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Centerstage Minnesota: Sena Ehrhardt Band
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Sena Ehrhardt
This week features an interview with blues singer Sena Ehrhardt produced by Travis Ryder. We also hear music from Red Lake Singers, Lamont Cranston...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Episode # 14 - Castaway: Ceci Gilson
From: Jeff Wax
Series: Desert Island Discs
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Ceci Gilson has been a voice on numerous college radio stations since beginning her studies at the University of Massachusetts. She’s worked at 4 ...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:17:25
StoryCorps Historias: Ricardo Ramirez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Bishop Ricardo Ramirez remembers his grandmother Francisca "Panchita" Espitia.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 1
Go For It: Life Lessons From Girl Boxers
From: WNYC
Caption: Claressa Shields at the Olympic Trials. , Credit: Sue Jaye Johnson
This year women will enter the Olympic boxing ring for the first time. Hosted by actor Rosie Perez and producer Marianne McCune, "Go for It" expl...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WBEZ, Delta College Public Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMU and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 38
All Grown Up Blues
From: Eric Winick
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A portrait of a mother and daughter, born forty years apart.

Bought by The Story


  • Added: Jun 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: The Counterculture of the 60s and 70s
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:53:20
WorldCanvass: Slavery and Gender
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:05
Centerstage MInnesota: Joan Griffith and Sam Miltich talk to Charlie Pulkrabek
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Joan Griffith
Renowned Jazz guitarists Joan Griffith and Sam Miltich join Charlie Pulkrabek for a conversation on Centerstage Minnesota. We also hear music from ...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 58:44
  • Purchases: 2
It becomes more beautiful all the time
From: Anne Hoffman
Caption: The producer and her Grandmother, several years ago
Virginia Mae Snyder lived alone in her house in West Virginia until she was 94. She suffered a drastic fall while gardening; a fall which forced he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Sarah Greenough about O'Keeffe and Stieglitz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The editor of My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Vol 1 discusses the relationship of the two artists. [29:32]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 1
More than an office
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It's just a simple office, but for some students it's like a home, complete with an "adoptive mother." It's a routine place made special.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
The place, the music, the memories
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
Caption: PRX default Piece image
For one Indian classical singer, a crowded little apartment in Queens--or even just the sound of a shruthi box (an Indian-style musical drone)--bri...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: René and Michelle Foreman
From: StoryCorps
Caption: René Foreman (R) and her daughter Michelle (L)
René Foreman, who survived cancer of the esophagus, tells her daughter Michelle about speaking through an electrolarynx.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 1
Oakland clinic offers free, alternative medicine to women with cancer
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Cancer treatments can leave a patient in intense pain, or cause nausea, fatigue, and loss of appetite. For people with low incomes or without healt...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Crime Writer, Laura Lippman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Laura Lippman talks about crime fiction, journalism and the social novel. [30:30]

Bought by KPIP-LP and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 30:12
  • Purchases: 2
The Vagina Monologues
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a 2004 conversation with Eve Ensler, creator of "The Vagina Monologue," for Women's History Month.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, and WMMT


  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Incarcerated mother in Decatur Prison’s Nursery Program and Reunification Unit. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Shannon Heffernan http://www.timeontheoutside.com/prison-nursery
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Making Noise to Prevent More Noise
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
Caption: Like a lot of kids with Tourette's, Finn also has severe ADHD. The flip side of that, Amanda says, is that his high energy makes him a ton of fun., Credit: Amanda Morgan
A toddler sniffs all of his Christmas presents before opening them and his mom realizes something is really wrong. What Tourette’s, OCD, and ADHD l...

Bought by PRX Remix and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 14:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ellen Baker, author of "I Gave My Heart To Know This"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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"I Gave My Heart To Know This" illuminates the lives of three female shipbuilder's during World War Two who are coping with the absence of their me...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 16:29
  • Purchases: 1
Adoption Story
From: Sarah Bromer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is a story about two women who attempt to adopt a baby from an abortion clinic. Things don't go exactly as planned, and they end up in over th...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
An Artist in the White House?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Imagine if you can, an artist instead of a politician in the White House. Radio Curious teams up with TUC Radio’s Maria Gilardin for a visit with S...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
A Conversation with Brenda Wineapple
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 1
Rosanne Cash: Live from Zone C
From: Joyride Media
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Intimate acoustic set by Rosanne Cash and her husband, John Leventhal in their living room (aka Zone C). Includes exclusive live recordings of son...

Bought by KPSQ-LP, KOSU, NPR Illinois, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
History of the Mendocino Environmental Center
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Betty Ball, co-founder of the Mendocino Environmental Center in Ukiah, Ca. They discuss the movements to protect Northern...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
Never Done Year
From: Shannon Geis
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A woman does something new every day for a year.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1

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