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Shamans
From: Allan Coukell
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In Mongolia, the word's oldest religion is changing

Bought by KTNA, KUCB, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 31, 2005
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 3
Winter Composting
From: Shana S. Weber, Ph.D.
Series: BioSphere
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Composting is possible even in a deep freeze

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 27, 2005
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Graduation Story
From: Terin Mayer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Emily Schwing is graduating out of sync, and without pomp and circumstance, but why should you care?

  • Added: Nov 25, 2005
  • Length: 05:31
Becoming a Man
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Blunt Presents: Youth and Sex
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Do you need to lose your virginity to be considered a man? Parris Cayer-Leary turns to his grandfather for answers.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Nov 22, 2005
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Comfort Food
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this amusing piece Adrian Boyés plunges into the mysteries surrounding comfort food.

Bought by WXLV-FM, PRX, KUCB, WNKU, KUOW and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2005
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 6
Bringing home the bones
From: Allan Coukell
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Indigenous people re-bury their stolen ancestors

Bought by KLCC, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KSUT, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 5
Zoe Raises Birds
From: KBOO Youth Collective
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Zoe, a 7 year old girl, describes raising birds.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2005
  • Length: 06:38
Leave Daffy alone!
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Warner Brothers messes with the classics. Stop them.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2005
  • Length: 02:10
RN EuroQuest (#37): Back to School
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Back to School with EuroQuest

Bought by WKSU


  • Added: Sep 13, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Utah Murderball
From: KCPW Salt Lake City
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A profile of Quad Rugby players in Utah.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2005
  • Length: 05:12
Make room for shame.
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The role of shame in society examined.

  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 01:54
Over-Identified
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Identity theft: how can they steal us when we don't know who we are?

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:09
Jan On Jack
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Jan Kerouac delivering her own poem to Jack over his own poem 30 years previously.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, and KGLT


  • Added: Apr 21, 2005
  • Length: 06:34
  • Purchases: 3
The Poet and the Painter
From: Jackson Braider
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The story of how a poet inspired a painter to draw a picture about a poem that had, in turn, been inspired by a piece of the painter's work.

Bought by KUCB, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHQR, and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 27, 2005
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 4
In a Bubble
From: Hillary Frank
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Four teens talk about what it's like to be quiet in school.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Remix Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMPG, East Village Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 8
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: Will the Real Will Shakespeare Please Stand Up?
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Poetry
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Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt and Amsterdam writer Rodney Bolt face off in a discussion on the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays moderated b...

Bought by KFCF FM, WCPN, KQED, and WHQR


  • Added: Feb 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
Miss Dumpy
From: jessica lockhart
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Recycling taken to the extreme, a beauty pagent at the town dump.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2005
  • Length: 04:06
Dr. Pong
From: monika mueller
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Dr. Pong Table Tennis Bar in Berlin

  • Added: Jan 17, 2005
  • Length: 03:47
A Beginner's Guide to Hitchhiking
From: Jonathan Mitchell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
the pros and cons of hitching a ride

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Remix Radio, KGLT and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2005
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 7
City X
From: Jonathan Mitchell
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A history of the mall, as told by an anonymous city

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, KUOW, PRX to iTunes, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2005
  • Length: 22:33
  • Purchases: 16
Mustang Stevie
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Do dead movie stars sell cars?

  • Added: Nov 30, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
Metrology
From: Allan Coukell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A romp through the history of measurement standards.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and AMERICAN-FM Internet Radio


  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 2
Neil Feather's Musical Chop Shop
From: Aaron Henkin
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If a musical instrument and a household appliance were thrown together into a particle accelerator, Neil Feather's music would be the result.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: Nov 03, 2004
  • Length: 10:30
  • Purchases: 1
EQ Segment: Halal Chicken at French KFC
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN EuroQuest: Public Radio's Weekly European Journal
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French Muslims are launching alternatives to perceived American products including Halal Fried Chicken and Mecca Cola

Bought by WPSU and WYSO


  • Added: Sep 29, 2004
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 2

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