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Stone Mountain
From: Sidewalk Radio
Series: Sidewalk Radio with Gene Kansas
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This month we sit down with three unique guests to talk about the gravity and gravitas of the world’s largest piece of exposed granite, Stone Mount...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 21:50
My Earthquake Story: Nancy Bidwell
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 07:41
My Earthquake Story: Mary Fedoroff
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:09
My Earthquake Story: Jim Curran
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Our Woods - "Associating Safety Only With the Avoidance of Mortal Danger Is Limiting."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Eco-History of Guano
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Series: Living Lab on The Point
Caption: The depletion of Peru's guano islands lay at the heart of the War of the Pacific. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons
It enabled the industrialization of agriculture, led to the discovery of El Nino, helped spawn the modern environmental movement, and lay at the he...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 49:30
Cash Market: Livestock Sold As Is
From: Christopher B. Allen
Caption: "Cowboy Dan" herds cattle at the Missoula Livestock Exchange in Montana., Credit: Christopher Allen
Live cattle auctions are disappearing in the Northwest. But the Missoula Livestock Exchange continues to sell millions of dollars worth of cows, he...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:36
Contagion: Responding to Infectious Disease [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Detail from Chicago Department of Health vaccination poster, produced by the Works Progress Administration, late 1930s , Credit: Library of Congress
It’s the height of the flu season, and federal public health agencies have been spending millions of dollars trying to keep this year’s virus under...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WEZU, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
An Interview with Marjane Ambler
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Marjane Ambler talks about and reads from 'Yellowstone Has Teeth: A memoir of living year-round in the world's first national park.'

Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg On Foot-In-Mouth Situations - "More Or Less Human Than A Human.""
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:34
256: Ocean Traffic
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Joseph Mallord William Turner, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), 1840., Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The ocean has served as a means of exchange for all manner of cargo: oil, chemicals, waste, arms, manufactured goods, raw materials, and human bein...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2014
  • Length: 05:06
The Beasts Within: Domesticated Animals in America
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: A rabbit serves a meal to three kittens (Harry Whittier Frees, c1870)
From household pets to beasts of burden, domesticated animals are a major part of American life – and we spend billions of dollars each year lookin...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KSRQ, XRAY.fm, WRPI, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
254: Intangible Cultural Heritage
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Shrimp fishing from horseback in Belgium, Credit: UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has no central "ocean" theme, but many of its myriad studies, project...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
Large Wildfires Jumpstart Debate on Fire Management Techniques
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Photo by (cc) Flickr user Lotus R
A topic that we covered more than a year ago, but was just as relevant in 2013 is fire, more specifically wildfires. When we aired our show, The Bu...

Bought by KHNS


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 1
Friday Night Lights
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Contributor Meg Cramer tells the story of the first electrically lit town in America -- Wabash, Indiana.

Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 04, 2013
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 3
Avoid the Dump! Rediscover Permanence: Simple Rediscovery #507
From: Teosson Wells
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Permanence—the state or quality of lasting or remaining unchanged indefinitely—might appear to be an outmoded, unrealistic concept.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 08:16
99% Invisible #72- New Old Town (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The recreation of a town that never was.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 17
99% Invisible #86-Reversal of Fortune
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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When Chicago was up the proverbial creek.

Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 19:14
  • Purchases: 3
242: Ocean Relevance
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Crew members aboard SS Norco in England during WWII. , Credit: The Marstal Maritime Museum
Maritime Museums are one of the key conduits for modern day understanding of maritime history, yet many are struggling. In this episode of World Oc...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:19
Let There Be Night (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Eight out of 10 children born in America today will never know a night sky dark enough to see the Milky Way. Are we experiencing the end of night?

Bought by WCNY and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2
Sandy in Gowanus
From: Jamie Courville
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Hurricane Sandy was nearly one year ago. Days after the storm, one woman described seeing the storm surge cause a flood of the extremely toxic wate...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2013
  • Length: 03:22
Blackbird Pot Pie: Not the Pie Umami Made
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs: Stories Inspired by "Appetite"
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For some South Jersey residents, "Sing a Song of Sixpence" is more than just a nursery rhyme; it's supper.

Bought by KRPS, WNIJ, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 3
Cook County native Tim McDonnell's new memoir about growing up on the Gunflint Trail
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson welcomed retired teacher Tim McDonnell to Studio A recently to chat about his memoir, "The Whole Forest for a Backyard: A Gunfli...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 20:10
Where is the highest point in Chicago?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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The area’s so flat that every bunny hill seems a candidate. But, no, really — where is it?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 1
San Francisco, the island within an island
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Rebecca Solnit, a writer and native of the Bay Area, provides a brief history of San Francisco’s transformation from a working class port city to a...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 25:58

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