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Sounds Familiar #5: Sex, Death and Morals in Horror.
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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In 1980, during a “very special episode” of Siskel & Ebert, Roger Ebert made a provocative claim about the emerging genre of “slasher” horror films...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 17:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sounds Familiar #4: The Rule of Threes
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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Is three really the magic number?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUT


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 2
Sounds Familiar #3: The Loudness War
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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Why is music getting louder? And why is it bad? Is it bad?

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 13:06
Trapped in a Small Space
From: Blake Cooper
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From Archie Bunker to Murphy Brown, TV characters have been getting trapped in elevators, freezers and all other manner of small spaces for decades...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 2
Education in "Journalism"
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Budding reporter learns a lesson in "reporting."

  • Added: May 09, 2008
  • Length: 04:15
Lost ... Recovering
From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media
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Lost returned last night - with best episode since first season

  • Added: Feb 07, 2007
  • Length: 02:42
Why Is Copyright So Complicated?
From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media
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a 4-minute primer about intellectual property

  • Added: Dec 21, 2006
  • Length: 04:21
Both My Houses (Mes Deux Maisons)
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Essay on media and politics for TCF's 99 Ways

  • Added: Nov 27, 2006
  • Length: 02:30