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Kitchen objects with a story. Listen at your own whisk
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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You know those tools, utensils, or family heirlooms you have in your kitchen? Well, you'll hear eleven people's stories about them on this episode ...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
Thanksgiving Tunes
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Sounds Jewish prepares for Thanksgiving with a global playlist of Jewish songs and shtick about gratitude, blessings, hospitality -- and dinner.

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 5: Legacy
From: Center for Rural Strategies
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We talk about the lasting legacy of rural horror, and what the tropes and shorthand used by horror filmmakers continue to reveal about the world ar...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 41:33
Episode 4: Supernatural
From: Center for Rural Strategies
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We dig into the folk horror and how it uses rural places to illustrate modern tensions between science and the supernatural.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 37:01
Horrors of the Night
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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October is the time for ghost stories, in this season of growing darkness.Tonight we are visited by a mysterious geist, in an ancient old city that...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Passover Seder Sounds
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next "Sounds Jewish" for our annual global musical seder.

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Global Rosh Hashanah Playlist
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for a global Rosh Hashanah playlist inspired by the holiday liturgy and some deep thinking.

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shortcuts Back To Work
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: The Worker
Labor Day extended special with history of worker's daily struggles mixed with cultural and musical references

  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:07
Razorblades in Apples?
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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It happens every year, temperatures drop for some needed relief from summer, kids go back to school, leaves start changing, and the fall season is...

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 33:56
Traveling Music
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Howard Johnson's
On the road home with Art Linkletter, Warren Oates, Jon Hamm, Jessica Pare, Marshall Efron, Bob & Ray, John Witherspoon, Ice Cube, James Taylor, Jo...

Bought by WLRH and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:08
  • Purchases: 2
Snakesgiving Day Weekend
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The holiday so nice we celebrate it twice: once when the snakes come out, and once when the snakes go back in the ground for their long winter's nap.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Arbaeen, The Walk: A Conversation with Sheikh Mohammed Al-Hilli
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Sheikh Mohammed Al-Hilli
Sheikh Mohammed Al-Hilli discusses Arbaeen: The Walk, the first book in English about the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of Imam Husayn.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Oct 16, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
America's Melting Pot
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Cover of Theater Programme for Israel Zangwill's play "The Melting Pot", Credit: Wikipedia
We’ll speak to some talented conductors in America’s melting pot from Finland and Poland, plus the young composer Adam Schoenberg

Bought by KMUN, KWAX, WETS, KMUN, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
The History Behind Easter Traditions
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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
We'll Be Here All Night
From: Tablet Magazine
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Stories for Passover about family, slavery, food, and... well, lice.

Bought by KZYX, Troy Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WFDD, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 41
What a Year for Women!
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one-half minute commentary on progress (or not) for women worldwide in 2014.

  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Ghosts, Monsters and Scary Things (Version One)
From: Shawn McCullough
Series: 10 Min Sound Byte
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In this episode, we explore songs about Ghosts, Monsters and Scary Things.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
A Halloween R&B Funky Party
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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One hour of Halloween fun with R&B and Soul classics that you will enjoy. Your host is IGOR - the Music Monster!

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 57:04
  • Purchases: 4
Inez Mostue Norwegian folk art creator
From: KSRQ
Series: Happy Talk
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Inez Mostue creates delightful Norwegian Trolls and Nisser which are the stuff of Scandinavian folk tales. According to folk legends the Trolls cre...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 23:09
StoryCorps: Denny Daniels and Larry Rolf
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Larry Rolf (L) and Denny Daniels (R)
Best friends Denny Daniels and Larry Rolf, who were married to the same woman at different times, talk about how their unlikely friendship began.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 2
Spooky Grooves
From: Off the Dial Music Radio
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An entertaining radio show featuring songs related to Halloween!

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:04:23
"Christmas Eve at the Mermaid" by David Dodge and Loyall McLaren
From: Camino Real Productions, LLC
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Christmas Eve, 1597, in the favorite haunt of impecunious Elizabethan playwrights and actors, The Mermaid Tavern.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KUNM, and KUNM


  • Added: Dec 19, 2010
  • Length: 41:01
  • Purchases: 3
Ra2 fashion show halloween music
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Lots of halloween theme songs mashed together.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2010
  • Length: 02:01
Eid Nowruz
From: War News Radio
Caption: Men dance during the celebration of the Nowruz holiday in Kabul., Credit: Associated Press
From Out With the Old, March 26, 2010: War News Radio reports on Eid Nouruz, the Persian New York.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2010
  • Length: 06:06
"The Cartoon Carnival Pirates of the Caribbean Special" (program #22)
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Cartoon Carnival with Joe Bev.
Caption: Joe Bev's "Cartoon Carnival Pirates of the Caribbean Special" features rare audio never before heard!
A humorous journey through Disneyland's ride, including rare audio not used.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 53:56