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Poling Upstream
From: Kelley Libby
Caption: Andrew Shaw and crew poling upstream in a batteau on the James
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Marshall Expedition, an important event in the history of early American commerce. Recently, a group o...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2012
  • Length: 03:27
Tiny Forests in the Utah Desert
From: Jennifer Jerrett
Caption: A tiny forest of hairless twisted moss, Credit: NPS photo by Neal Herbert
Like trees in a forest, biological soil crusts play a key role in the ecosystems in which they are found. Damages to these tiny organisms can have ...

Bought by Radio Newark, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 5
Culturology: Minnesota Crossroads series - Effie, Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Effie North Star Stampede and Rodeo, Credit: Britt Aamodt
Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 4
On the Move in Mongolia
From: Outer Voices
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There I was, an Indian woman on the move in a strange new land - Mongolia - and it didn't feel so strange. So much resonated - especially the voic...

Bought by KUER, KZYX, WRPI, KFOK-LPFM, and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 23:43
  • Purchases: 5
Tour 3: Art and Utility
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
Series: The New Ohio Guide Tour 3: Art and Utility
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See the information below on where to start each track.

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 57:11
Vacations 12-19
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: The Score with Edmund Stone
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This week scores to films about dream vacations, and vacation nightmares.

Bought by WCRI, KPVL, WCPN, WEKU, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
A Few Good Men
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Jacaranda is Spring time
Daily living in Buenos Aires is made better with the meeting of A Few Good Men

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 1
Malian Griot
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Papa Susso
This week the Global Guru goes to Mali to learn the art of a griot, where storyteller, historian, political advisor, detective and genealogist are ...

Bought by WABE, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Postcards from Africa
From: Jake Warga
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Personal encounters in homes and streets of various African towns. I first went to Africa feeling like a child, everything new and different, but s...

Bought by KUT and KUT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2010
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 2
Lincoln, Memorialized: The Myths & Legends Of A D.C. Icon
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The Newcomer's Guide to Washington
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Secret signs... hidden profiles... underground stalactites... This is not your 8th-grade tour of D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 09, 2010
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 1
Summer Insects
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
One Man Dancing Creates Cajun Zydeco Festivals
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Folk River
Caption: Cajun Zydeco festival producer Franklin Zawacki dances with Delilah Lee Lewis. She is a member of the Cajun band The Creole Belles., Credit: Rhonda J. Miller
The footprints of Franklin Zawacki are on the ground at Cajun and Zydeco festivals he produced in California and New England for three decades. Zaw...

  • Added: May 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:18
Cambodia-The Plow that Predicts the Future
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week's GG goes inside the Royal Ploughing Ceremony to hear how Cambodians predict the future -- agriculturally AND economically.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 2
Creative Commutes
From: David Schultz
Caption: Slugging at the Pentagon is just one of the ways people in the Washington region develop their own methods of avoiding traffic-clogged highways., Credit: David Schultz/WAMU
Traffic congestion in the D.C. region is at an all-time high. That's forced many to get creative with their commutes.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2010
  • Length: 06:03
Newport Folk Outlives Woodstock
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Folk River
Caption: Deer Tick's John McCauley, Credit: Angela Rose Miller
Ten years before Woodstock and 40 years after, there's a weekend festival that's been a long time mixing politics, music and community - the Newpor...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2009
  • Length: 06:16
Traveling Light
From: With Good Reason
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If you take a bus ride this holiday season, it's probably just to get where you need to go. But when Kath Weston travels on buses, it's usually pa...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
Four Eggs
From: Carla Seidl
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When invited to be a lunch guest in an Azerbaijani home, be prepared for cultural difference and great hospitality.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2008
  • Length: 03:05
The Coast Starlight Train
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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A train ride from Northern California to Portland Oregon

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 06, 2008
  • Length: 09:39
  • Purchases: 1
Taking the Stage to Buenos Aries
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Traveling from the farm to Buenos Aries

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 1
May Your Days
From: Julie Shapiro
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Ghana sounds like everything you might imagine, and some things you never could.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2008
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 2
Cuban Organ
From: Gianluca Tramontana
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A musical travelogue into rural Cuba

Bought by PRX Remix, WBEZ, PRX to iTunes, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2007
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 5
Arts on the air - Cathleen Calkins
From: Vanessa Finney
Series: Arts on the Air
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Interview with freelance photographer Cathleen Calkins

  • Added: Oct 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:54
A Rajasthani Jagrata
From: Catherine 'Cat' Vibert
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A Hindu family from Rajasthan holds a Jagrata and haircutting ritual in honor of their son's second birthday.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2007
  • Length: 06:07
The Beat Goes On - part 5
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
Series: The Beat Goes On - "On the Road" at 50
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part 5 of 5

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 09:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat Goes On - part 4
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
Series: The Beat Goes On - "On the Road" at 50
Caption: PRX default Piece image
part 4 of 5

Bought by KZYX and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 2