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The Great Migration that Changed America - Isabel Wilkerson
From: Open Source
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Isabel Wilkerson is the epic tale teller of the Great Migration of Southern black people that remade America — sound, substance and spirit — in the...

Bought by KWMR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., 90.5 WSNC, WSKG, WRPI and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 6
Problem Solving, Then Poetry - Kwame Anthony Appiah & C.K. Williams
From: Open Source
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We're talking with Kwame Anthony Appiah and C.K. Williams this week. The philosopher and storyteller Kwame Anthony Appiah at Princeton is on the tr...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Producer Profile: Michelle Danforth
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Michelle Danforth
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Michelle Danforth of the Lacrosse documentary Sacred Stick.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 14:58
A Few Reams of Freedom - Noam Chomsky & C.D. Wright
From: Open Source
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We're talking politics and poetry with Noam Chomsky and C.D. Wright. Noam Chomsky is on an upbeat about American views on war and imperialism, and ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Kabul to Paris with John Mearsheimer and Graham Robb
From: Open Source
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This week the conversation moves from Kabul to Paris, as we talk with John Mearsheimer, the foreign policy "realist" from the University of Chicago...

Bought by WMNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 07, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Piece of My Heart: The Story of Janis Joplin
From: KUT
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Winner of the Grand Trophy 2011, International Radio Festivals! An intimate reconsideration of Janis' journey from a tiny Texas refinery town to t...

Bought by KCNP, Prairie Public, WRGY, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCPN and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2010
  • Length: 57:31
  • Purchases: 20
The Berlin Airlift and Candy Bombers
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Caption: The American pilot Gail Halvorsen
Berlin the capital of Germany, was in a difficult situation after world war 2: The city was split into sectors by the allied forces. Military jets ...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Aug 22, 2010
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 1
Who are the largest ethnic group in America?
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Caption: Drawings from the kids of the Liebfrauen school
40 million Americans have German ancestry, but none speak German-how come? Why did the Germans emigrate at all? And the amazing story of the treaty...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 37:35
PUNK ROCK:THE RAMONES!!
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
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The Ramones!! WORN OuT SNeaKRS, BASiN HaircUTS, LevI'S, LeaTHer MOToR BiKE JACKets, 2 Minute Punk Songs, Definately NO Solo's. Just a taste of th...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
Smithsonian Folkways
From: Arndt Peltner
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An amazing treasure chest of music, sounds and spoken word of the 20th century from around the world

  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:53
Seattle's Ellis Island
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: Many Uch at the Airport Way Detention Facility., Credit: Eroyn Franklin
An imposing brick building on Airport Way at the edge of the International District housed detained immigrants from 1931 to 2004. It was once known...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 1
John Brown, Terrorist or Hero? Let the Kids decide
From: David Weinberg
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Is John Brown the father of American Terrorism or a hero who fought for equality? Illustrator John Hendrix tackles the controversial American legen...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Newmarket: Birthplace of American horseracing faces threat to 350-year tradition
From: Liz Ruskin
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Stand on a street corner at dawn in Newmarket, England and you'll see a spectacle unique in the world: 3,000 racehorses parade through town every d...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:38
Basque Radio
From: Addie Goss
Caption: Jean Cinquambre feeding his cows, Credit: Addie Goss
Through much of the last century, French and Spanish Basques herded sheep, alone, in northern Wyoming's mountains. For company, they listened to a...

Bought by WMMT and KVNF


  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2
Solomon's Wisdom
From: Tim Bugansky
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When he was a teenaged boy scout, Bill Johnson met a girl from Alaska on a westbound train. He only saw her once more. But nearly two decades later...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:20
Texas Dance Hall Memories
From: David Martin Davies
Caption: Fiddler on stage at Club 21, Credit: david martin davies
Can the historic dance halls of Texas be saved? These are the stages where the great Texas singers and musicians developed and Texas culture took r...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 31, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Why Thanksgiving?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Why is it that Thanksgiving is celebrated almost exclusively in the United States and Canada. How has it been celebrated and how is it celebrated now?

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KRZA, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2009
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 6
A Different Engine by Charles Moster
From: Camino Real Productions, LLC
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A radio play with music about the life of Charles Babbage.

Bought by KUNM, KUNM, KUNM, and KUT


  • Added: Nov 14, 2009
  • Length: 44:11
  • Purchases: 4
Expert Remembers Berlin Wall, 20 Years Later
From: Grace Hood
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Monday, November 9 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. KUNC’s Grace Hood sat down with University of Northern Colorado polit...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
Darwin to DNA -- Groks Science Show 2009-10-14
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
James Schwartz discussed the history of the gene from Darwin to DNA.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 14, 2009
  • Length: 27:49
  • Purchases: 2
Berlin Chicago Kids Talk
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Caption: Richton Park school kids in Chicago interviewing Berlin Kids live
This segment clearly illustrates the virtually endless possibilities inherent in new forms of media and its impact on primary school children worl...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 29, 2009
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Generations: Cherokee language through art
From: Jordan Nelson
Caption: A piece of artwork depicting the Cherokee character "ma.", Credit: Cherokee Heritage Center
The Cherokee Heritage Center is using art to help pass on the Cherokee language.

Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2009
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 3
Liberty Park
From: Alex Bailey
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sometimes all it takes is a park to bring all walks of life together.

  • Added: May 30, 2009
  • Length: 29:57
THE STORY OF TIBET/Conversations with the Dalai Lama
From: The Tibet Connection
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The Tibet Connection producer Julie Adler interview journalist Thomas Laird on his book, The Story of Tibet, based on conversations he had with the...

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 18:49
  • Purchases: 1

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