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"The In-Between" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: A possessed basement. A magic mirror. A shop of spirits. Mysterious lights whe...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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"Go Tell It In The Desert" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Arik was burning to share his faith with the world. But the people h...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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"Hoofprints On The Heart" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: This is the story of a love that spans continents. Jon Dunham set out...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
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"Home On The Waves With A Seafaring Cowboy" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Herb Pownall wanted to see the world. So he boarded...

Bought by KSTK and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The paleo diet aims to take nutrition back to the basics—to the way Paleolithic people ate. But prehistoric people didn’t eat boneless chicken brea...

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, and KRZA


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 16:34
  • Purchases: 3
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In a world where specializing in one sport is becoming more and more common, Marisa Romeo bucks that trend. She uses her talents to play both lacro...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 1
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After the fall of the Soviet Union Ukrainian-born opera director Julia Lwowski was able to come to Germany because she was a Jew. But was she?

  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 26:59
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Substituting for California girl, Peggy Lou, so just songs about the idea fo "California."

  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:35
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This week on Art Beat, we talk to Ryuta Nakajima to discuss his exhibit Squid and I, at the MMAM. Nakajima’s work investigates the origin of visual...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 15:27
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A boom in new, young residents is great for business, unless you’re the neighborhood funeral home.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 04:36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jessi Silva (left) and Maggie Marquez (right)
Maggie Marquez and Jessi Silva grew up in the desert town of Marfa, Texas in the 1950s. At the time, segregation of Latino and white students was n...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
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On this week's Art Beat we visit with Sharon Mansur, a Winona based contemporary dance and visual artist who's performance/installation, Dreaming U...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 30:40
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Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily be...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:39:22
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Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:56:19
Caption: Stanis?aw Skrowaczewski, 1981, Credit: Irena Jarosi?ska / PAP
Conductors lead orchestras and other musical groups during performances and recording sessions. Composers write and arrange original music.

Bought by KMUN, WETS, KMUN, WETS, KHSU and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra, Credit: Steve Rouch
The Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra has 25 mandolins and plays a combination of specially composed mandolin music and tunes everybody has heard. Lon H...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 07:59
Caption: Eric Kaiser and his Tern Sculpture. April 12th,2017. Cotuit. , Credit: Mitch Borden
Eric Kaiser started wood carving for a simple reason: he wanted a creative challenge. He decided to focus on one subject only, over and over. Birds...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:26
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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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At Baldwin Elementary School in Austin, Texas, students have invented their own game based on a book series. Hear all about their elaborate rules a...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Ok so Host Marc Cuniberti is on a run of off the wall news pieces. Another "not so normal" news piece. Once again its not about the stock markets b...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Preview- not money news, off the topic, just a fun newspiece about news reporters by Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti. Funny piece but preview fir...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2017
  • Length: 04:18
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A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: stories of animal encounters. A scientist risks his reputation to pursue Bigfoot; pigeons save t...

Bought by Raven Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., New Hampshire Public Radio, KUT, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:25
  • Purchases: 5
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Herb Pownall wanted to see the world. So he boarded a ship bound for Europe…along with 800 cows.

Bought by KRZA and KUER


  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 19:18
  • Purchases: 2
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This is the story of a love that spans continents. Jon Dunham set out on the longest, toughest walk of his life. But along the way, he met someone ...

Bought by KUER, KRZA, New Hampshire Public Radio, Marfa Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 21:12
  • Purchases: 5