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The Mikie Show # 12, John Brady
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Show twelve features an interview with commercial airline pilot (now retired) John Brady. He started his career in an open cockpit biplane and reti...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #8 Tom
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Our guest is one of the greats in sound, Tom Clack. We talk about early days at BBC, MTV and traveling the world to record sounds. He performs the ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Austin City Limits: Into the Archives
From: KUT
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From Coldplay and My Morning Jacket to Lyle Lovett and Johnny Cash--its an hour of classic performances and the untold histories behind them.

Bought by KHNS, WCPN, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2009
  • Length: 54:14
  • Purchases: 6
The Guardian of the Murder House
From: Michael Paul Mason
Caption: The Villisca Axe Murder House
A riveting and haunting journey into one of America's most sensational murder mysteries.

Bought by KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Marfa Public Radio, KPIK-LP, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2009
  • Length: 22:29
  • Purchases: 10
Darwin, Cyborgs, and the Future of Humanity
From: Lacy Roberts
Caption: check out mondolithic.com, Credit: Kenn Brown via mondolithic.com
Lacy Roberts and Charles Darwin muse on what's in store.

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: Feb 24, 2009
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Obama Speech Suite [Obama 2008 Speech and Music Mix-28:00]
From: Paul Ingles
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Clips from Barack Obama's2008 victory speech are mixed with Obama campaign trail song favorites and others that underline his remarks.

Bought by PRX PromCom, WGBH Radio Boston, and WKMS


  • Added: Nov 05, 2008
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 3
The Alutiiq Masks - Sharing HIstory
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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details the long-sought return of the Alutiiq Masks from France to Kodiak. AK.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2008
  • Length: 06:09
Love on the Wing
From: Linda Jay Geldens
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Original unproduced 1944 romantic fantasy, with orchestral score

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU


  • Added: Sep 08, 2008
  • Length: 27:45
  • Purchases: 1
Hope in '08? What About Hope in '68?
From: PRX PromCom
Series: Promise Commentaries
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Why are so many sixties radicals so passionate about Obama?

Bought by WDCV, Jenka Soderberg, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 01, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
An Immigrants' History of South Park
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Life on the Duwamish: Rediscovering Seattle's Dirty South
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Life on the Duwamish, Segment 1

  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 09:01
An Hour with Don Ho (58:59 or 59:59)
From: Public Radio WorldWide - PRWW.org
Series: Asian-American Heritage Special
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This one-hour interview & music with Don Ho in Hawaii is the last he granted before giving his farewell Aloha in April 2007! Your licensing of thi...

Bought by WLNZ


  • Added: May 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
Amazing Grace: The Story of Willie Nelson
From: KUT
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Winner of the 2009 Headliners' Awards "Best Feature Documentary" and "Grand Prize for Radio"

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, KCSM, Prairie Public, WKMS and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2008
  • Length: 53:49
  • Purchases: 18
Inside the Capoeiristas' Circle
From: Aaron Henkin
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A profile of a centuries-old martial art with roots that go back to Angola, Africa

  • Added: Apr 03, 2008
  • Length: 18:30
In Brooklyn the Steam Engine lives on
From: Jonah Engle
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Chief Engineer Conrad Milster has kept Pratt Institute's steam engines pumping for the past 50 years.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Sep 16, 2007
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 1
Crime and Redemption: A Wise Guy's Tale
From: Aaron Henkin
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A gangster-turned-informant reflects on his life of crime and his quest for redemption

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 11, 2007
  • Length: 49:36
  • Purchases: 1
Bluma Shapiro: Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bluma Shapiro is a grandmother of four... and a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 15:25
Rock-and-roll benefit concerts: Music to UNICEF's ears
From: UNICEF
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This Story is free! With the Concert for Bangladesh George Harrison and Ravi Shankar started the tradition of the super-concert for a humanitarian ...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Taming the Salt Monster
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The great swathes of the Western Australian wheatbelt were created a century ago when 1000 acres of bush were burned a day and the land became the ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, WRPI, KXOT Public Radio, WYSO and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 6
Ute Mt. Tribal Park
From: KSUT
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Guided tour through the ruins at Ute Mt. Tribal Park

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Jul 21, 2006
  • Length: 09:27
  • Purchases: 1
The Tribal Beat - Mesa Verde Special
From: KSUT
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Native News show spotlighting Mesa Verde's 100th Birthday.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jul 21, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Fairbridge Farm School
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Four elderly Dutch people remember how as children recently liberated from the POW camps in Indonesia, they regained their childhood when they wer...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
American Soundways - Jacksonville, FL
From: Tripp Clarke
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look at the past, present and emerging music in Jacksonville, FL w/ Derek Trucks interview

  • Added: May 29, 2006
  • Length: 59:02
American Soundways - Fort Worth, TX
From: Tripp Clarke
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A look at the past, present and emerging music in Fort Worth, TX w/ Delbert McClinton interview

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: May 29, 2006
  • Length: 21:00
  • Purchases: 1
American Soundways - Portland, OR
From: Tripp Clarke
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Looks at the music past, present and emerging in Portland w/ Kelly Joe Phelps interview

  • Added: May 26, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
American Soundways - Charlotte, NC
From: Tripp Clarke
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Looks at the music past, present and emerging from Charlotte w/ Jorma Kaukonen interview

  • Added: May 26, 2006
  • Length: 52:00

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