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A celebration of composer Stephen Sondheim with interviews, music and performances from his entire career
Bought by KGLT
- Added: Dec 02, 2021
- Length: 56:57
- Purchases: 1
Matt Vogel is a principal Muppet performer who took over the roles of Sesame Street’s Big Bird and The Count as well as the most recognizable puppe...
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 01:01:54
The Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky is the world’s only museum dedicated to the art of ventriloquism. I speak with Vent Haven’s curato...
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 31:42
Ventriloquist Jay Johnson became a household name starring on the sitcom Soap as ventriloquist Chuck Campbell. He later went on to win a Tony Awar...
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 01:16:36
I talk to master puppeteer Ronnie Burkett, who is teaching a Master Class at the 2020 National Puppetry Conference, about his thoughts on the Confe...
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 24:37
Cheryl Blaylock puppeteered the character Eureeka on the hit Nickelodeon show Eureeka’s Castle. Other credits include work on Sesame Street, Oobi,...
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 01:06:03
A short tribute to the late Prince of Broadway with music from many of the shows he produced and directed with interview clips and memories of a tr...
- Added: Aug 07, 2019
- Length: 29:15
A veteran UK folk guitarist plays, beautifully... and tells stories of UK folk from 50 years ago.
- Added: Feb 15, 2018
- Length: 56:40
The tributes continue on this third hour of Shortcuts, celebrating more of the lives lost to 2016, including Princess Leia, George Michael and others
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Dec 28, 2016
- Length: 59:07
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 24:46
This is the story of a dead man. He gave up the ghost a few years ago. And some who knew him might say he never had a ghost to give up in the first...
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 26:09
We're introduced to Maine storytelling today through John McDonald, a humorist making his living telling stories in the state's oral tradition. One...
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 06:07
Howard Smith's interview with Pete Townshend, June 8th 1970. The day before, the Who performed 2 shows of Tommy at the Met.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
It's called the Looplore Experiment and it's partially funded through Kickstarter donations. This weekend-long "camp" revolves around arts and craf...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 2
Whitley Newman, also known as Nabintu, isn’t who you’d expect to be teaching a Rwandan dance class. She’s a small, blonde woman from the Midwest.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KLCC
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 2
How did a nice girl with a degree from Princeton University end up as a globetrotting... clown? Meet Christina Gelsone -- and her husband, Seth. Th...
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 08:37
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 2
Doing it Ourselves: What it really takes to work, play and live together. ***This show aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting as part of a series of 5...
Bought by XRAY.fm, WRVO Public Media, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KLCC, KUT and more
- Added: Apr 21, 2011
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 7
In 2006 the Felice Brothers were busking at farmer's markets, in the subway and on the street to get something to eat. These days they're opening f...
- Added: Jan 13, 2011
- Length: 04:59
The art of tattooing was not fully legalized in all fifty states until the second half of the twentieth century. One of the last states was Maine. ...
- Added: Jan 10, 2011
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 2
Several times a month, art dealer Rob Elowitch becomes Robbie Ellis, "America's Sexiest Sexagenarian Superstud," a legend in Maine's independent wr...
Bought by WMPG and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 2
The limerick is a form of poetry that is short, rhyming and often of a sexual nature.
Bought by SALTcast Podcast
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:10
- Purchases: 1
Fritz Grobe and Stephen Volt perform together as Eepybird. You more likely know them as the Coke and Mentos Guys. You know, the ones on YouTube wh...
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 05:45
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 04:12
A special report from KUT Austin and "Texas Monthly" based on May ideas issue. Ideas to change the world.
- Added: May 08, 2009
- Length: 58:59
