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Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, January 3, 1923
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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While many of the most-told love stories are fairy tales, hers was real and it changed YOUR life.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Carmen's Grandmother
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c.2000
Produced in 1992 and originally aired on All Things Considered, this evergreen story chronicles Carmen Delzell's visit to her grandmother in the nu...

Bought by KUT, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 3
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
Violinist Anna Schaad's Dream Within a Dream
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Violinist Anna Schaad’s music is steeped in fantasy and inspired by her Navy pilot husband. Though heavily Celtic influenced, she takes an electro...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Why Do Gorillas Have It So Easy?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The development of the large human head and broad shoulders provide many evolutionary benefits for our species but also require assistance for a sa...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Novelist and Book club favorite Sarah Dunant
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Historical novel writer Sarah Dunant talks about she applies her background writing thrillers to write more literary books. The author of the best...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
Rena Jones: The diva of ambient cello
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Rena Jones, Credit: John Diliberto
There's a lot of looping, electronic cellists out there, but Rena Jones is one of the few who is also orchestrating her own electronica backings, c...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Donna De Lory's sacred chants and songs
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Donna De Lory
Donna De Lory turns Hindi chants into spiritual pop songs. A back-up singer for Madonna and a gifted singer-songwriter in her own right, Donna De ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 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
Kyle Schmid
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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Talented young actor who plays the vampire lover, Henry Fitzroy to Christina Cox's Vicki Nelson, in the hit Lifetime series, Blood Ties.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2009
  • Length: 25:13
Worldwide, Girls' Soccer Goes Beyond the Field
From: Lisa Matuska
Caption: Imane takes a break during a game in Oak Brook
Four young Moroccan female soccer players step outside their borders and expectations to come to Oak Brook, Illinois for a women's soccer leadershi...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KISU, KUOW, and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Feb 12, 2009
  • Length: 03:28
  • Purchases: 4
Virtuoso Voices - Jennifer Higdon (Takes Requests)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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When composer Jennifer Higdon accepts a commission from a performer to write a new piece, she takes a few steps before writing the very first note....

  • Added: Sep 30, 2008
  • Length: :29
Asian-Americans Creating Theater Arts
From: Mahi Palanisami
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Asian American Theater Conferences adjorned with energy abound

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Everest Chronicler
From: Susan Johnston
Series: Celebrating Mountain Culture: Selections from The Banff Mountain Film Festival and Banff Mountain Book Festival
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Elizabeth Hawley is the best-known chronicler of Everest expeditions, yet has never visited the mountain herself

  • Added: Feb 18, 2006
  • Length: 14:37
BRENDA RUSSELL: The Color Purple, Music Past & Present
From: Theresa Orlando
Series: She Grooves Radio Hour
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Music & Interview, "The Color Purple", Brenda's music "Past & Present"

Bought by WJAB and WSGE


  • Added: Feb 08, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
She Grooves Radio Hour: NYC INDE ARTISTS
From: Theresa Orlando
Series: She Grooves Radio Hour
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Music by independent female artists from NYC

  • Added: Feb 01, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
WOMEN OF THE BLUES SPECIAL
From: Theresa Orlando
Series: She Grooves Radio Hour
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featuring music selections from Ida Cox, Clara Smith, Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie, Big Mama Thornton, and other icons of American Blues.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, WJAB, WNCU and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2006
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 9
She Grooves Radio Hour
From: Theresa Orlando
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A fine representation of the SHE GROOVES RADIO HOUR can be found within this show. Features ZAP MAMA, AMERICAN INDIAN MIX, INDE ARTISTS, AND BONNIE...

Bought by WMPG, KVNF, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 10, 2006
  • Length: 01:00:02
  • Purchases: 3
Slip of the Tongue
From: Youth Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Adriel Luis takes a different spin on the subject of beauty.

Bought by WGXC, YouthCast, and WMNF


  • Added: Mar 18, 2005
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 3