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Out of The Ashes

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront

Mastin's store was once the heart of the community where you could buy a bag of flour, a pair of boots, a side of beef and a flannel nightgown all ...

Bought by WTIP and KSUT

Added: Dec 16, 2005
Length: 13:15
Purchases: 2

He Looked Like the Devil

From: angie blake

Gay men, aged 50-86, talk about the beginnings of butch "leather" and SM culture from 1950s to 1970s.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston

Added: Oct 21, 2005
Length: 13:34
Purchases: 1

Count Basie

From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A quick musical look at the career of the Count

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, WEKU, 90.5 WSNC, and KGOU

Added: Oct 06, 2005
Length: 03:24
Purchases: 4

Bob Dylan: No Direction Home

From: Joyride Media

The "official bootleg" radio companion to the PBS special "Bob Dylan: No Direction Home"

Bought by KBBI Alaska, KPIK-LP, Prairie Public, Radio New Zealand, Prairie Public and more

Added: Aug 17, 2005
Length: 01:58:10
Purchases: 27

RN: Documentary: A Hiroshima Story

From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries

Sixty years after the bombing of Hiroshima, a 67 year old survivor relates his story of that day in a class of students who are the same age now as...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUER, KFAI Minneapolis, KSFR, and WCQS

Added: Jul 20, 2005
Length: 29:30
Purchases: 5

Angel Island - Saving the Ellis Island of the West

From: Hana Baba

The story of one man's discovery that resulted in saving a historic landmark from demolition, and keeping an important part of the American story f...

Bought by Listenwise, Vocalo.org, Here and Now, and KCUR

Added: Jun 08, 2005
Length: 07:28
Purchases: 4

James Beard: An American Revolution [30 minute version]

From: Melissa Waldron Lehner

A Reading of letters from the James Beard Collection

Added: May 31, 2005
Length: 29:36

Fog Magic

From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio

Magic in the fog launches Greta on an adventure that takes her back into the past and reveals secrets in her own life.

Bought by KZYX and KTNA

Added: May 03, 2005
Length: 28:21
Purchases: 2

RN Documentary: Pride and Prejudice

From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries

Comparing the lives of gay men over two centuries.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Mar 15, 2005
Length: 29:32
Purchases: 1

Consistency of Jell-O

From: Rupa Marya

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

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

Vietnam Bones

From: Karen Brown

A man tries to repatriate the bones of a Viet Cong soldier that his father took from the jungle, 35 years earlier.

Bought by WRFA-LP, Prairie Public, WFHB, WTJU, PRX Remix and more

Added: Sep 21, 2004
Length: 10:02
Purchases: 10

Radio Row: The Neighborhood Before the World Trade Center

From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories

Before the WTC was built, the neighborhood was known as the bustling "Radio Row."

Bought by WRNC-LP, KVNF, KXOT Public Radio, WMPG, WHYY and more

Added: Sep 09, 2004
Length: 13:03
Purchases: 6

Stories of Love and Marriage at the Towers

From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories

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

Maxey's Mansion

From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series

Alva Maxey-Boyd, now in her nineties, defied race covenants, urban renewal bulldozers, and two Mayor Daleys in a seven-decade battle to get and kee...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WFUV, WLUW, and WYSO

Added: Sep 03, 2004
Length: 25:07
Purchases: 5

Banjo Pete

From: Aaron Henkin

Baltimore punker Pete Ross builds historically accurate gourd banjos in his basement.

Bought by KUOW, KXOT Public Radio, and Audible

Added: Aug 25, 2004
Length: 12:47
Purchases: 3

The Imaginary Village

From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference

The Imaginary Village is a story about the meaning of "home" for three generations of Palestinians living in refugee camps.

Bought by PRX Remix, KZYX, and KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Jun 05, 2004
Length: 18:06
Purchases: 3

"Out of the Ashes: Teatro la Fenice"

From: Angela Taylor

"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

The Traditions of Brown-Forman's Kentucky Bourbon and it's Master Distiller Lincoln Henderson

From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works

A day in the career of Brown-Forman Master Distiller Lincoln Henderson

Added: May 24, 2004
Length: 09:01

The Art and Craft of Blacksmithing with Lewis Meyer

From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works

the day in the life of a Kentucky blacksmith

Added: Mar 29, 2004
Length: 09:00

Exodus '47: Inside Out

From: Inside Out Documentaries

This is the story of three men who served aboard the Exodus 1947, a Jewish refugee ship that tried to run thousands of holocaust survivors past the...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KWIT, WTIP and more