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Time Zones: a World History
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Time zones reflect a history of our changing politics, commerce, and technology.

Bought by Listenwise and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 2
Life on the Party Line
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Today's privacy concerns with cell phones seem trivial when we look back at the world of open telephone wires.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Lorie Yourd - "Montana Log Cabin Cafe"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Lorie Yourd is a retired educator and a dedicated advocate for the arts living in the Bemidji area. Here she reads her poem "Montana Log Cabin Cafe...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
Omer Simeon
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Omer Simeon-front row, 3rd from left
Born in New Orleans in 1902, Omer Simeon is the least known of the early clarinetist of the 1920s. He was apparently very quite and reserved, didn...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
Pigments
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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From Victorian parlors to Starbucks, pigments have defined and connected societies.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 1
Moments with Jazz Master, Von Freeman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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3 Moments with tenor saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Von Freeman.

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


  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 10
Bull-Baiting
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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The violent pastime known as bull baiting entertained the wealthy and poor alike and shaped the breed we now know as the bulldog.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 1
Video Arcades
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Since their rise with the release of the 1978 game Space Invaders, video arcades have evolved alongside home gaming systems.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 3
Auto-Tune
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Auto-Tune has become an overwhelmingly familiar effect across nearly every genre.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Barber Pole
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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The surprising history of a true cultural icon: the barber pole.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Holes
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Exploring the secrets of these ancient flooded caves from Australia to Egypt to Belize.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 1
Exotica
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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The rise of exotica, a mysterious musical genre of the '50s and '60s.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
Tremolo
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Tremolo, one of music's most basic effects, has an incomplete history. What we do know links centuries of composition.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Actor Sam Elliott perfectly reads passages from Twain's tribute to American boyhood. The program also includes commentary by Ken Burns, P.J. O'Rour...

Bought by KMUN, KREV-LP, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 6
Robert Leo Sheppard (Voice of Yankee Stadium) July 11, 2010
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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For more than fifty years ... an unbroken streak of more than 4500 games, Bob Sheppard was the voice of Yankee Stadium. As Reggie Jackson said, "t...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Columbus Park
From: David Maxon
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Reflection Manhattan's Columbus Park and the fluid nature of place.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:13
Beauty and Pain - Science and Medicine in Berlin
From: Elizabeth Green Musselman
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Syphilitic skulls, racial science, and some of the oldest non-western music recordings in history - come explore the beauty and pathos that is the ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2008
  • Length: 32:55
Ozymandias drives a Plymouth - (It's just rust and a fin)
From: Richard Frohlich
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Topical sound-rich commentary on Time Capsules. June 2007

  • Added: Jun 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:21
The Tristan Mysteries: The Five Hour Mysteries
From: WNYC
Series: The Tristan Mysteries
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Wagner's classic love story "Tristan und Isolde" revealed.

Bought by Remix Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 06, 2007
  • Length: 16:37
  • Purchases: 2
The Tristan Mysteries; The Sonic Mysteries
From: WNYC
Series: The Tristan Mysteries
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Wagner's classic love story "Tristan und Isolde" revealed.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Remix Radio, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jun 06, 2007
  • Length: 15:35
  • Purchases: 3
It's Just A Matter of Time
From: Ryan Scammell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Everything's stuck in the past when Liza Minnelli plays a concert in Coney Island.

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 17, 2007
  • Length: 14:01
  • Purchases: 2
WNYC's Fishko Files: Bach Chaconne
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Fishko Files
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The Fishko Files, produced by WNYC's Sara Fishko, are personal, essay-like radio pieces on music, art, culture and media.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, The WFMT Radio Network, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2006
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 3
WNYC's Fishko Files: Scat
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Fishko Files
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The Fishko Files, produced by WNYC's Sara Fishko, are personal, essay-like radio pieces on music, art, culture and media.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2006
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 1
WNYC's Fishko Files: Jazz Companion
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Fishko Files
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The Fishko Files, produced by WNYC's Sara Fishko, are personal, essay-like radio pieces on music, art, culture and media.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KTUH


  • Added: Apr 19, 2006
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 2
WNYC's Fishko Files: Film Noir
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Fishko Files
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The Fishko Files, produced by WNYC's Sara Fishko, are personal, essay-like radio pieces on music, art, culture and media.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2006
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 4