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TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR - Episode 5
From: Rachel Jeffreys
Series: TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR -- Series
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A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR
From: Rachel Jeffreys
Series: TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR -- Series
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A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor. Visit a very different era and a very different war.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
Hines Fellowship excerpt ("How I Met My Husband")
From: David Green
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An alumna from the class of '49 tells the story of how she met her future husband.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:07
Non-Muslims fast during Ramadan.
From: Will Wright
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Non-Muslims get a taste of Islam by fasting during Ramadan.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2008
  • Length: 04:09
A Tree Falls And No One's There... by Team Northside
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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This is the group piece (4 poets) performed in-studio by Northside College Prep High School, which was a team finalist in the 2008 Louder Than a Bo...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:08
Virtuoso Voices - Steven Isserlis (Cello Economics)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Ask any musician what makes their instrument special, and maybe better than any other instrument, and they almost always point to the same characte...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2008
  • Length: :23
Virtuoso Voices - Yo-Yo Ma (Cello Left Behind)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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It was a busy week in New York for cellist Yo-Yo Ma. He played a big concert in Carnegie Hall, and attended several important meetings the next da...

Bought by WKYU


  • Added: Dec 31, 2007
  • Length: :37
  • Purchases: 1
Bus Basics
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Too young to get her license, Libby was forced to bum rides off people in order to get around - at least until she decided to bite the bullet and s...

Bought by WMPG, Remix Radio, KOOP, Space Gallery, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Oct 28, 2007
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 5
Interview with Award-winning poet and Novelist MARGE PIERCY
From: Tish Pearlman
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Feminist Icon and award-winning writer MARGE PIERCY in conversation about her life and work

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 27:30
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Bed Time)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman's two children both grew up to pursue musical careers. It's not something he pushed, but music was one of the parenti...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :24
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Awadagin Pratt (Loud and Colorful)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Pianist Awadagin Pratt likes to play music loud. Unlike most piano students, Pratt didn't spend hours studying the recordings made by famous piani...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Interior Decorator)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Some Rock 'n Roll musicians are notorious for going on the road and destroying their hotel rooms. Violinist Hilary Hahn doesn't trash her room whe...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :27
  • 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
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
R-Tist: Rap & Poetry
From: Tanya Ott
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Rap and poetry don't usually occupy the same space in most people's minds, but rapper R-Tist isn't "most people".

  • Added: Nov 15, 2006
  • Length: 11:10
First Day in America; Madeline Kunin and Edgar May
From: Vermont Public
Series: VPR Presents StoryCorps in Vermont
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Edgar May speaks with his sister Madeline Kunin about their first day in America.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2006
  • Length: 04:38
Doolin Tales _1 Jack Garrihy and the Charm Cure
From: elizabeth hart
Caption: PRX default Piece image
humorous true story from an Irishman's memories of a "charm cure"

  • Added: Mar 11, 2006
  • Length: 06:13
1999 Michael Ondaatje - Elimination Dance
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Caption: PRX default Piece image
ondaatje reads great poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Alaska Beckons
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
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Disillusioned with their teaching jobs in California, Ray takes a job at a one room school house in Alaska and their adventure begins.

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 14:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Ring and I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania
From: WNYC
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"The Ring and I" is a story about the love affair between hundreds of thousands of people and one, colossal, controversial and awe-inspiring piece ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRVO Public Media, WMNR, KHNS, KCRW and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2004
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 32