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The Untold Story of the 2021 48th Annual Lemonade Art Fair on the St. Cloud State University Campus
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack strolls through the 48th annual Lemonade Art Fair on t...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 25:20
Returning Home: From War Fighter to Student Veteran
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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What is it like to be a student who has fought in a war? Producers at The Stanford Storytelling Project’s podcast, State of the Human asked six Sta...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: May 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The place, the music, the memories
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
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For one Indian classical singer, a crowded little apartment in Queens--or even just the sound of a shruthi box (an Indian-style musical drone)--bri...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Ivan & Alyosha - Fathers Be Kind
From: Andy Cahn
Series: New Music from Public Media Service
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New EP by Seattle-based indie folk-pop band in stores on Feb 1. 5 great tracks for any AAA/Folk/Eclectic music shows or news/talk interstitials. "...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 21:25
  • Purchases: 1
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
Divine in Jazzer Newsom
From: Third Coast Live Radio Theater
Series: Divine Expression Through Jazzers
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The agony and angst of a self examined life of a politician, lawyer and jazzer.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2008
  • Length: 09:37
The Sopranos and Hamlet
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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"And the rest is silence" is the famous, much-praised last line of Hamlet - it applies to the cut to sudden-black at the end of The Sopranos, doesn...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:55
The Sopranos, or the Tiger?
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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first of series of special analysis of The Sopranos' ending ... here, I compare it to the famous ending of Stockton's The Lady or The Tiger...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:41
Rap Over College?
From: Curie Youth Radio
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Keith has the smarts to go to a good college, but he wants to make it as a rapper.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, PRX Remix, YouthCast, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 02, 2007
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 4
Feed the Tigers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Tigers are victims of vanishing wilderness.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Southwest Side Stories: The Jumps
From: carly zwiazek
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On the Southwest Side, serenity is motorcycle racing at The Jumps.

Bought by PRX


  • Added: Feb 04, 2006
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
Ethical Awareness (es#143)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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What can be said of a person who willingly tries to exceed ethical standards?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 14, 2005
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 2
Nationalism and Patriotism (#129)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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How is our nation motivated or hindered in its actions when motivated by one versus the other?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KWCW


  • Added: Sep 14, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Consent and Coercion (#125)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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If we respect the autonomy of others then coercion must be replaced with consent.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Religion and Ethics (#124)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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How does ethical thought incorporate religious beliefs?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
1989 Joanne Kyger - Springtime Adonis Poem
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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One of the few Beat-era women writers reads her work

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 4
1975 Philip Whalen - Statement on Poetry
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Whalen reads poem on consciousness and poetry

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:26
  • Purchases: 2
That's My Song: Under Pressure
From: outLoud Radio at Youth Radio
Series: That's My Song
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One boy's bittersweet association with a David Bowie song.

Bought by KALW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KUOW, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2004
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 8
Sleeves to Turkey
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
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A man describes to his lover the experience of consoling a friend who had just learned of the death of her father. A module from "Family Snapshots...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
German Measles
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
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A mother reveals to her daughter that, faced with a likelihood of birth defects, she decided against abortion, and was lucky. "What would you have...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:38
First Time
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An elderly woman, on her deathbed, reminisces with her daughter-in-law about their first big quarrel: the moment that first brought them closer.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2004
  • Length: 01:38