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Birds of a Feather
From: Israel Story
Caption: "Yoram" aiming at one of his soon-to-be crow victims.
Every summer tourists flock to the beautiful beaches of Eilat, Israel. But in the past thirty years, a new kind of tourist has made its way down so...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 12:49
  • Purchases: 2
Whistle-Stop Tour
From: Israel Story
Caption: Elik Frumchenko whistles with members of a Chinese whistling festival
A young Israeli is backpacking in China when he becomes the first ever Western professional whistler to perform at a Chinese whistle convention.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 1
Rez Rap Records creates a hip hop scene in northern Minnesota
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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In 2011, two rap groups in northern Minnesota decided to join forces: 100 Souls from Red Lake, and NPC3 from Bemidji. Together they’re known as Rez...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
Eric Amundrud and The Art of Percussion
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: Eric Amundrud, Credit: Heath Studios
On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with a Rochester native who recently relocated back to MN after spending many years in Nashville as a musicia...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 30:05
  • Purchases: 2
You Will Find It
From: One Hello World
Series: PostSecret: The Album
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Despite suicide, I found a way to get better. You will find a way to get better. Track 12 from PostSecret: The Album, a collection of spoken secret...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Snap 518: Desperate Measures, 8/14/2014
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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Take a regular person and back that guy up against a wall...and there is no telling what he might do. From PRX and NPR, Snap proudly presents "Desp...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
More Than a Feeling
From: Mark Kwak
Series: Lights On
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Can you taste a touch? Or smell a sight? Cooper McClain can.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:09
Snap 516: Striker, 7/10/2014
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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Ice up, son. On the next Snap Judgment it's about to get all black and blue. From PRX and NPR, we proudly present..."Striker"

  • Added: Jul 10, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
Storytelling
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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We can't live without stories, so today on State of the Human, we're investigating what stories do to us and for us.

Bought by KWMR, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, XRAY.fm, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 5
Seeing Ourselves
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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Today on our show, four stories of people who tried to see themselves clearly

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 3
Officer Eric Mueller, Community Liaison
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Cotter senior Liam Michener, left, talks with Winona police officer Eric Mueller during a mock crash Wednesday, April 15, 2012, behind Winona Senior High School. Michener was acting as the driver. , Credit: Andrew Link/Winona Daily News
On this episode of Culture Clique, we visit with one of Winona's finest who went from a career in public relations to an occupation in Law Enforcem...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 32:59
  • Purchases: 1
Southern Living's Hunter Lewis
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Hunter Lewis, Credit: Tanner Latham
Hunter Lewis is the executive editor at Southern Living magazine. Before that, he had stints at the publications Bon Appetit and Saveur. In this ep...

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 23:04
  • Purchases: 1
To Eat a Pig, Pt. 1
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Journalist Sean Kelley, Credit: Tanner Latham
Sean Kelley is a journalist, and in this show, he begins telling us about raising a couple of pigs so that he could slaughter them and eat them and...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2014
  • Length: 13:29
  • Purchases: 2
Criminal: Hour-Long Special #1
From: Criminal
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Four stories of people who have done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in-between.

Bought by WYSO, WUNC, Louisville Public Media, KOSU, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 7
Snap 408: Choosing Sides, 4/17/2014
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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There are some teams that you are just born into. You don't get to decide. It is not up for discussion. Until one day... it is. On the next Snap J...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
Snap 507: Lost Cause, 3/27/2014
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
Caption: Snap Judgment
Sometimes the writing is on the wall. We all know the ending, but some people...didn't get the memo. An all-NEW Snap, from NPR and PRX, we proudly...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
The Fairfax Stone and West Virginia v. Maryland
From: Traveling 219
Caption: Map showing Maryland's claim to West Virginian land.
The historic landmark known as the Fairfax Stone was reportedly placed in 1746 to mark what would become part of the border between Maryland and Vi...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 06:44
Mayor "Ooker" Eskridge of Tangier Island, VA
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: James "Ooker" Eskridge is a waterman and also mayor of Tangier Island, VA., Credit: Tanner Latham
James “Ooker” Eskridge is a waterman who has lived on Tangier Island, Virginia, his whole life. Ooker talks about being the Chesapeake Bay island’s...

Bought by WTJU, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 4
Hungarian Blues
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
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Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 5
Not Exactly a Lady
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
Caption: The 500 Club on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Credit: Ryan Khatam
Phyllis Dunham tells of her first experiences coming to New Orleans with her father...and his friends...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 05:41
Managed Car: We Are Cancelling Your Insurance Policy Effective Today
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: New Managed car regulations require us to cover more items than we did before and our company has decided that is Unaffordable... we are cancelling your policy.", Credit: Susan Cook
Well, we thought it might happen. Over at Automobile Behavioral Health they are cancelling managed car insurance policies because the new "required...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:39
Pearl Curran - "Ghost"-writer
From: Hold That Thought
Series: People, Places, and Ideas to Explore
Caption: Illustration of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth from the American Weekly, ca. 1940
Professor Daniel Shea shares the story of Pearl Curran, who, beginning in 1913, used a Ouija board to transcribe novels, plays, essays, and poetry ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Urge to Travel
From: Mark Kwak
Series: Lights On
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A guy backpacks through 50 countries in 5 years. We hear his story.

Bought by KQED


  • Added: May 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 1
Moving Beyond
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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"I am a Christian, I am a mom, a wife, a homemaker, a leader, a knitter, a quilter… I’m lots of things. Accepting the label felon was really hard."

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 2
Supper With Shakespeare
From: Mitch Skinner
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mitch Skinner looks at a new food-art exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and finds out about banqueting in Shakespeare's day.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1

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