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028: ‘I needed ASL to better understand myself’: the power of sign language, 3/22/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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American sign language is the third most commonly used language in the U.S., but for many Deaf folks, it's about so much more than communication. A...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
The Big Ponder #38: Cartoons
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Have you ever heard of the cartoonist Oliver Harrington? Probably not, but the artist played an instrumental role in German-American history. From ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
'The Stone Age' Program 265
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: "The Stone Age" with Dan Wargo
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This program is one hour in length, and is designed for all audiences to explore and celebrate some of the best electric music of the 60's and 70's.

Bought by WOUB, GCR (Global Community Radio), KEOS, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
'The Stone Age' Program 258
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: "The Stone Age" with Dan Wargo
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This program is a one hour exploration of some of the best electric music of the '60's and '70's.

Bought by WOUB, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KEOS


  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
'The Stone Age' Program 257
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: "The Stone Age" with Dan Wargo
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This program highlights studio, and live recordings from the electric music of the '60's and '70's for one hour.

Bought by WOUB, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KEOS


  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Dead Ladies Show Podcast Ep 5: Leonora Carrington
From: Susan Stone
Series: The Dead Ladies Show Podcast
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TED Talks meets The Moth meets The History Channel? Except with Dead Ladies. The Dead Ladies Show is a live event in Berlin that tells the stories ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 26:34
Time Travellers
From: Arlie Adlington
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This feature uses the natural sounds and rhythms of a watchmaker’s workshop to take listeners on a journey through time and space.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2017
  • Length: 05:02
Flawlessly Gorgeous
From: Diana Nguyen
Caption: Bobby Miller in his studio., Credit: Ron Amato
This is a profile of Bobby Miller, a photographer in Provincetown, MA.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 04:45
The Art of Jon Swanson, Museum Curator
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: Jon Swanson checking light levels for pieces in "X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out,"., Credit: Minnesota Marine Art Museum
On this episode of "Art Beat" we get to know Jon Swanson, curator for the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona. Jon has a passion for art. At age ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Many Lives of Michelangelo
From: Hold That Thought
Caption: Michelangelo's David
Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and poet - how can one man be so many things? And what did he keep in his basement?

Bought by KVSC and WABE


  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 16:09
  • Purchases: 2
The Search for Fort Holes, Dakota Conflict Era Settlers Fort, Begins on the SCSU Campus
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Today’s Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is about a critical St. Cloud building that hasn’t existed for over 100 years and the Minnesota Histori...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 29:45
Melton Barker, Itinerant Filmmaker
From: Michael May
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The 1930s is remembered as the golden age of Hollywood, when small towns had a palatial movie theaters, and stars like Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 1
His Boy Elroy
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Matt Novak of the blog "Paleofuture" talks about "The Jetsons," the show that helped define American ideas of future technology without thinking mu...

Bought by WOUB, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 4
The New End of Old New York
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Historian Max Page talks about why New York City is so often the target of destruction on the page and the silver screen. This segment comes from t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:10
  • Purchases: 1
Art of the French Impressionists
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Melissa Buron, art historian and curator of the French Impressionist exhibit, Impressionists on the Water, currently at t...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
A Conversation with Milton Glaser
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The man behind the I Heart NY logo talks art and design!

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:22
  • Purchases: 1
Giving the House of Representatives a Human Face
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Nicholas Longworth's gavel is among the treasures curated and conserved by the House of Representatives' very first curator., Credit: Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
Meet the very first curator of the U.S. House of Representatives collection... 4,000 artifacts strong.

Bought by Louisville Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 3
The "Curse" of the Hope Diamond
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Does bad luck befall everyone who's owned the infamous Hope Diamond?, Credit: The Smithsonian
Is the world's most famous diamond... cursed?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 2
Lincoln, Memorialized: The Myths & Legends Of A D.C. Icon
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The Newcomer's Guide to Washington
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Secret signs... hidden profiles... underground stalactites... This is not your 8th-grade tour of D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 09, 2010
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 1
Venice Beach Freak Show
From: Briana O'Higgins
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A look into the contemporary Freak Show

Bought by WILL and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2008
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 2
#2: The Rite of Spring, or when Lenny met Igor
From: Jackson Braider
Series: Stravinsky@125
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Few musical works have inspired so many stories as Stravinsky's 1913 hit, The Rite of Spring. These are just three or four of them.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KPIK-LP, KGLT, KFAI Minneapolis, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2007
  • Length: 13:16
  • Purchases: 8
#1: The Birth, Reversion, and Rebirth of "The Soldier's Tale"
From: Jackson Braider
Series: Stravinsky@125
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The 46-year history behind a new release of Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale"

  • Added: Mar 06, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
100 YEARS OF THE COMPUTER ART SCENE
From: ACiD Productions
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The story so far of the computer artscene.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2004
  • Length: 49:21