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Caption: None of This Is Normal!
Life is But A Dream mix with current affairs blending music and politics with celebrations of the famous & infamous on "Nuit sur Les Champs-Elysees...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:49
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Hermann Rorschach’s inkblot test has become ubiquitous in pop-culture as shorthand for both psychiatry and the subconscious. The first biography of...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 1
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“If you’re listening to this while driving a car, obviously, leave your eyes open.” In this special appendix to our recent episode on psychoacousti...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 08:35
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The “body farm” at Texas State University is a place almost no one except researchers and law enforcement is able to see, because it’s one of very ...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 31:13
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Studs Terkel interviews a gravedigger in 1972 for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 4
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A first-person account of being a standardized patient and discovering the importance of the doctor-patient relationship.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 1
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"What Blood, What Earth", is a documentary on the life of Puerto Rican black metal artist MQ. His story leads the listener on a journey from pre-co...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 27:20
Caption: The Prayer Center of Orland Park sits on a hilltop 35 miles southwest of Chicago. , Credit: Alyssa Schukar
An inside look at an American mosque: the story of two men who set out to build a "model mosque" in the suburbs of Chicago.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
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An insight into Irish contemporary circus, with regards to the many circus schools and institutions popping up around the country. And a look at th...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 27:56
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“A Time for Heroes” As the children prepare to fight the coming of the white rabbit, and the community struggles with how to protect our sons and ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 31:54
  • Purchases: 1
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“Down the Rabbit Hole” This happened in early October just a few weeks ago in a small coastal town. A boy named Fox, age ten, went missing from hi...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 30:40
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If you have been listening to the news since the highly contagious, Draco Incendia Trychophyton or “Dragonscale” began to spread, you know what kin...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 21:26
Caption: Kelly Cotton walks through the Westmont neighborhood with her kids, Credit: George Lavender
One small neighborhood of Los Angeles accounted for thousands of bookings into county jail over a five year period.

Bought by PRX Remix, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Muhammad Ali, Credit: Gordon Parks
"Float like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee...". This is my tribute to Muhammad Ali. An impressionistic mix of sound and music dedicated to "The Grea...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Research Vessel Atlantis
An American scientific research ship responds to a sinking boat full of refugees in the Mediterranean.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 1
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For years, Michael Page has struggled to work out his troubles through art, creating a catalog of dark and strange music.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
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An arts student wanted to capture an honest picture of his grandparents. So he chose to betray their trust.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 17:32
Caption: The WGSP "Prisoner of Rock 'n' Roll" Album
An oral history of WGSP - a 5,000 watt daytime only AM radio station that, in early 1985, transformed itself from a dismally-rated "moldie oldies" ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:20:10
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The book Michelle Remembers helped fuel a Satanic Panic in the 1980s across North America. This episode of Sleepy City looks at the tale and how i...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2015
  • Length: 38:40
Caption: The view looking west down Wisconsin Ave. in Tieton, WA. , Credit: Photo by Phoebe Flanigan
How a detour, a patch of goathead thorns, and a flat tire changed one guy's life, and brought an economic boost to a sleepy, little town in rural W...

Bought by WMMT, KALW, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 20:03
  • Purchases: 3
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It's like gang warfare, but with really tiny gang members. Some microbes provide their relatives with protection, emitting antibiotics that kill of...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
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A program about people who change the world through innovation and creativity!

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 53:43
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Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer. When she came to New York twenty-one years ago to rehearse for a concert at Carnegie Hall, she never imag...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 14:09
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Bringing wolves back to the West has tested the legal system’s tolerance for restoring wild places ­­ Especially when humans live nearby. This year...

Bought by PRX Remix and KALW


  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 16:25
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ben Todd of Lonesome Shack restores broken guitars, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Ben Todd restores guitars for The Trading Musician in Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood. And he's become deeply embedded in the local music scene. B...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 1