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Caption: Dudley Riggs in 2012, Credit: Sheila Regan
"Instant Theater" was a term that Dudley Riggs, founder of the Brave New Workshop theater came up with in the 1950s. The former circus and vaudevil...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 17:42
Caption: Fans at the Beatles only concert in Minnesota, Credit: Minnesota Historical Society
In the summer of 1965, the Beatles were the hottest act in the world. And for the first — and only time — John, Paul, George and Ringo were coming ...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 35:39
Caption: HUGE Improv Theater has purchased the Art Materials building and will transform the south half of the building into a theater., Credit: Sheila Regan
After learning that their landlord had donated to a former KKK leader, HUGE Improv Theater knew they needed to move. So how did a small arts non-pr...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 05:24
Caption: A Death Cafe discussion group meets at the Rogue Buddha Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis, Credit: Twin Cities Death Cafe Facebook
Death is a scary to talk about. But some people in Minneapolis meet up every month to talk about just that. It’s called Death Cafe, and KFAI's Matt...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 06:03
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Meet the Luddite Club, a group of library-loving, flip-phone-toting teenagers in Brooklyn who come together every week out of a shared sense that s...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 13:57
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Listen to our session with this Minneapolis singer/songwriter from November 17, 2022

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 26:58
Caption: Collin Roycroft by Andrea Canter, Credit: Andrea Canter
The Collin Roycroft Quartet gives unique spins to great Jazz created over recent decades. In a conversation with Phil Nusbaum, Collin addressed th...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Collin Roycroft by Andrea Canter, Credit: Andrea Canter
The Collin Roycroft Quartet plays the Emerging Talent series at jazz Central Studios in Minneapolis next Thursday at 8PM. At the show, Collin and t...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
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Although 2019 was not a good year for Haley, this episode actually features one of her strongest allies throughout bad years and good ones. A frien...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:01
Caption: Rohulamin Quander at his home in Washington D.C. in 2016 and Alicia Argrett in Madison, Mississippi in 2010., Credit: Rohulamin Quander and Alicia Argrett.
An African American family that traces its roots back to Nancy Carter Quander, a woman who was enslaved by George and Martha Washington, talks abou...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Albert and Aidan Sykes at their StoryCorps interview in Jackson, Mississippi on February 20, 2015., Credit: Vanessa Gonzalez-Block for StoryCorps.
Albert Sykes speaks with his nine-year-old son, Aidan, about black fatherhood, and his hopes for the future.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WERA-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Jan 22, 2020
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bob and Ethan on their Boat
The unlikely, childless Bob Mailloux signs up to be a Big Brother and is changed forever. Mashpee, Massachusetts, September, 2019.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of Art Beat we enter a fantasy realm of magic, swords and dragons with Minnesota author James Petrillo. Petrillo’s most recent nove...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 44:44
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Memorabilia is about a grown man reconnecting with rituals and memories from his childhood. It's about some good old sports collectibles. And my an...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Stan Lee
A feature-style interview with Stan Lee looking back at his life and career.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 09:03
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Just like a real-life Zach Morris, a teenager in the 90's writes his own episode of Saved By The Bell and tries to get it on the air.  Listen to th...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2018
  • Length: 20:07
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On this episode of The Live Feed, we take you to the Black Sheep Poetry Slam at the Midwest Music Store in downtown Winona, MN. We’ll hear various ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 16:27
Caption: Jeff and Deb Sandler, Credit: Jeff and Deb Sandler
Jeff and Deb couldn't stand each other when they first met. Four decades later, they've traveled the world teaching kids about marine biology. Alon...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 18:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Comic Writer Stan Lee makes more than a cameo in Washington
Stan Lee, the creator of American Pop Culture myths like Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, and Iron Man, will take part in the fifth annual Awesome ...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:47
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Maryan Osman and her sister, Fatuma Abdullahi, are Somalis who came to the U.S. as refugees in 2014 and found a stable home with Annie and Randall ...

Bought by Public Radio for All, WGUC/ WVXU, KRZA, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 4
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Fred Taylor talks to his wife Julie about his 15 years writing letters to frustrated airplane passengers as Southwest Airlines’ apologizer-in-chief.

Bought by WVBI-LP, WGUC/ WVXU, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 3
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This is an audio tribute compiled by my PRXtended family, presented at PRXmas December 2016. Thank you!

  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 06:35
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Charlie Daniels is partly Western and partly Southern. His signature “bullrider” hat and belt buckle, his lifestyle on the Twin Pines Ranch (a boyh...

Bought by KMXT, WTIP, KALH, KPIP-LP, WDSE and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 9
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Producer Grant Frashier attends the 1st Northwoods Pond Hockey Championship on McKinney Lake in Grand Rapids, MN. Will the weather cooperate?

  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 10:44