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JazzStories: Benny Golson
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"...This country lookin' guy was standing there in the door, waiting for me to tell him what to do. So I said, 'play something!' He took out his ...

Bought by KMUW, WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jul 26, 2012
  • Length: 19:40
  • Purchases: 4
American Book Award-winning Navajo poet Sherwin Bitsui
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Sherwin Bitsui
Sherwin Bitsui reads from FLOOD SONG, his poetry collection that won the 2010 American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Raised in a border t...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Rudresh Mahanthappa
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"And he said we’ll I don’t want to play any of those 7s or 11s or 13s or 22s. I don’t want to play any of that stuff that you’re writing. He said b...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WNCU


  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 11:32
  • Purchases: 3
JazzStories: Gary Burton and Julian Lage
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"There’s an interesting thing that happens. You prepare a piece. You rehearse it. It sounds perfect...And you go out and play it on the first night...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 16:42
  • Purchases: 4
JazzStories: Bill Frisell
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"I had moved to New York and spent a couple of years here scuffling around. I was getting a little discouraged, playing a lot of weddings. It wasn'...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 13:41
  • Purchases: 3
JazzStories: Vijay Iyer
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Vijay Iyer
"I kind of had a revelation once seeing him [Randy Weston] play live. It happened for me in a particular time in my life when I recently made the d...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 12:02
  • Purchases: 3
Max Wang - Taiwanese Director of Photography
From: MergingArts Productions
Series: Spoiler Alert Radio
Caption: Naked Eye
Max's director of photography credits include: Boss'n Up (with Snoop Dogg), and Fist of the Warrior. Max's more recent work includes: the Chinese ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Halfdan E - Danish Film Composer
From: MergingArts Productions
Series: Spoiler Alert Radio
Caption: Halfdan E
Halfdan recently worked on score for the TV-series Borgen and Hans Petter Moland's stylistic black comedy, A Somewhat Gentle Man, about a man let o...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
PINA -- Wim Wenders interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Wim Wenders, San Francisco, CA 12/19/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Wim Wenders talks angels, memories, and the wonders of technology.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 19:16
Native American Art of the Southwest at the Heard Museum
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, with communications manager Debra Krol. The museum is dedicated to the sensitive and acc...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Filmspotting Ep 376 PROMO: Shame, Interview with Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
From: WBEZ
Caption: Michael Fassbender in 'Shame'
Adam Kempenaar and guest host Josh Larsen (LarsenOnFilm.com, ThinkChristian.net) discuss director Steve McQueen's new film starring Michael Fassben...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: :30
JazzStories: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Doug Wamble
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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“The essential ingredient of jazz is listening. And then the response... and out of that something unexpected comes rather than some fulfillment of...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:29
  • Purchases: 4
Neil Gaiman: A Reading and Interview
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
Caption: Neil Gaiman waits backstage, Credit: David J. Murray, Clear Eyed Photo
Multimedia sensation reads from the new edition of "American Gods," and talks Twitter, Dr. Who, and the power of librarians with host Virginia Pres...

Bought by KSRQ, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 49:27
  • Purchases: 3
The Audiophiles: Zoe Keating’s one-woman orchestra
From: KALW
Caption: Cellist Zoe Keating uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record layer upon layer of sound. , Credit: Jerry Dodrill
Zoe Keating's unique style of music has gotten her to the top of the iTunes classical and electronic music charts, and all the while she's remained...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 10:12
  • Purchases: 1
Ole Birkeland - UK Director of Photography - Peace One Day, Everything, Ruby Blue, Helen, The Arbor, and The Calling
From: MergingArts Productions
Series: Spoiler Alert Radio
Caption: The Arbor
Ole Birkeland has worked as a director of photography with a wide of variety directors over the years on in various genres and on both features and...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
From The National Press Club: Actor Jeff Bridges's Campaign to End Hunger
From: National Press Club
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Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges came to Washington to take part in a campaign to end hunger. He visited a school in Washington, and met w...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 01:48:00
The Art of Vittorio Colaizzi
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this edition of Art Beat, KQAL's Anna Flores visits with Winona State University professor and painter Vittorio Colaizzi, who recently had his w...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2010
  • Length: 20:36
New England Poetry Hour - Helen Vendler & Keith Waldrop
From: Open Source
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It's a New England poetry hour, starting with Amherst's Emily Dickinson by way of Helen Vendler, the closest of close readers of poetry, and ending...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Joe Plut on "Conversations with Jon Hassler"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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RealGoodWords is a one-hour weekly radio program for readers, writers and those who appreciate the written word.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 28:44
THE PERFECT GAME -- CHEECH MARIN on Spanish, sports, and art collecting
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Cheech Marin talks about why the story behind THE PERFECT GAME resonates with him so deeply.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 12:56
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG: Disney animators Mark Henn and Mike Surrey talk to Andrea Chase
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG: Animators Mark Henn and Mike Surrey talk to Andrea Chase about the pleasures and perils of returning to hand-drawn anima...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2009
  • Length: 15:03
Peace Talks Radio: Neighborhood Peace Through Arts and Parks (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Artist Lily Yeh in North Philadelphia
This time on Peace Talks Radio, we explore a program that transforms troubled neighborhoods into more peaceful, secure places through art, learning...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KVSC, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WTJU, WGDR and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2009
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 6
A Postcard from Paris: Obama Mania
From: Janet Robbins
Series: A Postcard from Paris
Caption: Paris, 2008
Interest in the US Elections and in Barack Obama run high in Paris

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Oct 23, 2008
  • Length: 10:51
  • Purchases: 1
Catching Up With Okkervil River's Will Sheff
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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Will Sheff's songs for Okkervil River have the cinematic quality of short films.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2008
  • Length: 13:49
Olympic Games Stamp Honors The Spirit Of The Games
From: Heidi Chang
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The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new stamp to commemorate the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. It was designed by Clarence Lee, a graphic artist...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2008
  • Length: 04:54