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Show #16: Expressing Ourselves
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08
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It?s our last podcast of the summer, and we?re going out with two pieces about self-expression. DaeDae Williams shares a powerful poem about the c...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:52
Show #13: Voting and Spandex
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08
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Young people will be crucial to this year?s election, though political activism can take many different forms. Ann Kane talks to youth voters about...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 1
VoxPod #5 - Spoiler Alert
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
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Today's show features an essay on the cultural impact of Harry Potter.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:30
  • Purchases: 2
September Storms
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Returning to the US and the storms brewing.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2008
  • Length: 08:47
After the Weekend
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Past post mistress Anne Crotts sings at the 4th July. Postal workers in Ghana make music to make their work go smoother

  • Added: Jul 09, 2008
  • Length: 09:57
La Colifata Buenos Aires
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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A visit to La Colifata radio in Buenos Aires

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jun 06, 2008
  • Length: 11:43
  • Purchases: 1
Taking the Stage to Buenos Aries
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Traveling from the farm to Buenos Aries

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 1
Pancake Breakfasts
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Pancake breakfasts are part of the fabric of America,

  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 09:03
Watching Men and their Watches
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Watching men and their Watches!

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 09:28
  • Purchases: 1
Buzzing home to Bolinas
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Fetching bees from a bee farm

  • Added: May 05, 2008
  • Length: 08:44
Traveling to a War Zone
From: Adam Allington
Series: Front Line: Missouri Soldiers in Iraq
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Traveling from St. Louis to Baghdad with the U.S. Army

  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 03:24
Curiosity Aroused Pilot
From: Rebecca Watson
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Looking at the world from a skeptical perspective

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, Texas Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT-HD and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
Walking the Dog
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Walking the dog in Rome can bring friendship

  • Added: Dec 07, 2007
  • Length: 11:58
On Being Thankful - for Cancer & for a Cat
From: Paul Messing
Series: For Kindred Spirits (and separate elements)
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Two beautiful Thanksgiving stories from NY Times Bestseller Susan Chernak McElroy 4:39

Bought by KISU, 90.5 WSNC, KUT, WTIP, KZYX and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2007
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 6
B-Side: The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary People and Clues
From: B-Side Radio
Series: B-Side: Cure for the Weekend Blues
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Kind of like the cool songs found on the back side of a vinyl 45, we've dug up stories about people who may seem ordinary at first. But, are any o...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, Remix Radio, KXOT Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 02, 2007
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
B-Side: Food and Coping
From: B-Side Radio
Series: B-Side: Cure for the Weekend Blues
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How do you cope with a rough day? Perhaps some comfort food? This is B-Side and we're talking about food?and coping.

Bought by WLRH, WRVO Public Media, KXOT Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 02, 2007
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Taste of Marin
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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From cops chasing speeders to Agricultural celebration

  • Added: Sep 10, 2007
  • Length: 09:52
This I Believe, Vermont
From: Vermont Public
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A series of five essays written by Vermonters for This I Believe, the national radio series exploring principles and values that guide our lives.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2007
  • Length: 18:55
B-Side: Coping
From: B-Side Radio
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Host Tamara Keith visits a bar to talk about the ways we cope with what life throws at us.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Crossing East: Jared Rehberg Music Feature
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Singer/Songwriter Jared Rehberg is perhaps the only transracial and international adoptee who sings about being an adoptee.

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Nov 07, 2006
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
B-Side: Indoor Space, Outside
From: B-Side Radio
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Take it outside! Isn't that what your mom always told you? And weren't you happy to comply? B-Side's Tamara Keith brings us stories about what happ...

Bought by KGOU, KXOT Public Radio, and KUT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2006
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 3
A Musician's Life: Alejandro Escovedo
From: WXPN
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Alejandro Escovedo music is an eclectic mix of his life experiences--from his childhood in Texas to his exposure to New York and San Francisco's pu...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, and KUT


  • Added: Oct 19, 2006
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 3
A Musician's Life: Aimee Mann
From: WXPN
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The music business may have toughened Aimee Mann, but her songwriting remains compassionate and sensitive.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, and Musicians' Radio


  • Added: Oct 18, 2006
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 3
A Musician's Life: Rodney Crowell
From: WXPN
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Singer songerwriter Rodney Crowell says his songwriting has gotten more personal with age. He also talks about working on the song "I Walk the Lin...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Oct 18, 2006
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
Slice of LIfe - Roland Thompson and Diane Bahrenberg
From: Vermont Public
Series: VPR Presents StoryCorps in Vermont
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Diane Bahrenburg talks with her neighbor and friend, 89-year-old retired dairy farmer Roland Thompson.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:44