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A Conversation Honoring Merce Cunningham
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The archival voice of Merce himself defining the art of dance! Radiohead! Need we say more.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 22:53
  • Purchases: 1
SITPE # 1129
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
Caption: The Twain Shall Meet
The Twain Shall Meet.

Bought by KWMR, KEOS, KKRN, KPVL, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 5
SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN -- Wayne Wang Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Wayne Wang talks high heels, bound feet, and radical Quakers

  • Added: Jul 12, 2011
  • Length: 16:21
Schrödinger's Cat
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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We dive into the Schrödinger's Cat paradox and ask what it reveals about the nature of quantum mechanics and physics in general.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 09:48
  • Purchases: 2
The Twin Paradox
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Step into the weird world of relativity as we walk through the Twin Paradox with help from some great physics teachers.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 09:03
  • Purchases: 2
Simeon Taylor Webb (Casey Jones' Fireman), July 13, 1957
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Who was Sim Webb? Well, fifty-seven years earlier, April of 1900, he was the man who lived. It happened like this ...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Gertrude Bell (founder of Iraq), July 11, 1926
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Who was she? Imagine Indiana Jones or Lawrence of Arabia ... think of them in skirts ... and you're close. Archeologist, diplomat, writer and poet ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
James Rollins talks about "The Devil Colony"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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James Rollins is a writer and veterinarian and lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2011
  • Length: 24:29
Show # 1125
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Finally...the Blues Project!

Bought by KWMR, KEOS, KPVL, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jun 25, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 4
3 Great American Voices
From: Leet and Litwin
Caption: Julia Child
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, and Julia Child: All loved to eat. Here's a Cather story about a priest who loved his food more t...

Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, WXXI Rochester, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2011
  • Length: 55:08
  • Purchases: 6
Hannibal Hamlin (First Lincoln V.P.) July 4, 1891
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Hannibal who? The story of an all-but-forgotten man who WOULD HAVE BEEN President after Lincoln's assassination, likely changing our lives.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Horses and Water in the Civil War
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Most Civil War scholarship focuses on generals and their armies. But historians at a recent conference explored how water, heat, and horses affecte...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
Show # 1121
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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You want Cream with that?

Bought by KKRN, KEOS, KWMR, KEOS, KPVL and more


  • Added: May 25, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Louisa Van Velser (mother of Walt Whitman), May 23, 1873
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The mother of one of our greatest American writers. Long thought to be illiterate ... revealed by her letters to have a distinctive writing voice t...

  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
William T. Tutte (British Codebreaker), May 2, 2002
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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He was shy, geeky ... a genius ... and helped turn the tide in World War II.

  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
That Was Invented By... Whom???
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: A man who helped bring on the digital age used to live in this house in Garrett Park, Md., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
The most famous inventors... you've never heard of.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 4
Marcel Mangel(Marceau), September 22, 2007
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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One night, entering a clearing, he and a companion came face to face with a well-armed Nazi patrol. Desperately outnumbered, he took an amazing cha...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
How the White House Got Its Name
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Dr. Clarence Lusane is author of The Black History of the White House., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
Hint: It doesn't have a whole lot to do with paint swatches...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 3
Glenn Cunningham, March 10, 1988
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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He was a runner, early on. Before it was popular. Before Spandex, before Nike and Gatorade. At one time, he was one of a handful of the fastest hum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
The Man Who Recorded the World - Alan Lomax
From: Open Source
Caption: Alan Lomax with unidentified man. [Library of Congress photo]
Open Source "Shorties" are 7 to 8 minute cuts of our best timely and evergreen material. Today, we're joining biographer John Szwed in thanking the...

Bought by PRX Remix, KPIP-LP, KMXT, and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 4
The "Curse" of the Hope Diamond
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Does bad luck befall everyone who's owned the infamous Hope Diamond?, Credit: The Smithsonian
Is the world's most famous diamond... cursed?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 2
Saint Ignatius: Knight of the New Crusade
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Credit: Randy OHC
Nobleman, soldier, gambler, womanizer, priest, theologian, and founder of the Society of Jesus—and all this of just one man!

  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 46:50
Andrew Shapter - The Teller & The Truth
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: The Teller & The Truth
Andrew is a filmmaker whose credits include Happiness Is and Before the Music Dies. Andrew is working on a new film, The Teller and the Truth, abou...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 27:22
A Symphony of Hopes and Dreams
From: With Good Reason
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Some lovely pieces of music and some not-so-lovely pieces of history.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Clever Apes: Apes in space
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Ham, the first chimp in space, Credit: NASA
In this episode, host Gabriel Spitzer considers what science has to learn from flying saucers, what it might take for humans to colonize space in o...

Bought by WVTF, WTJU, KBGA 89.9 FM, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2011
  • Length: 12:59
  • Purchases: 6

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