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Peter Carlson, author of a lively tale about intrepid journalists
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra and Carlson discuss "Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey."

  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
Episode 6: Anchor Dreams - The Passion of Scoop Nemeth
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
Caption: Brian "Scoop" Nemeth, Credit: Noel Black
In this episode of Wish We Were here, we tell the story of Brian "Scoop" Nemeth, a man with high-functioning autism whose singular goal in life is ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 59:05
Listener Supported: A BackStory Fundraising Special
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: A family listening to the radio in Royal Oak, Michigan, 1939. Photo by Arthur S. Siegel., Credit: Library of Congress.
Pledge drive hour for stations carrying BackStory with the American History Guys. Includes special content on the history of pledge drives and fund...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, Tri States Public Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 38:20
  • Purchases: 11
Rock Star Phobias
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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We're gonna talk about phobias. Many musicians and actors have strange phobias. We will even discuss melophobia, the fear of music.

Bought by KSKQ, WOUB, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Radio Retrospective: The March of Time
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
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The 1940s pre-movie newsreel "The March of Time" reenacted news events using actors. Henry Luce called it "fakery in allegiance to the truth." The ...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 3
Happy trails to you
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 1
Younger Ears and Different Dollars: What Television Can Tell Us About Public Radio
From: PRX
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Is public radio on the cusp of expansion or disruption? PRX CEO Jake Shapiro and Current.org's Mark Fuerst talked about listenership and public rad...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:41
Food Sleuth Radio, Lynn Dornblaser Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Can you explain the difference between a food trend and a fad? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her i...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Fly off the handle
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:33
Rubber meets the road
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort

  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:34
Nobody here gets out alive
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
Best things in life are free
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
Running gag
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort

  • Added: Jul 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:41
Datafying
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week on State of the Human, an 18th century historian, a poet, a computer scientist, a composer, and a mysterious future being confront data.

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Back Lot, Bringing Film [ and more ] Back to Suriname
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Hennah , Credit: unknown
They [ Hennah Draaibaar & Eddy Wijngaarde ] met by chance when she, a reporter and foreign correspondent was looking for a film producer and found ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 19:10
100%
From: Zach Hirsch
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Two survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing confront their psychological bruises.

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


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 09:12
  • Purchases: 3
Caesarian Sunday - a storm in a Pimms cup?
From: Ben Weisz
Caption: Jesus Green, Credit: Ben Weisz
Every year, in a decades-old tradition, student drinking societies descend on Jesus Green in the heart of the English University city of Cambridge ...

  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 14:56
Are We Catching Up With Technology?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Word of Mouth
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Conversations about new technologies and how we are interacting with them in a very human way.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 1
130324 Request Line Is Open
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Also skinny and running songs and a bunch of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:46:54
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
People Beat
From: The Truth
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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
Library Of Congress Preserves A Treasure Trove... Underground
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: The Packard Campus is roughly 500,000 square feet, built into the side of a mountain in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains., Credit: Library of Congress Photo/ Matt Raymond
What do you get when you take a former Cold War bunker and fill it with the world’s largest collection of films, TV shows, radio broadcasts and sou...

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


  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 6
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
From Livestream To Mainstream
From: TurnStyle
Caption: Livestream CEO Max Haot during a TEDX Talk in November, 2011, Credit: Photo: TEDX/Screenshot
The Occupy Wall Street Movement has been using the Internet to help get its message across, specifically one website, LiveStream.com. Since the fir...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Ashford & Simpson Story (Celebrating the Life of Nick Ashford) Part #3
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Ashford & Simpson
The musical story of "ASHFORD & SIMPSON", today plus the celebration of the life of NICHOLAS ASHFORD (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011). ASHFORD & SIM...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Sep 26, 2011
  • Length: 55:34
  • Purchases: 1