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It looks like an old phone on a dusty table. Curious folks at Burning Man pick up the receiver. What awaits on the other end is totally unexpected.
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 24:40
The city is temporary and the intersections are conceptual. Are you ready to experience Burning Man — deep in the Nevada desert?
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 04:37
In 2005, an artist in Brooklyn went on eBay, bought two acres of land in a remote part of Utah, and declared it a de facto sovereign nation: Zaqist...
- Added: Oct 04, 2018
- Length: 33:50
Borders separate us, but they also define us. Creating your identity means defining what you are in relation to what you are not. This episode is a...
- Added: Feb 01, 2016
- Length: 29:31
How a detour, a patch of goathead thorns, and a flat tire changed one guy's life, and brought an economic boost to a sleepy, little town in rural W...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 20:03
- Purchases: 3
Oral historian Blanche Girouard talks to Lady Lucinda Lambton about structures built to house, or commemorate, animals
- Added: Apr 18, 2015
- Length: 28:37
At Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, travelers are finding more than just moving sidewalks, shops and restaurants. KFAI's Allison Herrera...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:13
"Where@bouts" is the short radio series about the sense of place. Our guests conduct their world like a song in an imaginative feat of radio art. M...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 15, 2014
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 1
Ben Weisz investigates what can be learned about changes in Tunisian society since the Arab Spring, from the music which shapes its cultural landsc...
- Added: Jul 09, 2014
- Length: 01:00:04
Athens, Ga.-based Chef Hugh Acheson is one of the most celebrated and influential chefs in the country. The James Beard Award winner and Top Chef s...
Bought by WABE, Troy Public Radio, and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 14:33
- Purchases: 3
Les Thomas wrote his way across the South. His travel writing, for Texas newspapers, Southern Living magazine and beyond, has spanned over 45 year...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 07:18
- Purchases: 3
From Paradise City to Death Valley, Lisa Lipton drummed her way around North America in search of the Impossible Blue Rose
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 06:59
From salt-crystal lamps to popping wheelies artist Kate Walchuk waxes nostalgic.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 07:36
Preston Bus Station is considered one of the finest examples of British "Brutalist" architecture. Built in 1969 at the time of its construction it ...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 15:00
A dreamlike trip inside the workshop of the French sculptor and musician Robert Hébrard.
- Added: Jan 08, 2013
- Length: 02:09
The San Francisco Wave Organ remains one of the Bay Area's most unknown, misunderstood and yet beloved landmarks. After listening, I hope you'll wa...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 1
What guitar-playing, On the Road-toting hipster hasn't dreamed of riding the rails like Woody Guthrie and Jack Kerouac? With rose-colored glasses w...
- Added: Jan 02, 2012
- Length: 05:05
Shipping is a big business in Pakistan. With new paved highways offering a fast track to Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, trucking is an importa...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 03:21
- Purchases: 1
Andy meets a girl with a GNR T-Shirt
Bought by Remix Radio
- Added: Dec 24, 2009
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 1
Tonie Flaathen has been profoundly deaf from birth. That doesn't stop her from absorbing and relishing the sounds that surround and 'sound' throug...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jul 07, 2009
- Length: 29:22
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 06, 2008
- Length: 08:24
The subjects breathing pattern is naturally nervous on a exploritive walk through haunted plantation.
- Added: Jun 24, 2007
- Length: 02:16
A short ride on the "poetry bus"
Bought by KSFR, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZSC, and KLCC
- Added: Jan 28, 2007
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 5
J.W. Clifford talks with the producer about art, perception, and Donald Judd.
- Added: Nov 30, 2006
- Length: 07:38
Cyrus Farivar has the story of a young musician trying to make it in the Big Apple.
- Added: Apr 29, 2005
- Length: 08:06