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Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg: "Sometimes the Loosest Conglomeration of Simple Solutions Can Add Up To Genius"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
Pendulum
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Finding each other, when it just might be too late.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:19
This Is Your Life
From: Emma de Campo
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Sometimes advice comes from surprising places...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: :51
  • Purchases: 1
Searching for Sasha Krizhanovsky
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
Caption: Sasha & Jessica, Credit: Sarah Stuteville
Armed with a letter from 1990, producer Jessica Partnow goes in search of her childhood Soviet pen pal.

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


  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
False Ending
From: The Truth
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A satire within an enigma within a film within a radio story.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 17:44
  • Purchases: 2
How to Spell Chanukah
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Emily Franklin
Here’s a new book for Channuk, Hannukkah, Channukah, or however you happen to spell it.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 09:49
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
Books as Babysitters
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Mary Finch on books.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:56
The National Riding Association
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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The real NRA fights for our right to keep recklessly driving cars.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:10
Man Marries Gun
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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A redneck decides to marry his gun.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:21
UnFictional: My So Called Guru
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Two stories about healers and teachers who do not have the best interests of their students in mind.

Bought by XRAY.fm, KOSU, Aspen Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 04, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Loving Charcoal
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Not my neighbor's hamster.
A woman and her hamster.

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City and KUT


  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Red, White, and Bruised
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Don Floyd looks back on his life of 80 years after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 3
Whitey's Rules
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Residents of a quiet Santa Monica apartment building remember their neighbor, Charlie -- also known as notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" B...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, The Story, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 3
The Man With the Long White Beard
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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He's not just the Santa Claus-looking guy who walks his dog every day on my street--he's Larry Bauer: carpenter, man-of-letters.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
A drunken Maasai's revenge on a leopard
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Soila Sayialel saves elephants , Credit: Soila Sayialel
Nickson Parmisa dictates an elder’s story about a time when a leopard had killed eight of their goats. One of the Maasai stepped in to seek revenge...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
Great Northern Radio Show: Brainerd
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Great Northern Radio Show
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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
Tit for Tat
From: jessica lockhart
Series: Watch Your Language
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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
On A Passing Frontier
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
Dingmantics #14: Sandra From Avenue Z (Live)
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 11:53
Buck, Naked
From: Andrew Norton
Caption: Buck Dietz poses at an afternoon life drawing session at the Cape Cod Art Association in Barnstable, MA. , Credit: Andrew Norton
Buck Dietz is a figure model. That means he has to stand naked and completely still for long sessions while artists sketch him. But for Buck, it's ...

Bought by HowSound, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: May 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 7
Can Men and Women Be Just Friends?
From: Chuck Harris
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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
The Taxi Tapes, Episode 12: Pac-Man
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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In the twelfth installment of The Taxi Tapes (http://thetaxitapes.com), Sam encounters a fellow cab driver who is fearful of the past.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 1
Wild Card Wednesday: Certain National Treasures
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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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
The Friendly Rabid Squirrel
From: JP Davidson
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When I was 9 years old, a rabid squirrel bit me.

Bought by WJCT, KBRP Community Radio, PRX Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Feb 26, 2012
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 4

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