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Old School: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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The program features the voices of author, Tobias Wolff, along with a great cast of writers and thinkers: Jonathan Lethem, Lorrie Moore, T.C. Boyle...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:49
  • Purchases: 5
The Maltese Falcon - A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Meet Sam Spade, detective, lady-killer. Before it became a classic film, it was first an incredible moral tale of crime and deception. Find out why.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public, KZYX, KMUN, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 9
Fahrenheit 451: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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In this half-hour radio show, we'll explore Bradbury's terrifying vision of a future without books as we discuss his groundbreaking 1953 novel, Fah...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WKMS, KMUN, KFAI Minneapolis, KMUD and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 13
Tales from the South 40
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
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Signs and omens--words, items, and incidents that give us pause, give us a funny feeling that something is just not right. Buck Marsh has a bad fee...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Guardian Science Weekly podcast: Sounds of the space shuttle - an acoustic tribute
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Guardian Science Weekly, Credit: guardian.co.uk
As the programme draws to a close, Piers Sellers and Scott Altman describe what it was like to fly on the space shuttle - and we recreate the sounds

Bought by KPIK-LP, KMUZ, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 12, 2011
  • Length: 16:46
  • Purchases: 3
Tales from the South 010 with Mara Leveritt
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Newspaper and Web reporter Mara Leveritt on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Commentator Marshall on The Shutdown
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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The State of Minnesota is supposedly shutting down at least partially by July 1st. Does that affect you in any way? Do you work for the state? Ar...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2011
  • Length: 05:55
War journalists train for the chaos of conflict
From: War News Radio
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News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 08:57
Inside GM's "War Room."
From: Tracy Samilton
Caption: The War Room at work, Credit: General Motors
GM's supply chain nearly snapped in the first weeks after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Long hours in the company's "War Room," kept that f...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:13
The Voice in Her Head
From: KUOW
Caption: Elizabeth Kenny, Credit: Holly Arsenault
One night, Elizabeth woke to a voice in her head. She tried to ignore it, but it wouldn't go away. Elizabeth shares how a series of doctors, a long...

Bought by WEZU, PRX Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 14:52
  • Purchases: 3
Sustainable Walmart -- Groks Science Show 2011-06-01
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Edward Humes discussed the greening of Walmart.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 24:24
  • Purchases: 3
11: Is That Real Enough For You?
From: Matt Hill
Series: Numbers
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Drama series following Sam, a 26-year-old trapped in a call centre. Literally. This is the beginning of season two; a good way in for newbies.

  • Added: May 24, 2011
  • Length: 08:47
San Francisco Stories from StoryCorps and KALW: The luckiest man in San Francisco
From: KALW
Caption: Bruce and Joan Stephan. Photo courtesy of StoryCorps.
Bruce Stephan is probably the luckiest San Franciscan alive. He happened to be driving across the Bay Bridge on October 17, 1989, the very moment t...

Bought by KVMR and KUOW


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 2
The Searchers
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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Where do lost stories go? Potato pancakes are involved.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 1
A Cold Freezin Night
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
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Was it just a dream? I can't remember now.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 2
Talk to Me About Love
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2006 Third Coast ShortDocs: 99 Ways To Tell a Radio Story
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Two curious siblings finally get what they think they've always wanted.

Bought by KZYX, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
San Francisco Stories from StoryCorps and KALW: Congresswoman Speier remembers the Jonestown Massacre
From: KALW
Caption: Brian Perkins with San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Credit: Photo courtesy StoryCorps
San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier has lived quite an eventful life. But arguably the most remarkable event happened during her time spent as a ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:43
The Dwayne Split
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2006 Third Coast ShortDocs: 99 Ways To Tell a Radio Story
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The answering machine traps a surprising revelation from an "old friend."

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Do What You Fear and Fear Disappears
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2006 Third Coast ShortDocs: 99 Ways To Tell a Radio Story
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Screams, thoughts on fear, screams, spooky music, more screams.

Bought by WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
Phoning Home
From: War News Radio
Caption: David Rohde at a speaking engagement., Credit: Wheeler Cowperthwaite
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
StoryCorps: Lee Mottern and Linda Eldredge
From: StoryCorps
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Lee Mottern tells his girlfriend, Linda Eldredge, a story about his Uncle Abe.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 2
Improving health outcomes in developing countries through eHealth
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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Chaitali Sinha, Program Officer, Governance, Equity, and Health of the International Development Research Centre, joins us today.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 09, 2011
  • Length: 25:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Crane and the Straitjacket
From: KUOW
Caption: Joey Pipia , Credit: Frank Ross
A struggling magician, struck with crippling osteoarthritis, decides to risk everything for the stunt of his life--escaping from a straitjacket whi...

Bought by WEZU, PRX Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 3
Andrew Shapter - The Teller & The Truth
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: The Teller & The Truth
Andrew is a filmmaker whose credits include Happiness Is and Before the Music Dies. Andrew is working on a new film, The Teller and the Truth, abou...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 27:22
Where in the World is Don Gamble?
From: peter stock
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In the late 1990s, crack environmental consultant Don Gamble checked out of his comfortable east coast professional life...and disappeared. Ten yea...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 02, 2011
  • Length: 21:42
  • Purchases: 1

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