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Continuity
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Behind the scenes at a chaotic movie shoot about global warming.

Bought by KUNM, KKRN, KFCF FM, KWMR, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 10
Mountain Time Podcast Hour 1
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Modern West-Part 1 of 12 in our Ghost Towning Series and HumaNature... close encounters of the wild kind.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 51:16
  • Purchases: 2
Straight To Hell
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many hero...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Try Not To Die
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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As we come out of our holes and return to our beloved American Desert, it's time to remember a dozen simple rules to keep your day hike from becomi...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
BYO Boat at Float-In Theater
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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As COVID Summer 2020 heated up, Minnesotans got creative about socially distant summertime events. Parks and outdoor recreation venues saw a surge ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
Audio postcard from a hummingbird festival
From: Cole del Charco
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Take a non-narrated trip through the 11th annual Mecklenburg County Hummingbird festival.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Sharks - cute as puppies
From: Emmi Skytén
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Even decades after the movie Jaws came out, many people continue to see sharks as monsters. This image does not help the conservation efforts of ma...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 1
Eat The Invaders: Lionfish
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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This is Eat The Invaders - our occasional segment where we take a bite out of invasive species populations. On the menu today, one of the scariest,...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 16:07
  • Purchases: 1
These Shoes Were Made For Mocking
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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Producer Taylor Quimby has been defending Vibram FiveFingers™ shoes to naysayers for years. When people see him wearing them while he’s on the trai...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 24:42
Never Bring a Sledgehammer to a Scalpel Fight
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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Biocontrol feels like the pinnacle of human arrogance. We’re trying to play God, taking a delicately balanced ecosystem and stomping all over it w...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 1
The All Species Day Special
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
Caption: 2012 All Species Day Parade, Credit: http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/2012-all-species-day-25179253.jpg
Celebrating life on Earth every day of the year!

Bought by Bandon Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:56:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Palos Verdes Peacocks
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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The wild peacocks of Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California have inhabited the area for over 100 years and now number more than 1,000. For a...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
Deliverance on a Canoe
From: Michael May
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In Austin, Texas a movie theater called the Alamo Drafthouse has figured out a dreamy summertime way to screen its movies — an all-day canoe ride. ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
Eating Like A Pig: How Beer Byproducts Transform Into Chow For Sows
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Pigs at Rocklands Farm go hog wild over spent grain., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
The growth of the craft beer industry is proving to be a win-win: both for brewers, and for pigs.

Bought by WABE and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Curly Bushwalk
From: Timothy Nicastri
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A family stroll through the Australian bush.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 21, 2014
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
The 61cm Crocs of Darwin, Australia
From: Timothy Nicastri
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What happens when your pet Crocodile hits 2 foot?

  • Added: Jul 21, 2014
  • Length: 15:12
Bike, Train or Automobile? Three reporters race through morning commute
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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It’s not just you. The morning commute is getting longer and longer. As the local economy picks up steam more and more people are getting in their ...

  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 06:35
Conservation Gamification
From: Denis Du Bois
Caption: UW students pose for photos at a kickoff event for the 2014 Campus Conservation Nationals, Credit: Energy Priorities
Earth Day 2014 -- The University of Washington is participating in a national competition to conserve energy and water on campus this month. The c...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Going plastic free (almost)
From: Veronica Simmonds
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My sincere but silly attempt to live without plastic for a week.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 06:36
Narhwals: Everyone Loves a Whale With a Horn
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
Caption: Pod of Narwhals (monodon monoceros) near Petermann glacier., Credit: Jason Box / Greenpeace
Arctic Ocean dwellers, narwhals are both exotic and popular. Though as every celebrity knows, and JP Davidson confirmed, being popular, isn't the s...

Bought by PRX Remix and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2
Tracking the 'Secret' Life of Soot
From: Reid Frazier
Caption: Daniel Tkacik studies soot particles from vehicles in his temporary lab: the Fort Pitt Tunnel in Pittsburgh. , Credit: Image: Reid R, Frazier
In recent years, scientists have found that particles like soot and other pollution live a ‘secret life’ once released into the atmosphere, picking...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Troy Public Radio, Hark!, WNIJ, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 8
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown - Cooking With Wolfgang Buck
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 02:33
2012: End of the World! Cancun, Mexico
From: Jake Warga
Caption: Stella predicting the end of the world, Credit: Jake warga
It's the end of the world, according to the Mayan Calendar. A thoughtful and goofy piece exploring Cancun, Mexico.

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZYX, and KUT


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 4
In Beekeeping, Honey's Worth A Few Stings
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Caption: Andrew Coté holds up a panel of bees., Credit: Chion Wolf
An intrepid producer braves several stings to tell a story about beekeeping and a beekeeper who has traveled the world to teach his craft.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFIU, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZYX, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 5
Oh Coqui!
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Song/Story
Caption: coqui frog, Credit: long haul productions
The Coqui, a tiny, but very vociferous tree frog, is the national symbol of Puerto Rico, beloved in folklore and in song. But while the coqui’s lus...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, and KGOU


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 25:06
  • Purchases: 3