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EP149 Frank Goldwasser
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Paris Slim and his Blues

  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
Books Are Not Dead
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 16:48
  • Purchases: 1
Private Price's War: The Long, Long Trail
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us
Caption: Walter Price, 314th Combat Engineers
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of US involvement in World War I by accompanying Walter Price and the 314th Engineers on their tour of duty.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2017
  • Length: 08:19
Passover: People of the Cookbook: Jewish Cooking with Claudia Roden
From: Nahanni Rous
Series: Can We Talk?
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A visit, a cooking lesson and lunch with the celebrated chef Claudia Roden. Claudia discussed lost Jewish communities through their cuisines. Inc...

Bought by KWMR and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2017
  • Length: 14:46
  • Purchases: 2
At Sea
From: Peter Bresnan
Caption: Sam Bellamy in front of his home in Long Island, NY., Credit: Peter Alexander Bresnan
From the moment you see Sam Bellamy, you know that there’s something different about him. He dresses differently from most people. He carries himse...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 12:23
  • Purchases: 1
Radio Retrospective: The Woman Behind "Let's Pretend"
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Nila Mack
There weren’t a lot of female directors during the Golden Age of Radio. Nila Mack was one of the few who earned herself an office on the 14th floo...

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


  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 4
Olympics Medals for Music, Literature, and Art?
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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A lot has changed for the Olympics over the last century, including the focus on an entire discipline.

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Rise of the Roller Coaster
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Roller coasters are the workhorse of the modern theme park, but their rise to popularity has been long and strange.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:43
  • Purchases: 1
Silence
From: Conor Gillies
Series: Stylus
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Is there such a thing as true silence?

Bought by KALW, WZEN.org, WRIR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., HowSound and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Resurgence of Records
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
Dance Until the World Ends
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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A look at the odd trend of "doomsday" music that took over the pop charts leading up to the Mayan end date.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
Life on the Party Line
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Today's privacy concerns with cell phones seem trivial when we look back at the world of open telephone wires.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 1
A Goose for Christmas
From: Traveling 219
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A Christmas tale for the holidays

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KISU, and WMPG


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 3
Mediterrania - taste of the music of people of Catalunya and the mediterranian shores
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: Canzioniere
A musician and a restauranteur from Liverpool visit a festival of performances with traditional roots in Catalonia in North East Spain. They meet m...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 33:33
Bull-Baiting
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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The violent pastime known as bull baiting entertained the wealthy and poor alike and shaped the breed we now know as the bulldog.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 1
Undark
From: Jenna Hammerich
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Glow. Green. Light. Radium. Even the words are beautiful.

Bought by Remix Radio and CKMO


  • Added: Sep 01, 2009
  • Length: 30:13
  • Purchases: 2
Ballroom Redux
From: Jenna Hammerich
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Social partner dancing is in for the first time since the '50s. A look at why more and more of us are trading in our weekends for ballroom, and a g...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: May 19, 2008
  • Length: 21:27
  • Purchases: 1
Beauty and Pain - Science and Medicine in Berlin
From: Elizabeth Green Musselman
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Syphilitic skulls, racial science, and some of the oldest non-western music recordings in history - come explore the beauty and pathos that is the ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2008
  • Length: 32:55
What Comes Next?: Jews & The Afterlife
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
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When it comes to life after death, you get 5 Jews... you get 50 opinions.

Bought by Iowa Public Radio and Audible


  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 18:04
  • Purchases: 2
Winter Caretaker (Summer Mix)
From: Jesse Dukes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Peter Mattox alone in the woods, contemplates wilderness in America.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2006
  • Length: 04:36
Wagon Train
From: Miles Eddy
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sound Rich Journey on a traditional wagon train in North-Central Nebraska.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2006
  • Length: 04:02
RN Documentary: Song of a Troubled Heart
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The story behind Viennese composer Gustav Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” and his subsequent meeting with Sigmund Freud in Holland.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXDU, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WHQR


  • Added: May 17, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 5
A Short History of Music as a Weapon
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From Scottish bagpipes to Metallica, this radio essay takes listeners on a short tour through the history of music as a weapon.

Bought by Raven Radio, KGUA, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2005
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 11