short stories of the old west by Frank Bird Linderman in which the rough dry humor of the cowpuncher is evident.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2012
  • Length: 28:11
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I ask students around a college campus if men and women can be just friends.

  • Added: May 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:07
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The Sam Dingman Show Etiquette Report looks at a troubling linguistic trend. Next, our Archaeological Division has unearthed another National Trea...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 35:40

  • Added: Feb 10, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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High school freshman Karla interviews fellow students to see what they think about teenagers getting tattoos. Do tattoos in high school make you Re...

Bought by Vocalo.org


  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Period, Credit: Benjamin Earwicker, http://garrisonphoto.org/
One menopausal woman's search for the meaning of thong menstrual pads.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Fred Newman performs live sound effects for A Prairie Home Companion
Sound effects artist Fred Newman is an integral part of A Prairie Home Companion. In this interview, Fred talks about his roots, his partnership wi...

Bought by KPIK-LP and KUT


  • Added: Aug 19, 2011
  • Length: 08:48
  • Purchases: 2
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Today we hear stories by two giants of Mexican literature, Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes. The former is read by actor Tony Plana; the latter by th...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KPIP-LP, WABE, and KQED


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 4
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San Francisco, as we all know, is densely populated. So the possibility of finding any open space for a new, and substantial, “wilderness trail” is...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 06:01
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In March, a young Swiss-Tibetan named Karma Emchi pro­duced a funny rap song about a Tibetan meat pas­try and posted it on YouTube. But he couldn't...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2011
  • Length: 05:35
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Mainers see cougars all the time. Here's the problem: There are no cougars in Maine.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WMPG


  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 3
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Young man speaks of the manners involved with a first date and how etiquette interfere with getting a second.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: An equation graph, Credit: websters-online-dictionary.org
Bowing to popular demand, here's our mathematical special; plus Brian Cox, the most famous man in science, pops into the Guardian. No calculators a...

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 51:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Gregory Bartlett and Corinn Flaherty., Credit: Photo courtesy of StoryCorps.
Corinn Flaherty and Gregory Bartlett are best friends. And like many best friends, they share a similar sensibility about life. Though Gregory live...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joe Bevilacqua's alter ego, noted newsman Walter Cockeyed fills in again as host and presents a wide array of classic and rare holiday themed cartoon, record and radio audio, Credit: Lorie Kellogg
A humorous look at Thanksgiving.

Bought by KTXK and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 53:48
  • Purchases: 2
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A lovely story about a chicken and a bull.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:04
Caption: The Bluegrass With Mustard Show
Bluegrass, yes. Humor, why not. Alternate aural pathways to ultimate all-knowing truth, jeez I guess. Bluegrass you can listen to with your shades ...

Bought by KVNF and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 04, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Lengenary puppeteer, children's show host and voice actor Chuck McCann, Credit: TVparty.com
An hour of rare and classic cartoon audio, and documentary with Craig Marin, Chuck McCann, June Foray, Bill Scott, "Dudley DooRight," a new "Sgt. P...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2010
  • Length: 56:44
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
James Lu Dunbar discussed the Universe Verse.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 25:45
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "The Cartoon Carnival Father's Day Special" features an interview with Doug Young (the voice of Hanna-Barbera's Doggy Daddy), Credit: Hanna-Barbera Productions (1959)
Another Joe Bev. Holiday Treat! Here's a great Holiday Special your listeners will LOVE!!

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTIP, and KEOS


  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 3