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Sound Ecology: Cetaceans
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the wide variety of whales, porpoises and dolphins that inhabit the waters along northern California and southern Or...

Bought by KLCC, WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
WoodSongs 816: Jonathan Edwards and Lindi Ortega
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: "Mr. Sunshine" Jonathan Edwards returns to the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes one of America’s finest songwriters Jonathan Edwards plus award winning r...

Bought by KENW, WETS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 10
S1E2 - The Blight Fight
From: ONE EIGHTY
Series: ONE-EIGHTY
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How Saginaw is eliminating blighted, vacant properties.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 25:43
Guitar Legends: Paco de Lucía
From: Matthew Cochran
Series: Goes2Eleven
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Goes2Eleven continues its tribute to guitar heroes with flamenco superman Paco de Lucía. We discuss Paco’s traditional flamenco roots and his explo...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Grandparents Who Parent (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Although grandparents have always been involved in the care of their grandchildren, a growing number of grandparents are now responsible for raisin...

Bought by WCNY, WCPN, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
Grandparents Who Parent (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Although grandparents have always been involved in the care of their grandchildren, a growing number of grandparents are now responsible for raisin...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, KRDP, WKCC, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
44: The Sounds of IU
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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The picture of Indiana University is painted by students' audible vignettes.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 16:39
Pete Seeger-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Pete Seeger
Tribute to legendary singer-songwriter, political activist and environmentalist Pete Seeger featuring interviews, music and stories from a life far...

Bought by Prairie Public, KGLT, RadioFreePalmer, and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 59:18
  • Purchases: 4
Behind Bars (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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From Tolstoy to Lermontov, the program that’s putting the Russian classics to work—in a juvenile detention center.

Bought by WCNY, KPIP-LP, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 53:50
  • Purchases: 3
Do the Math
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Civil rights activist Bob Moses famously helped organize a voter registration drive in Mississippi that changed the political landscape for the bla...

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, and KVLU


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
10.5: Celestaphone
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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A the story and sounds of an instrument made from meteorites.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Queue 12-16-12: "Walking in a Winter Graduation"
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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Culture Queue bids farewell to our Host and Managing Editor, Mark Sheely this week as he heads off to graduation. While he spends his break gazing ...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2013
  • Length: 30:17
99% Invisible #14- Periodic Table (Directors Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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The Periodic Table knew what our universe was made out of even before we did.

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Culture Queue: "The Rise of the Fall Semester"
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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This week on Culture Queue, we prepare our listeners for the start of the new semester at the University of Minnesota. We start with our Question o...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 31:04
  • Purchases: 1
Quick Queue: Four Days a Week
From: Radio K
Series: Quick Queue
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Four Days A Week, by Marjorie Otto. North Branch High School cut one school day in order to cut operating costs. Now Marjorie Otto returns to her h...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 01:12
  • Purchases: 1
Quick Queue: Campus Preachers
From: Radio K
Series: Quick Queue
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By Amy Friedman. Spend even a little time on a college campus and you're bound to run into someone preaching their key to salvation. But for some i...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:14
Culturology: Erika Kooda explores the nuts and bolts of choosing the right senior song
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Erika Kooda
During the school year Erika Kooda will be checking in with essays reflecting on her senior year experience. This is the third installment of that ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
Rock Opera, Deja Vu and Groundhogs
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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February 5, 2012. We ask the big question: What should replace Punxsutawney Phil?

  • Added: Feb 12, 2012
  • Length: 18:33
99% Invisible #14- The Periodic Table (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The Periodic Table knew what our universe was made out of even before we did.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, WMUU-LP, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 19
The Guardian's Science Weekly: Why scientists love Germany
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In a specially extended show, we visit the European Space Agency's operations centre, and get a taste of some of the most exciting research being c...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 14, 2011
  • Length: 57:33
  • Purchases: 1
Uploading the War
From: War News Radio
Caption: A video uploaded by an American soldier who served in Iraq., Credit: Youtube
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Encounters Humpback Whale
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
Series: Encounters
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Beware of stinky whale breathe as you get mighty close to these gentle giants with a permitted whale biologist and host Richard Nelson

Bought by KMXT, KDUR, KMXT, and KHNS


  • Added: Oct 07, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
Paradise Lost: Military Training in Makua Valley
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Making Contact intern Samson Reiny reports on what happens when the military takes over historically sacred land and on how people are fighting bac...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
Invaders from Another Ecosystem
From: Making Contact
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We visit wetlands around the San Francisco Bay, where scientists are waging a scorched-marsh campaign against a devastating kind of East Coast grass.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
WWOZ Street Talk-First Book
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
Caption: PRX default Piece image
At a recent event put on by first book hundreds of kids were given books as part of the 5 million books project.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2007
  • Length: 09:11