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Bonjour Chanson Series 10, Episode 46.
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 10
Caption: Finis Terrae, Brittany
This Episode of "Bonjour Chanson" runs the gamut from a fantastic world where kids solve mysteries hidden in iron masks and stone sarcophagi, to a ...

Bought by XRAY.fm, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and KUT


  • Added: Sep 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:21
  • Purchases: 3
Lincoln's Assassin
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The house where John Wilkes Booth sought refuge after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln will be auctioned next month. Over the last 150 years...

Bought by KENW, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
VIGILANTE VIGILANTE: THE BATTLE FOR EXPRESSION -- Filmmakers Max Good and Nate Wollman interview.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Max Good & Nate Wollman, SF CA, 8/1/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
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
How war kept California united
From: KALW
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Libya, London, Egypt – the map of unrest and revolution around the world right now is vast. In Sudan, it led to the country separating in two. Now ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 2
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Learn why you should have more children and not stress about parenting.

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
Brain Vitamin: The key to invisibility
From: KALW
Caption: Photo from lookmind.com (http://lookmind.com/illusions.php?id=1868&cat=3)
Invisibility – it’s the stuff of fantasy and Hollywood movies (we’re looking at you, Harry Potter), and now it’s a reality. Well, kind of. Read th...

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 2
Injera Bread & Shark Meat: Tasting Ethiopia & Jamaica
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: Soundbites: A Series On Food
Caption: At RAS, you can order Caribbean food (like the Bake and Shark, left) or Ethiopian cuisine (like the vegetarian platter, right)., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
What happens when Africa and the Caribbean culinarily collide in the U.S. capital? Dig in and find out!

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:46
The House That Beer -- and Pyrophobia -- Built
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: There's quite a story behind D.C.'s first fireproof residence..., Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/josepha/2977738045/
After losing a home and two breweries to fire, one German beermaker vowed not to let history repeat itself... and built an extraordinary house that...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
Meet the "thinking man's conceptual artist"
From: KALW
Caption: Conceptual artist and philosopher Jonathon Keats will take you on a trip to outer space – so to speak, Credit: Photo by Jen Dessinger
Jonathon Keats is a writer, a philosopher, and an artist – a conceptual artist, who plays with people’s sense of time, money, and yes, space. Those...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 07:36
The many names of Mount Sutro
From: KALW
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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
SFMOMA conservators turn back time
From: KALW
Caption: Paula de Cristofaro treating Matisse’s “Portrait of Sarah Stein” in the SFMOMA conservation lab., Credit: Photo courtesy of SFMOMA
Art conservators work behind the scenes at museums. Though they’re sometimes confused with curators, who acquire works for a collection, conservato...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:23
  • 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
Sound & Vision: Why Deaf People See Differently
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: The secret behind Gallaudet's circular classrooms lies in something called "visual attention.", Credit: Gallaudet University
Deaf people don't see better... they see differently.

Bought by KVNF, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 28, 2011
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 4
Between You and Me: Time
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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It's Crunch Time this week; sharing stories of the times you were late or just barely made it as we get through the Crunch Time of our summer fundr...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:08
Riddles from the Border Regions, 6/4/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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PROTECTIVE WREATH ENCIRCLES THRONE...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Health Insurance as/for Extreme Sport
From: Lily Rothman
Caption: Skater Rob Campbell in action, Credit: Lily Rothman
For extreme sports athletes, front-side blunt stall skateboard ollies and snaggletooth bike grinds belong on a list with the public option and pree...

  • Added: May 20, 2011
  • Length: 03:24
StoryCorps Historias: Ruben and Rachel Salazar
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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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
Hiding
From: Will Dewees
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A series of strange people tell where they hide a familiar object.

  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:40
Trap happy
From: Will Dewees
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Brian Blauser figures out a way to get rid of the raccoons raiding his bird feeders.

  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 09:42
Kareem Salama - Muslim Country & Western Singer
From: Kyle Gassiott
Caption: Kareem Salama
Born and raised in Ponca City, OK to Egyptian parents Kareem Salama had one dream to become a country and western singing star. If you've ever won...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 20, 2011
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 4
The Guardian's Science Weekly: Long living brains and information overload
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: The brain, Credit: guardian.co.uk
The New York Times science editor Barbara Strauch describes the surprising abilities of a middle-aged mind; James Gleick tells us whether informati...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 1
How the White House Got Its Name
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Dr. Clarence Lusane is author of The Black History of the White House., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
Hint: It doesn't have a whole lot to do with paint swatches...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 3
All You Need is a Microwave
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
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Sometimes interviews take strange turns - especially when the interviewee is a nine-year-old boxer with an inventive imagination.

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
The Guardian's Science Weekly: David Eagleman and 50 years in space
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: David Eagleman, Credit: eagleman.com
David Eagleman suggests prejudices may be hard-wired into our brains; a new real-time film celebrating 50 years since Yuri Gagarin went into space;...

Bought by PRX Remix and KVSC


  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2
First Date
From: ayme frye
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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

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