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One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 29:01
A Song Story is a mini-history of a time, a place, an individual and a song. It's a personal experience, rising from memory every time we hear a ce...
- Added: Jan 09, 2016
- Length: 06:50
This audio documentary was produced by Karima Ragab for the audio production course at The American University in Cairo in Cairo, Egypt. The course...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 06:57
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 22, 2015
- Length: 10:20
- Purchases: 3
In Virginia, there are eight Indian tribes, some several thousand people in all. Yet the United States doesn’t believe they exist. The seeds of thi...
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 27:39
“I‘m a coward, I didn’t want to die” - Patty Hearst in 1982, as told to Larry Grobel.
Larry Grobel told us the story about a time back in the earl...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 11:27
- Purchases: 1
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Ten years ago, there was a storm, and then there was a flood, and they changed New Orleans forever. Many stories from that time have been told, but...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
The Mig Maw had a name for this place that means cradle on the waves. Which is exactly what Prince Edward Island—PEI as the people here call it—loo...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 26:31
Ocracoke Island North Carolina is the Key West of the mid-Atlantic. It's far removed from the mainland and the Outer Banks, surrounded by water, on...
- Added: Jun 20, 2015
- Length: 28:02
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 25:24
In this Prelude to Summer we end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and looking up at the ...
- Added: May 22, 2015
- Length: 25:20
Join us for part two of our special on the legendary interviews of Studs Terkel and Big Bill Broonzy. We’ll hear stories, conversation and song, al...
Bought by WJSU
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
Join us as we take an extended look at the legendary interviews of Studs Terkel and Big Bill Broonzy. We’ll hear stories, conversation and song, al...
Bought by WJSU
- Added: Mar 02, 2015
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
3D audio trips to 'special places' on the land; supernatural spots with unusual acoustics and extraordinary sounds.
- Added: Feb 12, 2015
- Length: 11:02
There are eleven tribes of Indians who call Virginia home, among them the Chickahominy. And though they all now enjoy state recognition, the federa...
- Added: Nov 12, 2014
- Length: 28:31
Anita Fineday is an Ojibwe Indian from the White Earth reservation in Minnesota. “Blood Quantum” is about how Anita reclaimed her Indian heritage a...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 29:29
On this episode of CLASSICAL DARK ARTS, we look at Satan’s cabal of classical composers, players and theorists — a sleeper cell run by Liszt, Pagan...
- Added: Oct 11, 2014
- Length: 23:51
Shara Morris went to the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival in Rumford, Maine to see if she could cut it…or maybe saw it as a lumberjill.
Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 05:15
- Purchases: 2
From: Veronique LaCapra
It spanned less than three blocks and lasted only about ten years.
But the St. Louis arts and entertainment district known as Gaslight Square flou...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 06:44
- Purchases: 1
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:22
- Purchases: 2
A Norwegian immigrant in Oregon invented the first quick-release ski binding, which made skiing safer and more appealing.
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 16:51
- Purchases: 2
At Old Sturbridge Village, a rotating cast of men and women don period clothes while performing 19th century roles for the public. Emily Kwong take...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 07:45
- Purchases: 1
In the final episode, the NAACP begins efforts to fight the death sentences handed down in Helena, led in part by Scipio Africanus Jones, the leadi...
Bought by WNCU
- Added: Jan 06, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Interviews with New Yorkers remembering where they were on November 22nd, 1963
Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 12, 2013
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 2
Hurricane Sandy was nearly one year ago. Days after the storm, one woman described seeing the storm surge cause a flood of the extremely toxic wate...
- Added: Oct 03, 2013
- Length: 03:22
