Atlantic Public Media

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APM's Mission "To honor the ideals of public broadcasting at the local and national level through creative and experimental approaches to program production, training, and distribution. To explore ways to act as a positive catalytic force in the communities we serve, using all appropriate media for the exchange of perspectives, the stimulus of the imagination, and the celebration of our inherent diversity."

APM's History
Atlantic Public Media was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1993 (originally named Cape and Islands Community Public Radio) to create a new public radio service for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. For seven years, founder Jay Allison and a band of zealots pushed this along at the local and federal level. In 2000, with WGBH-Boston supporting and adopting our effort, WCAI and WNAN finally went on the air. Amen. APM has now evolved into a production and training organization, focusing on public media, particularly public radio, founding projects like Transom.org, This I Believe, The Moth, and many others, including this one, PRX, The Public Radio Exchange.

Series

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Radio stations in Coastal Massachusetts and in the Gobi Desert get to know each other.

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73 Pieces

From the Encyclopedia of Life: the wonders of nature—right outside your back door and halfway around the world. In our new season of audio broadcasts, we’ll be learning about life as small as yeast and as big as a bowhead whale.

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6 Pieces

A series of hours about the intersection of people and the natural world

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A movement to build a new food story is growing. In each 5-part series of The Shift, Elspeth Hay connects us with people reimagining the systems that sustain us.

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14 Pieces

Transom.org is the public radio website dedicated to helping people tell their own stories. Transom offers the tools, the techniques and the encouragement to get those stories on the air and help public radio fulfill its mission. From time to time Transom creates special hours for broadcast. These are generally stories we're not hearing on traditional broadcast outlets and often the voices of those we don't hear from at all.


Pieces

Caption: NURC/UNCW and NOAA/FGBNMS
“Sea grapes” may sound like something Poseidon would snack on, but names can be deceiving. This is a killer algae.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2012
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 5

  • Added: Oct 30, 2011
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jay Allison, Credit: Sue Johnson
The benediction given by award-winning producer and station founder Jay Allison at the 2011 PRPD Conference is being praised as a highlight of the ...

Bought by KUT, WGBH Radio Boston, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 51:26
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Martes martes, Credit: SD Lund, BioPix
On the forested mountain slopes of the Basque country, two Spanish biologists track these elusive mammals

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Oct 05, 2011
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Ice Age survivors that once roamed the far north alongside the woolly mammoth, now struggling on the slopes of Norway.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Oct 05, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
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"I was 19 when my father was kidnapped in Colombia. It was 1999. My mother came to my college campus to deliver the news and I flew to Bogota to be...

Bought by KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 20:23
  • Purchases: 3
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A white worm as tall as your refrigerator that breathes through bright red feathery “lips.” This is NOT a creature from outer space.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 14, 2011
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 2