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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
Caption: Say hello to Audrey, a goatherd. Played by Stephanie Lambourn., Credit:  Benjamin Boucvalt
On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with a jack of all trade in the theatre world. This individual fills us in on the many different roles he pla...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 19:15
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
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Have you ever dreamed of wandering through the Great Library of Alexandria? Well, in today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesot...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 29:56
Caption: Taff Roberts, Matt Jensen Young and Rossco Booker answer questions about "Attempting the Northwest Passage" hosted by Paul Lundquist, Credit: Teri Tenseth Market
"Attempting the Northwest Passage" is a documentary about local Taff Roberts' 2014 attempted voyage of the vessel Catryn through the Northwest Pass...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 40:32
Caption: Bride of the Wind, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Henry Schvey discusses the inspiration for his play on the life of painter Oskar Kokoschka,

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 12:16
Caption: Conor McGloin, with Olly Mann
Conor McGloin was 10 years old when he decided he wanted to be an international rock superstar. But it didn't quite turn out the way he'd expected...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 20:56
Caption: Soudan Lab Mural and Artist Joseph Gianetti
Have you ever heard of a neutrino? They are the smallest known particle scientists have ever studied. Scientists still have a lot to learn about ne...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 22:35
Caption: Oliver Beer, Credit: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropec
British artist Oliver Beer explores the acoustical character of Kilic Ali Pasa Hamam, a historical Turkish bath, with a small group of local young ...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2015
  • Length: 09:33
Caption: Polish Opera Performance of Halka/Haiti
Artist Joanna Malinowska talks about Halka/Haiti, the panoramic film project she and her partner CT Jasper produced for the Polish Pavilion at the ...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 09:37
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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
Caption: After a year of neurologic music therapy with music therapist Tracy Bowdish, Jim Bob Rodriguez has regained some of the speech he lost after suffering a stroke., Credit: Sentara Norfolk General Hospital
Three years after a stroke robbed him of speech, a Virginia man is regaining his ability to sing and speak, thanks to revolutionary music therapy.

Bought by Accessible Media Inc., WTJU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 09:32
  • Purchases: 4
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Part One of the third season finale of KVSC Granite City Radio Theatre was nothing short of thrilling! The sold out theatre audience on May 20, 201...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:41
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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
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The internet has transformed classroom education around the world. Here in Minneapolis, the Cowles Center for Dance is doing something unique--offe...

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 2
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In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, it’s all about a great investment, the arts! Recently, Minnesota Citizens for t...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 31:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Freedom of speech is a right guaranteed in the first amendment of the constitution. One exception to the rule is obscenity. But determining what is...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 16:05
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RadioActive is back with a monthly podcast! This month, hosts Tatevik Aprikyan and Kendrick Bradley take us from Seattle to Japan. Kamna Shastri re...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 16, 2015
  • Length: 19:07
  • Purchases: 1
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Just in time for Valentine's Day and the biggest dog show in the world - the 139th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 22:16
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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When one thinks of fashion forward countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo usually doesn't come to mind. But Les Sapeurs might make us feel dif...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:44
Caption: Paintings by Craig Moran, Credit: Jenny Chen
Visual stylometry is a new branch of mathematics that uses mathematics to determine the style of a particular artists' body of work. In this piece ...

Bought by WDBM, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 5
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Sometimes, the only way to voice our feelings is to break into song.

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and WKCC


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3
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Today on Art Beat, we learn about sound design and all that goes into your ears! As an audience member, you might not give all that goes into creat...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 26:10
  • Purchases: 3