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Caption: Preyas Roy performs at the corner of Michigan and Randolph, in downtown Chicago
Preyas Roy has performed in famous venues like the Jazz Showcase. But he makes his living on a downtown Chicago street corner — despite the unwield...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:56
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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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Dr Cable explains why scientists often assume that water is needed to sustain life. She explains why most life, like us, likely is carbon-based, an...

  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 14:27
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Dr. Kelsi Singer shares some of the incredible discoveries that she and the NASA New Horizons team are making. We also discuss a contentious issue—...

  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 14:35
Caption: Dr James Leary, Credit: Jeff Miller of University Communications at UW-Madison
The Celebration for the publishing of Dr James Leary’s Folksongs of Another America takes place Friday Night April 1 at Celtic Junction. It is a wo...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
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Segment 1: Matt Thornhill/boomer marketing Segment 2&3: Gwen Rosener and Linda Murphy/women's employment Segment 4: Henry Alford/manners Segment 5:...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Mar 12, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • 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
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How Moshe Dayan’s wife and Yasser Arafat’s mother-in-law became bosom buddies, and other tales of unlikely friendships.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 44:06
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“I crawled through the underbrush, then I popped out into a beautiful, green clearing in the middle of the city. And in the center of it, about 20 ...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 12:00
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
Caption: Courtesy of T. Demand, Credit: (cc) <a href=" http://www.faunaflorawallpaper.com/viewer/wallpaper.php?/rabbit/31680/rabbit-easter-eggs-ccbysa-Gerbil">T. Demand</a>
The stories behind popular Easter traditions like the Easter Bunny and decorating eggs.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, 'The Sea', WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 7
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When Amy and Ryan Green's son Joel was diagnosed with cancer, they decided build an inspirational video game based on this treatment. But Joel didn...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 17:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Rick Abath tells his wife, Diana, about being the night security guard at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum during the biggest art heist in ...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 13, 2015
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 3
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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
Caption: Programmers show off their virtual reality experiments.
Cris Miranda believes in the promise of virtual reality. After decades of hype, 2015 may be the year that it breaks into homes around the country.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 11:41
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Freedom of speech is a right guaranteed in the first amendment of the constitution. One exception to the rule is obscenity. But determining what is...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 16:05
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A sport for the twenty-first century? Two words: rocket racing. Ann Kane explores this real-life combination of NASA and NASCAR. Then, Lillian Warn...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:21
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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: Joanna Ebenstein holding a taxidermy two-headed duckling at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Joanna Ebenstein, founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, tells her father, Bob, about the childhood...

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 28:35
Caption: Shoe Corner — St John, IN, Credit: Dennis Funk
Solving the mystery of Shoe Corner — St John, Indiana.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Martin Woods talks to Audra Wilson about the challenges and the rewards of being a Black Operatic Baritone from the West Side of Chicago, and takin...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Having your hair braided can be a matter of life or death

  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 02:53
Caption: Cartoon, "The Mascot", New Orleans, 27 July 1891. "Scenes and Incidents - A Lady Bicyclist Creates a Sensation on St. Charles Avenue".
Lacar Musgrove reads "A Moveable Race" about a 19th Century bicycle race on Thanksgiving Day in New Orleans.

Bought by Raven Radio, KTXK, Raven Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KSFR and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Shirley Temple
Tributes to Sid Caesar, Ralph Waite and Shirley Temple with introductions from Eleanor Roosevelt, Rodney Dangerfield and Maggie Estep.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:34