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The Civic Standard
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: The Transom Radio Specials
Caption: Actors from Developed to Death, a mystery dinner theater show from the Civic Standard in Hardwick Vermont. The mission of the Civic is to give neighbors excuses to get together, even if someone had to die before the salad course. , Credit: photo by Terry J. Allen.
"The Civic Standard" chronicles the making of a unique theater production in Hardwick, Vermont. "Developed to Death" is a play about Hardwick and w...

Bought by KWGS, Prairie Public, KALW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 6: Finding Digital Comfort in a Time of War
From: Don Hill
Series: Research In Ukraine: Where has it gone?
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The trauma of war and intergenerational PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) is discussed. And how state of the art ‘telepresence’, a technology ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 24:40
Information Golem
From: Jerry Gaura
Series: #Dragonsbread
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Artist Joseph Matheny struggles to manage the chaos unleashed by the world’s first ARG “Ong’s Hat.”

  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:02:35
Ep 13 & 14: Gone With The Wind / Behind The Scenes Doc
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 13: Gone With The Wind It is three weeks since Ernie dropped Jerry off back at their home in Washington DC. Jerry has been in the care of...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 11 & 12: A Bed of Coals / The Simple Proposition
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 11: A Bed of Coals Ernie pays a visit to the home office for a meeting with his editor, Lee Miller. Miller, an old friend, knows about Je...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 9 & 10: A Desolate Corporation / The Zipper
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 9: A Desolate Corporation Ernie’s first writing job was as an aviation columnist in The Washington Daily News. Amelia Earhart once said, ...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 7 & 8: Not The Washington Post March / Have You Been Away?
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 7: Not The Washington Post March Finally back on the road, Ernie and Jerry stop into a favorite haunt for the night. However, it is in Oh...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 5 & 6: Perhaps You've Heard Of My Father / Thirty Years Too Soon
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 5: Perhaps You've Heard Of My Father Ernie discovers that his father drove his car through the front plate-glass window of the Dana dry-g...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 3 & 4: The Snake Story / My Mother
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 3: The Snake Story Ernie’s parents are enjoying Ernie and Jerry’s visit home, but his mother just can’t seem to accept what her son has b...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 1 & 2: The Bourgeois Standard / That Long Sad Wind
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 1: The Bourgeois Standard As pressure mounts from the home office, Ernie is forced to use a voice recorder for his work in interviewing t...

Bought by KAAD-LP and WCBE


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
When Doomsday Came Calling by Mistake
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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Our producer Flawn Williams once got caught up in a sticky situation that triggered fears of a nuclear attack while working at a Chicago TV station...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pandemic ER: Notes from a Nurse in Queens
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: The Transom Radio Specials
Caption: Artwork by Carla Kihlstedt, Credit: https://carlakihlstedt.com/
War correspondents are charged with reporting from the frontlines. Putting themselves in risky situations, documenting, and sharing what they see f...

Bought by WFAE, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KWMR, WCQS, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Our Show
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: The Transom Radio Specials
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When COVID-19 struck, Producer Erica Heilman was looking for a way to be useful. She wasn't needed to make school lunches or volunteer at the hosp...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WBEZ, KSFR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KLCC and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
The Whistle Behind The Wire
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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The perfectly nice lady behind one of TV's most menacing overdubs

Bought by PRX Remix and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 2
Daniel Johnston-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Yip Jump! Music, Credit: Daniel Johnston
Celebrating the great outside artist, songwriter and performer with his music and exclusive interviews.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2019
  • Length: 32:35
Nobody Swung Harder: The Jazz Violin of Stuff Smith
From: David Schulman
Caption: Stuff Smith and friends, Credit: family photo
Hezekiah Leroy Gordon “Stuff” Smith was the most important American jazz violinist of the 20th Century. He recorded with Ella Fitzgerald. Oscar Pet...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #38: Seeing in the Dark – Volkmar Wentzel’s Photography
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In this episode, producer Katie Davis profiles German-American photographer Volkmar Wentzel who was born in Dresden, Germany in 1915 before moving ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 12:31
  • Purchases: 1
Water is Life: Tradition and transition in the Navajo Nation
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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About 30% of residents of the Navajo Nation don't have access to running water, and even for those who do, much of the water is contaminated with u...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WDBM


  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 21:55
  • Purchases: 2
Derek Looks Twice, AKA Slim Mayne
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I think hip hop can speak to anybody who listens to it.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
Mister Rogers-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Fred Rogers
There has never been a better time to visit Mister Rogers Neighborhood and this mix reminds of his mission with clips from the new documentary "Won...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:55
  • Purchases: 1
Timothy Louie
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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My great grandfather started the business in 1917. He came from China. This was the built-in childcare/daycare for me. My parents would come to w...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
ADC Bio's Charlie Johnson: A new Paradigm in the Development and Manufacturing of Antibody-drug Conjugates
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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Recorded during CPhI World Wide, October 24 - 27, 2017 in Frankfurt Germany, Peter Hofland and Sonia Portillo interview Charlie Johnson, the CEO of...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 26:42
Targeted Anticancer Agents: Changing Treatments to Benefit Patients
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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Recorded during the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), being held June 2 - 6, 2017 in Chicago, Ill, the team ...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 27:47
Which Side Are You On?
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: An American Tradition
Mixing it up in Charlottesville with Donald Trump, Dick Gregory, LBJ, Bernie Sanders, the Alt-Right and Neo-Nazis featuring tributes to Jerry Lewis...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:56:49
Boy Scouts, Fishheads & The Living Dead
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: None of This Is Normal!
Life is But A Dream mix with current affairs blending music and politics with celebrations of the famous & infamous on "Nuit sur Les Champs-Elysees...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:49