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Live from the Tenderloin
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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In the heart of the Tenderloin, amid the crowded corners and occupied stoops, there’s an anomaly that’ll catch your eye. It’s a man in a suit and a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Pastor David Ned
From: StoryCorps
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In the 1970s, Pastor David Ned learned an important lesson about himself after what could have been a tragic situation.

  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
Playing for two
From: Amy Wimmer Schwarb
Series: NCAA Champion: The Magazine of College Sports
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Florida Gulf Coast University's Kaneisha Atwater got pregnant at 18, but her dreams didn't die when her son was born. What she thought was her mist...

Bought by iPondr, KRZA, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 4
Kathleen’s Encore: Former Opera Singer Says 'Having It All Is Highly Overrated'
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: Kathleen Gillette and her family in the mid-1990s., Credit: Credit Courtesy of Kathleen Gillette
Kathleen Gillette has had a passion for singing for as long as she can remember. But after spending 15 years as an opera singer, her career began t...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:15
Riddles from the Border Regions 2/22/14
From: Joan VanBuskirk
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A STEM OF HERB ....

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
Birthdays
From: Margaret Krauss
Series: What What Why: Stories of Life and Living
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Everyone has a birthday, but the day's meaning changes over time. In this episode, we look at life from 21st and 94th birthdays.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 10:53
KILL YOUR DARLINGS -- John Krokidas Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: John Krokidas, San Francisco, CA 10/7/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
John Krokidas talks taking small liberties, exploding into the new, and the tender side of David Cross.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 16:44
Riddles from the Border Regions 9/7/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THROUGH PHASES IT PASSES ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 5/25/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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A FEARSOME FOE, THIS PHANTOM...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat : LouAnn Shepard Muhm - "Shoveling Out"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:38
Riddles from the Border Regions, 08/11/12
From: Joan VanBuskirk
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MY SHINGLE IS A CANDY STICK...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Great Limerick Run Fundraisers
From: Alison Turner
Caption: Runners line up at the start of the Great Limerick Run 2012
In May 2012, over 8000 people took part in the Great Limerick Run in south west Ireland. Alison Turner ran the 6 mile race to raise funds for char...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 13:31
Sounds Familiar #3: The Loudness War
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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Why is music getting louder? And why is it bad? Is it bad?

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 13:06
Clever Apes: Nature and human nature
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Megan Bang helped incorporate systems-level thinking into the design of an early education classroom., Credit: (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer)
We go back to one of the first lessons kids learn about science, and what it says about how human minds develop. As children discover the natural w...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, PRX Remix, KUT, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 5
Civil Rights Activist Edward Harden Peeples, V: Born To Be A Racist
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 55:38
Soundwaves
From: Shannon Geis
Caption: The mural under the BQE
An artist decided to spruce up the space underneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway by painting a mural depicting Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in a ...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:01
Roland Scott: The Art of Transformation
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Rolanda Scott can take a chunk of solid glass, drop it in a flower pot then super heat it in her kiln, turning it into liquid, which she then pours...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2011
  • Length: 53:46
Lindsay Ess : Becoming Whole
From: Charles McGuigan
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Lindsay Ess was at the top of her form, doing what she knew how to do best. Fashion was her passion. She breathed it; she lived it. Modeling. Phot...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 50:17
The Mourners: Art to die for
From: KALW
Caption: “The Mourners: Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy” are on display at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco
For everyone alive, there is one great equalizer, one experience that doesn’t discriminate based on race, class, religion, or nationality. We all, ...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:17
Page Wilson: Into The Blue, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
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Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...

  • Added: May 20, 2011
  • Length: 29:33
A real life film noir: Dashiell Hammett and the case of the missing manuscript
From: KALW
Caption: hough he died in 1961, author Dashiell Hammett's manuscripts are still being discovered.
What do the city of San Francisco, a long lost manuscript, and a Mediterranean bird of prey have in common? Well, they’re all part of the legend of...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 2
Summer Insects
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
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Soothing sounds from the short lived singers of summer - cicadas, crickets, and grasshoppers.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Jul 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Ice Drip
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
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the sound of ice dripping

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
The First Memorial Day
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Tiffany stained glass window inside Blanford Church.
Memorial Day, a national holiday of remembrance, was first celebrated south of the Mason/Dixon line in Petersburg, Virginia at Blandford Church Cem...

Bought by KQAL, RadioFreePalmer, KUCB, RadioFreePalmer, KSRQ and more


  • Added: May 28, 2010
  • Length: 16:12
  • Purchases: 22
Winter: Where the Wild Rivers Run ~ Cheryl-Anne Millsap
From: Spokane Public Radio
Caption: Clark Fork River, Missoula MT, Credit: Cheryl-Anne Millsap
We crossed the Clark Fork River on our way out of Missoula, Montana. The sun was just coming up and the sky along the horizon was fading, changing ...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 07, 2010
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1