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A Day in the Life of a New Jersey Bounty Hunter

From: Benedict Moran

Caption: Walter's Office, Credit: Benedict Moran

Pop culture has recently been inundated with Bounty Hunters -- from a recent Jennifer Aniston movie to Dog the Bounty Hunter, now in its 6th seaso...

Added: Aug 28, 2010
Length: 09:00

Lincoln, Memorialized: The Myths & Legends Of A D.C. Icon

From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The Newcomer's Guide to Washington

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

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

Ice Drip

From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses

the sound of ice dripping

Bought by PRX to iTunes

Added: Jul 19, 2010
Length: 02:20
Purchases: 1

Detention in the City of Destiny

From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars

Caption: GEO Guard at the Northwest Detention Center, Tacoma., Credit: Alex Stonehill

In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jun 16, 2010
Length: 08:19
Purchases: 1

Buddy Miles Brings the Beat Back

From: Thomas Fawcett

Buddy Miles is a steam train of a musician. The sheer volume of his funky fat-back drums is the stuff of legend. In 1969, when Jimi Hendrix dumped ...

Bought by WTIP

Added: Jun 03, 2010
Length: 05:30
Purchases: 1

The Hidden Messages in Zulu Beadwork

From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio

Caption: A Zulu girl wears her beadwork, Credit: Hlengi We Dube

You're fourteen, and you're in love with a boy in the next village. How do you tell him? Well, you bead it of course. This week's Global Guru uncov...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix

Added: May 26, 2010
Length: 03:08
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

Sound Kapital And Beijing's Rock Rebellion

From: Avishay Artsy

Caption: A photo of the Beijing rock band Hedgehog, taken from the book "Sound Kapital.", Credit: Matthew Niederhauser

A look at a fast-changing China through the lens of youth culture and rock music.

Added: May 03, 2010
Length: 06:59

SRP: A Bay Area Sudanese Cultural School

From: Sudan Radio Project

From the Sudan Radio Project: we visit a Sudanese Sunday school in San Leandro, California.

Bought by KALW

Added: Apr 04, 2010
Length: 07:38
Purchases: 1

Cambodia-The Plow that Predicts the Future

From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio

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

Jon Hopkins's Quaint Electronica

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

You may not know Jon Hopkins, but you’ve heard him on albums by Coldplay, Massive Attack, Imogen Heap and Brian Eno. On Coldplay’s Viva La Vida or...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Mar 25, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

Inaugural Whites 100 Challenges Athletes in Remote Alaska

From: Emily Schwing

38 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska, the first ever 100 mile wilderness adventure race in the White Mountains National Recreation Area tested athle...

Added: Mar 24, 2010
Length: 05:35

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

Kronos Quartet: Four Decades of Breaking the String Quartet Rules

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Caption: Kronos Quartet, Credit: Michael Wilson

In the world of string quartets there is before and after Kronos, the ensemble that revolutionized the form, playing new music from Steve Reich to...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KZMU Moab Community Radio

Added: Mar 04, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 2

Crazy Heart Author Thomas Cobb Not The Weary Kind With Novel In Spotlight

From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Folk River

Caption: Crazy Heart author Thomas Cobb is a professor at Rhode Island College., Credit: Rhonda J. Miller

With Crazy Heart winning Academy Awards for best actor and best original song, Rhode Island author Thomas Cobb says the seeds of his book were pla...

Added: Feb 25, 2010
Length: 04:00

No Argument Here

From: With Good Reason

Caption: James Farmer, Credit: Library of Congress

A college professor is following the footsteps of a civil rights icon James Farmer, by training his students in the art of debate. Lydia Wilson, ...

Bought by KUAC, WJAB, WCSU-FM, and WFIU

Added: Feb 05, 2010
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 4

Fiddle-icious

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Ordinarily, if you want to perform with an orchestra you have to have years of musical experience and you have to go through a rigorous audition pr...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and KUT

Added: Jan 06, 2010
Length: 06:42
Purchases: 3

Family, Derby and Nothing Else

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Maine Roller Derby skated into Portland, Maine and called the city home in 2006. Roller derby is a fast-paced full-contact sport played on skates.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Jan 06, 2010
Length: 05:56
Purchases: 1

Breaking Up Christmas

From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes

When Christmas is over, the fun is just getting started for many in Southern Appalachia.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTJU, KUER, WOUB, WTIP and more

Added: Dec 21, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 16

Virginia Indians: The Nonexistant

From: Charles McGuigan

In Virginia, there are eight Indian tribes, some several thousand people in all. Yet the United States doesn’t believe they exist. The seeds of thi...

Added: Dec 05, 2009
Length: 15:16

Acoustic Youth

From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes

Many of the musicians who perform at fiddlers' conventions and music festivals throughout southern Appalachia are, in fact, young kids.

Bought by WMMT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and WTIP

Added: Dec 04, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 3

The Torchbearers of the Tidewater Gospel sound

From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes

Caption: The Paschall Brothers onstage, Credit: Virginia Folklife Program

The Paschall Brothers of Chesapeake sing four-part harmony in a style with a storied tradition.

Added: Nov 24, 2009
Length: 03:30

Ben Neill: Mutantrumpet Ninja

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Ben Neill is the sole player of an instrument called the mutantrumpet. It has three different bells, two sets of valves, a mini-trombone slide and ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio