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Saint Paddy's Day
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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For this episode of Rock School, we will discuss St. Paddy's Day. No, it is not St.Patrick's Day. We are gonna tell you all about the holiday and p...

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, KSKQ, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Butterbird Christmas
From: Meg DeMakas
Caption: Butterbird Christmas Radio Play Presentation in Gary, IN 12-4-14, Credit: Family Folklore Foundation, Inc.
This radio play is a family romp at Christmas during the 50's in the Midwest.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 40:45
TSR15-25 Blue Canvas Christmas
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
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Join Big Top Chautauqua and the Blue Canvas Orchestra in this special holiday performance.

Bought by WDSE, KMSU, KPIP-LP, WTIP, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 10
Culture Clique Presents "Farming The Ridge" (Part Two)
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Art Beat, we continue our coverage of Winona Poet Laureate, Ken McCullough’s collection of recent work entitled “Farming The Rid...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 33:49
Culture Clique Presents "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Farm"
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we join Dr. Elizabeth Oness of Winona State University as she gives her presentation “A Funny Thing Happened on ...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 42:11
Culture Clique Presents "Bees and Honey"
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we visit the MN State Fair’s Agricultural Building. While there, we visit The Bee and Honey Show, where we meet ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 21:27
Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis Hosts a Fourth of July Festival
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Jazz 88, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Powderhorn Park always does it with flair, and this 4th of July, it hosts musician Greg Herriges and troupes of puppeteers and dancers. Phil Nusbau...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 28, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Why Cooking Sucks
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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This is an essay about cooking and all the shame and rage and frustration that can accompany this art. Writer Sarah Miller describes her desire to ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 1
#ReclaimMLK actions vindicate King’s legacy of civil rights protests
From: Free Speech Radio News
Caption: A die-in near Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade., Credit: Lena Nozizwe
A news report from Santa Monica, California on "Reclaim MLK" actions there.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:42
How Corporations Become People: A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
There is a demand in this country that corporations acknowledge that they are not people. Until corporations wake up one morning, and say, “I‘m r...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
God's Sanctuary
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Harold Lerner, 1945
1943, The Pacific. Aboard a troop ship bound for New Guinea, under threat of enemy fire, a young private is tasked with an awesome responsibility.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 13:58
Messages From a Forgotten Troopship (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Troops aboard the General Nelson M. Walker, Credit: Vietnam Graffiti Project
Sound-rich stories from and about a Vietnam War-era troopship, in the voices of people whose lives were affected by the journey to war.

Bought by WCNY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WGCU, KMUN, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 53:32
  • Purchases: 29
The Holidays with MMAM and GRSF
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On 12-12-12 The Minnesota Marine Art Museum with Great River Shakespeare Festival hosted a holiday party. Since the museum and the festival are par...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 17:29
  • Purchases: 1
Yahye's take on Eid
From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Yahye, a young participant in the Luxton after-school program reflects on the Islamic holiday of Eid.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 1
Zack's First crush
From: Matt Miller
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A story that Zack didn't get to tell at the Moth, live in Chicago: The summer Zack was thirteen he got up the courage to talk to the girl across th...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 04:27
Julian's Dinosaurs
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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How does a family function when living out of a hospital during a young child's illness?

  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 14:26
What is your definition of Love?
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
Caption: Folk Journalist/Teacher
For Valentine's Day folk journalist Hank Rosenfeld asked 5th graders about love.

Bought by KUER, KRZA, PRX Remix, KAOS, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
Monroe Crossing Holiday Show at Bloomington Arts Center, Dec 20, 2013. Broadcast Dec 16-19, 2013,
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Monroe Crissing , Credit: Jamey Guy
We meet Mark and Lisa from Monroe Crossing and talk about the season and some of the group's songs.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 28, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 114: Annual Holiday Show (Full Hour)
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Fall Season
Caption: Sara Etgen-Baker reads
The full-hour version of our Annual Holiday Show. Also available in 2 29-minute segments.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
The Real Holidays
From: WHJE
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Whether it’s Thanksgiving, Hanukah, Christmas, or Kwanza we all have to go through the ritual of celebrating the Holidays. But does anyone honestly...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jewish Christmas Songs!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
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All aboard the holiday sleigh! Some Jews & Christians spend the holidays together, so enjoy these varied Jewish songs of Christmas!

Bought by KMUD, KRPS, WDSE, Tri States Public Radio, KRPS and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Movies That Make Your Holidays
From: Spokane Public Radio
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SPR's Movies 101 film reviewers give their picks for their top holiday rentals, traditional and not-so-traditional.

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WVPE, WRFA-LP, KVSC, WVPE and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Between A Rock and a Hard Place - David Dinnell
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
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A true story told live in London. David goes scuba diving off the coast of Sicily, and gets into troubled waters - involving an airport runway, uns...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 11:05
  • Purchases: 1
Bob Nadkarni, Extraordinaire or Home in Rio
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Eric at the breakfast table, Credit: Anton F.
Bob Nakarni is a former broadcast [ BBC and NBC among others ] correspondent, producer, cameraman and reporter who turned into an Inn Keeper in Rio...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 17:08
What Happens in Vegas - Catherine Hall
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
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A true story told live in London. Catherine was a a self-confessed 'wild child.' She was eventually caught with cocaine by the police and told this...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:48