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NEA Jazz Moments with Saxophonist and Composer, Charles Lloyd
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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A born innovator, musician Charles Lloyd has been on the path to NEA Jazz Master for decades. In these Moments, he talks about growing up surrounde...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 13
The Live Feed Presents: "Winona Brass Band Christmas Concert 2014"
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of "The Live Feed" we bring you a holiday special, it's the Winona Brass Band Christmas 2014 Holiday Concert recorded at St. Cecili...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2015
  • Length: 46:20
All Mixed Up-I Got The News
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: The News Dissector
A Tribute to Danny Schechter, one of the very best producers in independent media-as "news dissector" gave me air space and mentoring for Shortcuts...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:07
MR TURNER -- Timothy Spall Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Timothy Spall, San Francisco, CA 11/14/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Timothy Spall talks paring things down, letting the character tell you what to do, and the lexicon of the grunt.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 25, 2014
  • Length: 22:41
  • Purchases: 1
Story of a Wedding Cake Maker
From: Anna Stitt
Caption: Lisa Raffael decorates a model wedding cake in her Falmouth, Massachusetts cake shop. , Credit: Anna Stitt
Lisa Raffael's wedding cakes are the center of attention only briefly before they're cut and eaten. But the time she puts into them – that's anothe...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:37
GUESTS: Pauline Oliveros + Steve Reich
From: Don Hill
Series: Cafe Acousmatic
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D binaural audio.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:00
NaNoWriMo
From: David Berner
Caption: Fifty-thousand words in a month. How's it going?, Credit: National Novel Writing Month Organizatoin
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 2
What Does A Revolution Sound Like?
From: Ben Weisz
Caption: The toilet wall in Debo rap collective, Credit: Ben Weisz 2014
Ben Weisz investigates what can be learned about changes in Tunisian society since the Arab Spring, from the music which shapes its cultural landsc...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:04
Vijay Iyer: Jazz in the 21st Century
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Where is jazz headed in a new century? With the pianist Vijay Iyer as guide, newly tenured as a professor at Harvard, it tends toward the experimen...

Bought by KMUW and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 2
A shortwave family affair
From: Veronica Simmonds
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For Michael McCormack radio was always magic

  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 06:44
The Mikie Show #70, Tan Lin
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Join us for a fascinating conversation with poet, Tan Lin. He expands poetry’s palette to include data, video, films, hashtags; our newest observab...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
A fan of the frequency
From: Veronica Simmonds
Series: Visual Arts News podcast
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An artist revives the beauty of shortwave radio

  • Added: May 03, 2014
  • Length: 05:47
05: Florasonic (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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Walk through the Experimental Sound Studio's Florasonic installation in the new episode.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Shake it - a modern Polaroid love story
From: This Instant Productions
Caption: Shake it!, Credit: Oz Lang
A tender look at two modern photo technologies - Polaroid and digital photography - and the human and visual connections we make with them.

Bought by WYSO, WCBE, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KGOU, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Over The Back Fence, March 2014
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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This marks the 20th anniversary of "Over The Back Fence". "Over The Back Fence" is a community variety show that happens the 2nd Friday of every m...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:31:06
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Queue 01/19/2014: Don't Tell Your Mothers
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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This week we take a closer look at drugs and alcohol and their relationship with Minnesota. Reporter Amy Friedman explores the caves and the speake...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:23
  • Purchases: 1
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
99% Invisible #85- A Noble Effort (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The man behind the background.

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


  • Added: Dec 09, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 18
Celebrating 40 years of dancing the African diaspora
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Twelve dancers -- men and women all dressed in black rehearsal clothes -- move with fierce and graceful undulations through the space. They dance t...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 1
99% Invisible #83- Heyoon (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Bored and disaffected and angry, Alex longed for a place to escape to. And then he found Heyoon.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 14
99% Invisible #74- Hand Painted Signs
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The last practitioners of disappearing art form that's poised to make a comeback

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 20
99% Invisible #89- Bubble Houses
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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Buildings of the future, once.

Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, WJCT, WNIJ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 23:48
  • Purchases: 6
99% Invisible #87- I Heart NY, TM
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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By now, the story is well known. A man sits in the backseat of a cab, sketching on a notepad as night falls over a crumbling city.

Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 19:44
  • Purchases: 3
99% Invisible #85- Noble Effort
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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The man behind the most famous desert landscapes of all time.

Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, and WJCT


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 16:46
  • Purchases: 3
99% Invisible #82- The Man of Tomorrow
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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A giant leap for radio. Flight for TV.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WJCT, KPIK-LP, XRAY.fm, and KUT


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 11:14
  • Purchases: 5