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Sandcastles
From: Adriana Cargill
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Sandcastles is a podcast about home, how we create it, and why we fight so hard for it.

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 04, 2023
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 3
A New Day for Public Television?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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It’s a new day, and the nation’s most trusted media institution has some new direction. Sylvia Bugg was named the Chief Programming Executive and G...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
2 Years: Diaries of a Divided Nation
From: KCRW
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Two Years: Diaries of a Divided Nation is a people’s history of the forty-fifth presidency, recorded in real time, over the first two years of the...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., American Voices, KALW, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 26
Albert Maysles - on how childhood experiences shape our art
From: Susan Doran
Caption: Al Maysles and me at The Maysles Institute, Harlem NY
Brief excerpt of a 4.5 hour conversation had with Albert Maysles before our interview for the radio documentary I'm producing, "The Night Before Al...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:44
Norman Corwin, Writer-Director From Radio's Golden Age
From: Katy Sewall
Caption: Norman Corwin with Katy Sewall, Credit: Katy Sewall
Norman Corwin is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest writer–director–producer's of radio's Golden Age. Radio educator, Tony Palermo, says that ...

Bought by WABE, WAMU, KSUT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 49:32
  • Purchases: 4
WHERE WERE WE IN '63 ?
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
Caption: interviewing Irving Brecher
Interviews with New Yorkers remembering where they were on November 22nd, 1963

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 2
Studs Terkel: A Heart as Big as the World
From: A World of Possibilities
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Despite his best efforts, like the very establishments he excoriated, Studs Terkel became an American institution. A man of the people, he was also...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WZEN.org, KBGA 89.9 FM, WDSE and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 11
The Last Word on Community Media
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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People who show up make decisions, friends, playgrounds, art, history...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 31, 2011
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
Tony Schwartz: 30,000 Recordings Later
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Lost & Found Sound
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A profile of Tony Schwartz, an innovative and inspired sound gatherer, recording the sounds of America since 1945.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, KFAI Minneapolis, The Story and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2008
  • Length: 20:42
  • Purchases: 10