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A Library Sounds Like This
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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From defunct recording technology to vinyl’s comeback, we've been through a lot of media changes over the last 125 years. And we're still changing!...

Bought by KVNF, KGNU Community Radio, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 25:47
  • Purchases: 3
101 Bren: My Best Friends are Movies of the Week
From: The Mortified Podcast
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The story of girl who copes with feeling like a misfit by inventing imaginary pen pal relationships with Movie of the Week characters. The Mortifie...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 24:06
Ferguson/Wilson/Kimbro Mix Feature
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: American Black Male Leadership Institute Radio
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A Watch Owl Montage Feature.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 13:15
Origin Stories
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Luke Skywalker action figure, Credit: Eric Molinsky
What makes a great origin story -- for superheroes or regular people going on a job interview?

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 15:21
  • Purchases: 3
ABMLI 1- Twisting In the Wind PSA
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: American Black Male Leadership Institute Radio
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The American Black Male Leadership Institute Public Services Announcement #1

  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:10
Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg On Northern Community Radio- "Something You Can Use."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Northern Community Radio - "Bicentennials and Beginnings."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Radio essays recorded in the writer's own voice about topics related to northern Minnesota art, culture and history. Made possible in part by the M...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown On the State of Northern Community Radio - "Sometimes Radio is the Only Thing That Gets Us Out of the House."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Abuse of the Bully Pulpit Department
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Maine Guide William Sewall and Teddy Roosevelt, Credit: Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library (detail) 520.12-015
Just before the Olympics, the country if not the world received, from a bully pulpit, a message from my state's junior United States senator. On te...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: How You Can Tell If a Government Is Becoming Corrupt
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Remember the sixty second moral inquiry asks questions about what is the right thing to do. Today, we ask "How can you tell If a government is bec...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:02
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown: "I just love the feeling of good old papyrus in my hands."."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: An essay from Erika Kooda previewing some TV and movies that might keep you cozy this winter
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Erika Kooda
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In thi...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 2
Staff Sergeant Treen
From: Jake Warga
Series: Soldiers Soundtracks to War--IRAQ
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Artist: Barbra Streisand Song: Send in the Clowns

Bought by KZYX, KHNS, KCRW, The Story, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2010
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 6
Radio Active Voices
From: Julie Sabatier
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voices from community radio stations around the country

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZSC


  • Added: Mar 20, 2007
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 2