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Part Three-New Protein Sources
From: Jan Thompson
Series: The Tragedy of Bataan
Caption: Wounded Eating at Jungle Hospital on Bataan, Credit: National Archives
Segment Three Background Info: This segment goes into detail about how the food situation became so bad in the Philippines that the troops had to b...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Revel At Printz Hall
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A fiddler taunts the Quaker owner of a haunted mansion of his fear to occupy the place. In front of a bunch of tavern regulars the owner offers the...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2011
  • Length: 06:32
11: Is That Real Enough For You?
From: Matt Hill
Series: Numbers
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Drama series following Sam, a 26-year-old trapped in a call centre. Literally. This is the beginning of season two; a good way in for newbies.

  • Added: May 24, 2011
  • Length: 08:47
"The Savage City; Race, Murder and A Generation On The Edge"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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Author T.J. English looks at NYC in the late 60's and 70's and the tense relationship created between the police and NYC's growing communities of c...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 52:09
Funny Thing, Being Mugged
From: Jake Warga
Caption: My glasses, Credit: Jake Warga
A personal story of being violently mugged

Bought by KUT, HCC Radio The Dragon, KCRW, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 19:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Human Terrain System
From: War News Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2010
  • Length: 08:35
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
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
Listening in the Dark
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: Listening in the Dark
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Ready for some good old-fashioned scares this Halloween? Then the Icebox Radio Theater is ready to deliver with a trio stories designed to chill y...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WRGY, KKWE Niijii Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 54:45
  • Purchases: 10
The Guardian of the Murder House
From: Michael Paul Mason
Caption: The Villisca Axe Murder House
A riveting and haunting journey into one of America's most sensational murder mysteries.

Bought by KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Marfa Public Radio, KPIK-LP, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2009
  • Length: 22:29
  • Purchases: 10
FRANKENSTEIN - Modern Prometheus
From: Craig Wichman
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If you've only seen the movies, you do NOT know this tale of love, death, and obsession...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUNM, KFAI Minneapolis, WRGY, KHNS and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2008
  • Length: 55:32
  • Purchases: 10
Physician Depression-Part 3
From: KUOW
Series: Troubled Doctors: Addiction and Depression in Medicine
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Examines depression in physicans

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: May 01, 2008
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 2
The Intervention-Part 2
From: KUOW
Series: Troubled Doctors: Addiction and Depression in Medicine
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Treating medical professionals

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 01, 2008
  • Length: 06:23
  • Purchases: 2
The Fundamentals of Impairment-Part 1
From: KUOW
Series: Troubled Doctors: Addiction and Depression in Medicine
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story of an addicted doctor

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 01, 2008
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 2
Edgar Allen Poe's: The Raven
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: Icebox Radio Theater: Short Subjects
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An original reading of the classic poem with new sound effects and music.

Bought by KUMM Radio and KDNK


  • Added: Mar 13, 2008
  • Length: 08:28
  • Purchases: 2
Beckett's EMBERS
From: Sean McCandless
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A modern interpretation of Beckett's original "soulscape" radio play

  • Added: Feb 12, 2008
  • Length: 29:01
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (A Ghost Story for Christmas)
From: Craig Wichman
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By mining the dark veins of this classic, its timeless heart is reclaimed.

Bought by KREV-LP, WUTC, KTXK, KVSC, KGOU and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2007
  • Length: 55:19
  • Purchases: 61
Offramp - Deplorable Manners
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Offramp - Broadcast Episodes
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Inventive improvisations – absurdist and thoughtful humor and music. Pleasantly surreal.

Bought by KWMR and The Prairie Star


  • Added: Feb 11, 2007
  • Length: 25:42
  • Purchases: 2
Beware of Shortcuts!
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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A Classic Halloween Special recorded and mixed on a two track machine and spliced together by hand--"from the bodies I took from graveyards..."

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2006
  • Length: 54:37
  • Purchases: 16
A Shortcut Back to 9/11
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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Sounds and Emotions of 9/11

Bought by 'The Sea', KMXT, KISU, WAMU, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2006
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 11
Dumpster Diving & Scrounging
From: Sean McMahon
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This six minute documentary audio collage examines the mental environment of dumpster divers and scroungers.

Bought by KRZA and PRX Administrator


  • Added: May 10, 2006
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
James J. Cathey Obituary
From: KRCC-FM
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Soldier obituary

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 07, 2005
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 1
Sandy's Story: County Fair
From: Megan Hall
Caption: PRX default Piece image
secrets behind the gerbil wheel

  • Added: Jun 29, 2005
  • Length: 01:34
Poetry on Death Row - voices from inside
From: Arndt Peltner
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The voices from Death Row Inmates

Bought by XRAY.fm, Marfa Public Radio, and KALW


  • Added: Jun 10, 2005
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 3
Coming Home
From: Robert Nowak
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is a satire on President Bush's specious claim to be compassionate.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2004
  • Length: 12:21