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Christmas at Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This holiday season on World Ocean Radio we return with a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson writte...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 04:03
The Big Ponder #34: Sounds of Nature
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Tosca Terán creates soundscapes using fungi. In this immersive piece, Tosca takes listeners on a soundwalk, pausing periodically to interview other...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 25:59
  • 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...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 1
Dispatch 382 - COVID Twitter Wave
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A "reminder" from India's Chamber of Commerce, Credit: Sandip Roy
As India’s second wave of COVID-19 batters India, Twitter is becoming the go to for communication.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
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
Best of the Best 2020: Letters to a Young Poet
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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In this episode, two young Black artists revisit memories to grapple with how they are seen by others, and how they see themselves.

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
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
When Phobia Becomes Hate
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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When does phobia cross over into hate speech? Does a social media site need a bloodthirsty exhortation to deliver a 6-inch deep cut before it can act?

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Mangos and cyclones
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip's mango tree, Credit: Sandip Roy
When life gives you cyclones, make mango rice.

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Dispatch 326: Social Distance
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Could the global outbreak of COVID-19 keep us apart, in more ways than just physical.

Bought by KFCF FM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Welcome To Dirt-Pile City
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The aftermath of the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of Autumn 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Unknown
From: Lily Sloane
Series: A Therapist Walks Into a Bar
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One of the biggest threats we find ourselves defending against as conscious beings is the unknown in its many forms. So in this episode we’re gonna...

Bought by KPIK-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 26:38
  • Purchases: 2
WhatsApp for?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Need a quick booster shot of national pride? How about a “quote" of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange praising the Indian prime minister? Need to help fome...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
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
New Year's Day In Provence
From: Francesca Rheannon
Caption: Ruined sheepcote, Credit: F. Rheannon
Radio producer and writer Francesca Rheannon tells a story about one New Year’s Day in a tiny village in Provence, where past, present and future c...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2016
  • Length: 10:41
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
FALL POEM: "Sitting Outside at the End of Autumn" by Charles Wright
From: The Poetry Foundation
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The former U.S. poet laureate reads his poem about the end of autumn.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:17
Trauma Glossolalia: Synesthesia and Sound
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Sound and Violence - Work by NYU Students
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Award-winning composer Jenny Olivia Johnson explores synesthesia, where sound is perceived as color or touch. Her feature is a work of sound art as...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 10:09
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 Beat: Louis Jenkins - "The Telephone "
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Robert Bly refers to Louis Jenkins, poet from Duluth, as the contemporary master of prose poetry. A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matte...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:35
Last Train from Bedford Falls
From: Sean Dillman
Caption: Seneca Falls welcomes Karolyn Grimes, who played Zsu Zsu Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life"
A small town may be losing part of it's unique holiday tradition: New, "radio-friendly" 3-minute version!

  • Added: Dec 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:20
A Cold Freezin Night (Inverse Winter)
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
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In Tucson, Arizona, summer is like winter in Canada.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
Columbus Park
From: David Maxon
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Reflection Manhattan's Columbus Park and the fluid nature of place.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:13
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