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Learn all you need to know about this season's production of "Much Ado About Nothing" directed by James (Jim) Edmondson! We'll go over the cliff no...
- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 05:20
Examine the life of one of America’s most famous 20th century artists, who you may not have even heard of.
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 16:24
Are you, or were you a curious kid? How do museums fuel your curiosity?
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 18:04
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 31:08
Tattoo artist Ron White goes through several generations to tell us how he got to where he is today. It's not what you're expecting. Part one of th...
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 12:21
In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack brings us multiple perspectives abou...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 30:20
- Purchases: 1
Many people still think of San Francisco’s most famous intersection -- Haight-Ashbury -- as the epicenter of the hippie movement of the mid-1960s. ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 07:46
Our Duluth, MN episode featuring two outstanding acts ~ singer songwriter Teague Alexy and foot stompin' Tin Can Gin.
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 8
What does it mean to love an object? And does that love...wear off?
- Added: Feb 15, 2015
- Length: 15:20
Along the road, stretches from Louisville to New Mexico, there are moments that never live up to the pictures we take. But they're what we always s...
Bought by KUPR low power FM
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 11:04
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy looks at the story behind "Upaj."
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 04:30
When one thinks of fashion forward countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo usually doesn't come to mind. But Les Sapeurs might make us feel dif...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 05:44
Just in time for Halloween, we look at gender issues in horror films. This essay takes a feminist angle on underrated horror heroines, from Candyma...
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 21:26
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 10:25
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 11:11
The new film 'Mood Indigo' is based on a novel by Boris Vian - so who was Vian? One of France's most popular authors of the 20th Century, musician,...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 14:45
A cold-water, slap on the face, static-electric jolt reminder of just how powerfully spaces can affect the way we think and act.
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 3
This week on State of the Human, stories of people whose vision changed, first throwing them in the dark, then revealing something new.
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and WKCC
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 01:59:24
- Purchases: 3
Jenny Bovey's fish don't stink. She's one of the few full time practitioners of a 2,000-year-old Japanese art form called "Gyotaku." She and her h...
Bought by WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 04:28
- Purchases: 4
In this humorous piece, Nick, a music teacher, tells the story of two Celine Dion songs and how they have helped him understand the value of music ...
- Added: May 09, 2014
- Length: 06:38
In 1999, The Band officially called it quits. In this hour long audio essay, Don McIver looks at the history of The Band to examine the nature of ...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 58:03
A short documentary on the Banff Centre Puppet Theatre Intensive.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 24, 2014
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 1
On March 11th, 2011 Justine Beed was sitting in an English classroom outside of Tokyo, when the 9.0 Earthquake hit near Fukushima.
Bought by MPR News Stations
- Added: Mar 06, 2014
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 1
On Thursday, February 13th, the lobby of the Winona County History Center was packed full of eager people waiting to hear love poems penned and del...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 01:09:59
- Purchases: 1
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:52
- Purchases: 1
