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Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water
From: Joyride Media
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The story behind the final S&G album “Bridge over Troubled Water” and its classic songs. Includes interview with Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, produce...

Bought by KPSQ-LP, KSRQ, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Harford Community Radio, CBC Inside the Music and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Minneapolis Singer/Songwriter Ben Kyle of Romantica
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
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Ben Kyle of Romantica by Charlie Pulkrabek Ben Kyle has a lot going on these days. His band Romantica is set to release their highly anticipated t...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2011
  • Length: 32:51
MN Author Tyler Blanski and "Mud and Poetry"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Tyler Blanski is a Minneapolis house painter who is a writer and painter. His book is called "Mud & Poetry - Love, Sex and the Sacred". Tyler grew ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 20:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Word on Libraries
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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The particular and universal state of mind of libraries is one of random discovery.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
Commentator Guido on Libraries
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Guido has always been overly interested in books, and he tells about some of his favorite libraries.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Commentator Aaron Brown on Libraries
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Last week, Aaron's oldest son signed up for his first Library card... to them, the library is spoken about like a mythical place.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 02:41
Nicole Thibert - Discovers Lung Cancer & Brain Tumor During Pregnancy
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Nicole Thibert
When Nicole when 28 weeks pregnant, she discovered she had a cancerous mass in her neck, which was immediately removed. Further testing showed Stag...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 25:34
Minneapolis Singer-Songwriter Alicia Corbett
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
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"Alicia Corbett" by Charlie Pulkrabek. When I first saw Alicia Corbett play, it was about 1993, soon after she’d arrived in Minnesota from norther...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 02, 2011
  • Length: 32:11
  • Purchases: 1
The Women of Roller Derby
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby has exploded across northern MN, with the Babe City Rollers in Bemidji, and the Iron Range Maidens. Derby is a very...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMSU


  • Added: Jan 31, 2011
  • Length: 35:15
  • Purchases: 2
Bonjour Chanson Series 8, Episode 40
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 8
Caption: Avignon, France
In this Episode 6 Francophone Artists are introduced in English with one of their songs. No need to understand French to enjoy their offering becau...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 25:34
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Sam Rivers – Reedman, pianist, composer
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Sam Rivers, Credit: Frank Stewart
Sam Rivers has sounded his horn across six decades of jazz with Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor, and Dizzy Gillespie. Producer David Goren brings us an i...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, WNCU, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 09:23
  • Purchases: 6
JazzStories: James Moody's Mood for Love
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: James Moody, Credit: Frank Stewart
"Moody's Mood for Love" is one of the most memorable and recognizable solos in jazz history. But for James Moody, the song contains a bigger history.

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


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 08:15
  • Purchases: 8
Jake Dilley of Experimental Indie-Rockers The Color Pharmacy
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
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"The Color Pharmacy Fills My Prescription" By Doug MacRostie. The Color Pharmacy is definitely one of the most exciting bands out of Minnesota. The...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2011
  • Length: 40:36
Bonjour Chanson Series 8, Episode 39
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 8
Caption: Strasbourg, Alsace
Six Francophone Singers/Songwriters are introduced in a manner that English speaking Audiences can understand and enjoy. Some are rising stars, oth...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 17, 2011
  • Length: 27:40
  • Purchases: 1
Malcom Moos and Ike's Farewell Address
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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Fifty years ago this month, President Dwight Eisenhower gave his farewell speech to the American people. Eisenhower's farewell address is considere...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 14:40
  • Purchases: 1
Make It Count
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Language and songwriting are bringing teenagers together from all over the world. The Young Writers and Leaders Program is the latest project from ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUT, KUOW, WMPG, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 5
Virtuoso Voices: Funders - Vladimir Spivakov (For the Beauty)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
Caption: Vladimir Spivakov, Credit: v
For your Fundraising campaign, conductor and violinist Vladimir Spivakov says supporting classical music on Public Radio is one way we can also sup...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, and WMNR


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 3
Genre Defying Jazz Guitarist Todd Clouser
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
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"Music is Todd Clouser's Second Language" by Doug MacRostie. Todd Clouser's "A Love Electric" is an instrumental album with a lot to say. For some ...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2010
  • Length: 36:09
Butterfiles of Michoacan (A Postcard from Mexico)
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell c.2000
Carmen Delzell tells about Michoacan and the Day of the Dead and the monarch butterflies. Like all Carmen's pieces, it's very personal, but reache...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, and KUT


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 3
Hotel Isabel (A Postcard from Mexico)
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell c. 2000
Carmen Delzell writes about her travels in Mexico and one of her favorite enchanted cheap hotels, the Hotel Isabel "on the edge of time." This pie...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 2
Garden of Eden (A Postcard from Mexico)
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell c. 2000
Carmen Delzell with another lovely meditation on the mysteries of travel and her semi-magical, melancholy life in Mexico. Like all these pieces it...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 2
Joan Steffen and Her Book "...And She Sparkled"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Joan Steffend is a Minnesota native known for her television work – first on KBJR in Duluth then KARE-11 in Minneapolis and on HGTV’s Decorating Ce...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 20:15
The Last Word on Holiday Travel
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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There are really only two directions we can travel: back towards the familiar or out into the unknown.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Commentator Guido on Holiday Travel
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Guido and Dodger used to travel all the time during the holidays, but shifted to heading South.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
Commentator Aaron Brown on Holiday Travel
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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We tread along old roads to places we've been before. Only a few times in an average American's life do we change our Christmas venue...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 02:59

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