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The Big Ponder #19: Encounters
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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How many people will you meet in your lifetime? How many will you remember? Fascinated by the countless chance encounters in their own lives, Susan...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:45
  • Purchases: 1
Transmission: Luis Jacob
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“Do you even know what you want to want?” Jacob takes us on a looping and circuitous path through self-care and empowerment rhetoric. “Own it!” “Y...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 03:16
Transmission: Fariha Róisín
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“Hope has always been necessary, but I do wonder if we’ve really ever had it.” Set against the backdrop of COVID-19 in New York, and rooted in com...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1
Transmission: Kevin Gotkin
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“When I say ‘Let’s get cozy,’ I’m asking you to join me in the making of a new and better world.” Gotkin reflects on the historical, social, and p...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
Transmission: Romily Alice Walden
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“drag your body into the sunlight / dig a hole and bury yourself in it” Delivered via distorted and whispering proxy, Walden sends a biocentric me...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
Transmission: Macarena Gómez-Barris
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“We envision a timeless and a historical future. We bury our seen and unseen dead. We mourn all of our losses. We catalogue our human and more-than...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #17: Listening
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Our ability to hear is fully formed after just four and a half months in the womb. From this early age, sound shapes our worldview. Jim McKee, a so...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 1
Transmission: Françoise Vergès
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“To live, we need to breathe, to be held and to hold, to love and be loved, to make kin and communities. Yes, to love and be loved.” In a rousing...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 08:39
Transmission: Ravyn Wngz
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“Keep going, keep going.” Wngz sings, whispers, and celebrates the legacies and histories that helped her find her voice: Sankofa; Harriet Tubman;...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome Message
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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Returning in a new iteration for 2021, "Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power” invites artists, public intellectuals, and writers to radica...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
SHATTERING STIGMA
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Gail Christofferson’s passion for glass, community projects, and creating mosaic art has taken her on a wonderful journey. From working in visual c...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
No Place Like Home
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Dairies we talk to Jerry Gray, artist and the creator of Bozarts Fine Art and Music Gallery, as he returns to an ever ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 1
A Community of Glass
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today we're talking to one of the oldest glass artist in Ohio, Jack Schmidt. He received a B.S. degree from Bowling Green State University at a tim...

  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 06:08
Playing Friday
From: Black Mountain Radio
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Sam Forbes is a writer, photographer, and actor. For many years, a significant part of her creative practice took place inside what she calls a hid...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 12:28
Huntor Prey
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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"Art and writing has always been cathartic for me, even as a child-- Whether it was anxiety, depression, fear, society, love, etc. there was an out...

  • Added: May 10, 2021
  • Length: 06:05
The Big Ponder #7: How Buildings Mean
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
Producer Alex van Oss ponders the external, internal, and eternal meanings of buildings in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. The result is a perso...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Hobo, A Tramp, A Bum
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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A quest to find the difference between a hobo, a tramp and a bum. We head to the train yard and ask around. Then, receive some clues on a cassette ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 19:42
Paper Marketing Materials
From: Walker Raigh
Series: Scratch & Sniff
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Walker takes us back to the early 2000s when the printed materials were just as high impact as digital materials. She takes us on a journey through...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 05:29
The Big Ponder #3: Radio Wanderlust
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Bilal Qureshi explores the German-English idea of ‘Wanderlust’ through his personal audio archives and conversations with fellow travelers. Does th...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of the Jump In Resource Fair at Promise Neighborhood
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack heads over to the Promise Neighborhood in St. Cloud on...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:09
013 - Madrigals
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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The madrigal offered composers a means to break the strict rules of counterpoint and harmony in order to serve a dramatic end; an important concept...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
The Human Planet
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio we review a new book by photographer George Steinmetz with essays by Andrew Revkin. "The Human Planet: Earth at the ...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 04:34
"Living and Grieving in a Time of Covid 19"
From: Shirley Jahad
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We bring you stories of "Living and Grieving in a Time of Covid 19." Each story crosses a line ... from before pandemic ... to after. The stories e...

Bought by Valley Public Radio, KCSB-FM, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 54:52
  • Purchases: 11
The Orange Grove
From: Kate Madara
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Someone has to hold their hands very carefully underneath, to catch a tear inside a message in a bottle. Plus, a look at the sound triangles make.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 10:28
A Writer Grows in Brooklyn
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
In this episode, we share an interview with Mahogany Browne and Brooklyn poet laureate Tina Chang, plus a story about the classic novel A Tree Grow...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 31:58

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