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Valdivia: Stories of Survival
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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MIT Freshmen travel to Valdivia, Chile, and report on three stories of survival they have found there: ecological survival, cultural survival, and ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 23:26
Surviving a Tsunami: The story of Valdivians in 1960
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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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
A Map of The Sea
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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An award-winning documentary on the collapse of the Newfoundland cod fishery and its resounding effects on the local community.

Bought by HowSound, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland and more


  • Added: May 04, 2006
  • Length: 14:57
  • Purchases: 8
Closing of the Navajo Hopi Relocation Office
From: KRZA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A concentrated look at The Office of Navajo and Hopi Relocation which will be closing due to new legislation

  • Added: Apr 20, 2006
  • Length: 13:14
Gale Norton Resigns: Analysis
From: KRCC-FM
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Colorado College Professor Walt Hecox offers perspective on the resignation of Interior Secretary Gale Norton

Bought by KOTO


  • Added: Mar 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
Rolling Stones Radio Hour/Chuck Leavell Interview
From: Kevin Yazell
Series: Rolling Stones Radio Hour
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Chuck Leavell discuss his career with the Stones as well as solo projects and his history in the music industry.

Bought by KRPS, Internet Partnership Radio, WYOU, KWCW, and KUCB


  • Added: Feb 24, 2006
  • Length: 59:56
  • Purchases: 5
Grasslands of Eastern Colorado - Part 1
From: KRCC-FM
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History of the national grasslands program

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Feb 06, 2006
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
A Poem Lovely as a Tree
From: Sarah Elzas
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An exploration of Joyce Kilmer's most famous poem

Bought by KZYX, XRAY.fm, KUT, Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2006
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 9
Joyce Kilmer and Trees
From: Sarah Elzas
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A profile of Joyce Kilmer, author of Trees

Bought by WABE, KTNA, and WFIU


  • Added: Jan 22, 2006
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 3
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
From: Talking History
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Main feature is an interview with Jared Diamond, along with our regular segments on History in the News, and a reading from recollections from the ...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2005
  • Length: 29:02
Hart Island
From: Barrett Wolf
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Poem about New York City's Potters Field

  • Added: Nov 21, 2005
  • Length: 02:11
RN Documentary: Sólheimar, a place in the sun
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The story of Sólheimar,a village in Iceland where mentally disabled persons live together with people without a handicap.

Bought by WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Nov 08, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Railing over Train Smoke!
From: KSUT
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Train smoke plagues Durango, Colorado residents while feeding the town's economy.

Bought by KOTO and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Nov 03, 2005
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 2
Commentary: America the Beautiful
From: KRCC-FM
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Thoughts on America the beautiful and Pikes Peak region

  • Added: Sep 30, 2005
  • Length: 04:00
RN Documentary: Zeeland '53
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus: Living With Water
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Recreation of the disastrous 1953 flood in the southern Dutch province of Zeeland during which more than 1800 lives were lost.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio and WRPI


  • Added: Sep 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 2
Rocco from the Bronx
From: Adam Allington
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Rocco Migliorelli talks about farming in the Bronx during the 1930's, 40's and 50's

Bought by WFUV and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Aug 17, 2005
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 2
Scenes From The Beach 4
From: George Thatcher
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Reflections on the night sky

  • Added: Aug 11, 2005
  • Length: 01:37
Scenes From The Beach 5
From: George Thatcher
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Reflections on the changing landscape of the beach

  • Added: Aug 11, 2005
  • Length: 01:30
The Lord God Bird
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Song/Story
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An innovative story about the rediscovery of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker in Brinkley, Arkansas that blends interviews and an original song by Sufja...

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUT, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2005
  • Length: 11:57
  • Purchases: 10
Georgia Market Bulletin
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A chronicle of rural life in Georgia unfolds between the lines of a farmers' newspaper.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Jimmy Carter Builds a Tree House
From: Marion Owen
Series: The UpBeet Gardener Series
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President Jimmy Carter builds daughter Amy an environmentally-friendly tree house on the White House grounds.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
Rip, Rift, and Panic: Earthquake Stories of Life and Death Along the Faultlines
From: Susan Stone
Caption: San Francisco, Marina district, October 17, 1989
Earthquake stories from around the Pacific Rim

Bought by KPIK-LP, WUAL, KMXT, KWMR, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 29:22
  • Purchases: 11
Making the Louisville Slugger
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works
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The art of hand turning a Louisville Slugger baseball bat

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Apr 12, 2004
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Art and Craft of Blacksmithing with Lewis Meyer
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: Kentucky Works
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the day in the life of a Kentucky blacksmith

  • Added: Mar 29, 2004
  • Length: 09:00
The Olive Rediscovered
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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Californians rediscover their olive groves.

Bought by KVNF, KZSC, and WYSO


  • Added: Dec 02, 2003
  • Length: 15:45
  • Purchases: 3

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