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Episode 9: All That's Worth Doing with Brian Turner and Mariah Smith
From: Justin Hudnall
Series: Incoming
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Today’s episode takes its name after a quote by Lewis Carrol, “All That Is Really Worth Doing is Worth the Doing is What We do for Others,” and we ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
To Catch a Predator Fish
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: You don't belong here, Walleye
The story of two walleye that ended up where they're not supposed to be and the scientists who could possibly solve this unsolvable crime. They cal...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 1
462-Our View
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Who Owns Science? A Story About Bugs.
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Junebug holotypes from Mike Ivie's entomology lab at Montana State University. When Ivie retires, his personal collection will be donated to the Smithsonian.
Until recently, bug specimens collected on federal land had to be returned as government property, even if they're dead and pulverized. The rules a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
Bike on Bike. Body on Body. Mallet on Mallet.
From: University of Montana Journalism
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Two wheels, a ski pole with attached pipe and six steely grins. 3-2-1 Polo! Once in a lifetime happens three nights a week at the University of Mon...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 01:20
  • Purchases: 1
Inside "Occupy Wall Street" in NYC: Who Are The People Camped There. Where Are They Coming From?
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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This is a documentary snapshot of the hundreds of people camped out at NYC's Zuccotti Park that attempts to go beyond simple slogans to the varying...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2011
  • Length: 32:50
Barbès Podcast, Episode No. 3, Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra (NY's Best Lounge Music)
From: Adam Pogoff
Series: Barbès Podcast
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NYC’s best lounge band performing the New American Songbook

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
  • Length: 16:13
Barbès Podcast, Episode No. 2, Gaida
From: Adam Pogoff
Series: Barbès Podcast
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Syrian vocalist working at the intersection of Arab, Jazz and Improvised Music.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
  • Length: 17:54
Barbès Podcast, Episode No. 1, Alex Meixner (accordion)
From: Adam Pogoff
Series: Barbès Podcast
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Alex Meixner: Acclaimed accordionist playing jazz, Bulgarian dance music, Cleveland-style polkas and more.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
  • Length: 19:49
Reshaping the German University System
From: Alex Bakst
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After 30 years of free higher education in Germany, public universities are bankrupt. Conservatives want to introduce a US-style system of tuition ...

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jun 21, 2008
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 1
Seattle's Homeless Jungle
From: Adam Vaughn
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Many of Seattle's homeless choose to live in a notorious wooded area called the Jungle.

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Feb 16, 2008
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Salzedo's Sugar)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Carlos Salzedo was an innovative man of the harp. He performed, he taught, he built instruments and composed. As a composer, Yolanda Kondonassis ...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (Easy Does It)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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There is ample evidence that composer Aaron Copland wanted his music performed straight, as is, with little added emotion or nuance by the performe...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Jun 20, 2007
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (Brooklyn Cowboy)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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It's natural to wonder how a composer can write music that touches us in such powerful ways. With Aaron Copland, that question is more specific. ...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Jun 20, 2007
  • Length: :34
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Roy Goodman (Long Live Mozart)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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In our eternal quest to find a brilliant summary of Mozart's contribution to classical music and the world at large, here is Roy Goodman. The Brit...

Bought by WHRV, Eclectic 89.1 WBCX, WITF, and New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 28, 2006
  • Length: :34
  • Purchases: 4