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Is Your Desk Trying to Kill You?
From: Merle Kessler
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Can a messy desk prove fatal?

Bought by KVMR and WKMS


  • Added: Sep 23, 2004
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 2
Finding Emo
From: Merle Kessler
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A look at the music genre "emo," and what it has to do with, well, me.

Bought by KUHB


  • Added: Sep 22, 2004
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 1
See Me Feel Me Touch Me Shave Me
From: Merle Kessler
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Barbers are on the wane. Hell in handcart, etc.

  • Added: Sep 22, 2004
  • Length: 01:27
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
H20
From: Melonie Magruder
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A Futuristic Thriller with Environmental overtones, which pays homage to Radio Drama of the 30's and 40's

Bought by KGOU, KZYX, and WZBC


  • Added: Sep 09, 2004
  • Length: 53:20
  • Purchases: 3
Grad Student Discos for Dollars
From: Hillary Frank
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A grad student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago pays for his living expenses by disco dancing on the street.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, KUOW, PRX to iTunes, KGOU and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2004
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 6
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
A Man on Horse Back
From: Claes Andreasson
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Hollywood makes few Westerns, but the genre is still loved

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, KZSC, and WHQR


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 4
"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
Program 6: Rotterdam Conducted by Valery Gergiev
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: Rotterdam Revisited: The Orchestra and Its Conductors
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Gergiev conducts Rotterdam in Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" - in its entirety.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2004
  • Length: 02:54:50
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
Cat Show
From: Aaron Henkin
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An audio tour through the Cat Fanciers' Association's Exotic Cat Show

Bought by PRX Remix, WMMT, KUT, KZSC, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2004
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 7
Banjo Pete
From: Aaron Henkin
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Baltimore punker Pete Ross builds historically accurate gourd banjos in his basement.

Bought by KUOW, KXOT Public Radio, and Audible


  • Added: Aug 25, 2004
  • Length: 12:47
  • Purchases: 3
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
Turnstyles 003 Hour 1: Trailer Bride
From: John Schaefer
Series: Turnstyles
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This week we bring you a diverse mix of music and a conversation with Melissa Swingle of Trailer Bride.

Bought by KGUA and WZBC


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 2
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
Avital Under Fire
From: Jennifer Neeley
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Since surviving a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, Israeli singer-songwriter Avital Schutz has sought refuge in New York City, where's she's now wagin...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Aug 21, 2004
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 23 of "Marconi's Adventures in Magic!"
From: M. Travis DiNicola
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The World's Only Magic Show for the Radio, Broadcast Live from the Marconi Wireless Theatre

Bought by WXLV-FM and WZBC


  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 14:26
  • Purchases: 2
The Museum of Jurassic Technology's David Wilson
From: M. Travis DiNicola
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An interview with David Wilson, the creator and curator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 13:23
Cirque Eloize's Bartek Soroczynski
From: M. Travis DiNicola
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An interview with clown, accordion player & medal award winning unicyclist Bartek Soroczynski about his experiences while traveling with Cirque E...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 10:09
Plus One
From: monika mueller
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Girlfriends of Rock Musicians

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Aug 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 1

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