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OLD SCHOOL: Mistletoe Jam
From: Mike Flanagan
Caption: “It felt like a kiss...”
Professor Mikey's Old School Christmas special presents a detention hall you may not remember but you will never forget!

Bought by KDUR and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 2
Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk 2021: Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we went to the Winona County History Center to hear the 22nd annual voices from the past cemetery walk. They talked all abo...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 38:58
The Ranger's Life
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What does it mean to be a ranger? It means you are married to the mission, a soldier for your planetary home, armed with a moral compass and a Smok...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Man Behind the Projector
From: Out of the Blocks
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It was a good living. If you can stay in business 53 years, that says a lot.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
Soli Deo Gloria
From: Kate O'Connell
Caption: The organ loft at St. Anne's Church Fall River, Massachusetts
An empty church, an orphaned organ, a solo organist. Scott Lariviere is 26 years old and volunteers to try to keep a magnificent 4,500 pipe Casavan...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 2
New Pine Valley Restaurant
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Dr. Martin Luther King, I waited on him. He had ham and egg and hash browns.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 2
Bill Frisell: The Guitar is My Voice
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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Bill Frisell was heavily influenced by surf rock and space travel. Hear him in his own words tell you his origin story. Lots of great music in this...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 12:15
A Magic Door
From: Gianluca Tramontana
Caption: Producing at the Magic Shop, Credit: Gianluca Tramontana
An inside look into the closing of one of New York City’s last iconic recording studio where David Bowie, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, The Ramones, Blond...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Honest Abe departs Illinois and tales of three Valentinos
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Abraham lincoln debates Stephen Douglas... and which Valentino is the real Valentine?

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:38:59
Out of the Blocks: 400 E Patapsco (full version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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400 E Patapsco Ave: One block. Everybody's story.

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 48:30
  • Purchases: 2
Out of the Blocks: 3300 Greenmount (full version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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3300 Greenmount: One block. Everybody's story.

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 48:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Ghosts of Fire Island
From: Myke Dodge Weiskopf
Caption: The Invasion of the Pines on Fire Island, Credit: Mike Fisher
For most of the 20th Century, New York's Fire Island was virtually the only place on Earth where gay men and lesbians felt safe to live and to love...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Mikie Show #68, Paul
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Join us for episode sixty-eight, an enlightening conversation with Paul Carrick Ph.D., teacher of philosophy at Gettysburg College. He’s also a bio...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
New Year's Mummers Day Parade
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Mummers Day Parade, Credit: Rebecca Moon
The Mummers Day Parade is as quintessentially South Philadelphia as Ben Franklin or Willy Penn, a Philly cheese steak or Italian water ice. It’s un...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 23:29
The Mikie Show #65, Paul
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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It’s the sixty-fifth time we’ve gotten together for a half-hour of top-notch entertainment! Need we say more? Okay, if you insist. This episode we ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
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
The Mikie Show #58, Carolyn
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Woo boy another big show comes your way! This time we speak with historian, curator, author and lecturer, Carolyn O’Bagy Davis. Credited with virtu...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
This Week in Texas Music History: Yellow Rose of Texas
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the third week of April (4/21): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at how one of the states most famous songs is based on...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week In Texas Music History: Don Robey
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the fourth week of May (5/23): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a record label that was a real feather in the cap of...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Dean Beard
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of April (4/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a West Texas wild man who contributed to both 1950s ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:39
This Week in Texas Music History: Cedric Haywood
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the last week of December (12/31): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the state’s most versatile and prolific j...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: John Hardee
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the third week of December (12/20): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a talented musician who traded in the nightclub...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
The Mikie Show #39, Whit
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Episode thirty-nine! Just had to say it, hope you don’t mind. We speak with Whit Patten, a man who grew up on a farm in the country (he had to boar...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
Seattle's Ellis Island
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: Many Uch at the Airport Way Detention Facility., Credit: Eroyn Franklin
An imposing brick building on Airport Way at the edge of the International District housed detained immigrants from 1931 to 2004. It was once known...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show # 12, John Brady
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Show twelve features an interview with commercial airline pilot (now retired) John Brady. He started his career in an open cockpit biplane and reti...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1