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Caption: Tom is ready to greet customers with a joke and a smile at Tom's Popcorn Shop, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
There’s a little popcorn shop in the Nokomis neighborhood of south Minneapolis where you can get popcorn, banter, and half off double the normal pr...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 07:10
Caption: Reporter Matthew Schneeman poses in front of the runestone at the Kensington Runestone Museum, Credit: Mattew Scheeman
In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 25:48
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A collaborative "Short List" poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: :47
  • Purchases: 1
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Joe Reginella, a Staten Island based sculptor, sneaks a statue into the park every weekend to commemorate a disaster that has been scrubbed from th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Jan sees every film that comes to Columbia, MO's arthouse cinema. Sometimes she'll see a film five or even ten times. Andrew Leland investigates wh...

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
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Country classics and Opry favorites featuring Big Top's Blue Canvas Orchestra and special guests.

Bought by WTIP, KPIP-LP, KMSU, KALH, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 8
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Today's show refutes frequent stigmas of both home schooled students and garden gnomes.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 1
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM and GraceRadio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2014
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 2
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Deborah Sharp was a reporter for USA Today for nearly two decades. Given all the stories she wrote about killer sharks, rampaging alligators, and h...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 24:10
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"What is your conception of God?" Everybody seems to have a unique answer to this question, as folk journalist Hank Rosenfeld found outside a groc...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Hugh Oliver
If you have ever given up on a dream, or think you're too old to start something new, you might think again after hearing this episode of happy...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 08:23
  • Purchases: 1
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A true story told live in London. As a child, David visits the home of British millionaire Richard Branson. Which happens to be on an island. Despi...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 10:39
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Two rich farmers in Ireland envy the tiny slip of land owned by Donald O'Neary who has but one cow to his name. But Donald is a clever lad who is e...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 13:28
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The king's story teller gets up one morning and fails to have a story pop into his head to work on for that evening.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 18:49
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A young man has eyes which engage those of others. He is a natural hypnotist and a natural sociopath.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2012
  • Length: 10:19
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Storytellers explore the crazy holiday traditions our families desperately cling to at this time of year.

Bought by Nevada Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 01:46:34
  • Purchases: 1
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Short program with songs about work.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:33
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A series of strange people tell where they hide a familiar object.

  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:40
Caption: Glen ugly Naughty plays Harmonica, Credit: Gay Murdoch
Make your listeners smile with something new. A funny one. Labor Day Blues is an original spoken word poem written & performed by Glen ugly Naughty...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2010
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gigi at the Canal Cafe Theatre, London
A true love story for those who have loved, lost and then gone on a cruise to forget... if only she hadn't picked the same cruise as her ex.

Bought by PRX Remix and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 11:15
  • Purchases: 2
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This week the Global Guru risks life and limb to learn how to track Tasmanian devils in the wild.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 3
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Fritz Grobe and Stephen Volt perform together as Eepybird. You more likely know them as the Coke and Mentos Guys. You know, the ones on YouTube wh...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:45
Caption: J.S. Bach
For any format: Use this 59 second drop-in for Bach's birthday (March 21) or any day as a drop-in, promo or billboard. Cellist Matt Haimovitz and t...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2009
  • Length: :59
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Some flunky at a bank in France lost billions. How?

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
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Proposal by PETA to replace cows' milk with mothers' milk makes Ian squirmy.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:07