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Caption: Spiral design on the street
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 09:06
Caption: The water tower of Hilltop, MN, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
There’s a tiny town just north of Minneapolis that is entirely surrounded by Columbia Heights. It's called Hilltop. In a way, Hilltop was forced in...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 07:56
Caption: Signal Auto crafts and curates signage jokes for passing motorists and prospective customers. , Credit: Matthew Schneeman
The art of writing a good joke welds a lot of power. A good joke can drive the plot of a TV sit-com, can spark political controversy … or, in this ...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 06:25
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Take a non-narrated trip through the 11th annual Mecklenburg County Hummingbird festival.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
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An artesanal fisherman from a small Catalan village ends up shaping EU fishing law.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2020
  • Length: 26:13
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If "Bring Your Kid To Work Day" was a competition, Jack's father would win.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2019
  • Length: 02:37
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It's official! The Golden State Warriors are the 2017 NBA Champions! Life of the Law honors the team and each of the players with this special epis...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 19:38
Caption: Lyn's giant metal cactus towers over his plant nursery., Credit: Mark Bramhill, Houston, 2016.
Meet Lyn Rathburn: folk artist and cactus mogul.

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2017
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Myles Standish reenactor
There’s a recent trend to question historical icons with complicated histories—Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and of course the confederate flag. ...

Bought by WCPN, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 10:32
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Repair Cafe bike fix., Credit: Scott Schlegel
A tool lending library builds confidence and community.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 15:28
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Retired O. Henry teacher and counselor, David Freeman, talks with the Mustangs about the middle school's gym dedication, baseball, and his current ...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 04:23
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Animals are easy to love - most of them. But it takes a special breed of human to fall for one particular type animal.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 08:18
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A visit to a very special toilet.

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  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
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When you look up at the sky the last thing you probably think about is the law. But space is exactly where the next frontier of law is being played...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 3
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Exotic dancers, on-call drivers and writers might have a different name for what they do -- freelancing, part-time work and independent contracting...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 14:51
  • Purchases: 4
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Ryan Dawes explores the character of Sherlock Holmes, past and present, by meeting with a group of Minnesotans devoted to preserving Sherlockian cu...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Jess Mador goes behind the scenes of a familiar fast food landmark: White Castle building #8.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:05
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Visitors to Jerusalem's Old City can reasonably expect to bump into a missionary or two. Mishy Harman and Nava Winkler introduce us to a couple of ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
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In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 16:05
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Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer. When she came to New York twenty-one years ago to rehearse for a concert at Carnegie Hall, she never imag...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 14:09
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In 2011, two rap groups in northern Minnesota decided to join forces: 100 Souls from Red Lake, and NPC3 from Bemidji. Together they’re known as Rez...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Which cat is this?, Credit: Kellie Hamilton
How a cat travels from Texas to North Carolina to the Great Beyond. And then maybe back to North Carolina.

  • Added: Nov 26, 2014
  • Length: 13:06
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In car-choked LA, riding the bus is a sign that you can’t afford your own wheels. But Joshua Salazar's overnight routes are often full of people be...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:58
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The final episode of the series looks at the future of Irish experimental music. We find out how techniques like ‘Live Coding’ (where computer prog...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 30:01
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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