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RN Documentary: She-wood & Cypress - The Mississippi River Rats
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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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
Remembering Mother Warren
From: jessica lockhart
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A look into the labor history of one of the world's oldest paper mills.

Bought by WMPG, KVSC, WMPG, PRX Remix, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Nov 11, 2004
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 9
Take the 'A' Train
From: WFUV
Series: Subculture Series
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Take a ride on the A train - the subway's longest line

  • Added: Sep 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:27
The Port Chicago 50: An Oral History
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series
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The story of the worst homefront disaster of World War II -- an ammunition explosion that killed more than 300 men -- and what happened to the 50 A...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVMR, WORT, KVNF and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 25:12
  • Purchases: 26
Bible Salesman
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series
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Former door-to-door Bible salesman Jim "The Rabbit" Baker, featured in the classic 1969 Maysles Brothers film Salesman, explains the secrets of his...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WYBC, KSUT, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 5
Alaskan Native Culture
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Raymomd claims his birthright and shares his personal journey and native history.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2004
  • Length: 20:40
"109 on 9/11"
From: Esther Regelson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
"109 on 9-11" tells the tale of 109 Washington Street, a tenement building located two-and-a-half blocks south of the World Trade Center.

Bought by KQED, KCUR, WNIJ, WLRN, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2004
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 8
Hollister
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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On July 4, 1947 thousands of bikers roared into a small California town and changed our assumptions about America. A new investigation raises prov...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WRPI, KUT, PRX Remix, KALW and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
JAZZ RHYTHM DEMO
From: DAVE RADLAUER
Caption: PRX default Piece image
JAZZ RHYTHM DEMO AND EXCERPTS

  • Added: Mar 22, 2004
  • Length: 47:00
Ann Meets Mr. Ellington
From: Kerry Seed
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ann Searcy is a 76-year-old jazz singer. She grew up as one of the only people of color in Old Orchard Beach, Maine where music legend, Duke Elling...

Bought by Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), SALTcast Podcast, Iowa Public Radio, WJAB, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 7
Hollow Victory
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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A David and Goliath battle against a mining technique that blows off mountaintops, buries streams and destroys communities in the hollows of West V...

Bought by WAMU, KGNU Community Radio, WRPI, KFAI Minneapolis, Audible and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 7

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