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One Last Word: Goodbye
From: Mark Blackmon
Series: One Last Word
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After 54 years, the soap opera "As The World Turns" has come to the end of its run. A passing worthy of note? Commentator Mark Blackmon thinks so. ...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2010
  • Length: 04:58
The Freshman Experience
From: WSHU
Series: Essays by David Bouchier
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David looks back to his own college years and feels a stab of envy for this year’s freshmen.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:46
The Last Word on Brushes with the Law
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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High up on that list of the shocks of aging is the first time a cop calls you "sir."

  • Added: Mar 29, 2010
  • Length: 03:14
Late Onset Fatherhood
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Colin McEnroe Show: Fresh Voices
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Rand Cooper discusses the challenges of becoming a new dad at a time when friends are sending their children off to college.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 05:45
Longing for Earth
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
Trying to hang on to a physical remnant of past wilderness experiences.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Mar 27, 2009
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 1
Israel Diary: An Election Fog
From: Mordechai Twersky
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Voting in the Israeli elections on a stormy winter morning.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 02:17
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour Five
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour Four
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour Three
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour Two
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour One
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Unquiet History 3
From: Matthew Battles
Series: Unquiet History
Caption: PRX default Piece image
October 22, this day in history.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2008
  • Length: 02:52
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
A Critical Economic Stimulus
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
More than one million Americans are facing loss of their badly needed Unemployment Insurance benefits.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2008
  • Length: 02:33
The Mixed Race Promise
From: PRX PromCom
Series: Promise Commentaries
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Commentary about the hopes of Mixed Race people and the Presidential race.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KCUR, Remix Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 08, 2008
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 5
Columbus Park
From: David Maxon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Reflection Manhattan's Columbus Park and the fluid nature of place.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:13
Rethinking Needs
From: Kyle Boelte
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The author goes into the wilderness and comes back with a new appreciation of his needs.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:33
Candidate Questions
From: Larry Burriss
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Will candidates realy answer questions?

  • Added: Jun 01, 2008
  • Length: 03:32
Education in "Journalism"
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Budding reporter learns a lesson in "reporting."

  • Added: May 09, 2008
  • Length: 04:15
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
Hard Power, Soft Power: Peacebuilding at the Pentagon
From: A World of Possibilities
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A study on new peacebuilding actions within the Pentagon.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2008
  • Length: 55:00
Kenya Before the Storm
From: Victoria Fenner
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A personal reflection with sound about Victoria's visit to Kenya in the fall just as the election campaign was starting to get underway ..

  • Added: Feb 18, 2008
  • Length: 06:03
MLK Was a Working-Class Hero
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary noting that Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the staunchest and most effective supporters working Americans have ever had.

Bought by Prairie Public, WEZU, RadioFreePalmer, KBRP Community Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 7
Candidates and Equal TIme
From: Larry Burriss
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Candidates and Section 315

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2008
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
KERA Commentary: The Hope of Christmas Light
From: KERA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Thoughtful commentary about the symbolic role of lights at Christmas

  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 03:30

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