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Avon Area Arts: Where Fine Art Meets the Front Porch
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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The volunteer driven arts group, Avon Area Arts, has been steadily growing since its inception only about three years ago and has brought vibrancy ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 27:14
Giving Women The Vote
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
Caption: Votes For Women!, Credit: Library of Congress
2010 was the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave American women the right to vote. Women got the vote, in part, because of a promise ...

Bought by WWNO, KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Hark!, WSGE and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2010
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 9
Practically Speaking: What's in a Name
From: Ayana Contreras
Series: Practically Speaking
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Are African-American parents that choose unique or African-sounding names putting their children at a disadvantage? Is society unduly prejudiced ag...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 10:22
  • Purchases: 1
The Boars Head Tavern - East Cheap
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The author goes in quest of the Boars Head Tavern that was often frequented by Falstaff and Prince Hal in Henry the IV Part 1.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2010
  • Length: 30:08
Sasha Abramsky: Inside Obama's Brain + Irreverent Holiday Music!
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Inside Obama's Brain by Sasha Abramsky, Credit: Sasha Abramsky
Award winning journalist Sasha Abramsky returns to Active Voice Radio to discuss his newest book Inside Obama's Brain. Also, irreverent holiday mus...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
A Shortcut To the North Pole
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Santa Claus Jr.
A Holiday Classic! Join Howdy, Mickey, John, Paul, George & Ringo on this "wild and crazy joyride" to Santa's workshop in the northern most reaches...

Bought by Prairie Public, KVSC, KRZA, KVSC, KMXT and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 16
Men Of Craft
From: NPR Intern Edition
Caption: Elijah Wyman, ellusive 'craftsman' and owner of 'Figs & Ginger', Credit: Illustration by Jess Gitner
The indie crafts scene may have metallic bunnies and hand-stenciled suitcases, but there's still something missing: men!

  • Added: Nov 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:50
When Santa's Elves Attack!
From: Jason Sear
Series: Christmas as a Career: Being Santa
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Sometimes Santa needs a little help from the elves.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Raymond Carver Reads What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: Tell Me A Story
Caption: Cover, Times Book Review 11/22/09, Credit: Ruth Gwili
The 2015 Best Picture has drawn from Raymond Carver's WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE, his most famous story; he reads it in his own voi...

Bought by WRGY, KRCB 104.9, KUER, PRX Remix, KUT and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 8
A Christmas Gift For You
From: Joyride Media
Series: Holiday Programming Extravaganzas
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The original rock and roll Christmas album returns.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KUHB, RadioStPete Florida, KUAT, KPSQ-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 84
Hep to the Holidays
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of "cool-Yule" classic jazz, featuring holiday jazz from Louis Armstrong, Bill Evans, Horace Silver and more, including poet S...

Bought by WUTC, WJAB, KCME, High Plains Public Radio, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 31
SNAKE l audio portfolio
From: multimedia web agency SNAKE
Series: SNAKE l audio portfolio
Caption: SNAKE l audio portfolio
www.snake.ee

  • Added: Nov 16, 2009
  • Length: 01:59:08
A Mexican Baroque Christmas with the Rose Ensemble
From: The Rose Ensemble
Caption: The Rose Ensemble
This holiday program features over two centuries of festive Christmas dances and songs from the great cathedrals of Puebla and Mexico City.

Bought by WCQS, WNIJ, WILL, KRPS, WSHU and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2009
  • Length: 58:39
  • Purchases: 78
Zombies Attack
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
KEBA 90.7 FM received breaking news from a reporter that the local children's hospital has had 15 children die? What is? How do we stop it? ATMI st...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 06:37
Lipstick from a bug
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: The Amazing World of African Insects
Caption: Cochineal Bug
You can't help but love insects when you listen to Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins. In this short piece he explains the natural history of the Coc...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:37
"Weird Al" Yankovic: Everything You Know Is Wrong
From: Joyride Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant (Reno 911) get serious with America to present the real truth about "Weird Al" Yankovic that the mainstream med...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KFOK-LPFM, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WNIN, WCPN and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
Tale Spinning Terrors!
From: Jerry Kenney
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Frighten up your holidays with 'edge of your seat' storytelling and holiday music in this 'Tale Spinning' hour of Terror from WYSO Public Radio and...

Bought by KBYS 88.3 FM and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 08, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Compact Discoveries 159: Musical Devils
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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A devilish collection of unusual, fun pieces for Halloween.

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM, WNMU-FM, KENW, KPVL, KENW and more


  • Added: Oct 02, 2009
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Poet Robert Pinsky takes on another poet, King David of the Bible - and of the Psalms - in his "Life of David."
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible - the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer - in his "Life of David."

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 1
That Job Sucked Anyway
From: Megan Hall
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Stories, anecdotes, and fantastical rants about the woes of working life

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 34:06
  • Purchases: 2
Troy Night Out
From: Joel Patterson
Caption: Troy Night Out
30 minute montage of a street festival in Troy, New York

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: 29:59
The Top 10 Texas Tunes of All Time
From: KUT
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We've identified more than 250 songs about Texas—from ‘Abilene’ to the ‘Yoakum Texas Blues’. The hard part? Picking the Top 10.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, NPR Illinois, and KVNF


  • Added: May 04, 2009
  • Length: 55:37
  • Purchases: 3
Basketball defined in "Bob-n-Robin"
From: Third Coast Live Radio Theater
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Radio ridiculous defines the game of basketball. Bob, an avuncular character, helps a "less than savvy" individual understand the basics of his n...

  • Added: May 02, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
Grateful Dead/The Dead parking lot (with producer voiceover)
From: Brad Horn
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A soundrich experience from the parking lot of The Dead's show in Albany, New York on April 17, 2009.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2009
  • Length: 03:25
Grateful Dead/The Dead parking lot (natural sound only)
From: Brad Horn
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A sound collage from the parking lot of The Dead's show in Albany, New York in April 17, 2009.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2009
  • Length: 03:28

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