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New Music by Zack Baltich Combines Several Elements
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Zack Baltich, Credit: Matt Barber
If you want to know about a creative spirit, take the case of Zack Baltich. Zack synthesizes his informal and formal music experiences to create so...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
Algae Systems + Other Miracles: John Perry Barlow (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: JP Barlow
Who doesn’t need a miracle? As the lyricist for many timeless Grateful Dead classics, as a privacy rights activist, or as the founder of the biofue...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 26, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
To Mars! With National Geographic
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: “Mars” is the new docudrama miniseries airing on the National Geographic Channel, Credit: National Geographic Channel
The National Geographic Channel’s “Mars” miniseries has begun. Mat Kaplan attended a kickoff for the ambitious docudrama last summer. You’ll hear ...

Bought by KMUD, KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
COMMAND AND CONTROL -- Eric Schlosser and Robert Kenner Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Robert Kenner & Eric Schlosser, San Francisco, CA 10/5/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Robert Kenner and Eric Schlosser talk close-calls, young brains, and waiting for a mustache to grow back.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 21:37
The Douglas Coleman Show w_ Michaelbrent Collings
From: Douglas Coleman
Series: The Douglas Coleman Show
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Interview with Author and screenwriter Michaelbrent Collings.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:39
OPERATION AVALANCHE -- Matt Johnson & Matt Miller Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Matt Miller & Matt Johnson, San Francisco, CA 9/19/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Matt Johnson and Matt Miller talk going retro, the power of secrets, and cutting Bobby Kennedy out of their film.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2016
  • Length: 14:26
Mike Kreiger, Co-Founder, Instagram
From: From Scratch
Series: From Scratch
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Instagram is a photo sharing app that was released through the Apple App Store in October, 2010 and reached one million users in just three months....

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 32:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gary Kremen, Founder, Match.com
From: From Scratch
Series: From Scratch
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Gary is a serial entrepreneur who launched Match.com, the online dating service, in 1993. A host of other online matchmaking personals companies ha...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 32:00
Yancey Strickler, Co-Founder, Kickstarter
From: From Scratch
Series: From Scratch
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Have you ever had a creative project you were eager to get off the ground but you didn’t have the funding to make it happen? Yancey Strickler, co-f...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 32:00
Episode 48: Eight Years
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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2008 was an exciting time to be a Harry Potter fan. The final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, had been released. Movies were on the way...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 22:36
  • Purchases: 1
The Douglas Coleman Show w_ Jeff Harman
From: Douglas Coleman
Series: The Douglas Coleman Show
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Interview with astrological consultant Jeff Harman. Also featured music from Music X-ray artists.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 59:30
ZERO DAYS -- Alex Gibney, Eric Chien & Liam O'Murchu Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Eric Chien, Alex Gibney, Liam O'Murchu ,San Francisco, CA 5/11/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Alex Gibney , Eric Chien, and Liam O'Murchu talk resisting paranoia, code as character, and the psychology of secrets.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 23:57
Bernie Worrell (The Wizard of WOO)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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"Bernie Worrell (The Wizard of WOO)" is a one hour musical tribute to the great composer and musician of Parliament - Funkadelic, the Talking Heads...

Bought by WLRH, WMUH, KPIP-LP, Radio Catskill, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 56:55
  • Purchases: 6
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Author John Berendt
From: New Letters on the Air
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John Berendt, recorded at HEAR/NOW: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival in Kansas City, discusses his best-selling MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD A...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
Radiation
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: This Won't Hurt A Bit
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This episode we are talking Radiation. Part of living on Earth is that we are all exposed to low levels of Radiation. We are made of it, we emit it...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 1
History of the Jukebox
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Can you find a jukebox anymore? Do they still work? We are gonna talk about the history of the jukebox and remember a time when all you needed was ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP and more


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Tinder: Finding Mr. Right Swipe
From: Corey Johnson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Trials and tribulations of electronic love

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:47
CREATIVE CONTROL -- Reggie Watts & Benjamin Dickinson Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Reggie Watts & Benjamin Dickinson, San Francisco, CA 3/26/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Benjamin Dickinson and Reggie Watts talk multiple realities, space spores, and the difference between loops and spirals.

  • Added: Mar 20, 2016
  • Length: 21:35
EYE IN THE SKY -- Gavin Hood Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Gavin Hood, San Francisco, CA 3/2/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Gavin Hood talks ethics, kill chains, and being uncomfortable.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 15:16
Susan Bennett
From: The Hangar Studios
Series: Sandi Klein's Conversations with Creative Women
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Meet voice actor and singer Susan Bennett, whose voice has appeared on 100s of radio and tv commercials but who probably know her best as the origi...

Bought by WCNY and CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Car Talk (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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An author says NASCAR reflects our culture and society. Also: Self-driving cars are becoming a reality.

Bought by WJCT, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WFHB, KVSC, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
#21 Felicia Day
From: How To Be Amazing
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With the publication of her memoir, “You’re Never Weird On The Internet,” Felicia Day walks Michael through how she made her own success on her ter...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 01:04:34
The Speed of Sound: Toro y Moi
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Chaz Bundick never meant to be a musician. It was never in his original plan. He wanted to be a graphic designer. But now that he’s blown up as Tor...

Bought by KHNS and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 14, 2015
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 2
#63: Songs From An Unmade World with Visager
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Image courtesy of Visager. Used with permission.
Cheyenne Hohman, RFC host and current Director of the FMA, spoke to the composer/producer Visager, a new FMA artist who recently released a video-g...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 13:30
Teenagers: The Agony and the Ecstasy - Two short plays by Christopher Sullivan
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Lucy DeVito
Two short plays about teenagers facing their futures. With summer imminent, they look ahead with anxiety, optimism, resignation, possibility. In th...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, WHRV, and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4

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