Blank on Blank

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Blank on Blank is building and broadcasting an archive of journalists' lost interviews.

Interviews gathering dust on tapes and hard drives are transformed for new audiences online, on mobile devices, and on the radio.

Listen to unexpected stories from famous names and universal tales from everyday Americans. They're all sprinkled with music and storytelling.

Why should journalists record interviews only to help write a story? They should also be heard.


86 Pieces

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Alvin Toffler and Margaret Mead: Future Shock, Innocence and Innovation
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Alvin Toffler and Margaret Mead: an author and an anthropologist who endeavored to understand the impact of scientific invention. In this episode o...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KSFR, KVSC, and KSFR


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 16:07
  • Purchases: 4
Oliver Sacks, Jacques Cousteau, and George Washington Carver
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Peanuts, Atlantis, and Colorblindness. It's our latest episode in The Experimenters miniseries featuring icons of science and innovation. Oliver Sa...

Bought by KVSC, KFCF FM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 20:44
  • Purchases: 4
Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials
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"That’s inevitable that humans would project their hopes and fears upon the cosmos" - Carl Sagan on October 4, 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. The p...

Bought by KZYX, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 12:53
  • Purchases: 6
Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code
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"I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be your last" - Dame Stephanie Shirley in 2010 from an oral history at ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 16:33
  • Purchases: 1
Temple Grandin on the Autistic Brain
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" If you got rid of all of the genes that cause autism, you’d be rid of Carl Sagan, you’d be rid of Mozart. Einstein, today, would be labeled autis...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 11:46
  • Purchases: 4
Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance
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“Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows” - Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, as told to Mike Wallace

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 11:10
  • Purchases: 4
Sally Ride on Dumb Questions, The Experimenters
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“I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a lot easier.” - Sally Ride in 1983. Interviewed by Gloria Steinem.

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 12
Garrison Keillor on Humor
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“My family was shocked when I came home with a volume of Hemingway … There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction.” - Garrison Keil...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 4
Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt
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“I‘m a coward, I didn’t want to die” - Patty Hearst in 1982, as told to Larry Grobel. Larry Grobel told us the story about a time back in the earl...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 11:27
  • Purchases: 1
Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws and Hell's Angels
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"I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” - Hunter S. Thompson, as told to Studs Terkel in 1967.

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 17:15
  • Purchases: 1
Dustin Hoffman on Duplicity and Famosity
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"I carried a knife taped to my leg. I never used it but it was there." - Dustin Hoffman, 1971, from the Pacifica Radio Archives. Listening to this ...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 1
Joni Mitchell on Illusions
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"I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don’t know why I seem to bring that out in people." - Joni Mitchell as told to Joe Smith ...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 3
John Coltrane on Giant Steps
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"I want to be the force which is truly for good." - John Coltrane in one of his final interviews. In the fall of 1966, John Coltrane was living on ...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 6
Ray Bradbury on Madmen
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A few years ago Lisa Potts was looking behind her dresser when she saw a cassette tape. She’d forgotten about the tape--a recording of an interview...

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  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 05:55
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Dolly Parton on Getting Dirty
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"Mama just always said, ‘you be what you are and you don’t have to worry about nothing.’" - Dolly Parton in a previously unheard interview from 1978.

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  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 6
Richard Feynman on What It Means
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"The key was somehow to know what was important and what was not important, what was exciting, because I can’t learn everything" - Richard Feynman ...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 3
Jane Goodall on Instinct
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"Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan" - Jane Goodall, as told to ...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:42
  • Purchases: 7
Buckminster Fuller on The Geodesic Life
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"I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper" - Buckminster Fuller as told to Studs Terkel during int...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 2
Lou Reed on Guns & Ammo
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"I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage." - Lou Reed, as told to Joe Smith in 1987.

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 1
Elliott Smith on Freaks
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"A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not." - Elliott Smith, as told to Barney Hoskyns in 19...

Bought by WCNY, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 3

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