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Program 06: The Blood-Stained Primer
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Daisy recounts the story of how her father learned to read

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 2
Program 05: A Fishing Story
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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John Gouldin's plantation was on the Rappahannock River in Port Royal, Virginia. He owned 2,000 acres and 77 slaves. If the slaves didn't work fast...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 2
Program 04: More Stories of Plantation Life
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Alec Turner was born on the Gouldin plantation in 1845 and remembered his childhood there in stories he told his children and grandchildren. Many o...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 2
Program 03: Young Alec and His Red Moccasins
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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In this episode Alec Turner's mother, Rose secretly makes a pair of red moccasins for Alec with disastrous consequences.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 2
Program 02: Africa, Slave Ships, and a Cherokee Princess
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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The story of Daisy's grandfather Alexander, whose parents were a shipwrecked English merchant's daughter and an African chieftain's son.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 2
Program 01: Daisy Turner, Vermont Storyteller
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Introducing Daisy Turner who lived to be 104 and was an extraordinary storyteller, sharing experiences from her lifetime and from her parents and g...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 2
Peace Talks Radio: Spoken Word for Peace (58:00 / 54:00 / or Three 29:00 programs)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Actors, storytellers and poets express their hope for peace with the spoken word.

Bought by WVTF, WXXI Rochester, KNCT FM, KWMR, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2007
  • Length: 57:46
  • Purchases: 20
Interview with legendary folk singer PEGGY SEEGER
From: Out of Bounds
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The legendary Peggy Seeger talks about her life, music and travels

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jan 05, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with singer and human rights activist SAMITE known as "the soul of Africa"
From: Tish Pearlman
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Singer/composer and human rights activist SAMITE talks about his life and work

  • Added: Jan 05, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
Virtuoso Voices - Orion Weiss (Burning Cello)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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This 10 second clip is intended to be used as a "Top of the Hour" Billboard or as an Enhanced Forward Promo. In pianist Orion Weiss' first recordi...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Jan 04, 2007
  • Length: :10
  • Purchases: 2
We Are Lane One
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Emily LaFond can't handle the shame of not being the best. But an embarrassing stint on the school swim team helped her lose her ego.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 02, 2007
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Orion Weis (Deep Massenet)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The "Meditation" from the Opera, "Thais", is the only moment we know from this all but forgotten opera by Jules Massenet. Today, the "Meditation" ...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and WFSU


  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Menahem Pressler (Haydn from Heaven)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The Haydn Piano Trios have always been an important part of the Beaux Art Trio repertoire. The Trio's Pianist Menahem Pressler offers this multipl...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 29, 2006
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Menahem Pressler (Yes Dear)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Getting accepted as a student at a prestigious music school is a grueling and highly competitive process. At Indiana University, Piano Professor (...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 29, 2006
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Menahem Pressler (Who's the Boss)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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At best, making music with others is a successful marriage -- there's give and take and compromise. Pianist Menahem Pressler is the founding membe...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and WFSU


  • Added: Dec 29, 2006
  • Length: :34
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Menahem Pressler (Inspiration by the Dots)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Throughout his illustrious, 60-year career, pianist Menahem Pressler has been associated with the biggest names in classical music, from Toscanini ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 29, 2006
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Orion Weiss (Just Friends)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Two friends, both musicians, team up to play a romantic moment by Beethoven and Mozart. Even though, they're "just friends", cellist Julie Albers ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 28, 2006
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (Citizenship 101)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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JoAnn Falletta is the conductor of the Virginia Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Although she is a frequent guest conductor around...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 27, 2006
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (Getting to Know You)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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What's an effective way for a guest conductor to get to know a new orchestra quickly. JoAnn Falletta says a version of the silent treatment works ...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and WFSU


  • Added: Dec 26, 2006
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (You're Fired!)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Conductor JoAnn Falletta talks about the mostly positive changes that have taken place in the classical music, particularly the new face and image ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 25, 2006
  • Length: :39
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Nightmare at Carnegie)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
No matter how much you practice and prepare for a concert, anything can happen on stage, like the time pieces of Richard Stoltzman's clarinet fell ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 22, 2006
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Mozart My Way)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman talks about the evolution of his interpretation of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. Putting old recordings by his clari...

Bought by WHRV, WITF, and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 21, 2006
  • Length: :21
  • Purchases: 3
The Angel Warrior On His Way to the Top
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Despite the concerns of his family, Mike St. Germain races stock cars to win and for God.

Bought by HowSound, KFAI Minneapolis, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 3
Cheryl-Anne Millsap: (Christmas) Just in the nick of time
From: Spokane Public Radio
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By the time Christmas rolls around, I've lost the glow. I'm grouchier and meaner than the Grinch.

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: Dec 16, 2006
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
SOWETO Today
From: Mikko Kapanen
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The largest township of South Africa 12 years after the fall of apartheid

  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 10:30

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