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Pimp my PC! Portrait of a LAN Party
From: Aaron Henkin
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This story answers the burning question "What's it like to hang out with a bunch of guys at a fourteen-hour video game marathon?"

Bought by WZBC, Audible, Public Radio East, and East Village Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2004
  • Length: 09:33
  • Purchases: 4
Katie's video slot world
From: Jenny Asarnow
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I just like the machine

Bought by PRX Remix and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2004
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 2
Independent Minds: Peter Sellers
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds
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Learn more about an amazing comic genius--Independent Minds: Peter Sellers is a one-hour (news-friendly) entertainment documentary hosted by David ...

Bought by KPIK-LP, WGBH Radio Boston, WGDR, KALW, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: Sep 30, 2004
  • Length: 55:31
  • Purchases: 17
Lost & Found Sound and Beyond: Hour One
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Lost & Found Sound and Beyond
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Lost & Found Sound and Beyond" is the second anthology of greatest hits from the Peabody Award winning Lost & Found Sound radio series, heard over ...

Bought by KAAD-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUT, KOSU, KHNS and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2004
  • Length: 59:18
  • Purchases: 18
Sounds Like Yesterday
From: Aaron Henkin
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Gene Leitner remembers (and relives) the Golden Age of radio every day of his life.

Bought by Audible, WCFM, WHQR, WZBC, and WUAL


  • Added: Sep 08, 2004
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 5
"Diamond" Jimmy Roy
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series
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Once, Jimmy Roy owned half the businesses in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town just outside Pittsburgh. Braddock's decline paralleled Jimmy's. B...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 19:00
  • Purchases: 1
Skagway Music Makers
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
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Two unlikley musicians find each other in Skagway Alaska and produce a song that is the title track for an award winning movie

  • Added: Aug 27, 2004
  • Length: 14:35
Hassidic (yes, Hassidic) Reggae
From: Aaron Henkin
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Matisyahu is a Hassidic Jew, and the front man for his own reggae band.

Bought by KBBI Alaska, PRX, KZUM, KCUR, Audible and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2004
  • Length: 12:48
  • Purchases: 6
The Organ Builder
From: Aaron Henkin
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A a pipe organ builder discusses the theatre of a religious ceremony, and misses his days as a performing organist.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: Aug 25, 2004
  • Length: 12:23
  • Purchases: 1
A Disturbance in the Force
From: Aaron Henkin
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An internet video game addict loses all bearing on the boundary between fantasy and reality.

Bought by PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, WBHM, New Hampshire Public Radio, Audible and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2004
  • Length: 16:00
  • Purchases: 7
Late Night Action
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
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On this Labor Day, WFUV news checks in with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, we catch up with a television film crew working ...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:45
Nature Bites: The predatory nature of nature films
From: Guy Hand
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The predatory nature of nature films.

Bought by KVNF, KRCC-FM, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 12:45
  • Purchases: 3
The Pierogi-eating contest
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
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An essay 'snapshot' of an ethnic neighborhood fair in Cleveland, Ohio

  • Added: Aug 23, 2004
  • Length: 03:37
Kathleen McDonough: A Directors Take on Making An Historical Documentary
From: Talking History
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Katheleen McDonough discusses the making of historical documentaries.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2004
  • Length: 03:12
Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!
From: Jackson Braider
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When the campaigns rallied in 1840, they were there to par-tee!

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Aug 10, 2004
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Mind over Marketing
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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How to protect your mind from the onslaught of advertisements designed to seduce your senses.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WZBC


  • Added: Aug 03, 2004
  • Length: 29:25
  • Purchases: 2
Sawlady
From: Noah Reibel
Series: Playing for Change
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a light profile of a subway musician

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 1
The life of mushing
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
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Jim guides us through his personel journey, into a world few of us will ever know.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2004
  • Length: 20:09
First Dance
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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First time experiences of dancing told though a variety of voices.

  • Added: Jul 21, 2004
  • Length: 03:36
Sit Perfectly Still, The World Will Present Itself to You
From: Claes Andreasson
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An Audio Excursion in Los Angeles

Bought by PRX Remix, WRPI, BSR Radio, and WZBC


  • Added: Jun 20, 2004
  • Length: 15:10
  • Purchases: 4
The Fair
From: Jason Rayles
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The fair is bright and nice and happy, and then the sun goes down....

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUOW, WNIJ, WBEZ, WZBC and more


  • Added: May 04, 2004
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 7
RN documentary: At the Circus
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A rediscovery of a child's delight at the circus and an adults exploration of the life of circus performers

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WETA, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 13, 2004
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 3
Profile of a (Reality) Composer
From: Claes Andreasson
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Life as a Television Composer

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WHQR


  • Added: Mar 25, 2004
  • Length: 05:44
  • Purchases: 2
92.5 UrbanaFM Radio, Uruguay (4min)
From: Jake Warga
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UrbanaFM Radio, Montevideo

  • Added: Mar 09, 2004
  • Length: 04:03
Spam-o-Rama!
From: John Basile
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SquareToes Restaurant patrons in Kennebunk, ME pay their annual homage to the processed meat product. Spam-o-Rama '04 is THIS WEEKEND! (3/13/04)

Bought by KPIK-LP and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 09, 2004
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2

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