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Duelling Songbirds (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Some people smuggle birds across borders simply so they can hear the songs from their homeland. And some of these birds are players in a very unusu...

Bought by KUER, KENW, WOUB, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 4
Niagara Falls up close. With a Maid of the Mist captain
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Capt. Rod MacDonald on the Maid of the Mist, Credit: Dave Rosenthal
Capt. Rod MacDonald has seen a lot in his 29 years on the Maid of the Mist. Like the man who came over Horseshoe Falls on a jet ski.

Bought by WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and WBFO


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 5
Tangier Island Sinking (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Residents of Tangier Island could become some of America’s first climate refugees—unless they get a much needed sea wall. Through a partnership wit...

Bought by KENW, WOUB, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 3
Inside Africa Conservation, Yellowstone, Uganda and Return to Glow
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Cover of People of Yellowstone book, Credit: Steve Horan
Today on World Footprints we will examine some troubling realities of Western conservation efforts in Africa; we’ll connect with life in Italy; tak...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:55
Working Together
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Water is a pretty basic resource that is essential in our lives. So when it begins to disappear or diminish in quality, our daily routine can chang...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 07:05
Exploring Paris, China, Family Travel and City Pass
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: The Louvre in Paris
Join us as we explore Tall Trees of Paris and modern China, learn the art of family travel and jump the queue at popular attractions. We’ll also v...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:55
What's it like to live in a Lake Erie lighthouse? Bring water.
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Lighthouse, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Sheila Consaul purchased the Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light in 2011 – and since then, she’s renovated and refurbished her unique summer home.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WLPR , WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WKSU and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 7
The Delicious Wind
From: James Mills
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An interview with writer Rahawa Haile who shares her experiences through-hiking the Appalachian Trail while bisexual, female and black

Bought by KVSC and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 2
Makers Series 1: SOMA Chocolatemaker
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
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SOMA Chocolatemaker was founded in 2003 by David Castellan and Cynthia Leung and is based in Toronto, Canada. The company has since grown to two st...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 37:48
The Self-Rattling House
From: The Organist
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In houses that double as musical instruments, Solange Knowles, Will Oldham, and five-year-old children perform on sonic architecture that reflects ...

Bought by KALW and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 26:19
  • Purchases: 2
A Walk Tour of Oak Bluffs
From: Josephine Opar
Caption: Martha's Vineyard Museum Librarian, Bow Van Wilder, on walking tour of Oak Bluffs.
Oak Bluffs is full of history and the best way to understand it is on foot. Bow Van Wilder is a historian who leads a walking tour of the town's ic...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
Episode 21: Running For Your Life
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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After breaking his back, doctors told Gary Havener he would never walk again. So…he decided to run.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KUER, and KRZA


  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 16:09
  • Purchases: 3
Exploring Wilmington, Delaware – A European experience in American history
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Garden at Newmours Estate., Credit: Photo by Tonya Fitzpatrick
World Footprints will explore Wilmington, Delaware and the Brandywine Valley’s rich American history and vibrant arts and cultural scene with its E...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 59:55
Exploring Dominica, the Nature Island
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: A Kalinago man working hard., Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
Explore Dominica "the nature island" as World Footprints shares their cultural and music tour of this island gem.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 59:55
Kaity Kasper: From the Mouth of God Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Kaity Kasper, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Kaity Kasper does not wear her heart on her sleeve. But her right arm tells a tale. From wrist to shoulder, this appendage bears a polychromatic na...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2017
  • Length: 27:28
Episode 18: Go Tell It In The Desert
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Arik was burning to share his faith with the world. But the people he thought needed his message the most weren’t interested in what he had to say....

Bought by KUER and KRZA


  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 20:43
  • Purchases: 2
Bigfoot Bonanza Weekend at the Balboa -- Kai Wada Roath Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Caption: Kai Wada Roath, San Francisco, CA 2/8/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Kai Wada Roath talks cultural variation, equality of theory, and what it is that makes Bigfoot so irresistible.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2017
  • Length: 23:25
Africa's Beating Heart (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The daffodils are blooming, days are getting longer, and gardeners are feeling those familiar twinges of excitement. At the same time, about eight ...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
Icicles on the tiki bar -- winter on a Great Lakes island
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Ice fishing shanties sit on Lake Erie in 2011, Credit: Caroline Conrad
The town of Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie’s South Bass Island is a popular vacation spot in the summer. But once winter hits, the island’s population dr...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, WBFO and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 6
Episode 17: The Ents Of Melbourne
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Melbourne, Australia wanted its residents to help keep an eye on its trees. So they gave every tree an email address. But then the trees started to...

Bought by KUER, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KRZA


  • Added: Feb 08, 2017
  • Length: 15:20
  • Purchases: 3
The Speed of Sound: Mike Doughty
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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After two decades in NYC, Mike Doughty made a big lifestyle change recently by moving to Memphis. While the change of scenery isn’t exactly evident...

Bought by KSUT, WLPR , WOUB, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Julie Taylor and Fred Taylor
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Fred Taylor talks to his wife Julie about his 15 years writing letters to frustrated airplane passengers as Southwest Airlines’ apologizer-in-chief.

Bought by WVBI-LP, WGUC/ WVXU, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 3
The Early Birder Gets The Bird
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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In 2013, Neil Hayward was depressed. He had just left the biotech company he helped start, and he was getting over the end of a very serious relati...

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 13:53
  • Purchases: 2
Fufu
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: pounding fufu in Kante, Togo
In the small West African nation of Togo, a typical meal consists of one of two staple foods: pâte (pronounced like “pot”), made from corn flour an...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 04:23
Winter Life on a Great Lakes Island
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Delaware Avenue., Credit: Elizabeth Miller
Put-In-Bay, on an island in Lake Erie, is a summer destination for vacationers and tourists. But when winter comes and ferry service to the mainlan...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, WKSU, and WBFO


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 5

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