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Rock and Revolution
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
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Associate professor Patrick Burke reveals how musicians in the 1960s, including the rock band the Godz, resisted predetermined categories and simpl...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 14:00
Dating Through the Eyes of an Immigrant
From: Erika Lorentzsen
Series: New American Stories
Caption: Dirk Ockhardt from Germany talks about European dating, Credit: Erika Lorentzsen
A look at different dating rituals around the world. From Europeans getting married later in life like in Chicago, NY and other places, to a Muslim...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:52
"Strawberry Dreams: The Psalms of Richie Havens"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "Strawberry Dreams: The Psalms of Richie Havens"
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Strawberry Dreams: The Psalms of Richie Havens" is a three-part series dedicated to the music of singer, composer Richie Havens.

  • Added: May 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:51:58
The Last Man on the Mountain
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mining Pigeonroost Hollow. Now Jimmy Weekley is the last person left there.

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, PRX Remix, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 13:59
  • Purchases: 4
The Square Deal
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 16:09
  • Purchases: 4
Yolanda Williams
From: You're U.S.
Series: You're U.S.
Caption: Detain of Yolanda's portrait, Credit: Painting by Emile B Klein
Who could imagine overcoming a multi decade street life, fed by crack & prostitution, to care for a family that disowned you? Yolanda can, and did.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 13:25
The Media Fast
From: Sean Rasmussen
Series: Happy
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Hear from three people who do a media fast to take back control of their lives from their smartphones, Internet, and Social Media.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Field Trip Podcast: Marine Mammal Rescue Center
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: Field Trip Podcast icon, Credit: Mike Smith
This week, Field Trip Correspondent Lo Benichou take us behind the scenes at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, where wounded seals...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 13:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Field Trip Podcast: Human-Powered Ferris Wheels
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: Field Trip Podcast icon, Credit: Mike Smith
This week Field Trip Correspondent Becky Palmstrom takes us to a festival in Taung Byone, Myanmar, where we learn how to run a ferris wheel … using...

Bought by KUER and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 10:28
  • Purchases: 2
The Field Trip Podcast: Beach Rocks
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: Field Trip Podcast icon, Credit: MIke Smith
This week we go to to the beach with Field Trip Correspondent Laura Hautala and her Science Mom. Yes, we said Science Mom. And don’t worry, it’s no...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 12:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Field Trip Podcast: Wildfires
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
Here's the first episode in our “Summer Dispatches” series, in which reporter Megan Molteni braves the scarred landscape of Colorado Springs after...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 13:57
The 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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In this first of a two-part series, Dred-Scott Keyes interviews winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Awards David W. Blight, author of "American Ora...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2012
  • Length: 56:00
STAIRSTEPS Stories! VOL. 1 (Part C): The Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: The Five Stairsteps (1967), Credit: Windy C Records
PART THREE (3rd hour) of Volume ONE of the Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps. Joining Howard Burchette is Clarence Burke, Jr., Clarence Burke, Sr...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 56:13
Frogtown Narratives: The Three-Month Parade
From: Mark Saldaña
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Community member Sally Shepard fights the odds and her health to launch a successful parade in Frogtown, St. Paul.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2010
  • Length: 05:11
Reality Check
From: David Schultz
Caption: Carolyn Parham, Credit: SpeakeasyDC
A mother of two faces a life-altering crisis when, just a few months out of rehab, a $5,000 check appears in her mailbox.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 28, 2010
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 3
History This Week
From: Public Radio WorldWide - PRWW.org
Caption: This Week In History, Credit: SLG
Flashback to a voice this week in History -- for a lesson we can learn for today.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
North City Gangs Getting Younger, More Violent
From: Adam Allington
Series: Block by Block: Street Gangs in St. Louis
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teenage gangbangers responsible for spike in St. Louis murder rate

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Aug 28, 2008
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 2
Two Jobs, Still Not Making It
From: PRX PromCom
Series: Promise Commentaries
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A 21-year-old woman describes the difficulty of paying the bills while working at a deli and Wendy's. What do the candidates have to say about that?

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 28, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
Limited solutions for St. Louis gang problem
From: Adam Allington
Series: Block by Block: Street Gangs in St. Louis
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Police wrestle with solutions for St. Louis gang problem

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 26, 2008
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 1
Thinness and Salvation
From: Sarah Yahm
Caption: PRX default Piece image
a piece about the symbolic meaning of fat in our culture

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUT-HD, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 5
Jenny or the abuse of Native American women, part II
From: Anton Foek
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Karin Artichoker, director of the shelter program in Kyle talks to us

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WGDR


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Tristan Mysteries: The Sexual Mysteries
From: WNYC
Series: The Tristan Mysteries
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Wagner's classic love story "Tristan und Isolde" revealed.

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2007
  • Length: 14:08
  • Purchases: 1
Morning Stories, Common Ground
From: WGBH Radio Boston
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Morning Stories expands on and samples from WGBH's popular Morning Stories podcasts, which contain stories from everyday people about a significant...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: 28:59
Morning Stories, From the Street
From: WGBH Radio Boston
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Morning Stories expands on and samples from WGBH's popular Morning Stories podcasts, which contain stories from everyday people about a significant...

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
B-Side: The Extraordinary Lives of Otherwise Ordinary People
From: B-Side Radio
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B-Side's Tamara Keith suits up for a game of roller hockey and brings us stories of ordinary people with extraordinary lives.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 10, 2006
  • Length: 25:41
  • Purchases: 1

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