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Flory Jagoda
From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes
Caption: Flory Jagoda (right) teaches Ladino songs., Credit: Morgan Miller
"Don't open your mouth. Just sit and play. Keep on playing."

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Oct 02, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Same Song, Same Chair: Fifty Years Later
From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes
Caption: Spencer Moore, Credit: Jon Lohman
A masterful songster recorded by two folklorists, fifty years apart.

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTIP, and WAMU


  • Added: Sep 16, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 5
Women at War
From: With Good Reason
Caption: On Their Own, Credit: Joyce Hoffman
Covering a beat, or a family: two different perspectives on women at war

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Sep 10, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
Camalot Cages
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Fox and Ducks, Credit: Muriel Murch
Young foxes need to leave the farm. An old fox leaves the Senate floor

  • Added: Sep 01, 2009
  • Length: 08:13
ONE MORE TOKE / BREWER & SHIPLEY
From: Kevin Gallagher
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The Words and Music of Brewer and Shipley

  • Added: Aug 11, 2009
  • Length: 35:26
Ten Cents a Dance
From: With Good Reason
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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry was working overtime. Listen to some of the gems and the stories behind them.

Bought by KUER, WGBH Radio Boston, KFAI Minneapolis, and WRPI


  • Added: Jul 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
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
Wayne C. Henderson: How Guitar Making Saved His Life
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Wayne C. Henderson, Credit: http://www.waynehenderson.org/
In this edition, we travel to the homeland of American bluegrass to visit the workshop of guitar builder Wayne C. Henderson. His instruments are co...

Bought by KHNS


  • Added: Dec 18, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz Ambassadors
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Jazz Master Dave Brubeck on US Jazz Ambassadors of the 1950s

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WART FM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 19
Maxwell Street by Adam Gottlieb
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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His fourth year in the competition, Adam says this piece is a poem for his Grandma - it's a beautiful reflection on a Chicago landmark. Adam Gottl...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:13
The Great Alaska Earthquake: A Survivor's Tale
From: Rebecca Sheir
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On March 27, 1964, the largest earthquake ever to strike North America sparked tsunamis that destroyed a village. Paul Timothy Selanoff lived to te...

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Mar 24, 2008
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 1
THE COLOR OF NIGHT
From: Phillip Martin
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Race and the Sexual Politics of Nightlife in Chicago

  • Added: Feb 11, 2008
  • Length: 29:36
The Last Butcher in Little Italy
From: Laura Terruso
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Unlike most Italian Americans, Moe Albanese never left Little Italy. Born on Elizabeth Street in 1925, Moe grew up on this street and helped his p...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2007
  • Length: 15:57
Tim Egan tells stories from the Great American Dustbowl (Lecture)
From: KUOW
Series: Speaker's Forum
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A woman moves out West for the air. Then the dust rises, and the air makes her daughter deathly ill. Tim Egan tells stories from the Great American...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 53:57
Cortez, Montezuma & Abraham: Discovering Jewish Roots
From: Rebecca Sheir
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At 72, a Spanish-descended Catholic discovers the real reason she's never liked eating pork.

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 03:50
The Flipside
From: KUT
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KUT`s Texas Music Matters - in cooperation with Texas Monthly magazine - presents The Flipside: An hour at the crossroads of music and memory.

Bought by KGLT, WCPN, and WBEZ


  • Added: Mar 04, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Louis Romanos - New Orleans Musician Afloat after Katrina
From: Andrew Reissiger
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Mainstay New Orleans drummer/producer/teacher - a personal story of hurricane parties, performing at Jazzfest, teaching, and evacuating New Orleans...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 1
Boxcar Poet
From: Adam Allington
Caption: PRX default Piece image
93-year-old Clive Haswell is a poet who spent his youth riding the rails and playing poker

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2006
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 4 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 4 features Howard Nemerov, Billy Collins and William Stafford. Optional 5-minute drop-in also available.

Bought by WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFHB, KWIT, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:04
  • Purchases: 12
Episode 3 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 3 of Life Distilled features former U.S. Poet Laureates Richard Wilbur, Robert Hass, Rita Dove and Stanley Kunitz. Optional 5-minute drop-...

Bought by WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:00
  • Purchases: 11
Waking Up Together
From: With Good Reason
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Zen and coupledom (and other Valentine's treats)

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Feb 20, 2006
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 1
James Beard: An American Revolution [30 minute version]
From: Melissa Waldron Lehner
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A Reading of letters from the James Beard Collection

  • Added: May 31, 2005
  • Length: 29:36
Consistency of Jell-O
From: Rupa Marya
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Erik describes himself as a prisoner in his own body. Back from Iraq with a Traumatic Brain Injury, it's not hard to see why.

Bought by KRCC-FM and WMPG


  • Added: Feb 24, 2005
  • Length: 11:30
  • Purchases: 2
Anna on the Homefront
From: Whit Richardson
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An intimate look at a wife of a National Guard member deployed to Iraq

Bought by KHNS, KZYX, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, The PRX Podcast, KTUH and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2004
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 11
"Out of the Ashes: Teatro la Fenice"
From: Angela Taylor
Caption: PRX default Piece image
"Out of the Ashes: Teatro la Fenice" is a feature on the tragedy and triumphant return of this iconic Venetian opera and music house.

Bought by WHQR


  • Added: May 25, 2004
  • Length: 17:14
  • Purchases: 1