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Caption: Nancy Kelly,, San Francisco, CA 9/27/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Nancy Kelly talks cause, effect, and how saving the Marin Headlands paved the way for Alice Waters.

  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 24:05
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After working for years as a corporate lawyer in England, Alex George moved to the states with his family and opened his own law practice in mid-Mi...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Robert Osborne and Robert Wagner, San Francisco, CA 4/16/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Robert Osborne and Robert Wagner talk improvisation,Charlie Chaplin, and the evolution of screen size.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:13
Caption: Benny Goodman
In the 1930’s, the clarinetist and bandleader, Benny Goodman, brought jazz stylings to mainstream America. With this short feature jazz historian a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Benny Goodman
In this Views and Brews Remix feature on Benny Goodman host Rebecca McInroy and Rabbi Neil Blumofe engage in a spirited discussion about Goodman's ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 1
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
Caption: Sergio Sanchez, Belen Atienza, Juan Antionio Bayona, San Francisco CA, 10/31/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Co-producer Belen Atienza, director Juan Antonio Bayona, and screenwriter Sergio Sanchez, talk control, heart, and respect.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 11:55
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Director/co-writer Nikolaj Arcel talks human nature, bending genders, and impressing his mother.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 16:35
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Sacha Gervasi talks legends, reality, and the magic of the number 27.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2012
  • Length: 16:32
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George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, has created countless festivals worldwide and can be connected to every important jazz musician ...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Jul 31, 2012
  • Length: 15:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993)
This one hour music program is an introduction to DIZZY GILLESPIE and contains nine recordings.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, WVAS, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2012
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 6
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Anita Monga, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, talks preservation, going digital, and why Buster Keaton is funny in any ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 16:39
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This is a show featuring cover versions of American R&B recorded by The Beatles!

  • Added: Jun 12, 2012
  • Length: 26:11
Caption: Adam Shankman, San Francisco, CA 5/30/32, Credit: Andrea Chase
Adam Shankman talks existential clarity, the economics of musical cinema, and joy, joy, joy.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 12:50
Caption: Tanya Wexler, San Francisco, CA 5/1/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Tanya Wexler talks standing ovations, double-entendres, and setting the mood.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 25:04
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Imagine growing up in a family business that was founded upon your grandmother's horseradish sauce? Domonic Biggi can. He recounts that his grand...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2012
  • Length: 24:19
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Tremolo, one of music's most basic effects, has an incomplete history. What we do know links centuries of composition.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Michel Hazanavicius, San Francisco, CA 10/16/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Oscar(tm)-winner Michel Hazanavicius talks silence, sound, and using color to get to black & white.

  • Added: Dec 04, 2011
  • Length: 18:21
Caption: Simon Curtis, San Francisco, CA 10/11/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Director Simon Curtis on recreating a legend, living up the myth, and the uses of terror.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 13:39
Caption: The American pilot Gail Halvorsen
Berlin the capital of Germany, was in a difficult situation after world war 2: The city was split into sectors by the allied forces. Military jets ...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Aug 22, 2010
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 19:19
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They have no band. No backup. No room for error. In a barbershop quartet the only instrument is the vocal chords.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 06:14
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Randal Keynes on CREATION, the film version of his book of the same name about his ancestor, Charles Darwin.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2010
  • Length: 14:27
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Andrea LeVasseur, Archeologist and Historian at the Chippewa National Forest, talks about the history of the Supervisor's Headquarters in the CNF a...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 14:23
  • Purchases: 1
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New York has its Coney Island; Tulsa had its Bell’s Amusement Park. Founded in 1951, Bell’s rapidly became the city’s must-visit attraction--but to...

Bought by The Neighborhood


  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 1