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The White Album Listening Party: Revisiting The Beatles' Top-Seller (3-Hour / Non-Newscast Version)
From: Paul Ingles
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Beatle fans and musicians gather to re-experience The Beatles' top-selling album, which came to be known as The White Album.

Bought by Louisville Public Media, KMSU, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2008
  • Length: 02:57:04
  • Purchases: 16
The Civil War Was A Turning Point
From: The humble Farmer
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The 2008 election will be a turning point

  • Added: Sep 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:29
David Bouchier Essay: Freedom Trail
From: WSHU
Series: Essays by David Bouchier
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David visits Boston and rewrites some history.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
Chris Calloway: A Jazz Life of Her Own (29:00 / 21:30 / 9:33 / 7:20)
From: Paul Ingles
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Jazz singer Chris Calloway, daughter to the legendary singer and band leader Cab Calloway, died August 7, 2008. Chris recalls her father's legacy ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, KGLT, and WVRU


  • Added: Dec 23, 2007
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
This I Believe - Robin Baudier
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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New Orleanian Robin Baudier believes it was a blessing to live with her family in a FEMA trailer.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Sep 04, 2007
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 3
Watching a Riot Through a Window
From: Zak Rosen
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Life-long Detroiter remembers the 67' riot

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Jul 30, 2007
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 2
Finding My Kerouac: On the Road at Mid-Life
From: David Berner
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This documentary is about two men who, at mid-life, re-read Kerouac's book and get behind the wheel for a 4000 mile road trip of reflection and di...

Bought by WUSM, WGBH Radio Boston, WVPE, KZYX, WKSU and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2007
  • Length: 57:05
  • Purchases: 7
Burial At Sea
From: Adam Allington
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Bill Bricker has one particular memory that colors his observation of Memorial Day

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WTIP, Delta College Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 8
Abe's Light - from Mistakes to Making It
From: Ellen Weber
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When we light a candle for Lincoln's day we rekindle ours

  • Added: Jan 23, 2006
  • Length: 02:51
Bruce Springsteen: The Story of Born to Run
From: Joyride Media
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This one hour radio documentary tells the inside story of Bruce Springsteen's classic album, Born To Run on it's 30th anniversary.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., The Pulse--Messiah College Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2005
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 36
The Day After
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
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Wondering 'what if' on the day after the election--November 2004

  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 03:46
Toilet Paper Scrap Chronicles Civil Rights Ordeal
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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A six-foot piece of jail-grade toilet paper from 1963 captures Civil Rights struggle

Bought by WABE, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 7
Progressions: 100 Years of Jazz Guitar
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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A one-hour music intensive radio special tracing the history of Jazz guitar from 1906 through today; hosted by Les Paul.

Bought by WICR, KPSQ-LP, Prairie Public, KGLT, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2005
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 31
Reflections on Nagasaki by a Nez Perce Elder
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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Nez Perce elder Horace Axtell reflects on witnessing the devasation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Bought by KPIK-LP, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WMPG, WYSO, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2005
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 7
How I Helped Found the United Nations
From: Dick Meister
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I was only 12 at the time, but I'm sure I played a key role at the founding conference of the United Nations 60 years ago this month.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2005
  • Length: 02:53
Flag Day: Civil War Flag Bearer's Legacy
From: Melissa Ingells
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A Civil War Flag Bearer's Legacy Remembered on Flag Day

Bought by WTIP, KISU, and WKMS


  • Added: Jun 06, 2005
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 3
"My Daughter Knocked Out The Power On The Whole East Coast"
From: Charles Lane
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Amusing vox pop about how a girl caused the '77 Blackout

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2004
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 2
Walking High Steel: Mohawk Ironworkers at the Twin Towers
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories
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Mohawk ironworkers built some of the most recognizable buildings in NYC, including the Twin Towers.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUER, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KGLT, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2004
  • Length: 15:18
  • Purchases: 10
Stories of Love and Marriage at the Towers
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories
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Stories of love, marriage and memories at 1,377 feet.

Bought by KUT, KVNF, KUT-HD, KXOT Public Radio, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2004
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 9
Messages from NPR's Sonic Memorial Phone Line
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories
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An impressionistic gathering of sounds and stories, many of them contributed by listeners who called the Sonic Memorial Phone Line.

Bought by WRNC-LP, WMBR, KCPW Salt Lake City, WHYY, and WUAL


  • Added: Sep 09, 2004
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Stories of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
From: Scott Gurian
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An unnarrated documentary collage of relatives of September 11th victims describing what they remember from the day of the terrorist attacks and ho...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Nov 25, 2003
  • Length: 52:41
  • Purchases: 2
An Anatomy of Humanity
From: Geo Beach
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Five thousand miles from New York, commentator and medic Geo Beach had to practice a different kind of medicine, praying for a minister at Ground Z...

Bought by WZBC, 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station, WYSO, and prpdstation


  • Added: Sep 08, 2003
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 4