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Jewish Tango!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Don’t you love an intimate tango? Jewish singers, instrumentalists and songwriters have brought us tangos in Yiddish and Hebrew for more than a cen...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
EPS.#32 Christmas in the Keweenaw
From: Rebecca Glotfelty
Series: The Red Jacket Jamboree, an old time radio variety show
Caption: Jennifer Barnett, Credit: Second Sandbar Productions
The cast of the Red Jacket Jamboree and guests invite you to spend, "Christmas in the Keweenaw"! This episode features jazz vocalist Jennifer Barn...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, WNMU-FM, Southern Branch Bluegrass, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Montevideo, Uruguay
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from Montevideo, Uruguay

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Apple Seed - Labor Day 2021 Special
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode of the Apple Seed we explore tales of different types of labor.

Bought by WVPE, RadioStPete Florida, WJCT, Morehead State Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 8
Ep. 35: The Toonsmith: Dave Mruz, Minnesota’s Cartooning Historian
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: FUN collage, Credit: Dave Mruz
When Dave Mruz was three, his parents bought him a subscription to Donald Duck comics. Years later, he learned those same comics had been created b...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 18:58
S11 E10: Halloween with the Scene
From: WBST
Series: The Scene from Indiana Public Radio
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Journey through a haunted house while listening to local music with our producers.

  • Added: May 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
The Big Ponder #10: The Diner
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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What happens when you uproot an American institution like the diner and place it somewhere entirely new — like Germany? Florenz Gilly and Leon Ginz...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 30:32
  • Purchases: 1
Halloween Episode: Scary Sam
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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A special Halloween episode begins as if it’s going to be an hour of terror, until –PSYCH! It becomes, instead, an hour of exciting and funny stories.

Bought by KVCR, KSJE, and WVPE


  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 3
Re:sound - The Big Show Show
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2020 Re:sound Specials from Third Coast
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This hour: the Rockettes, the opera, congress, and other spectacles.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KOSU, KCPW Salt Lake City, Troy Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Ep. 18: Our Most Memorable Snowfall
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
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In Minnesota, freezing winters and big snowfalls come with the territory. But three feet of snow on Halloween? That was a day to remember. In this ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 33:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #22: The Story of the Brezn
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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The pretzel, known as a “Brezel” or “Brezn” in German, is not an ordinary pastry. It has a century-old history full of myths and stories. Where did...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 33:17
  • Purchases: 2
Over The Back Fence October 2018
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed, KQAL and Winona State University are proud to present, Over the Back Fence, a community variety show from the St....

  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:16
"Deborah"
From: Alexander Charles Adams
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A euology for the great St. Ann pothole, Deborah. [A Satire Piece on the State of Roads in New Orleans, LA]

  • Added: Sep 10, 2018
  • Length: 05:06
180825 Worthless Super Powers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Super powers that cause others to shrug and think, "who cares." The super power to move clouds with your eyes, to turn oxygen into carbon dioxide...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:32:49
Chicharonis
From: T. G. LaFredo
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is a satirical commercial for Chicharonis, a type of junk food we hope never exists.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
Episode 17: Stephin Merritt
From: WQXR
Series: The Naked American Songbook
Caption: Stephin Merritt, Credit: Marcelo Krasilcic
The Naked American Songbook went LIVE with singer-songwriter-producer-genius Stephin Merritt, the force behind at least one indie-cult classic grou...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 01, 2017
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 1
#775-Earth movers, crooks, dawdlers, spinners and more
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Ok so Host Marc Cuniberti is on a run of off the wall news pieces. Another "not so normal" news piece. Once again its not about the stock markets b...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
#774- One hell of a newscast- Money Matters- Humor piece
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Preview- not money news, off the topic, just a fun newspiece about news reporters by Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti. Funny piece but preview fir...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2017
  • Length: 04:18
161210 Mexican Rocanarol And A Radio Musical
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Tonight's show, Mexican rocanrol from the 1950s and 60s plus a radio musical. You know, in a theatrical musical, a song springs up interrupting ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:52:43
  • Purchases: 1
161210 The Only Radio Musical
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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In a theatrical musical, a song springs up interrupting the narrative. In a radio musical, a narrative springs up interrupting the music. Okay, s...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 43:56
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 13: Neil Degrasse Tyson
From: WQXR
Series: The Naked American Songbook
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Join Neil deGrasse Tyson as he goes where no scientist has boldly gone before - on an intergalactic exploration of the Great American Songbook!

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:29
  • Purchases: 3
Sweeney Todd
From: WQXR
Series: For the Record
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In this episode For the Record Tom and Julian go behind the scenes of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:00
Is Time Travel Possible?
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Well is it? This is the very subject Rob MacClanahan explores on his pilot broadcast of THE TIME TRAVELER on 95.1FM KFOK Georgetown...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:18
Butterbird Christmas
From: Meg DeMakas
Caption: Butterbird Christmas Radio Play Presentation in Gary, IN 12-4-14, Credit: Family Folklore Foundation, Inc.
This radio play is a family romp at Christmas during the 50's in the Midwest.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 40:45
Episode 1: Up A River, Without… A Pigeon?
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Charlie Thomas worked as a whitewater rafting guide in the 80’s. His boss became obsessed with selling photos of clients taken while they ran the r...

Bought by KUER, KRZA, and KSFR


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 3