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History's Tragic Irony with Teju Cole and Simon Schama
From: Open Source
Caption: Teju Cole
Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole is our idea of a post-imperial global mind in motion. His celebrated first novel, "Open City," is about a solita...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 20, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Decisions Project - 15 - A Month in Juárez
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A recent college graduate receives an unexpected job offer from his uncle: teach English in Ciudad Juárez.

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:25
In Memory of Tim Hetherington
From: Sheri Quinn
Caption: Tim Hetherington, Credit: Sheri Quinn
Photojournalist and war correspondent Tim Hetherington was killed wednesday, April 20, 2011 along with two other journalists while covering the fig...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 14:01
The "Curse" of the Hope Diamond
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Does bad luck befall everyone who's owned the infamous Hope Diamond?, Credit: The Smithsonian
Is the world's most famous diamond... cursed?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 2
Africa in a Chinese Century, Firecracker Prose - Howard French & Lydia Davis
From: Open Source
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This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 27, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Quander Quality
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Nellie Mae Quander (1880-1961), 1st international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the 1st Greek-lettered sorority established/incorporated by African-American college women., Credit: Quander Historical Society, Inc.
Meet the oldest African-American family in Washington, D.C. - and, perhaps, the United States.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Radio Catskill, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 6
In The Prime: Washington's Meridian
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: D.C.'s Meridian Hill Park got its name from the Prime Meridian Thomas Jefferson proposed along 16th Street NW., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
What if Washington, D.C., really were the middle of the world?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
BIUTIFUL - Alejandro Gonzales Inrarritu Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, San Francisco, CA, 10/8/10, Credit: Andrea Chase
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu on life, death, and altered perceptions.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2010
  • Length: 10:23
Mediaeval Baebes
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: The Mediaeval Baebes, Credit: Hayley Madden
The allure is undeniable. Six talented, attractive women breathe renewed life into the rich texts of medieval songs and poetry with their haunting...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Jon Hopkins's Quaint Electronica
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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You may not know Jon Hopkins, but you’ve heard him on albums by Coldplay, Massive Attack, Imogen Heap and Brian Eno. On Coldplay’s Viva La Vida or...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
English electronic duo plugs in with vintage synthesizers and heads into space
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve of Arc, Credit: Kimberly Haas
English electronic musicians Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy perform in a pair of cockpits of keyboards and gear. They specialize in a sound that has r...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
A Senegalese griot meets a German jazz trumpeter
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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An African griot meets a German jazz trumpeter when Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze talk about their unlikely and serenely beautiful collaboration.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Saint Damien of Molokai, Hawaii's First Saint
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Father Damien, Credit: www.fatherdamien.com
The Belgian priest, known as Father Damien, was recently declared a saint for his extraordinary service in caring for patients with Hansen's diseas...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
Cocteau Twins Guitarist Rides a Carousel of Drifting, Paisley-Dappled Tone Poems
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Guitarist Robin Guthrie
Robin Guthrie's shimmering, ringing guitars, layers of echo and darkly melancholy themes play over trancey rhythm machines

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 25, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
The East-West fusion of Urban Nature
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Urban Nature is the duo of guitarist Todd Boston and Indian percussionist Ramesh Kannan. They’re updating the East-West fusion of John McLaughlin'...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Carmen Rizzo and Huun Huur Tu: Tuvan throat singers meet an electronic mix-master
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Carmen Rizzo
Huun Huur Tu is a band from Tuva specializing in the ancient style of harmonic singing that comes from that region. Their music is combined with th...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Karda Estra: Gothic images in chamber rock music
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Karda Estra is the recording persona of English composer Richard Wileman. He started out as a rocker but veered into composing classical works for ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 28, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Chris Bocast and MJ Catalin: Global Possibilities
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Chris Bocast
Ambient guitar meets electronica percussion via the internet in a CD of cinematic sweep

  • Added: Sep 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
Inbar Bakal's Hebrew hymns on electronic wings
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Israeli singer Inbar Bakal
Inbar Bakal is an Israeli singer born of Yemeni and Iraqi parents. Her music, composed with producer Carmen Rizzo (Seal, Alanis Morrisette), is a ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
Lost Maritime Cultures: China and the Pacific
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Excavating sites like this one in China link China's ancient seafarers with people throughout the Pacific, Credit: Bishop Museum
The origin of people living on islands throughout the Pacific has been a mystery for years. Now some archaeologists in Hawaii believe they have th...

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: 05:10
Audio Postcard from Azerbaijan
From: Carla Seidl
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Sound collage from a small village in the north of Azerbaijan

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Nov 04, 2008
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 2
Traveling Companions
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Traveling companions are a joy and a curiosity

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Oct 26, 2008
  • Length: 09:25
  • Purchases: 1
Fernwood: Acoustic Americana world chamber music
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Fernwood mixes Americana sounds with Appalachian strings, along with bouzoukis from the Middle East and Ireland and sitars from India.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
Ludovico Einaudi: Ambient chamber music from the classical birthplace
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Ludovico Einaudi talks about his lush, harmonic piano music

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
Digitonal
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Two classical musicians walk on the ambient side

  • Added: Sep 30, 2008
  • Length: 03:30