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WorldCanvass:Taping the World
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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An exploration of the radical influence the tape recorder has exerted on the history, culture, artistic expression and personal interactions of the...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:56:58
Controversial Pepsi Ad - "Love Hurts"
From: Dawn Newton
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Director Brad Bosley said he's completely surprised by the controversy surrounding his Pepsi Super Bowl commercial that has confused Bill O'Reilly ...

  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
Rolling Stones Radio Hour/March 2012 Week 4
From: Kevin Yazell
Series: Rolling Stones Radio Hour
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Includes Stones songs from the 90's, Cuts from Chuck Leavell's Back To The Woods including a double shot of Chuck and Little Brother Montgomery doi...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Mar 23, 2012
  • Length: 58:44
  • Purchases: 1
Memphis Bound
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Cannon Jug Stompers
With the closure of Storyville in New Orleans, many talented musicians landed in Memphis before making their way to Chicago and New York.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
Racial Innocence
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: New York University Press, Credit: Trade card for Cottolene
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 19:53
A Conversation with Howard Shalwitz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Artistic Director Howard Shalwitz talks about the Wooly Mammoth Theater company’s production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 22:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Road to Livingston
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Chelsea Hernandez, Abigail Mahnke & Erik Mauck, Credit: Lisa Scheps
I interviewed filmmakers Erik Mauck and Chelsea Hernandez about the feature length documentary they're in the process of making, called The Road to...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
"Top Model's" Nigel Barker on Beauty
From: Dr. Susan Flowers
Series: Your Life is Waiting Show
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America's Next Top Model judge and int'l photograher shares his prescription of real beauty from his latest book, "Nigel Barker's Beauty Equation."

  • Added: Mar 18, 2011
  • Length: 15:00
New Sounds of China Episode 5: Ethnicity and Music
From: Peter Vautier
Series: New Sounds of China
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Tibetan hip hop sits awkwardly next to Kazakh folk, and a Beijing rap metal band converts to Mongolian throat-singing. Um...is this Chinese music?

Bought by WLRH and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 133
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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guests include rising star filmmaker Andy Blubaugh, Food Critic Karen Brooks and singer/songwriter Erin McKeown

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 132
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Credit: Wendy Peyton for Live Wire! Radio
Guests include Congressman Earl Blumenauer, storyteller Nathanial Boggess and musical guest The Upsidedown with special guest REM's Peter Buck

  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 131
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Author/Singer-Songwriter Willy Vlautin, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire! Radio
Guests include Willy Vlautin, novelist and frontman for Americana band Richmond Fontaine, Authors Jamie Ford and Jennie Shortridge from Novel:Live ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
The Written Word Meets the Dirt Track: Team Weaver Racing
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Will Weaver, Bemidji-area author of books like “Sweet Land,” is also deep into the young-adult writing business. His current entry in that field i...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 1
Commentator Aaron Brown on Stormy Weather
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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The howler monkey starts a whoopin' and a walin' in Balsam. Using some kind of funnel and a great deal of effort, one could drown in a gentle rain.

  • Added: Aug 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:21
Brain Freeman on "The Burying Place"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Our conversation with Brian Freeman.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2010
  • Length: 09:14
Weddings
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Did it rain on your wedding day? Did anyone faint or interrupt the ceremony? What’s the coolest wedding you’ve ever attended?

  • Added: Jul 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:56:41
George R.R. Martin
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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A conversation with author George R. R. Martin. Mr Martin joined co-host Ernest Lilly and myself to discuss his first novel of a series, A Game Of ...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Apr 03, 2009
  • Length: 18:52
  • Purchases: 1
7 Dirty Words -GeorgeCarlin RIP
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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George Carlin's 7 Dirty Words - RIP Mixes (clean)

Bought by XRAY.fm, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KGLT, Marfa Public Radio, and KVMR


  • Added: Jun 23, 2008
  • Length: 21:02
  • Purchases: 5
Stop That 'T'!
From: Joel Goldes
Series: Learning to Hear the American Accent
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My humble quest to eliminate the exploded final /t/ sound from the general American accent.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 21, 2007
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Biography of Leonard Cohen 1HR
From: Steve Damien
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A one hour look at this Canadian singer songwriter, featuring various songs from his career.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, Prairie Public, KREV-LP, KGOU, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2007
  • Length: 59:27
  • Purchases: 7
The MySpace Phenomenon
From: KUT
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myspace gets obscure experimental band on the bill for coachella music festival

  • Added: Apr 28, 2006
  • Length: 07:24
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Naturalist Pierre Arronax is on a mission to discover and destroy a mysterious beast terrorizing ships and soons finds himself at the mercy of the ...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: May 04, 2005
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 1