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Caption: Mark Lerman
A hundred years before Frank Kapra ever dreamed up a wonderful life, Charles Dickens had already penned the seminal Christmas classic. For the past...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 27:05
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Celebrate summertime with tales of teenagers who are roughing it in the great outdoors. Experience the glory that is mother nature with the kids wh...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2019
  • Length: 23:57
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What happens when teenagers try to make their lives feel as romantic as Pride and Prejudice? This week, modern day teen diaries that sound like the...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Jun 02, 2019
  • Length: 25:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Kids who think it's totally cool give their moms performance reviews. PROGRAMMING NOTE: We are still hard at work on our series about kids facing ...

  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 18:46
Caption: Molly Bernard
NON-ROMCOM features two short plays by young female playwrights. Both Patricia Cotter's RULES OF COMEDY and Chiara Atik's 52ND TO BOWERY TO COBBLE ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, the unholy and very awkward truth about being a Catholic School Girl. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Li...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2018
  • Length: 36:21
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Mortified celebrates Labor Day Weekend with a tribute to teenagers who bravely enter the labor force... regardless of how totally unqualified they ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 26:05
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Holding hands around the campfire. Making out behind the bunks. Tales of teens who think they've finally found love only to discover what happens a...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:09
Caption: James P. Johnson
Music from the father of Stride piano, James P. Johnson, and his prize student, Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller - 1928-1934.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Natalie Newcomb and Surya Hendry contemplate fashion in Seattle's University District., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/AMY STYER
Did you dress yourself this morning, or did an entire industry?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Traveling Musician
So many musicians with loads of talent seldom ventured beyond their own boundaries. Here's a sampling of the riches of the 1920s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Getting dumped totally sucks. Especially when it's the first time. This week, teenagers find creative ways to cope with getting kicked to the curb....

  • Added: Oct 08, 2017
  • Length: 21:11
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Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily be...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:39:22
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The reciprocal of a "theatrical musical" where music suddenly interrupts the story line, a "radio musical" has the story line suddenly interrupted ...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 20:55
Caption: Volunteering at the Seattle Aquarium helped Grace Zheng overcome her fear of talking., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/SURYA HENDRY
"I was afraid that I was gonna say the wrong thing, I wouldn't be able to speak, I was gonna stutter." One introvert's transformation, with a littl...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 06:27
Caption: Diana Nguyen used to be lazy. Then she got on a bike., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/MELISSA TAKAI
Laziness is a hard habit to break, especially if you want to make the most out of life. But it helps if you have a bike, or at least it did for one...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 04:59
Caption: From the Theater District (of Your Mind)
In a theatrical musical, songs break out during the story line. In a radio musical, a story line breaks out during a set of music. In the radio...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:38
Caption: Jan Garber
Popular music of the 1920s was jazz.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Shore Leave is a place to meet old friends or meet new writers. R2D2 designed by the R2 Builders Club (left) Author Stephen Stephen Kozeniewski  (right), Credit: Andrew Hiller
Imagination… the final frontier. These are the adventures of the fan con Shore Leave whose thirty-nine year mission has been to bring together auth...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:41
Caption: Ehky Ya Masr logo, Credit: Heba Fouad
“The Time Capsule of Ramadan” by Kanzy Mahmoud This audio feature compares Ramadan in Egypt from the past to today.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Rosa Henderson
It took years for the jazz vocal to develop. Prior to vocalists like Eva Taylor and Louis Armstrong, pop music and vaudeville styles dominated the ...

Bought by WJSU and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Here is another short poem for the kids: It's summer inside of my snow globe ...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: :38
Caption: The Apollo Theater
The neo-classically designed Apollo with it’s plush interior opened for business in 1913. At first it was a burlesque venue. Later featuring vaudev...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Irving Berlin
Here is a selection of songs from the early years of jazz that had longevity. Their popularity lasted for decades.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Early Radio
Jazz connected with audiences in the 1920s, but it was the combination of a prolific recording industry and the abundance of radio’s that boosted i...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1