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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
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
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
Sam won’t tell you this, but he’s a really great athlete. He has another secret, too. There’s this photo of him leading a ski race, and it’s plaste...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 08, 2016
- Length: 17:19
- Purchases: 1
Today, we take a step back to imagine a world without a web of GPS satellites telling your smartphone where you are every second of the day. While ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 24:33
- Purchases: 1
“Blue Water” sailing is the kind where there’s no land to be seen, hopefully for days or weeks on end, and there’s a rare group of people who contr...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 21, 2016
- Length: 22:39
- Purchases: 1
For alpinist Ben Clark, scaling the world’s toughest mountains was a source of pride and peace; for his parents it was a source of constant worry. ...
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 18:44
A group of 19th century pioneers lay claim to one of the world’s most inhospitable mountains and turn it into a premiere tourist destination.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 19:41
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 10, 2016
- Length: 27:59
In the second episode of a podcast produced by the advanced audio class at the University of Montana School of Journalism: three deeply human stori...
- Added: May 06, 2016
- Length: 16:57
Do you know that feeling you get when you’re about to leave a place? Like you’re seeing it all for the first time? That all the sounds and sights ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2016
- Length: 22:59
Paddle Minnesota producer Jim Gallagher shares an audio postcard from a canoe trip he took during the summer of 2015 in the barren lands at the cen...
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 07:39
Reporter Andrew Poirier takes a ride on the A train from beginning to end and discovers that there is more to this train than meets the eye.
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 04:22
Grant Frashier attends the beacon lighting ceremony and remembrance of the Edmund Fitzgerald at Split Rock Lighthouse in Duluth, MN.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 10:26
- Purchases: 1
Catch a wave on Lake Superior! Jim Gallagher talks with Randy Carlson of UMD’s Recreational Sports Outdoor Program about surfing the frigid waves ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 05:31
Jim Gallagher talks with canoe racer and race organizer Mark Walters about the Minnesota Canoe Championship Race held earlier in September in Bemid...
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 10:45
Jimmy Chin, Conrad Anker and Chai Vasarheyli talk the lure of the impossible, taking one’s own medicine, and living in the moment.
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 22:07
The Mig Maw had a name for this place that means cradle on the waves. Which is exactly what Prince Edward Island—PEI as the people here call it—loo...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 26:31
Oyster Virginia is an old fishing village on the seaside of the Easter Shore. On the road in there are old dead rises, some half submerged in the s...
- Added: Jun 10, 2015
- Length: 26:36
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 25:24
The story about the ring-catching game, played at the Flying Horses carousel on Martha's Vineyard, and my search for the greatest ring-catcher of a...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 05:37
- Purchases: 3
Ben Dumbauld explores Sunnyside, Queens and Muzica Populara, a Romanian genre where "the politics was never as important as the dancing."
Bought by WABE
- Added: Apr 12, 2015
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 1
Off the coast of Virginia, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, lies a shrinking island called Tangier. Here, an unlikely adventurer docked his sai...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 4
David Burris talks blood ties, the presence of the past, and where to get grits in South Africa.
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 15:50
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 04:38
- Purchases: 1
