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Jack of Many Trades and Artist Extraordinaire!
From: KSRQ
Series: Artist Spotlight
Caption: Artist Trey Everett of Crookston MN
Trey Everett of Crookston, MN is the Northwest Minnesota Arts Council's (NWMAC) "Showcase Specialist." He is the brains and creative force behind t...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 08:34
819: Forged By Hand / 820: Empathy For Monsters, 8/12/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Forged By Hand" - You would think that handcrafting, like iron forging and copper smithing, would be on the way out. But COVID has shown...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
A History of Live Radio
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: WBAI Staff, Credit: 1960s
In honor of radio pioneers Larry Josephson, Steve Post and Bob Fass, a look back at the early days of free form radio at Pacifica and WBAI in New Y...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:39
  • Purchases: 1
'The Stone Age' Program 259
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: "The Stone Age" with Dan Wargo
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This program presents music from the '60's and '70's that was seminal in the popular music of the time...music too good to forget.

Bought by WOUB, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KEOS


  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
'The Stone Age' Program 258
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: "The Stone Age" with Dan Wargo
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This program is a one hour exploration of some of the best electric music of the '60's and '70's.

Bought by WOUB, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KEOS


  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
'The Stone Age' Program 257
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: "The Stone Age" with Dan Wargo
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This program highlights studio, and live recordings from the electric music of the '60's and '70's for one hour.

Bought by WOUB, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KEOS


  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
'The Stone Age' Program 256
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: "The Stone Age" with Dan Wargo
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This one hour show highlights some of the finest electric music from the '60's and '70's.

Bought by WOUB and KEOS


  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
'The Stone Age Program' 249
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: "The Stone Age" with Dan Wargo
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This one hour program is part of a series that explores the finest electric music of the '60's and '70's.

Bought by WOUB, GCR (Global Community Radio), KEOS, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KGLT


  • Added: Aug 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Oddball Film and Video creates an unusual night at the movies
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: In the stacks at Oddball Film and Video.
Ever wonder what happens to films too bizarre for the big, or even small screen? Many of them end up at Oddball Film and Video, a stock footage com...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
The "last bastion of freak culture" on Valencia turns 30
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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If you look beyond the new restaurants, cafés and boutique shops, on Valencia Street there are hints of what gave this neighborhood the reputation ...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 08:24
On speaking vs writing
From: Veronica Simmonds
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What is the nature of speech? Why did we start writing stuff down? And which of these lasts longer?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 2
The Peter Yarrow Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
HN- Thomas Nast
From: Conor Bentley
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this episode, we take an in-depth look at political cartoonist, Thomas Nast.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 09:42
1908 Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor
From: Action Speaks Radio
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The camera, exposing social problems or becoming one?

Bought by WRIR, WRPI, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 4
Blacklisted Artists
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In the early years of the Cold War, a number of Hollywood directors and writers were blacklisted from the motion picture industry. One author says ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Feb 3: Russian - Alona on Norman Rockwell
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 01, 2006
  • Length: 02:11
Feb 3: English - Alona on Norman Rockwell
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 01, 2006
  • Length: 02:20
Speak The Speech: Acting Shakespeare.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mr. York explains the benefits of studying Shakespeare.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, KUHB, WGBH Radio Boston, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 4