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Sun Ra: The Celestial Spirit of Music
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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"Sun Ra: The Celestial Spirit of Music" is a one hour program which is an introduction to the vast music of the legendary music ICON Sun Ra. His di...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 56:39
  • Purchases: 1
The Jazz Brunch: Brazilian Sunrise!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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THE JAZZ BRUNCH - Brazilian Sunrise! is a limited one hour Jazz music series containing a variety of artists. One show contains three segments leav...

Bought by WTIP, WVAS, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 57:22
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 5 ~ 3D Modeling and Animation
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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Graphics in video games are undoubtedly one of the most talked topics in gaming. By speaking with Dr. Dennis Woytek, I hope to give the audience a ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2014
  • Length: 07:56
Back to MIAMI
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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"BACK TO MIAMI" Is a return back to a place that brought you great hits like "I Get Lifted", "Rocking Chair", "Rock You Baby", "Keep It Comin' Love...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WJAB


  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 56:31
  • Purchases: 2
Back to New Orleans
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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Legendary musicians from New Orleans are featured in this program doing what they do best. This program contains the best of the New Orleans sound ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WSLR, WEZU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 55:35
  • Purchases: 4
John Irving
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
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John Irving reads from and talks about his novel "In One Person," and sits down with Virginia Prescott about writing, sex, and why he'd never becom...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
2013 San Francisco Silent Film Festival Winter Event -- Anita Monga Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Anita Monga, San Francisco, CA 2/1/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Artistic Director Anita Monga talks the context of German Expressionism, the birth of celebrity culture, and why Buster Keaton will always be cont...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 18:40
CWMJ #3: Standardized Patient
From: Michael Simon Johnson
Series: Conversations with Michael Johnson
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Michael Johnson shares what it's like to be act as a patient for med students training to be physicians and how being a fake patient has actually m...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
CWMJ #2: Rock Star
From: Michael Simon Johnson
Series: Conversations with Michael Johnson
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Michael Johnson opens up and shares the key to living a happy life. His band's legal troubles hint at larger issues of name and identity, but Micha...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
CWMJ #1: X-Man
From: Michael Simon Johnson
Series: Conversations with Michael Johnson
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Michael Johnson shares two stories from two schools. A look at race vs. gender on the playground leads to a reflection on academic failure.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 01:58
What's What: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning?
From: Paul McCarthy
Series: What's What Radio
Caption: Bertie Pearson, Credit: Rama Hughes
Bertie Pearson is an Episcopal priest in San Francisco. Before becoming a priest, he led two lives: one as a churchgoer, one as a rocker. So he w...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 46:31
Voicebox: Turntable Fable
From: VoiceBox
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Peter Varshavsky of Porto Franco Records and Avi Ehrlich of Springman Records present a candid view of the highs and lows of running a record label...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
VoiceBox: Hawaii Song-O: On the Art of Hula Singing
From: VoiceBox
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n Hawaiian Hula, singing and dancing going hand in hand. Join Patrick Makuakane, director of Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, a hula school and performance ...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
I've Got the Blues and I've Got Soul! The Incredible Jimmy Smith
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: The Incredible Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith was instrumental in shifting the Hammond organ into the spotlight in the jazz genre and his many Blue Note albums of the 50s and 60s, i...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, KSRQ, and KREV-LP


  • Added: May 27, 2012
  • Length: 50:05
  • Purchases: 5
Rufusized: Tony Maiden & kevin Murphy of Rufus Vol. II
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan, Credit: MCA
The story of RUFUS featuring CHAKA KHAN in their own words, by two of the founding members; keyboardist KEVIN MURPHY and guitarist TONY MAIDEN.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 54:21
Rufusized: Tony Maiden & kevin Murphy of Rufus Vol. III
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Rufus (Tony Maiden and Kevin Murphy), Credit: Rufus (Tony Maiden and Kevin Murphy)
The story of RUFUS featuring CHAKA KHAN in their own words, by two of the founding members; keyboardist KEVIN MURPHY and guitarist TONY MAIDEN.

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 58:26
  • Purchases: 1
What was the last thing that made you really happy?
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Eating a sandwich? Going on a date? A vacation?

  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:37
Acoustic Youth
From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes
Caption: Adam Larkey
Many of the musicians who perform at fiddlers' conventions and music festivals throughout southern Appalachia are, in fact, young kids.

Bought by WMMT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
How To Make It As A Band
From: WTMD
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Baltimore Unsigned host Sam Sessa interviews club owners, artists and producers on how a band could get their big break.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 09:05
Show 7: Love Songs Part II
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Dr. Bill King
Extends part 6 by looking at "Visions of Johanna"

Bought by KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 6
"Stars Over Hollywood" Interview with David Kennedy Part 1
From: Christopher Noyes
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Interview with Astrologer David Kennedy About His Book "Stars Over Hollywood"

  • Added: Dec 23, 2007
  • Length: 20:05
What's the Word? Al Pacino's Shakespeare
From: Modern Language Association
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Actor Al Pacino's mission to bring Shakespeare to a wider audience...

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 4
HEAT -- The Beginning of the End
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: HEAT with JOHN HOCKENBERRY
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Just before Nelson Mandela's release from prison, John Hockenberry speaks with South African musician Johnny Clegg and political comedian Jimmy Tin...

Bought by KZYX, WCPN, KLCC, KERA, WCQS and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2007
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
HEAT -- Stories We Can Tell
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: HEAT with JOHN HOCKENBERRY
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John swaps stories with Singer/Songwriter Luka Bloom, Storyteller Mike Feder and Lynda Barry

Bought by WCPN, KLCC, WGBH Radio Boston, KERA, and WCQS


  • Added: Feb 28, 2007
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 5
Apology Accepted
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
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Late night phone call to Dad

Bought by KISU and WYSO


  • Added: Jan 21, 2004
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 2