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Caption: Pando, Credit: Sheri Quinn
The Pando Aspen is a clonal colony of a single male Quaking Aspen (populus tremuloides) also known as the trembling giant because of its elliptical...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2011
  • Length: 27:33
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Ten 75-second modules to celebrate Roy Orbison's would-be 75th birthday in 2011 (birthday is 4/23/1936).

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 12:30
  • Purchases: 1
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A former newspaperman, Wallace Stroby lives in New Jersey.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 26:32
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Episode two provides a frank appraisal of Maybe Mars, Beijing's most globally famous record label.

Bought by WLRH and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 23, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
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Episode one explores the old sounds that have influenced the new sounds of Chinese alternative music.

Bought by WLRH, KUT, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Joan Schenkar is an author and playwright who divides her time between Paris and Greenwich Village.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:56
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For your Fundraising campaign, Harpist Yolanda Kondonassis shares her excitement for the variety of flavors and textures in classical music, in add...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WKCP, WMNR, KUHF and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 23
Caption: Miles Davis
Where Ancient Greece appears in modern culture.

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and Listenwise


  • Added: Dec 14, 2010
  • Length: 15:23
  • Purchases: 3
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Scott Montgomery is a fiction writer and crime novel taste-maker, and bookseller in Austin, Texas.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 28:46
Caption: Kennedy challenging university students to serve the Third World., Credit: University of Michigan
This compelling documentary explains how a John F. Kennedy challenge to college students ultimately became the Peace Corps. It explores Kennedy's...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Interlochen Public Radio, Michigan Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WYSO and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 53:25
  • Purchases: 14
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Today we’ll be also talking about the impact the new fee ban for debt settlement services is going to have. We’ll also talk about changes that are ...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 06, 2010
  • Length: 30:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Peter Gishuru, CEO of the African Chamber of Commerce in Seattle, WA, speaks about his organization's role in promoting trade with Africa and his o...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2010
  • Length: 15:03
Caption: Kristjan Järvi, Credit: Peter Rigaud
There are several ways to get to know a composer – the most effective way is to listen, and listen a lot, to the music. But when the composer is s...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: :29
Caption: Zuill Bailey, Credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
You’ve probably seen several, if not dozens of paintings by the Dutch painter, Vincent Gogh. But have you ever looked at a Van Gogh close up – rea...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: :26
Caption: Zuill Bailey, Credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
Cellists thank their lucky stars for the wide range of music written for their instrument. The cello is often the composer’s voice for a variety o...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: :24
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This includes John Latimer's Phenology Report and Talk Backs. Plus A Talk on the Wild Side with Harry Hutchinson, Eli Sagor on non-timber products ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2010
  • Length: 59:36
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In this first program of the new series Bob & Pat take calls from New York, Chicago & Des Moines.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
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Huffington Post blogger and former Time Magazine health journalist Janice Horowitz, provides the cure for contradictory medical news.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Caption: Jean-Yves Thibaudet
There’s an undeniably American element running through much of George Gershwin’s music. There’s also something almost street-smart about his music...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: :22
Caption: Bryn Terfel, Credit: Catherine Ashmore
Bass-Baritone Bryn Terfel has been a very bad boy. Actually “Bad Boys” is the title of his CD, where he performs arias by opera’s most despicable v...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: :25
Caption: Anna Netrebko, Credit: Annie Leibovitz
The world’s best musicians are also lifelong students. They’re always looking for new insights into the music they perform. Russian soprano Anna ...

  • Added: May 30, 2010
  • Length: :20
Caption: Piotr Anderszewski
Pianist Piotr Anderszewski is a champion for the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski. He says it’s not music that reveals itself on first hearing. ...

  • Added: May 30, 2010
  • Length: :22
Caption: Janine Jansen
Composer Benjamin Britten is known for his operas and symphonic works like the “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.” You may not know he also w...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: :23
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As of noon tomorrow

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:22
Caption: Menahem Pressler
Playing chamber music is like any relationship. You give, you take, you listen and you compromise. As one of the preeminent chamber musicians of ...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: :25
  • Purchases: 1