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Pledge Party Hits!
From: Joseph Vincenza
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A silly spot to use during your on air membership drives

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:18
A Jew At Christmastime
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
The Christmas season prompts ambivalence in many Jews. We dig that holiday spirit, but since Yuletide isn’t our deal, we can feel left out. Tune in...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
People of the Costume
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Halloween technically is not part of the Jewish calendar. But many People of the Book become People of the Costume on Oct. 31st. Plus -- Jewish fol...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Man with the Red Umbrella
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Giacomo Beltrami
Two-hundred years ago, an Italian aristocrat traveled to the Northwoods of present-day Minnesota in an attempt to make a name for himself. He wante...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 06:58
Episode #31 A Billie Holiday Holiday
From: Rebecca Glotfelty
Series: The Red Jacket Jamboree, an old time radio variety show
Caption: Jennifer Barnett, Credit: Second Sandbar Productions
Join host Lena Dorey, the cast of The Red Jacket Jamboree and guests for a Christmas episode which pays tribute to jazz singer Billie Holiday. In ...

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


  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Halloweenish
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for a global Jewish, Halloweenish playlist that just may scare the skullcap off of you.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #30 - "The Phantom of the Mine"
From: Rebecca Glotfelty
Series: The Red Jacket Jamboree, an old time radio variety show
Caption: John Latini on The Red Jacket Jamboree, Credit: Chelsea Batten
Celebrate Halloween with the cast of The Red Jacket Jamboree and guests: Dave Lorenz of Pure Michigan and singer-songwriter John Latini. Discover...

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


  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Sow A Heart Farm: Regeneration and Rethinking Food Systems - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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By increasing biodiversity through using cover crops, integrating wild and domesticated animals, and minimizing or eliminating tillage, Regenerativ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Head Water Blues Opry
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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What is The Blues? Arts and Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack looks for the answer as he explores the Head Water Blues Opry, performed at th...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:25
Drinkin' Whiteclaw sux, Ivana Trump Funeral, Kid turns in dad for Jan 6th riot! But wait, there's more!
From: Chauncey Haworth
Series: Radio Wasteland
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Well the world's a mess, but isn't that really what the show is all about. A kid turns in dad for Jan 6th, I've been drinkin' Whiteclaw, Ivana Trum...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 29:02
The Big Ponder #41: Traffic
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Most city dwellers view traffic as an unavoidable downside of urban life. But according to Susanne Papawassiliu, freeway standstills have their ben...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #40: The Farm
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Ira Karp lives on a farm in northern Vermont, surrounded by music, puppets, and a family of incredible storytellers. Over his brief lifetime, he ha...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
220507 The First Time Listener to This Show
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Eddie Dugosh
Tonight we talk to the first time listener to explore their feelings on hearing music they've never heard by musicians they've never heard of yet t...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public, and WQCS


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:56
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps Griot: Ghuan Featherstone and Jordan Humphreys
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Ghuan Featherstone and Jordan Humphreys at their StoryCorps interview in Los Angeles, California on December 15th, 2021., Credit: Maja Sazdic for StoryCorps
Ghuan Featherstone came to StoryCorps with his mentee Jordan Humphreys to talk about their shared love of horses and horseback riding.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #28: The Mom-and-Pop Store
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the heart of Berlin, there is a small corner store, lovingly dubbed the “living room of the neighborhood.” Sadly, the shop’s owners are facing e...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 1
Granite City Radio Theater Season 10 Episode 2 with Special Musical Guests George Maurer and Judi Vinar
From: KVSC
Series: Granite City Radio Theater
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On Wednesday, December 15th, 2021, the weather outside the Pioneer Place on Fifth Theater was frightful, but the jolly inside was delightful as the...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:48
Tijuana Jukebox
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from Tijuana, Mexico.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #12: Hunting
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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There exists a strong tradition of hunting in both Germany and the U.S. However, the cultures surrounding this pastime differ more than you might t...

Bought by KMXT and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 2
01-32 Rear and Obscure 45's
From: KSJE
Series: Turntable Taxi
Caption: Turntable Taxi Host Carl Freuden
Host Carl Freuden shears his rear obscure 45 records

  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 55:21
GN_3.52_Kodiak Queen
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A sunken World War 2 ship has become an interactive art piece, safe habitat for endangered marine life, and an educational tool for future stewards...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_5.20_OceanFriendship
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
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If Beluga whales treat a Narwhal like he’s been one of their own, who’s to say he isn’t?

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Full Moon Hacksaw #1769 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12-24-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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We’ve got ourselves a show to take out 2020, and will it look good in the rear-view mirror. With spins & needles let’s roll thru a few decades from...

Bought by KRZA, WOUB, KJZX-Austin, WVBI-LP, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 8
Sorry, Wrong Number!
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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Who hasn’t inadvertently pocket dialed someone? Smartphones are ubiquitous, and so are the phone foibles of the digital age. Jocelyn Robinson tells...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 17:42
  • Purchases: 1
It Came from R&D!
From: San Francisco Mime Troupe
Series: Tales of the Resistance
Caption: Cover art, Credit: Lawton Lovely
Greg seemed to everyone like a mild mannered software developer. No one could predict that his invention could either save democracy, or lock the c...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:03
Make Everything Correct
From: Israel Story
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Open-sea yacht rendezvous, off-book private jet landings and direct lines of communication to the highest echelons of power are usually the stuff o...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 12:24

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