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What's the Word? Chinese Women's Poetry
From: Modern Language Association
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A celebration of Chinese women poets.

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


  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 30:03
  • Purchases: 11
East Coast Culture Shock
From: Youth Radio
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After experiencing her first semester away at college, Youth Radio’s Nora Harrington realized that the hometown she was so happy to leave behind wa...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2005
  • Length: 01:51
Lapsarian Hummingbirds
From: Dale Short
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A poetic tribute to the arrival of the hummingbird

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WYSO


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 2
Home Planet: The Temporary Green of Spring
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Writer Cheryl-Anne Millsap reflects on the meaning of being "green."

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: Mar 11, 2005
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1
Labor Express for 12-19-04
From: WLUW
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This is the Dec. 19th 2004 episode of Labor Express in full.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2005
  • Length: 01:01:04
Time in Film
From: Jonathan Mitchell
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it is precise to say that events take time

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, WBHM, KZSC and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2005
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 7
RN Documentary: Pow Wow at Porcupine
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: Buffalo Nation/Pow Wow Hour Special
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Hot summer fun in the US state of South Dakota: The pow wow in the town of Porcupine on Pine Ridge Reservation is alive with jokes, music and dance.

Bought by WGDR, WGBH Radio Boston, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and KSUT


  • Added: Feb 18, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 5
Young French gypsies keep Django flame alive
From: John Laurenson
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Young French gypsy guitarists have created a tradition out of the music pioneered by the founding father of jazz guitar Django Reinhardt

Bought by XRAY.fm, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUT-HD, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KWGS and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2005
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 7
A Century of Heroes: Week Two
From: David Bear
Series: A Century of Heroes
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Five 90-second programs, each recounting a remarkable act of everyday courage drawn from the Carnegie Hero Fund archives.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2005
  • Length: 07:43
With God On Our Side: From Rivalry To Reconciliation
From: Richard Paul
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How people of faith view people of other faiths -- PROMOS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THIS PIECE

Bought by Interfaith Voices, PRX to iTunes, Spokane Public Radio, Audible, KUOW and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2005
  • Length: 54:18
  • Purchases: 6
Jews & Blues: Inside Out
From: Inside Out Documentaries
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The story of how Jewish and African-American music came to be mingled is the story of how the soundtrack of the American Century came to be written

Bought by WCPN, 90.5 WSNC, KSFR, WNIJ, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2005
  • Length: 01:02:30
  • Purchases: 13
What's the Word? The Blues as Literature
From: Modern Language Association
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Blues lyrics give us unique insight into the African American experience.

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


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 22
What's the Word? W. E. B. Du Bois
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Two half-hour programs celebrating Black History Month
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Considered by many the most important African American leader of the early twentieth century, sociologist, historian, author, teacher, and activist...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, KUOW, KVNF, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 47
RN Documentary: Adrift in Sri Lanka
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Marijke van der Meer was a tourist in Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit and recorded her experiences in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.

Bought by Central Florida Public Media


  • Added: Jan 27, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Embroidery Felon
From: Jonathan Mitchell
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a prison inmate finds redemption in a pair of socks

Bought by WABE, The Story, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2005
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 8
357 Synesthesia
From: Lichtenstein Creative Media
Series: The Infinite Mind
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The world of scrambled senses.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and WBRS


  • Added: Jan 20, 2005
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 2
To Hug or Not to Hug?
From: Steven Tagle
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This short audio essay questions the male aversion to heartfelt hugs.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2005
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Beauty of Lois Vierk
From: Jonathan Mitchell
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a composer discusses the nature of beauty

Bought by The Story, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WFUV, and WHQR


  • Added: Jan 18, 2005
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 5
International Activists React to the U.S. Election
From: Aimee Pomerleau
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Activists around the world react to President Bush's election.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 14, 2005
  • Length: 26:19
  • Purchases: 1
Dowser, Consultant to the Universe
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Water dowser Glen Johnson makes a mistake.

Bought by KPIK-LP, KPIK-LP, SALTcast Podcast, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 4
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Path To Nonviolence -29:00 Version (Peace Talks Radio Series)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s journey to a philosophy of nonviolence and his lasting legacy as a peace proponent is recalled in interviews with his daug...

Bought by KQAL, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMU St. Louis, WFHB, KISU and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 49
The Instrumental Jazz Trio RED
From: ArtMusic Coffeehouse International Webcasts
Series: ArtMusic Coffeehouse
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An musical journey with R E D, the superb instrumental jazz trio of Ralph Diekemper, Dennis Alston, and Edward Jerome Carr.

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT


  • Added: Dec 24, 2004
  • Length: 01:57:57
  • Purchases: 1
On a Mission
From: Aimee Pomerleau
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2 gay former Mormons talk about their experiences coming out.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and CKMO


  • Added: Dec 22, 2004
  • Length: 29:13
  • Purchases: 2
Media Democracy, Peace and Justice
From: Aimee Pomerleau
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An audio collage celebrating media democracy, peace and justice.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2004
  • Length: 05:07
Snowballs at Midnight Mass
From: Andrew Witmer
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Essayist Jonathan Malesic learns something new about Christmas after attending one of the only midnight Catholic masses ever to end in a snowball f...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KUT, KUT-HD, KMXT, WNKU and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2004
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 11

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