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The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about a new book in the 33 1/3 series that documents the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, whose early efforts intro...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Like a Comet Streaking Across the Sky: The Investigative Journalism of Eva Valesh
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: Eva Gay
In the late 1880s, a young journalist named Eva Valesh went undercover in Minneapolis to report on the lives of working women for the St. Paul Glo...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 18:19
Constant Wonder - Audrey Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: This movie star knew what depravation felt like; Topic 2: How Jimmy Stewart stole our hearts

Bought by WYAP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 52:47
  • Purchases: 4
A Library Sounds Like This
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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From defunct recording technology to vinyl’s comeback, we've been through a lot of media changes over the last 125 years. And we're still changing!...

Bought by KVNF, KGNU Community Radio, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 25:47
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Audrey Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: This movie star knew what depravation felt like; Topic 2: How Jimmy Stewart stole our hearts

  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 52:47
50 Years of In Black America with John L. Hanson Jr.
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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For 50 years the nationally syndicated radio show, In Black America has given voice to people of color in America, and John L. Hanson Jr. has hoste...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 34:07
WRM08 Will Starts Writing
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will Rogers becomes wildly popular in the newspapers

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1
King Denslow
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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The Wizard of Oz started as a perfect partnership between L. Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow -- until they became bitter rivals, with each owning half ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 12:22
  • Purchases: 3
The Lime Stone Cube
From: Rick Brewer
Caption: Herman B Wells Library, Credit: Indiana University Archives
An audio story about working in the Herman B Wells Library.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
Panic, Mayhem, Hysteria – War of the Worlds
From: Roger McDonough
Caption: Orson Welles news conference, 1938, Credit: WikiCommons
On October 30th, 1938, American radio audiences - believing that a Martian invasion was underway - went absolutely nuts. Panicked masses fled to th...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 3
170923 Band Box Records of Denver Colorado
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:56:19
THE WITNESS -- James Solomon Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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James Solomon talks fundamental questions, personal narratives, and the importance of listening.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 19:07
Episode 9: Three Degrees of Lorne Greene
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you three stories from three current or former Colorado springs residents, completely unknown to one...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 39:29
Just Call me NOLA
From: Nina Feldman
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The genesis, lovers and haters of New Orleans newest nickname.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
Small town movie theaters surviving in the digital age
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The downtown movie theater has long been a fixture of small town Minnesota. But with advent of multiplexes, DVDs and on-demand viewing, small town ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
Albert Maysles - on how childhood experiences shape our art
From: Susan Doran
Caption: Al Maysles and me at The Maysles Institute, Harlem NY
Brief excerpt of a 4.5 hour conversation had with Albert Maysles before our interview for the radio documentary I'm producing, "The Night Before Al...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:44
Architect Jack Liebenberg's theatrical legacy
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Many of the historic Art Deco movie theaters you see throughout Minnesota can be attributed to one man, Jack Liebenberg. KFAI's Ryan Dawes speaks w...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:33
Radio Retrospective: George Burns Loves Gracie Allen
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: George Burns and Gracie Allen
The famous duo of radio, television and film – George Burns and Gracie Allen – were married for 38 years. We look back at how their relationship a...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 11:51
  • Purchases: 3
Oddball Film and Video creates an unusual night at the movies
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: In the stacks at Oddball Film and Video.
Ever wonder what happens to films too bizarre for the big, or even small screen? Many of them end up at Oddball Film and Video, a stock footage com...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
The "last bastion of freak culture" on Valencia turns 30
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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If you look beyond the new restaurants, cafés and boutique shops, on Valencia Street there are hints of what gave this neighborhood the reputation ...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 08:24
Blue screen of death
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
On the same wavelength
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, WORT, and GraceRadio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 3
Nitty gritty
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Oct 26, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
What's up, doc?
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2014
  • Length: 01:47
Razzle dazzle
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Sep 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1