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The Live Feed Presents; The Best of Over The Back Fence 2013
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of "The Live Feed" we bring you the best of The 2013 Over The Back Fence Season. Over the Back Fence is a community variety show th...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:27:57
  • Purchases: 1
Venus, Deconstructed
From: Hold That Thought
Series: People, Places, and Ideas to Explore
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Can one museum exhibit help change the tide of a culture? Rebecca Messbarger, professor of Italian and women, gender, and sexuality studies, explai...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 16:55
Uncovering Numismatics
From: Hold That Thought
Series: People, Places, and Ideas to Explore
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Professor William Bubelis explains how numismatics, or the study of ancient coins, can reveal unique information about ancient cultures.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 11:35
Filmspotting 479 (02/28/14): Oscar: Who will win & who should win?; and a 'Sacred Cow' review of Blazing Saddles
From: WBEZ
Caption: The Oscars are coming!
Oscar expert, and senior editor at New York Magazine's Vulture, Kyle Buchanan joins Filmspotting's Adam and Josh to offer up the inside scoop on th...

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, WRIR, KSRQ, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Filmspotting 477 (02/14/14): Favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman scenes, Remembering PSH
From: WBEZ
Caption: Philip Seymour Hoffman in scene from 'Capote'
"Be honest and unmerciful. Good advice for a budding rock critic." Also a fine description of the actor who spoke those lines. Filmspotting devotes...

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, WOUB, WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
Filmspotting Ep 473 (01/17/14): Live 2013 Wrap Party, the Best of the Best
From: WBEZ
Caption: Filmspotting's live 2013 'Wrap Party'
With Filmspotting's best films of the year safely in the books - and, per tradition, etched in stone - Josh and Adam take a final look at the year ...

Bought by WOUB, WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSRQ, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
Remembering Eudora Welty
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Eudora Welty, New Haven, CT, 1974, Credit: William Ferris
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 13:47
  • Purchases: 2
Filmspotting ARCHIVE Show (01/10/14): Sacred Cow review of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Top 5 Films of 1981
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Harrison Ford in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
The box office champ of 1981 -- and for many that year’s best loved film -- was Steven Spielberg’s "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Back in the fall of 2...

Bought by WOUB, WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Southern Folklorist Bill Ferris
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: The Storied South , Credit: Bill Ferris
Preeminent Southern folklorist Bill Ferris has spent the last 40 years documenting the South in print, photography and film. His latest book, The S...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 15:59
  • Purchases: 3
Singer-Songwriter Josh Vasa
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Singer-songwriter Josh Vasa, Credit: Tanner Latham
Birmingham, Alabama, singer-songwriter Josh Vasa of the band Sanyasi talks about his Indian heritage, writing, and the value of cheesy lyrics.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 3
To Teach To Learn To Eat
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Chef Roscoe Hall, Credit: Tanner Latham
In our food-obsessed culture, we likely never think about what's on the menu at an eating disorder clinic. A couple of gourmet chefs bring their in...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 3
Filmspotting Ep 472, Part 2 (12/27/13): Top 10 Films of 2013, Part 2
From: WBEZ
Caption: Joaquin Phoenix in Spike Jonze's 'Her'
"What if they did -- just one year -- what if everyone stopped watching? ... You root for your favorites, you cry when they get killed. It's sick....

Bought by WOUB, WRIR, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 27, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Fresh Talk: A Futurist Evening at Vizcaya
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Antonia Wright, Suddenly We Jumped, 2013
Recorded in situ at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, this Fresh Talk episode features 3 of 8 projects presented at A Futurist Evening during Art ...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:36
Filmspotting Ep 472, Part 1 (12/20/13): Top 10 Films of 2013, Part 1
From: WBEZ
Caption: Scene from Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary, 'The Act of Killing'
Adam and Josh are making their lists, and checking them... obsessively! It's Best of the Year time on Filmspotting. Guests Michael Phillips (Chic...

Bought by WOUB, KSRQ, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Minneapolis Freestyle: Minneapolis School Poetry 2012-13
From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
Caption: jazz 88 logo
In the 2012-13 school year, a team of poets and educators helped Minneapolis public school students write poetry reflecting their experiences. The ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 1
Ives Said It
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Liv Rooth
A trio of short plays from a master of the medium, David Ives, with an April Fools Day feel to them. First, in SURE THING, a chance meeting between...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Midland Community Theater Puts Volunteers in the Spotlight
From: Lana Straub
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4 min piece on Midland Community Theater and the volunteers that make it happen

  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
Judy Sorum, Glowing Stained Glass
From: KSRQ
Caption: Pink and Yellow Lady Slippers
Judy Sorum constructs beautiful glowing stained glass panels.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 23:11
1908 Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor
From: Action Speaks Radio
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The camera, exposing social problems or becoming one?

Bought by WRIR, WRPI, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 4
The Art Forger
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: B.A. Shapiro
The New York Times estimates that nearly forty percent of museum and gallery art is forged. Keep that in mind as you read the new book by B.A. Sha...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 20:24
1936 Chaplin's 'Modern Times' Debuts
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Factories closed; unions ignored; the Tramp asks, ‘What’s Next’? Chaplin previews a world beyond the factory and unionism where one’s identity is ...

Bought by WRIR, WRPI, KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 6
All Mixed Up: Hal David Tribute
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
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All Mixed Up with Hal David features tributes to Joe South, more from Bob Dylan and an interview done with the late Hal David on WBAI in May 2003.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 56:45
Filmspotting Ep 400, June 8, 2012: Top 5 Things We Learned from the Movies
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
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Filmspotting celebrates its 400th episode in front of a live studio audience at Lincoln Hall in Chicago. Adam and Josh are joined by special guest...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 1
Langston Hughes - I Too Sing America
From: WQXR
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Langston Hughes, an enduring icon of the Harlem Renaissance, is best-known for his written work, which wedded his fierce dedication to social justi...

Bought by WVIK, WVPE, WXPR, New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 76