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Commentary: America the Beautiful
From: KRCC-FM
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Thoughts on America the beautiful and Pikes Peak region

  • Added: Sep 30, 2005
  • Length: 04:00
Commentary: Rubella Is History
From: KRCC-FM
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A personal reflection on rubella eradication

  • Added: Aug 19, 2005
  • Length: 04:04
Progressions: 100 Years of Jazz Guitar
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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A one-hour music intensive radio special tracing the history of Jazz guitar from 1906 through today; hosted by Les Paul.

Bought by WICR, KPSQ-LP, Prairie Public, KGLT, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2005
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 31
Rocco from the Bronx
From: Adam Allington
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Rocco Migliorelli talks about farming in the Bronx during the 1930's, 40's and 50's

Bought by WFUV and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Aug 17, 2005
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 2
Speak The Speech: Acting Shakespeare.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Mr. York explains the benefits of studying Shakespeare.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, KUHB, WGBH Radio Boston, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 4
Stoneagers In The Fast Lane: Health Promotion In The 50th Millennium.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Dr. S. Boyd Eaton explains why preagricultural man may have had a healthier diet than we do today.

Bought by Maine Public Radio


  • Added: May 31, 2005
  • Length: 59:46
  • Purchases: 1
Perpetual War, Perpetual Power
From: Craig Barnes
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Craig Barnes explores the Republican formula for perpetual war and the need for Democrats to restore America's traditional values of law, fairness ...

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: May 26, 2005
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 1
Visitor Center Fever: Catch It!
From: Merle Kessler
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Visitor Centers Replace Museums. Discuss.

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 01:51
Martin Luther King Jr.: A Champion of Labor
From: Dick Meister
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Some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Most important work was done in behalf of the labor movement.

Bought by WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, KPFT, and WYSO


  • Added: Jan 12, 2005
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 3
A Memento of War
From: Dick Meister
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Lessons learned from a grotesque necklace of human teeth.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2004
  • Length: 03:19
Remembering John Lennon
From: KUT
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Rembering Lennon, with clips

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and WYSO


  • Added: Dec 08, 2004
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 3
Walking High Steel: Mohawk Ironworkers at the Twin Towers
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories
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Mohawk ironworkers built some of the most recognizable buildings in NYC, including the Twin Towers.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUER, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KGLT, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2004
  • Length: 15:18
  • Purchases: 10
Stories of Love and Marriage at the Towers
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories
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Stories of love, marriage and memories at 1,377 feet.

Bought by KUT, KVNF, KUT-HD, KXOT Public Radio, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2004
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 9
Messages from NPR's Sonic Memorial Phone Line
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories
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An impressionistic gathering of sounds and stories, many of them contributed by listeners who called the Sonic Memorial Phone Line.

Bought by WRNC-LP, WMBR, KCPW Salt Lake City, WHYY, and WUAL


  • Added: Sep 09, 2004
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 5
Another Lousy Day
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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A critically-acclaimed story detailing one man's quest to find the author of two diaries from 1960 and 1961 that he found in a thrift store.

Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, WYBC, and WYSO


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 17:36
  • Purchases: 4
Kathleen McDonough: A Directors Take on Making An Historical Documentary
From: Talking History
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Katheleen McDonough discusses the making of historical documentaries.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2004
  • Length: 03:12
Kill or Be Killed
From: Richard Rene
Series: Here's Looking at You/USA From London
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The bottom line realities of being a soldier

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 07, 2004
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sinking of the Reuben James
From: Adam Allington
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Retired Petty Officer Robert Howard Recalls being torpedoed by a German U Boat over a month before Pearl Harbor

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Jun 19, 2004
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 1
PART 1: When the American Dream turned into a Nightmare
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Downwinder affected by the radiocative fallout from test at Nevada Test Site

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, WYSO, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 4
The Traditions of Brown-Forman's Kentucky Bourbon and it's Master Distiller Lincoln Henderson
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works
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A day in the career of Brown-Forman Master Distiller Lincoln Henderson

  • Added: May 24, 2004
  • Length: 09:01
Making the Louisville Slugger
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works
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The art of hand turning a Louisville Slugger baseball bat

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Apr 12, 2004
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Art and Craft of Blacksmithing with Lewis Meyer
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works
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the day in the life of a Kentucky blacksmith

  • Added: Mar 29, 2004
  • Length: 09:00
The Valentine 1955
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Youth Epiphanies
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Society's problem with race relations is played out between 2 little girls on Valentines Day, 1955.

Bought by KLCC, PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WNCU, PRX Lovesick Stream and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2004
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 13
Festivals of Light/Families of Dysfunction
From: Barbara Bernstein
Series: Radio Tales For The Road
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Transformational journeys through time, space and memory

  • Added: Dec 07, 2003
  • Length: 57:07
Socrates of Athens
From: Barry Vogel
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"First person interview" with Socrates of Athens.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2003
  • Length: 29:00