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RPM Podcast #005: “Indian Country”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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Country music is undeniably huge in Indian Country. In our fifth episode we talk to three Indigenous country artists about why that is.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 21:38
  • Purchases: 1
RPM Podcast #004: “New Traditional”
From: Christa Couture
Series: The RPM Podcast
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In our fourth episode, RPM looks at New Traditional, beginning with the question: What is it? And how can something be new and traditional at the s...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 21:25
  • Purchases: 2
The Joy of Management
From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial
Caption: Tony Hsieh, Credit: Jake Chessum
Host Phalana Tiller talks with hotelier Chip Conley and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh about the notion that work and happiness should be inextricably linke...

  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
WorldCanvass: Japan
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:52:56
A Conversation with Crime Writer, Laura Lippman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Laura Lippman talks about crime fiction, journalism and the social novel. [30:30]

Bought by KPIP-LP and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 30:12
  • Purchases: 2
Moyers & Company Show 106: Decoding the Campaigns
From: Moyers & Company
Series: Moyers & Company
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
We're saturated with deceptive political advertising -- aided and abetted now with spending by citizens, corporations, and Super PACs that seems to...

Bought by KRDP, KBRP Community Radio, WGCU, WRIR, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 20
Made Love, Got War
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with author, journalist and candidate for congress, Norman Solomon. They discuss his background as an activist and journalist ...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Erasing Boundaries with They Might Be Giants
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Erasing Boundaries on KDIC 88.5FM
Caption: John Linnell of They Might Be Giants goes accordion-crazy at the Englert Theatre in Iowa City
Annie Pigott, Dane Haiken, and I sit down with John Flansburgh and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants. Wry hilarity ensues.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 21:43
Studs Terkel: A Heart as Big as the World
From: A World of Possibilities
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Despite his best efforts, like the very establishments he excoriated, Studs Terkel became an American institution. A man of the people, he was also...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WZEN.org, KBGA 89.9 FM, WDSE and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 11
An Artist in the White House?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Imagine if you can, an artist instead of a politician in the White House. Radio Curious teams up with TUC Radio’s Maria Gilardin for a visit with S...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
A Conversation with Ledward Kaapana
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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2011 National Heritage Fellow and slack key guitar master Led Kaapana talks about making music the Hawaiian way.

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 27:07
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Walter Dean and Christopher Myers
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Author Walter Dean Myers talks about his father in an interview with his son Christopher Myers.

Bought by KUER and WEZU


  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 2
Don't Make Me Be Your Miracle
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
Caption: Owen, the miracle baby, with colic and reflux
After having her first child, a woman experiences heart failure and is told she has less than a 50 percent chance of surviving another pregnancy. T...

Bought by HowSound and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2011
  • Length: 13:44
  • Purchases: 2
Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water
From: Joyride Media
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The story behind the final S&G album “Bridge over Troubled Water” and its classic songs. Includes interview with Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, produce...

Bought by KPSQ-LP, KSRQ, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Harford Community Radio, CBC Inside the Music and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Your Singing Really Interferes With My Going-To-Sleep Process
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
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A music teacher tries to stop her newborn’s crying with lullabies. Turns out it’s the worst thing she can do.

Bought by WABE, KPIK-LP, KALW, The Story, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 6
Rosanne Cash: The List
From: Joyride Media
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Rosanne Cash re-interprets some of the classics of American music.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WYEP and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
New England Poetry Hour - Helen Vendler & Keith Waldrop
From: Open Source
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It's a New England poetry hour, starting with Amherst's Emily Dickinson by way of Helen Vendler, the closest of close readers of poetry, and ending...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Carrie Rodriguez: Live & Circumstance
From: Joyride Media
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Alejandro Escovedo hosts an hour of live music and conversation with singer and songwriter Carrie Rodriguez.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Prairie Artscience
From: Chris Mortenson
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A piece about preserving prairie.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2010
  • Length: 10:39
Making Space for Love
From: Suvi Hynynen
Series: The Love Story Thief
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Love can't come into your life unless you invite it in, finds Helen in this interview with the Love Story Thief.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 14:04
VOICES4theSoul Show 731
From: Lori Holladay
Caption: Eric Bibb
AAA music show featuring songs expressing a more meaningful side of life. This hour features an intmate chat with Eric Bibb.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
Virtuoso Voices™ - Anne Akiko Meters (Bitterweet Smile)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Anne Akiko Meyers
Actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin was also a composer. His song, "Smile," is a standard and a favorite of balladeers…and violinists. The lyrics...

  • Added: May 29, 2009
  • Length: :25
Lisbeth Scott - Biomusique
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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Former classical pianist that found her gift in her voice, and is using that gift as the vocal part of the group Biomusique. Lisbeth has a extensiv...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2009
  • Length: 22:34
Lance Reddick
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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Actor who plays Special Agent Phillip Broyes in the Fringe. He has also appeared in Lost and The Wire.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2009
  • Length: 30:36
A Musician's Life: Ben Taylor
From: WXPN
Series: A Musician's Life
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Ben Taylor resisted becoming a musician for a lot of reasons, beginning with the pressure of his lineage. Taylor is the son of James Taylor and Ca...

Bought by WGDR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 03, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4