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  • Added: Feb 28, 2007
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 16

  • Added: Feb 27, 2007
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13

  • Added: Feb 16, 2007
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 10
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Interviews of three community members concerning water issues in the San Luis Valley.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KRFC


  • Added: Jan 15, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Billy Higgins was reportedly the most recorded jazz drummer in history. Higgins talks about his music and life. This profile also features intervi...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WNCU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2007
  • Length: 09:14
  • Purchases: 6
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Student returns to hurricane ravaged hometown

  • Added: Dec 25, 2006
  • Length: 04:52
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The story behind the word "bombast"

  • Added: Nov 24, 2006
  • Length: 02:40
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In this program we look at the closing off of a Land Grant easment by Jack Taylor, the decision in this will set precedent for land rights all over...

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM


  • Added: Oct 22, 2006
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Battlefield surgeons and nurses reflect on the ironies of their work as healers in a war zone

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 1
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An audio history of the New York Police Department

Bought by WNYC, WFUV, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WGBH Radio Boston, and WAMU


  • Added: Aug 25, 2006
  • Length: 59:45
  • Purchases: 5
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A culturally historic piece looking at the San Luis Valley of Colorado.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM


  • Added: Aug 14, 2006
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 1
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A collection of music from South Africa to honor Nelson Mandela.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 08, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Part 1 in series about the cultural histroy of the San Luis Valley.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM, KSUT, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jul 31, 2006
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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A college freshman travels to Chile and interviews survivors of the 1960 tsunami/earthquake.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 1
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A Long Haul Production's "song story" about people whose portraits were taken by a LaPorte, Indiana photographer a generation ago.

Bought by The Story, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2006
  • Length: 13:12
  • Purchases: 3
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Native Youth tell the story of their recent origins

Bought by KSUT and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 03, 2006
  • Length: 23:29
  • Purchases: 2
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Schwarz discusses his groundbreaking book "Imagining the Holocaust"

  • Added: Apr 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
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A personal insight into the life of former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter - his life after the blockbuster hit movie.

Bought by KSFR, KSJD, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, and KSFR


  • Added: Jan 08, 2006
  • Length: 14:07
  • Purchases: 5
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For a young Canadian child, the battles of the Second World War are so far in the past that they might as well be from another world.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
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These excerpts from on-the-street interviews from the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle are for a proposal to the PRX Reversioning ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2005
  • Length: 05:24
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A Reading of letters from the James Beard Collection

  • Added: May 31, 2005
  • Length: 29:36
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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
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Vince Gabriel is a Vietnam veteran who's written an album of songs chronicling his experience of the war. He takes listeners back to 1968, to the j...

Bought by KSKA, RadioFreePalmer, WJSU, WABE, KZYX and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2005
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 15
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Listen to people on the banks of the Mississippi river describe the hardy bunch that survived on driftwood: the river rats.

Bought by KVNF and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Jan 18, 2005
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 2