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Digging for Disco
From: JP Davidson
Caption: Michael Boothman - Touch 12" Vinyl, Credit: Invisible City Editions
Music genres come and go, but it seems that the reports of disco’s death have been greatly exaggerated. That is at least according to a couple of e...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Pumpkin Chuckin'
From: JP Davidson
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Pumpkins are baked into pies, turned into soup, and carved into jack-o-lanterns. But there's another use for these autumnal gourds - they're the ke...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 05:10
Feasting on Roadkill
From: University of Montana Journalism
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Montana passed a recent law allowing people to pick up dead animals on the side of the road and eat them. Producer Madelyn Beck's story *goes there.*

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KBGA 89.9 FM, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 3
Bay Area Beats: Growing up with Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Thao Nguyen grew up in Northern Virginia, and started playing music at age 12. Since then she has released three critically acclaimed albums, and s...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:13
49: Mad Genius
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Mad Genius is an artists' collective that remixes the world with whatever they want to use.

Bought by Radio New Zealand and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 31:05
  • Purchases: 2
A Tribute to Heartbreakers
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Heartbreak Stories: The Other Side of Valentines Day
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Somebody's doing the breaking and somebody's doing the hurting, but can that somebody be the same person?

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
Heartbreak Is...
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Heartbreak Stories: The Other Side of Valentines Day
Caption: This image will make sense when you listen.
The average Joe's short answers of what heartbreak is, what it does and what it has to do with one man's video game.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:26
XOXOXO
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Heartbreak Stories: The Other Side of Valentines Day
Caption: Your lover called.
Keep it short and sweet this Valentines Day. XOXO says so much! But what does it really mean?

  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:49
When She Leaves You: A Musical Interlude
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Heartbreak Stories: The Other Side of Valentines Day
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Heartbreak is a universal disease with no cure. Three men share the musical prescriptions that got them over the one who got away.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:46
What's the Richest You've Ever Been?
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
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With the gap between Haves and the Have-nots widening in the U.S., Hank Rosenfeld asks folks about a time when they felt they had their plenty-est.

Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 25, 2013
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 3
Not a Weapon
From: Ethan Chiel
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Sam Densmore is an artist. He's painted, made shoes, and even built custom bicycle frames. But these days he's making something different, somethin...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Spoken Editions #206: Romantic Modern: California Architecture 1930 to 1950, Harwell Hamilton Harris
From: Teosson Wells
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Free, audio excerpt from a book. The California of Harris’ youth was a very different place than it is today: It was a verdant oasis of orange grov...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:35
Laughing With Cancer
From: Chemda KATG
Series: What's My Name
Caption: Comedian H. Alan Scott
Comedian and writer H. Alan Scott talks about being diagnosed with testicular cancer and going through chemotherapy while maintaining his career in...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:08:15
Birth Mother
From: Chemda KATG
Series: What's My Name
Caption: Mariah in the hospital with Leo.
Writer Mariah MacCarthy talks about placing her newborn with adoptive parents.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:39:14
Bike on Bike. Body on Body. Mallet on Mallet.
From: University of Montana Journalism
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Two wheels, a ski pole with attached pipe and six steely grins. 3-2-1 Polo! Once in a lifetime happens three nights a week at the University of Mon...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 01:20
  • Purchases: 1
Life and What Lingers at the Circle Square Second Hand Store
From: University of Montana Journalism
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The Circle Square Second Hand Store has become an archive of the people who've passed through Missoula, Montana. There are treasures that are treas...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:04
Disneyland: Lost and Found
From: Jake Warga
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A day in the life of Disneyland's Lost and Found office. It's not a Small World.

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:44
  • Purchases: 1
The Shop and the Resistance
From: Tatyana Safronova
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Everyone's fighting their own revolution. Phillip is doing so between his appointments ... against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 05:58
Farmer Confession Booth I
From: Cassie Wagler
Caption: My Sign and I
Farmers in upstate New York enter a confession booth (ahem, van) and give anonymous answers to probing questions. Produced for WIOX "The Farm Hou...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
The Land
From: Erin Davis
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Death traps by any American standard, adventure playgrounds are every child’s dream.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KGOU, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 5
Maria, from Mangalia to Europe
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Maria in Mangalia, Credit: Anton Foek
Maria is a young and vibrant woman from Mangalia in Romenia and doing her international studies about European integration in Maastricht, Holland.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2013
  • Length: 14:33
Taste Florence
From: Nancy Greenleese
Caption: Antoinette Mazzaglia of Taste Florence in the Sant’Ambrogio market describes various salami that her tour group will sample. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni
Italy, particularly Florence, is a popular vacation destination. They come with an appetite, eager to sample Italy’s renowned cuisine, yet they’re...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 04:32
Slow Wine
From: Nancy Greenleese
Caption: Salvatore Angelica and Susanna Bianco of Gigi Bianco winery explain their various Slow Wines at a Rome tasting, Credit: Nancy Greenleese
The Slow Food movement has changed how we eat in the last quarter century. The Italian organization encourages us to dine on flavorful and health...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 04:04
The Cart Men of Catalina
From: Alexander Ward
Caption: A golf cart for towing golf carts, Credit: Alex Ward
Golf carts are the primary vehicles for residents in Avalon, CA. This is about the guys that make them go.

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 2
Behind a Viral Video
From: Alexander Ward
Caption: Isaac Lamb steps forward to propose
In 2012, my friend Isaac performed an elaborate and ingenious proposal to his girlfriend Amy. I filmed the whole thing, and a week later, it was vi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 2

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