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From ‘Memento’ to ‘Oppenheimer,’ the movies, mysteries, and marvels of Christopher Nolan
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Colin McEnroe Show
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This hour — and in the wake of ‘Oppenheimer’s big Oscar weekend — a look at the filmmaker behind ‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘Inception,’ ‘Memento,’ and mor...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 50:01
Unusual Jewish Tunes
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Jewish music has developed new melodies, harmonies and styles over many centuries. Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for some of the most creativel...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
It Is Definitely Summer
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune into the next “Sounds Jewish” for summer songs and shtick from around the Jewish world.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #23: Airlines
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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A lot has changed since the first days of aviation, from beverage service to affordable plane tickets. Florenz Gilly and Leon Ginzel recap the hist...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Sparks Brothers
From: Joyride Media
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Russell and Ron Mael are Sparks. The two brothers have spent over 5 decades ahead of the pop music curve, influencing a lot of bands you know.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KOSU, KPSQ-LP, Spokane Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Bad Mistakes Make Good Stories
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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In this episode of the FEHLER podcast, Sylvia Cunningham, deputy editor at our partner radio station KCRW Berlin, compiles five stories that show j...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 50:35
The Big Pond #30: Milwaukee’s German Heritage
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Milwaukee has been called the most German city in America – already in the 1840s, large numbers of Germans who were fleeing wars in Europe began se...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 17:28
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #11: Germans on Harleys
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Every year, tourists from around the world flock to Southern Utah to take in the scenic landscape. Most travel by car, but some opt for a less trad...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 14:54
  • Purchases: 1
Donut Diablo
From: T. G. LaFredo
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This short comedy sketch is an advertisement for a fictitious culinary concoction.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:14
Byzantines, Saracens and Saladin
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Muslim pirates and encroaching immigrants inspire Greeks to wreak some havoc of their own... and then there was Saladin...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:26:40
A Very Special Festivus!
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program
Caption: Happy Festivus!
It's a Most Special Festivus with the Best Festivus Wine Gifts for that certain Semi-Special Someone in your life. We also speak with our favorite...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:00
#745- The Efficient Death Cactus
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Off the usual money stuff, but hilarious. The economics of a weird cactus described only as Host Marc can. A must hear classic but not much about m...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 03:30
God Outside The Grocery
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
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"What is your conception of God?" Everybody seems to have a unique answer to this question, as folk journalist Hank Rosenfeld found outside a groc...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
Capitol Steps: Politics Takes a Holiday New Year's Edition 2013
From: Capitol Steps
Caption: Capitol Steps, Credit: Capitol Steps
Help roast 2013 to a crisp with the Capitol Steps and their annual year-in-review awards ceremony!

Bought by KUOW, WHRV, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 24, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Well Yes We Have No Bananas Today!" -- Food Shopping in Old New York
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Paul J. Hintersteiner. , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:14
Politics 101 BC: Voter fraud in the ancient world
From: Oregon Public Broadcasting
Caption: Ellen Millender, Professor of Classics and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Credit: Michael Clapp, OPB
How do we know that there was voter fraud in ancient Athens? Pottery shards tell the tale.

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Granite City Radio Theatre, Episode 1 Part 2
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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KVSC presents the Granite City Radio Theatre in partnership with the Pioneer Place Theatre Company in St. Cloud. The Granite City Radio Theatre is ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 45:12
  • Purchases: 1
The Creature from the 7th Grade
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Bob Balaban
Charlie Drinkwater is in trouble. Not he’s done anything wrong. He’s just morphing into a mutant dinosaur.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2012
  • Length: 19:01
The Final Edition Radio Hour - Episode #12
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: The Final Edition Radio Hour: Full Episodes
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Episode #12 includes: Mitt Romney’s privacy/tax return policy & his economic advisors, Iran’s nuclear compromise, the NRA, David Koch, A New Bible,...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 25:53
"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
Blue Highways Day Trip #3 - Where Have All the Artists Gone?
From: Eric Mack
Series: Blue Highways
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In recent years, many artists have been heading for the hills, or the desert or the prairie. Thousands of artists of all ages have been leaving bi...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Offramp - A Simple Blue Blazer
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Offramp - Broadcast Episodes
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Inventive improvisations - absurdist and thoughtful humor and music.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2007
  • Length: 26:11
Offramp - In A Rare Mood
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Offramp - Broadcast Episodes
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Inventive improvisations - absurdist and thoughtful humor and music.

Bought by WEPS, KUNM, and The Prairie Star


  • Added: Feb 12, 2007
  • Length: 26:27
  • Purchases: 3
Offramp - My Colleagues the Clowns
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Offramp - Broadcast Episodes
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Inventive improvisations - absurdist and thoughtful humor and music.

Bought by WEPS, KUNM, and The Prairie Star


  • Added: Feb 12, 2007
  • Length: 26:34
  • Purchases: 3
Offramp - Synchronized Sinning
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Offramp - Broadcast Episodes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Inventive improvisations - absurdist and thoughtful humor and music.

Bought by WEPS, KUNM, and The Prairie Star


  • Added: Feb 12, 2007
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 3