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#195 - A Sonic Conjuring
From: HowSound
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On this episode, a fascinating minute of audio - the sound of war and peace reconstructed from the exact end World War I. Even more fascinating, th...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 11:42
MN Native News: Native Film Series Returns To Walker Art Center
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
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A native film festival has returned to the Walker Art Center for its second year of showcasing film that looks to the past, present and future to t...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KMSU, WDSE, KSRQ, KQAL and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2019
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 7
By Every Means Necessary: Southern Progressives Are Shaking Up Politics
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Southern activists are shaking things up, with their votes, and their broadband transmitter too. This week, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson and Rev. Ally...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Feb 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
BPP 115 | ROGER STONE — BOBBY PICKLES’ PODCAST™️
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: BOBBY PICKLES, ROGER STONE, MATTHEW PIAZZA
Pickles and Pizza conduct this 115th Episode of Bobby Pickles’ Podcast with Full Stomachs ON-LOCATION from the Sunny South Florida Home of Infamous...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:13:07
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
The Lime Stone Cube
From: Rick Brewer
Caption: Herman B Wells Library, Credit: Indiana University Archives
An audio story about working in the Herman B Wells Library.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
Octopus Fever
From: Ruby Schwartz
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You might have seen the headlines. Scientists recently gave octopuses ecstasy. It was part of a study where they expected to learn about social beh...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., HowSound, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 03, 2018
  • Length: 10:38
  • Purchases: 4
As the Denver Post declines, so does the Colorado News Market
From: James Szkobel-Wolff
Caption: Cover of Denver Post Editorial Page on April 7th, 2018, Credit: Chicago Tribune
A look into the fall of the Denver Post, the impact it's had on the Colorado News Market and the future of reporting in the state.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 13:16
#187 - Fictional Sound for a Fictional Story
From: HowSound
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Producer Morgan Givens lays out his elaborate thinking behind a few sound effects he recorded for a historical fiction story he produced about an e...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 22:06
Learning From a Master
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Richard J. Berstein
She didn’t like being called a philosopher, but that is how she’s recognized. And, as far as philosophy professor Richard J. Bernstein is concerned...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hindsight is 20/20
From: Stephen Grant
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Greg Pierotti and members of New York City’s Tectonic Theater Project spent months in the small town of Laramie, Wyoming conducting interviews with...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 23, 2018
  • Length: 26:08
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 84: Masterpiece
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In the 1950s poodles were all the rage – one tabloid even reported that when a girl “makes the big time she traditionally acquires 3 things — minks...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 25:15
  • Purchases: 1
Panic, Mayhem, Hysteria – War of the Worlds
From: Roger McDonough
Caption: Orson Welles news conference, 1938, Credit: WikiCommons
On October 30th, 1938, American radio audiences - believing that a Martian invasion was underway - went absolutely nuts. Panicked masses fled to th...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 3
TriPod Xtras: Cokie Roberts
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Cokie Roberts speaks at Brookings book club event, "America's political dynasties: From Adams to Clinton", Credit: Paul Morigi
This is the first edition of TriPod Xtras- exclusive interviews with guests on topics of New Orleans history. Here, Laine Kaplan-Levenson speaks wi...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 09:34
Fred & Toody Cole of Dead Moon
From: Alex Kime
Series: Alex Kime - Chicago
Caption: https://alexkime.com/podcasts/
Listen in as Fred and Toody talk about their durability as a band & how a DIY mentality attributed to their 20-year success. Alex Kime edited this ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 21:41
170923 Band Box Records of Denver Colorado
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:56:19
Winona Municiple Band: Concert Six of the 2017 Season
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
Caption: Winona Municipal Band
Welcome to our coverage of the 2017 season of the Winona Municipal Band, Directed by Levi Lundak. The band has been entertaining locals for 102 yea...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 55:22
The Innovation Dialogues - Part 1
From: Littleglobe
Series: The Innovation Dialogues
Caption: SFHS Innovation Academy youth producers
Students at Santa Fe High School’s Innovation Academy discuss high school culture, the effects of technology on education, the challenges of media ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2017
  • Length: 27:54
A Prairie Home Companion
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Music Notes
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The Minnesota radio treasure, “A Prairie Home Companion”, had its humble beginnings at Macalester College in 1974. As producer Daniel Zamzow explai...

Bought by WTIP, KQAL, Radio K, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 4
Slim Jim & The Vagabond Kid
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Music Notes
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North Dakotans Ernest and Clarence Iverson were raised by first generation Norwegian immigrants in the early 1900s. As producer Daniel Zamzow descr...

Bought by WTIP, KQAL, KFAI Minneapolis, and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Jul 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 4
177: Peak Performance / 178: The Whole Truth, 6/17/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Peak Performance" - Elite climber Alex Honnold just stunned the world with his free solo ascent of El Capitan. How do you do that? We'll...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Assassin of Youth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book jacket cover
In 1930, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics appointed Harry J. Anslinger as the commissioner. He became the first drug czar with a flair for demonizin...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Brown County Makes Final Round in Development Initiative
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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The Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs last week named Brown County as a finalist in its Hometown Collaboration Initiative.

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
Episode Four: "The Race Beat"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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Take note: On this episode we're following the "Race Beat." We talk with Hank Klibanoff who's book "The Race Beat" tells the story of journalists c...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 25:00
War, What Is It Good For? (promo)
From: With Good Reason
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If we can't end war, what can we learn from the fight? We look at 3 stories of conflict involving mercenaries, radicalized Union generals and the o...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: :30

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