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Documentary on the life and work of media reform activist Wally Bowen, founder and executive director of the Mountain Area Information Network (MAI...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 47:43
In the nether regions of New Jersey is a summer camp that uses pianos and shovels to break social barriers...they've been at it since the 1960s.
A...
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 09:16
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 13:22
Some 40 years ago the Nature Conservancy began buying up the barrier islands of Virginia and the riparian areas on the mainland. Today they own all...
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 27:13
The Tympanic Eclipse is an audio series that brings cultural theory out of its stuffy scholarly tomes, and puts it into your ears.
Together with e...
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: :00
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 15:00
- Purchases: 1
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
In the past decade, dark sky festivals have become attractions in parks across the U.S.
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix and more
- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 04:39
- Purchases: 6
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 55:38
Rolanda Scott can take a chunk of solid glass, drop it in a flower pot then super heat it in her kiln, turning it into liquid, which she then pours...
- Added: Oct 18, 2011
- Length: 53:46
Benuel Esch grew up Amish in Lancaster Pennsylvania, but twenty years ago he started asking questions. Though he left to explore other paths, he fi...
- Added: Jan 13, 2011
- Length: 07:44
- Purchases: 4
In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack heads downstairs to the Paramount Theater studios to talk with Heidi Stedman f...
- Added: Dec 15, 2010
- Length: 29:46
Poet, Scholar and Artist Tomas Q. Morin talks about his life and career, and reads a few of his own works.
- Added: Mar 17, 2010
- Length: 10:59
Between 50 and 80 percent of American adults carry oral herpes, the virus that causes sold sores. Many people with oral herpes never show any symp...
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 07:19
Jim Leach, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, speaks at the National Press Club
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 54:01
Rolanda Scott, an art teacher and glass sculptor, has had one bout of cancer after another for the past eight years. When her time comes Rolanda's ...
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 29:23
Students of the shakuhachi flute learn about music, listening, and presence in their daily lives.
- Added: Dec 04, 2008
- Length: 06:37
The School of Lost Borders organizes solo wilderness retreats that often involve a symbolic death and rebirth experience. Hospice physician Scott...
- Added: Nov 25, 2008
- Length: 28:52
Sound collage from a small village in the north of Azerbaijan
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Connecticut Public (WNPR)
- Added: Nov 04, 2008
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 2
A fake city comes to life to prove that dialogue and ideas can transform a region.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Louisville Public Media, PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW and more
- Added: Aug 11, 2008
- Length: 17:51
- Purchases: 6
Joshua Tree National Park struggles against global warming, pollution, and a flat budget.
- Added: Dec 11, 2007
- Length: 07:34
Matt learns of the volunteer effort first hand at the Berkeley Marina
- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 07:39
Filmmaker Elizabeth Westrate talks with P.O.V. about the making of her film "A Family Undertaking"
- Added: Sep 14, 2007
- Length: 09:18
High school senior Lena Eckert-Erdheim explores making it out of high school and making a decision about what to do next.
Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WXLV-FM
- Added: Apr 03, 2007
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Feb 27, 2007
- Length: 07:26
