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99% Invisible #31- The Feltron Annual Report (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Information designer Nicholas Felton has figured out how to graph the un-graphable: a year in his life.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 13
Thanksgiving 2011 - American Harvest 11-47
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: The Score with Edmund Stone
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Scores from films about farmers, ranchers and other workers who harvest earth's bounty.

Bought by KRPS, KPVL, KSQM 91.5 FM, and KPVL


  • Added: Nov 22, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Film Noir 11-44
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: The Score with Edmund Stone
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Those dark American thrillers and crime dramas called Film Noir.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, KMUW, WCPN, WEKU and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
1971: 'An American Family'; Our First Reality TV Show
From: Action Speaks Radio
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What's Real? What's Not? Does Anybody Care?

Bought by XRAY.fm, WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
TABLOID -- Errol Morris on telling the truth.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Errol Morris, San Francisco, CA 5/3/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Errol Morris on the compelling story of Joyce McKinney, and the fluid nature of truth as seen by several people involved in the Case of the Manacle...

  • Added: May 25, 2011
  • Length: 16:18
Arthur "Dooley" Wilson (Casablanca), May 30, 1953
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Although he appeared on stage and in more than 20 motion pictures, Dooley Wilson won immortality for his role as "Sam" in the 1942 film Casablanca....

  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
The Last Word on the State of Public Broadcasting
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Michael has a queasy feeling, as if he's already seen the future and where America is headed...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 15, 2011
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 1
Aaron Brown on the State of Public Broadcasting
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Calling Congress is like calling Bigfoot, even if you reach Bigfoot he's unlikely to change his mind because of the words you say (which he may not...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:45
Commentator Aaron Brown on Community Media
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Human character might be defined by the actions and thoughts of an individual, but human progress is most often accomplished when individuals inter...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2011
  • Length: 02:23
Community Radio in Palestine & Bangladesh
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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In this edition of Radio Curious, the first in a series about local community radio around the world, we visit with Fadi Abuzada, a community radio...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
Left Behind
From: War News Radio
Caption: Ahmed Altaie, a reserve soldier from Ann Arbor, Michigan, was kidnapped while visiting his wife in downtown Baghdad., Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Action Speaks! What's Eating Us? 1927 - Father Coughlin "On the Air" and the Birth of Right-Wing Radio
From: Action Speaks Radio
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With the popularity of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and now Glenn Beck, we felt it was time to look at the ‘original’ nationally known conservative ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, Spokane Public Radio, WSKG, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
Hockey Diaries: The Almost Season
From: mediachameleon
Caption: Tyler Sloan in the Washington Capitals locker room, Credit: Chris Nelson/mediachameleon
"Hockey Diaries: The Almost Season" documents a journey through the 2009-2010 Washington Capitals' NHL season. The story is told through the eyes a...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR -- Filmmaker Vikram Jayanti on the interview 50 years in the making
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Vikram Jayanti, September 10, 2010, San Francisco, CA, Credit: Andrea Chase
Filmmaker Vikram Jayanti on lies, truth, and Hollywood Babylon in his doc, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR

  • Added: Sep 13, 2010
  • Length: 21:01
Boston on Film
From: Eric Molinsky
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Hollywood's new found love of Boston-centered crime films reveals a lot about Boston and Hollywood.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 2
It’s Jazz, Charlie Brown: The Vince Guaraldi Story
From: WFIU
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An hourlong program featuring the music and life of Peanuts composer and jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi. A great special around the holiday season......

Bought by North Country Public Radio, WDCB, WICR, WJAB, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 16
#54 - No Brother of Mine
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
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Diane Richard and her husband Todd Melby sure know how to pick a project with a long uphill road to the finish line. On this Saltcast, we talk with...

Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 2
Mellodrama: the Signature Sound of Progressive Rock
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Director Dianna Dilworth
The Mellotron was the sound of progressive rock and space music in the 1970s. Before digital synthesizers, it was an instrument that played back t...

Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
SRP: A Conversation with Mango Radio's Mamoun Mansour
From: Sudan Radio Project
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From the Sudan Radio Project: we speak with a representative from Khartoum's first privately-operated radio station about the growth of commercial ...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2009
  • Length: 09:02
BEAR McCREARY: FROM SYNTHESIZERS TO CYLONS
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Bear McCreary
The music and musician behind TV’s best Sci-Fi show

  • Added: Sep 25, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
The Peace Message in Star Trek (59:00/54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Spock, Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, Credit: www.startrek.com
PEACE TALKS RADIO, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution, explores the peace message in the hugely popular original 1960's T...

Bought by KUOW, KGNU Community Radio, WTJU, KUOW, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 17
Tibet's Unlikely Defender: A Chinese Journalist's Change of Mind
From: The Tibet Connection
Caption: Zhu RUi, Credit: Lhakpa Kyizom
Chinese journalist, Zhu Rui, on her transformation from critic of Tibetan society to one of its most passionate defenders.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: 06:45
Active Voice Radio 7-23-08: Judy Polumbaum- China Ink: The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism PART 2
From: Chris Goldstein
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Judy Polumbaum interviewed 20 Chinese journalists about their life and craft, opening a unique window into this major media producer.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
Peace Talks Radio: A Nonviolent Video Strategy Game (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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A conversation with Ivan Marovic, former Serbian student leader and consultant on the nonviolent strategy video game A Force More Powerful.

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Jun 11, 2008
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 1
Crash, Race and Taiwan
From: Phillip Martin
Series: The Color Initiative
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Learning about race relations in the U.S. from the Oscar-Award winning CRASH.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1