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Sometimes what we remember from our childhood is confused with the stories other people tell us. A micro narration in a minute or so.
- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 01:03
The Skyluck Journals from CBC Radio's The Doc Project won the Gold Medal in the History Category at the 2022 New York Festivals.
In 1979 Andrew Ng...
Bought by KUHF, KWGS, KFAI Minneapolis, KCPW Salt Lake City, Prairie Public and more
- Added: May 25, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
After the success of the massive two-part crime film Dr. Mabuse in 1922, Fritz Lang and screenwriter Thea von Harbou, now husband and wife, embarke...
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 02:52
I forgot to say that false solomon’s seal was formerly in the family Liliaceae, but is now in Asparagaceae. There are 2 subspecies of Maianthemum r...
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 04:09
There are 30 species of Dalea found in Arizona, many of which are in the nursery trade because they are so doggone pretty. How cool is that? Very.
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- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 04:20
The genus Artemisia is in the sunflower family Asteraceae and there are over 200 species found around the world in the northern hemisphere. Well, t...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 05:05
French writer-director Céline Sciamma has followed up her big success from 2019, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, with a surprising story of childhood, ...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 03:28
Victor Kossakovsky shows us the experience of farm animals without the mediation of human words and concepts, in a film that extends compassion to ...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 03:23
When I moved from Melbourne to Italy I was faced with a difficult decision: take my cat Ombra with me, submitting her to a gruelling 26-hour flight...
- Added: May 16, 2022
- Length: 01:17
Walking through East Berlin was never just a stroll, before the Wall came down. A micro narration in a minute or so.
- Added: May 16, 2022
- Length: 01:00
As a lifelong photographer and filmmaker, Harald Rumpf has spent decades exploring the cities that his subjects call home. In this retrospective of...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 12, 2022
- Length: 28:14
- Purchases: 1
French director Mia Hansen-Løve is a real cinephile. She loves to think and talk about film history and the works of famous filmmakers. Although sh...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:01
Paul Thomas Anderson pays humorous tribute to the 1970s in southern California in this story of a teenage entrepreneur who falls for a clever young...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:26
Todd Haynes tells the story of this influential New York rock band in the cinematic style of the man who discovered them: Andy Warhol.
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:29
An evil eye changes the appearance of two young people in love so that they can’t recognize one another, in a film from the country of Georgia that...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:31
Bernard Shaw’s popular comedy, about a phonetics professor who makes a bet that he can turn a street person into a lady, was given near-perfect for...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:02
A married woman visits three friends in the city, and we are inspired to consider what is the nature of happiness for women in a “man’s world.”
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:19
The Harlem Cultural Festival was a music festival taking place in the same summer of 1969 as Woodstock, and its amazing line-up, and insight into h...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 1
Wes Anderson’s playful new film is presented as an issue of a Paris-based American magazine, with three stories about the eternal appeal of non-con...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:20
A film from Norway about a young woman seeking fulfillment in relationships takes the conventions of romantic comedy and turns them over to reveal ...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:27
- Added: May 08, 2022
- Length: 01:02
I started my nursery/horticulture career in the spring of 1980 at Desert Trees Nursery northwest of Tucson. It was and still is a wholesale nursery...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:16
The riparian woodland Ms. Mesquitey and I were hiking in is at around 6,000 ft. in elevation. I think that may be the upper limits of the elf owls'...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:33
Tecoma stans angustata is in the Bignonia family Bignoniaceae and there are a bunch of species of Tecoma starting here in the borderlands with our ...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:51
Some personal history in poem and song. The photos are mine…well, I dug them out of the archives. That’s the very beginning of the Dusty Chaps in 1...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:17
