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Amy Beach, December 27, 1944
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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So ... who was Amy Beach? Simply one of the greatest American composers many of us have never heard.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Water, A Universal Human Right
From: Littleglobe
Caption: photo by: snap® @ flickr.com
Producer Dolna Smithback traveled down under to Melbourne, Australia with Youth Media Project’s Global Broadcasting Team to cover events at the Par...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 08:46
From the National Press Club: Reverend David Bechmann
From: National Press Club
Caption: David Bechmann, Credit: NPC
Reverend David Bechmann, president of Bread for the World, speaks at the National Press Club about the problem of global hunger

  • Added: Sep 17, 2010
  • Length: 54:01
Commentator Guido on Back to School
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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I was so lost, so bereft, I doubted my vocation. I wasn't worried about becoming a priest, I was worried about dressing myself.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2010
  • Length: 04:15
Commentator Aaron Brown on Fairs
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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This is a special time of year for anyone who resides at the end of a dirt road, lives of the land, or enjoys purchasing deep fried foods from peop...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2010
  • Length: 03:18
D'oh a deer or Deer on the Road
From: Andrew Hiller
Series: Andrew Hiller's Commentaries
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Some think of Bambi. Some gardeners call them rats on stilts. Still others view them as little more than obstacles on our roads. Writer Andrew Hill...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2010
  • Length: 01:37
Commentator Aaron Brown on Lawn Mowing
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Shaving a giant green face. Check out more in Aaron's blog www.minnesotabrown.com.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 03:25
Hot Fried Hospital ala Mode
From: Andrew Hiller
Series: Andrew Hiller's Commentaries
Caption: Andrew Hiller
According to a 2008 report by the Centers for Disease Control, one third of Americans are obese. Yet many hospitals are serving cheap, heavily pro...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2010
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 1
Here and There
From: TOM DAVIE
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How does the Baby Boomer generation impart the knowledge they possess to the wired generation? AND..How do they encourage a desire to learn?

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2010
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
Judy Becomes Rose
From: Andrew Hiller
Series: Andrew Hiller's Commentaries
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Commentator Andrew Hiller leads a sing-a-long with senior citizens suffering from dimentia, multiple strokes, and alzheimers with surpising results...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 02:23
Bonifant Books
From: Andrew Hiller
Series: Andrew Hiller's Commentaries
Caption: Andrew Hiller
A sentimental look at the closing of Andrew Hiller's favorite used book store.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 1
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
Dolna Smithback "Global Youth Leadership Institute"
From: Littleglobe
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Youth Producer Dolna Smithback spent a week with the Global Youth Leadership Institute documenting year one of the program, "aboard the Amsted scho...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 05:50
Forgetting
From: Tom Pappalardo
Series: The Optimist
Caption: Forgetting, Credit: Tom Pappalardo
In which the author Googles “Dysnomia,” and then, later, Googles “Dysnomia.”

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2009
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 2
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: If I ran the world
From: Spokane Public Radio
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If I ran the world

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
SRP: Darfur in Dance
From: Sudan Radio Project
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From the Sudan Radio Project: we take a look at an American ballet about the conflict in Darfur.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2009
  • Length: 06:08
The Death of my Grandma and the Concomitant Existential Dread
From: andy boyd
Series: I Am Not a Metaphor
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Andy's Grandma dies.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2009
  • Length: 04:58
Two Miles From Bethel -- On the Road, well, "almost," to Woodstock!
From: Binnie Klein
Caption: 2 girls who didn't quite make it there
There are many stories of those who made it to Woodstock, and those who never went. What about those who, well, "almost" made it?

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: Aug 13, 2009
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Recorder Adventure
From: andy boyd
Series: I Am Not a Metaphor
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Andy learns how to play the recorder.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2009
  • Length: 05:46
The Poet
From: andy boyd
Series: I Am Not a Metaphor
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Andy attends a poetry reading on Mill Ave.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 20, 2009
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Show Me The Way
From: Miles Eddy
Caption: Mary Van Pelt, Credit: Miles Eddy
Invisible social barriers and the contrast between physical disabilities and psychiatric disabilities.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2009
  • Length: 03:36
Job Discrimination
From: Miles Eddy
Caption: Mary Van Pelt
Psychiatric Survivor and Human Rights Activist, Mary Van Pelt, speaks about job discrimination, holes in the Americans with Disabilities Act, and t...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:37
What happened to the truth?
From: Ted Magnuson
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The truth appears to be in short supply, especially when measured by the events of the past.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 06, 2008
  • Length: 18:35
  • Purchases: 1
#27 Introduction to Corals and Coral Reefs
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Aug 22, 2008
  • Length: 04:05
Show 10: John Wesley Harding
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Released Dec. 1967
The JWH album traces Dylan's relationship with America and his spritual journey from outlaw to family man, from joker to thief.

Bought by KPIP-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WETS


  • Added: Aug 14, 2008
  • Length: 01:02:25
  • Purchases: 5

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