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In The Name of Love
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for a global playlist of love songs plus topical comedy.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
I Will Not Fear: Melba Beals of the Little Rock Nine
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Melba Beals
Melba Beals, one of the nine African-American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, tells her story of faith under fire.

Bought by WHYY and WETS


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
Beatrix Potter Special
From: KUNM
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Celebrating the life and work of Beatrix Potter

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Opera, the Acequia and the WPA: Stories from Santa Fe Living Treasures
From: nancy udell
Caption: Gillian Wethey McHugh
Excerpts from the oral histories collected by the Santa Fe Living Treasures' committee as part of its work honoring community elders.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 27:43
A Conversation with Amy Tan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author Amy Tan talks about her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, her relationship with her mother, and the art of writing.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 27:50
Polar Prom
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Award Winning Radio Programs
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The first prom in the history of a small isolated Arctic town in Nunavut, northern Canada. 'Polar Prom' won a Bronze Medal at the 2010 New York Fes...

Bought by WRPI and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: 21:59
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Bach Mix "Bach Beyond Music"
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: J.S. Bach
Three Bach playing pianists talk about a possible spiritual presence in music by Bach. Use this 59 second "Mix" for Bach's Birthday (March 21) or ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: :44
Bach Mix "Bach on the Inside"
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Classical Music in 60 Seconds(tm)
Caption: JS Bach
Three musical giants reflect on what they feel when they play and hear Bach. For any format, the 60 second drop-in is ideal for Bach's Birthday (Ma...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
My Dad the World Champion
From: Laura Spero
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Just before the opening of the 2008 Bejing Olympics, Don Spero tells his daughter, for the billionth time, of the epic rivalry he once had with gre...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 05:09
Emma Lazarus vox
From: Julie Subrin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What people know about the woman who wrote "give me your tired..."

  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:28
Maxey's Mansion
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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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