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William J. Mann discusses "Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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William J. Mann is an American novelist, biographer, and Hollywood historian best known for his studies of Hollywood and the American film industry.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 21:16
Rebecca and Xavier
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Wiijigindiwag: To Be the Same Age
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Rebecca and Xavier sit down and have a chat in Naytawaush, Mn.

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 27:48
  • Purchases: 2
Snap 521: The Passion Part 1: Snap Live! In SF, 9/11/2014
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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On the next Snap, we're dropping the story-pocalypse. Snap Judgment presents "The Passion" performed LIVE! in San Francisco's Nourse Theater. Amazi...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
Ed Kurtz discusses "The Forty-Two"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Ed Kurtz is the author of A WIND OF KNIVES, CONTROL, and DEAD TRASH, as well as numerous short stories. His work has appeared in Needle: A Magazine...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 16:42
Natrese Thomas, Police Dispatcher
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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Behind drawn shades in a brightly lit room downtown, dispatchers for the Los Angeles Police Department answer 9-1-1 calls and send officers to thei...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
Lanesoboro Live This Weekend!
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Today on Don't Cha Know, we visit with Damon Prestemon, host and creator of Lanesboro Live. Together, we will visit about the upcoming show which f...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2014
  • Length: 13:21
Snap 514: Bloodlines, 6/26/2014
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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You know them. You are them and they are you. Until one day, you don't know them at all. On the next Snap Judgment, from PRX and NPR, we proudly pr...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
Joking
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week on State of the Human we’re investigating how people use joking to create new realities for themselves and the people around them.

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:18
  • Purchases: 2
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist Richard Ford
From: New Letters on the Air
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We finish National Novel Writing Month with the Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Ford, who sees fiction as a vehicle to provide renewal and ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Winona State University Presents: Speech & Debate
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Winona State University's Department of Theatre and Dance produced the play "Speech and Debate". The play is a dark comedy that surrounds teenagers...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 12:09
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat : Sharon Harris - "Will You Stay"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Sharon Harris is a member of the Jackpine Writer's Block, and a native of Park Rapids. She has published three books of poetry. The Beat is a daily...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:39
Leaving A Mark (Censored)
From: Emily Hsiao
Caption: Bruce's tattoo, Credit: Emily Hsiao
Emily Hsiao finds a man on Craigslist who wants his swastika tattoo covered up. And then she goes and meets him. **This is the clean version of th...

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


  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 13:13
  • Purchases: 5
Leaving A Mark (Uncensored)
From: Emily Hsiao
Caption: Bruce's tattoo, Credit: Emily Hsiao
Emily Hsiao finds a man on Craigslist who wants his swastika tattoo covered up. And then she goes and meets him. **This is the explicit version o...

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 13:13
  • Purchases: 1
Sounds Familiar #7: Footsteps
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
Caption: Inside the studio at Footsteps
Foley artists are the unsung performers behind the Hollywood blockbusters. They design and perform the sounds you hear in the movies, from fistfigh...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 09, 2012
  • Length: 11:38
  • Purchases: 1
There's Nothing to Worry About
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron Brown on superstitions.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
UnFictional: The Couple in 303
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Boston Irish mob boss "Whitey" Bulger and his girlfriend spent 15 years hiding out in Santa Monica. Residents say the most wanted man in America wa...

Bought by KMUZ, WFMU, Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 5
The Art of Doug Scholz-Carlson
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: Doug Scholz-Carlson
Today on Art Beat we visit with a multi faceted theatre professional. Doug Schulz Carlson in Associate Producing Director and acting company member...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 31:41
  • Purchases: 1
Changing Roles and Rules
From: Amy Gastelum
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Stef Adkins competes in his very first Drag Competition as Barbie Que, juggling issues of identity and boundaries.

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


  • Added: May 26, 2012
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 2
39 Steps at The Lanesboro Commonweal Theatre
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Today on Art Beat, we take a trip to The Commonweal Theatre Company in Lanesboro MN where Patrick Barlow’s outrageous comedy The 39 Steps is in per...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KVSC


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 33:33
  • Purchases: 2
Ed Asner is "FDR"
From: Dawn Newton
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Emmy award winner Ed Asner talks with Dawn Newton about is appearance in the one man show, "FDR". Asner also comments on how those "FDR" years sha...

  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 09:10
Pete's Story
From: Maggie Saia
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Pete described himself as relentless. This innate perseverance lead him to overdose on heroin, and live to tell the tale.

  • Added: May 06, 2012
  • Length: 17:55
IBRT Season 2, Episode 1; 'Stroke of Genius'
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: The Icebox Radio Theater
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The Icebox Radio Theater has been creating great stories about life in the Far-North since 2004. Award-winning, mind bending, spine chilling, laugh...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Apr 13, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:01
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with August Wilson Scholar Jeannie Zeck
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features a conversation with August Wilson scholar Jeannie Zeck about Wilson’s plays and the many influences on his work; the show also features pe...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:03
A Conversation with Aditi Brennan Kapil
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Aditi Brennan Kapil discusses the ways her mixed cultural background informed her play, Agnes Under the Big Top: A Tall Story. [29:32]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2012
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 1
Steve Boman's "Film School"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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A career journalist takes on and eventually overcomes artistic, academic, and health challenges and lives to tell about it in "Film School."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 26:06
  • Purchases: 1

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