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Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music & Beauty, Part II
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're picking up the thread of a long conversation with Gunther Schuller. He’s the man who first mapped a Third Stream of “jazzical” music between ...

Bought by WMNR, KMUW, KPIP-LP, and WABE


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 33:10
  • Purchases: 4
The Making of a Violin
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Remo del Tredici began making violins in his 70s. Inspired by his neighbor, a volunteer for AmVets, and the memory of his brother who was killed du...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 2
Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa (Podcast)
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Radio Diaries Podcast
Caption: Melissa in 2013., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
Listen to Melissa's teenage and grown-up diaries in this podcast episode.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 39:30
Christi & Christopher: A Mother and Son Story
From: University of Montana Journalism
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Christi was a pregnant teenager who gave up her baby for adoption and then changed her mind. The story from there goes places no one saw coming. Pr...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 07:28
Cultural Conversations
From: Lisa Tuininga
Caption: Jane York and Nura Adam embrace at a meeting, Credit: Lisa Merrill, Bellevue WA
In Bellevue, Washington a group of women meet once a month to discuss their cultural differences and similarities. The conversations are transformi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 1
Our Father Who: Art Blakey & the Jazz Messangers (An Introduction)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Art Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990), Credit: Blue Note Records
ART BLAKEY known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina was a Jazz drummer and a pioneer of Be-bop and modern Jazz. This one hour program is an introduction...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 52:24
  • Purchases: 3
STAIRSTEPS Stories! VOL. 2 (Cubie Burke): The Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Cubie Burke (with Christina Johnson with the Dance Theatre of Harlem), Credit: http://www.dancephotolibrary.com/dance.php
The "FIVE STAIRSTEPS and CUBIE" was a family pop act who released hit records from 1968 to 1969 on both Curtom and Buddha Records. CUBIE BURKE was ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2011
  • Length: 48:54
Beyond the Rope: A Captivity's Aftermath
From: Eric Winick
Caption: David Rohde & Kristen Mulvihill, Credit: Erik Swain
Former NY Times reporter David Rohde was abducted in Afghanistan only two months after marrying Cosmopolitan photo director Kristen Mulvihill. Seve...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 22, 2011
  • Length: 14:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Decisions Project - 26 - Quitting PhD Program
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A man shares his decision to drop out of his PhD program.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:28
Lucas' Mama
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A young mother’s role in guiding her deaf son toward hearing and speaking.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMPG, and KUOW


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 3
Versions of Love
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Life is long and love is complicated.

Bought by XRAY.fm, WMPG, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 3
Randy Portrait
From: Jamie Courville
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Randy Kearse grew up in the Farragut housing projects in what is now the trendy DUMBO section of Brooklyn, New York. In the late 1980’s crack cocai...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
STAIRSTEPS Stories! VOL. 1 (Part A): The Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: The Five Stairsteps & Cubie (1969)
PART A (1st hour) of Volume #1 of the Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps. Joining Howard Burchette is Clarence Burke, Jr., Clarence Burke, Sr. and...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:04
Pete Seeger on "We Shall Overcome"
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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Folk music legend Pete Seeger explains the history behind the civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome", and why this famous song has many brothers ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, XRAY.fm, KWEMradio.com/KWEM LP and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:34
  • Purchases: 17
American Dreamer: Sam's Story (half-hour version)
From: Long Haul Productions
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Every year, an estimated 65,000 undocumented students graduate from American high schools. Raised entirely in American culture, they finish high s...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KGLT, KCRW, KFAI Minneapolis, and KSFR


  • Added: Jun 22, 2010
  • Length: 26:09
  • Purchases: 5
Matthew
From: Helena Keeffe
Caption: Matthew Wearing Mask, Credit: Helena Keeffe
Matthew and I met during printmaking workshops I led at Laguna Honda Hospital. As the workshops were wrapping up he asked me to work with him to cr...

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 18:45
  • Purchases: 2
American Dreamer: Sam's Story
From: Long Haul Productions
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Every year, an estimated 65,000 undocumented students graduate from American high schools. Raised entirely in American culture, they finish high s...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, High Plains Public Radio, Baltimore Public Media, WRGY, WKSU and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 41
Lindsay Ess, Becoming Whole, Pt. 1
From: Charles McGuigan
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Lindsay Ess was a fashion model, a designer, a stunning beauty. And then at the age of twenty-four, just two years ago, doctors had to cut off both...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2010
  • Length: 27:39
The Simple Life
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: Toure Weaver, Credit: Kelly Creedon courtesy of the Salt archive
A profile of a young man trying to find his purpose.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
After the Forgetting
From: Erica Heilman
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This is a story about a Vermont family's experience living with an elderly member's progressive dementia. What happens to love when there is no mem...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 24:49
  • Purchases: 1
Destination DIY: Urban Farming
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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City-dwellers raising plants and animals while holding down a day job.

Bought by KZYX and KUT


  • Added: Sep 01, 2008
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 2
KARMAPA IN AMERICA
From: The Tibet Connection
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Emerging Tibetan Buddhist teacher, the 17th Karmapa makes first historic visit to the US

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 17:01
Liberia Digital Diary: Mamiwhe's Story
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This Story is free! A young girl tells the story of her life in Liberia and why girls education is so important to her and her family. Youth Produ...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 04:36
Women's group fights malnutrition with knowledge in San Pablo La Laguna, Guatemala
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This story is free! Women's group in San Pablo La Laguna on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala uses workshop trainings and community based education to lowe...

Bought by KZYX, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network


  • Added: Sep 20, 2007
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 3
Guatemala's Indigenous Girls: At the forefront
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This Story is Free! English and Spanish versions available. Guatemalan girls suffer lower rates of education and poorer health indicators - UNICEF ...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Aug 25, 2007
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 1