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The series featured as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance....

Bought by KSLU and KMXT


  • Added: May 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:24
  • Purchases: 2
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As is tradition, we bring you the 4th annual Winona Christmas Radio Show, a presentation of Theatre du Mississippi in partnership with Winona Radio...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 01:44:40
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Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Friday the Thirteenth, Blair Witch. It seems the woods make a great backdrop for scary stories, but why?...

Bought by 'The Sea' and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 21:48
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: George Burns and Gracie Allen
The famous duo of radio, television and film – George Burns and Gracie Allen – were married for 38 years. We look back at how their relationship a...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 11:51
  • Purchases: 3
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Hunter Dyar tells this entertaining tale from history about a peculiar nautical collision in 1884 between two shipping vessels, the Frigorifique an...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2014
  • Length: 03:38
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Film critic David Edelstein takes us on a tour of haunted houses in the movies.

Bought by Radio Newark, Louisville Public Media, KHNS, PRX Remix, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 5
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This is a commercial for a fake product I created to air in the middle of a Sherlock Holmes radio play. It's for a product that acts as an umbrella...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2013
  • Length: :30
Caption: Great Northern Radio Show
This, the fourth edition of the Great Northern Radio Show takes us to the Boardman Auditorium at the Eveleth-Gilbert High School on Minnesota's Iro...

Bought by KSRQ, WTIP, and WDSE


  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 01:56:31
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Sophie Tucker in 1927
The use of the term Red Hot Mama’s supposedly emerged in the early 1920s. In 1929, songsters Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote, I’m the Last of the...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pianist Earl Wild
Pianist Earl Wild performed before an enthusiastic audience at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam to celebrate his 90th birthday.

Bought by WFIU and BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
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A short, lighthearted look at the significance of service played out with the "Retroactive Radio Ensemble" Series. In this piece, we feature orally...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2009
  • Length: 04:38
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David O. Selznik once ruled Hollywood with memorandum

Bought by PRX Remix and PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Mar 07, 2008
  • Length: 08:01
  • Purchases: 2