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Scientists Work to Protect Region's Last Coastal Wilderness
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Virginia's barrier islands shelter more than 250 species of raptors, songbirds and shorebirds., Credit: Lindsay Renick Mayer
Efforts are underway to restore the fragile ecosystem of the shifting, changing land masses known as Virginia's barrier islands.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 1
Glitter Crimes
From: Trevor Hultner
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Two environmental activists were arrested in Oklahoma City last year on charges of simulating a terrorist attack. Originally produced for Radio Dis...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:57
Author George Saunders, Master of the Short Story
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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George’s “The Tenth of December” has already appeared on many a best-book and award-finalist list. As we readers know, it's not every day that you ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
Home Sweet Adventures
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Lynne & Tim Martin
In 2011, the Martin’s sold their home in Central California’s wine country, gave away the furniture, and stuffed their art, clothes and small treas...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 23:51
  • Purchases: 1
Author Doris Kearns Goodwin, a biographer of presidents
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “Bully Pulpit” Doris focuses on the friendship and eventual falling out of Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft while describing t...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 2: How To Do Science: Eat Lunch and Drink Coffee
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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Two professors walk up to a lunch truck, and the conversation they have there may change the way we study microbiology. Sometimes science has a lot...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:21
Mexico Uncovered
From: Round Earth Media
Caption: Host, Daniel Hernandez
One hour special, taking listeners to the Mexico they don't know, untold stories rich in sound, place and humanity, with host Daniel Hernandez. Th...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KGOU, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 36
Maryland Town Celebrates Its 15 Hours Of Fame
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: After fleeing Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812, President James Madison spent the night in this Brookeville home, supposedly making Brookeville “U.S. Capital for a Day.” , Credit: Washington Post
Andy Warhol once said: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But in this town, you'll meet people who claim that in the pa...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:26
The Roots of DIY
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Destination DIY producer Jaymee Cuti traces the roots of the phrase "do it yourself" through its evolution in both corporate advertising and subcul...

Bought by WDBM and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 2
Author Michael Pollan and "Cooked"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Food guy Michael Pollan’s new book is “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation.” He is a personable, well-spoken walking encyclopedia of Ameri...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Immigrants Fitting In Socially
From: Erika Lorentzsen
Series: New American Stories
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An immigrant adjusting to new life in a new country has many challenges including how the community accepts them. Immigrants may feel they are on t...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:58
How Nice is Nice?
From: Erika Lorentzsen
Series: New American Stories
Caption: Edwin Aybar from Puerto Rico comments on being nice, Credit: Erika Lorentzsen
Being nice can vary from culture to culture. One European immigrant finds midwestern nice to be fake. In other cultures, nice may be simpleminded.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:56
Author David McCullough and "1776"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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David writes both histories and biographies and has narrated many a broadcast program. His latest book is "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris....

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
From This Point On
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Joanna Foster was worried when her first deaf child was born. When her second baby was born deaf and autistic, she was devastated. Joanna started l...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 1
Finding Treatment
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Being diagnosed with a disease is hard enough. Imagine living hours away from the closest place you could receive treatment.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:24
Author Michael Moss and "Salt Sugar Fat"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Moss describes “bliss point” and “mouth feel,” two of the terms common in the trillion-dollar processed food industr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 1: The World's Tiniest Diving Board
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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When you were a child, your parents might have measured you against a doorpost or chart every birthday, to mark how rapidly you were growing. Perha...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:45
Island Stories PEI Cradle on the Waves Part 7
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Calvin Jollimore and his daughter., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Prince Edward Island is known the world over for its mussels. Nothing quite like them and those produced on PEI account for 80 percent of all musse...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 27:06
Digital Detox
From: John L Myers
Caption: Digital Detox, Credit: http://thedigitaldetox.org/
Spending too much time on Facebook or compulsively checking your smartphone might seem innocuous. But, as more people find it difficult to put the...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 2
Fatima Learns to Drive
From: Sarah Bromer
Caption: Fatima and Her Daughter, Rana
Fatima Alsamawi, a recent immigrant to the United States from Iraq, experiences the sweet freedom of driving for the first time.

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 2
The Album Leaf look forward, and return to simplicity
From: Kimberly Haas
Caption: "Forward/Return" by The Album Leaf
Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf talks about the band's EP "Forward/Return."

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 04:17
Vintage Synths Enjoy a Renaissance
From: Kimberly Haas
Caption: The Album Leaf
A growing group of musicians are returning to old analog keyboards, sometimes refurbishing and playing instruments older than they are.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:46
Episode 1: Stealth in School
From: Callum Angus
Series: Transwaves
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Join hosts Devon and Cal for this first episode that follows the emotional journey of Female-to-Male transsexual Kyle Smith and his mother, Leslie,...

Bought by Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 1
Island Stories: Virginia's Restless Archipelago Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Colony of American oyster catchers., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Some 40 years ago the Nature Conservancy began buying up the barrier islands of Virginia and the riparian areas on the mainland. Today they own all...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 27:13
Governing the Occupation
From: Frances Harlow
Caption: The Occupy Maine encampment in Portland's Lincoln Park., Credit: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://katrinaherzogphotography.com/" target="_blank">Katrina Herzog</a>, courtesy of the Salt archives.
Dispatches from Occupy Maine's consensus process.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 07:12

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