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The Culture Is Changing
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
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In this program, hunters describe hunting culture in New England as they were growing up, and how they see that culture changing

Bought by PRX Remix and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 2
The Itinerant Rabbi
From: Philip Graitcer
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An Itinerant Rabbi ministers to congregations in small Southern towns

Bought by KUT, WYSO, Marfa Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KCUR and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2006
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 7
Letters
From: Joan Schuman
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Part of the audio sketch series, Micro-Texts, exploring culture and technology.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2006
  • Length: 02:01
RN Documentary: Dutch Cossack
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Dutch choir director Marcel Verhoeff is at the forefront of the Cossack choral music revival in and outside Russia.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 29, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 1
Singing Legend Jo Stafford
From: KUOW
Series: Swing Ladies Swing
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An interview charting the career of 1940s-50s singing star through her famous music

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: Apr 27, 2006
  • Length: 23:00
  • Purchases: 1
Singing Legend Kay Starr
From: KUOW
Series: Swing Ladies Swing
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Interview with 1940s-50s singing star Kay Starr

Bought by WUAL and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Apr 27, 2006
  • Length: 23:00
  • Purchases: 2
Singing Legend Margaret Whiting part 2
From: KUOW
Series: Swing Ladies Swing
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Interview with 1940s-50s singing star Margaret Whiting

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: Apr 27, 2006
  • Length: 21:14
  • Purchases: 1
Singing Legend Margaret Whiting part 1
From: KUOW
Series: Swing Ladies Swing
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Interview with 1940s-50s singing star Margaret Whiting

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: Apr 27, 2006
  • Length: 21:34
  • Purchases: 1
A tale of seven dwarves
From: Drew Leifheit
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Family of Hasidic dwarves eludes Holocaust horrors

  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 11:19
Let's Talk About Sex
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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ATMI reporter Sara Perman investigates what teens think (and know) about sex.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2006
  • Length: 09:26
Stagefright
From: Steve Mencher
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A lost recording brings pleasure to a woman and prolongs her life.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW, WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2006
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 6
Radical Restoration
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Radical artists, The Beehive Design Collective and the Machias Valley Grange Hall in Machias, Maine make an unlikely pair... or do they?

  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:25
The Church in the Heart of the City
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The Chestnut Street United Methodist Church in Portland, Maine deconsecrates the chapel in preparation for selling and leaving the church.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:49
Compact Discoveries 28: Love Music, Part 2
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Classic popular love music for Valentine's Day -- or any day!

Bought by WNMU-FM, KENW, KENW, KAMU, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2006
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 17
Home Planet: An Obstacle Illusion by Cheryl-Anne Millsap
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Often, what we think we see as an obstacle, isn't really there at all. It is just an illusion.

  • Added: Oct 03, 2005
  • Length: 03:06
Home Planet: A New (school) Year
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Essay by Cheryl-Anne Millsap. No matter what the calendar says, for some of us, the New Year begins in September.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2005
  • Length: 04:15
Home Planet: Wanting the 'Firsts' to Last Forever
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Going to summer camp for the first time is a big milestone for a mother as well as a child.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2005
  • Length: 02:38
Rugged and Beautiful
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Visit with two female WWII Liberty Ship welders from South Portland, Maine.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Yellowstone Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: She-wood & Cypress - The Mississippi River Rats
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Listen to people on the banks of the Mississippi river describe the hardy bunch that survived on driftwood: the river rats.

Bought by KVNF and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Jan 18, 2005
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 2
For My Children, For Myself
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Somali refugee Abdi Said, 11, narrates his mother's story of war, marriage, and escape.

Bought by WMPG, Arab American Radio, WETA, KUT, and WYSO


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 07:16
  • Purchases: 5
Passover
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
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On a bus, a woman describes the diversity of her family, coming together in a tense but sustaining unity at Passover.

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jun 09, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
  • Purchases: 1
Falling Out the Car
From: Conrad Bishop
Series: Family Snapshots
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"The first time I knew my parents loved me" ? a woman's memory of "two frantic angels" coming to her rescue.

  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
How much longer will the bell toll.
From: David Barasoain
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A look at the tradition of bell ringing in England.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2004
  • Length: 06:45

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