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FutureSound with CUSCINO (Program 19)
From: C. CUSCINO
Series: Future/Sound with CUSCINO
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FutureSound is a weekly series hosted and curated by DJ and music producer CUSCINO (Los Angeles). FutureSound features a continuous mix of progress...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2015
  • Length: 58:24
Song of little Hope
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: Highlights
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Little Hope Cloude makes up her song as she sings...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:49
Arden Junior High School Jazz Band (1973)
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: Highlights
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If you play this piece twice, it'll haunt you -- your leg won't stop rockin' no matter how many times you slap it -- and those wireless speakers be...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 08:55
How To Set a Guinness World Record...maybe
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Syracuse University Passover in the Carrier Dome Breaks Their Record with 530 People in Attendance
Hillel at Syracuse University shows us how easy it just may be to set a Guinness World Record and be remembered by the world.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:33
Four Year Old's Heart Set on Career at ESPN
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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My four-year-old brother represents the meaning of a true sports' fanatic. When he's not at preschool or taking a nap, you can typically find him o...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 04:08
VoxPod #1 - Leaps of Faith
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
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Today's show features two stories about fitting into religious communities.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 1
Standing on the Shoulders of the Royal Chicano Airforce
From: Anne Hoffman
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The Chicano movement changed California forever in the 1960s and 70s, and its legacy continues in the form of a Sacramento arts center for kids of ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 04:51
Learning to Lie
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week, we take a deep look at how and why we learn to lie, and what lying does to you

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Restorative Justice: Reconciling Face to Face
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Victims and perpetrators sitting down face to face...it can help heal their wounds, and our society. Incarcerating our way out of crime clearly has...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
World of Warcraft - A Typical Day
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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World of Warcraft – a mystical game filled with terrible, grotesque creatures. But to high school student, Sara, this strange game is her world. Ta...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 18:33
Trip to Minnehaha Falls.
From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Educators and middle school students take a poetic trip from a middle school to Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Mary Jane Mindset: Teenagers and Marijuana
From: Radio Rookies
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Radio Rookies Temitayo Fagbenle and Gemma Weiner spent the past several months talking to dozens of teenagers who smoke weed about where they buy i...

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


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:17
  • Purchases: 2
The Peter Yarrow Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
The Taj Mahal Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:13
Mother
From: Littleglobe
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In his honest and heart-wrenching piece, Lee's strong love for his mother parallels his strong yearning to be understood and accepted in her eyes.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
Noise series retold by Matthew Herbert
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
Caption: Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert who is most famous for his album 'One Pig' retells the story of the Noise: A Human History series using only the sounds themselves....

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 13, 2013
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 2
House Music Scene
From: Brooklyn College Radio
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A "house-head" is someone who enjoys the music, the dance and the positive vibe that is a part of the house music culture. What is House Music? Mec...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 07:32
StoryCorps: Happy Dodson and Taz Roman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Happy Dodson (L) and Taz Roman (R)
Happy Dodson and Taz Roman, members of Bikers Against Child Abuse, talk about their work.

Bought by WEZU and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 2
Purple
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Audio Storytelling
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Ned Averill-Snell remembers a side-of-the-road breakdown after a summer Shakespeare show, where a roadside diner crowd had to face a shaggy actor s...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 02:45
Teenage Diaries Revisited: Juan
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries Revisited
Caption: Juan holds a photograph of himself from 16 years ago., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
16 years ago, Juan reported on his life as a recent Mexican immigrant living in poverty in Texas. In his new diary, Juan takes us on a tour of the ...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Trick That Turned Skateboarding Upside Down
From: Andrew Norton
Caption: The February 1985 cover featuring McGill unveiling the McTwist, Credit: Transworld Skateboarding
After almost 30 years, the McTwist still perplexes skaters—and sends them to the hospital. Tony Hawk and other skaters recount the history of the t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
Old Skool Cafe addresses new school problems
From: KALW
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Old Skool Café is a 1940s-themed jazz supperclub, run by at-risk youth. They cook homemade food, serve it to all guests, and perform their music, d...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2012
  • Length: 07:56
Cathedral of Junk
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
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Youth reporters from Kealing Middle School explore the incredible fantastical world of Vince Hanneman's Cathedral of Junk in Austin, Texas. Produce...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 1
Gamun-Pyul
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: Flushing 2010
Caption: Rayon Wright with K-Pop Artist JYP
18 year old Caribbean American, Rayon Wright, sets out to be a K-Pop producer.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 3
Ban(ne)d by Distance
From: Eleni Lola
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Band by distance… or banned by distance? A radio portrait for one of the two members of a band that is banned by distance, The Pencils!

  • Added: May 06, 2012
  • Length: 07:09