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Harrisburg, PA's Shakespeare Connection
From: WITF
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A history of Shakespeare performances in Harrisburg, PA

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:56
The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Thomas Alva Edison
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Look around your daily life.  There's a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere.

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2014
  • Length: 23:26
  • Purchases: 7
Hungarian Blues
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
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Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 5
Tracing the edge
From: Veronica Simmonds
Series: Visual Arts News podcast
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Artist Annie MacMillan is tracing the edge of Halifax's lakes, with her body.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 07:50
Modi the Magnificent
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Boy in Modi mask
Sandip Roy takes in the theater of Modi's first large scale political rally in New Delhi.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Are there tunnels under the loop?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
Caption: A snippet of Chicago’s Deep Tunnel, Credit: Erik Nelson Rodriguez/The Illustrated Press
A Curious Citizen had a hunch there might be tunnels lurking beneath Chicago’s downtown. She had no idea how right she was.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 09:32
  • Purchases: 1
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
The Last of the Iron Lungs
From: Julia Scott
Caption: Martha Lillard, 65, uses her iron lung to breathe at night., Credit: Julia Scott
Sixty years after polio was eradicated in America, a dozen survivors still rely on their iron lungs to breathe. Come inside the machine Martha Lill...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, KOSU, Hark! and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 14
A day at Herring River
From: Ben Harden
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Every spring, river herring return to the rivers and ponds of Cape Cod to spawn. They are met by a group of volunteers who, come rain or shine, sho...

Bought by Radio Newark and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 2
01: The Tide and the Seay (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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Explore the role of sound in art with Jesse Seay and her "Mechanical Tide."

Bought by KWMR and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Soul of Guatemala Part I Miracle Town
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: A woman in Almolonga, Guatemala, selling carrots and potatos wholesale., Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
Bartolo's Honey
From: Diane Bock
Caption: Yucatan Honey, Credit: John Bock
A hot, sticky day in the Yucatan.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
Sacred Music from the Navel of the World
From: Zak Rosen
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A Palestinian violin master, an Israeli woman singing Bedouin songs, two Brothers from Tehran improvising age old Sufi music. These are just a few ...

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 2
“Being Black and Green: African-Americans & the Environment” (encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oakland, CA Scraper krew, Credit: flickr user vkdir
African-Americans are helping to lead the environmental movement. We take you to a resettlement community in North Carolina, sustainable farms in W...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Aug 13, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
This Week in Texas Music History: Lee Ann Womack
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the third week of August (8/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singer who conquered Nashville on her own terms.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Augie Meyers
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the last week of May (5/31): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a keyboard player who was part of Texas music royalty

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Don Williams
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the fourth week of May (5/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texas singer who was as popular abroad as he is he...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
This Week in Texas Music History: Sippie Wallace
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of November (11/1): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an artist who worked with comedians, snakes and ...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
This Week in Texas Music History: Ivy Joe Hunter
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of October (10/10): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a black R&B singer who appeared on the grand ol...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Meat Loaf
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the fourth week of September (9/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a performer whose name you might find in your ...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Ted Daffan
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the fourth week of September (9/21): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering songwriter who got an electrifyin...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Buster Smith
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the fourth week of August (8/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a successful artist whose music career almost end...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:35
This Week in Texas Music History: Seals and Crofts
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the third week of August (8/14): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a duo whose first taste of success involved tequila

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: DJ Screw
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the third week of July (7/20): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who died young but still helped revolutio...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Mance Lipscomp
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of April (4/9): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the son of a former slave who helped inspire a Texa...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40