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Stepping inside the Taurus Bookbindery is kind of like stepping back in time.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 11:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Larger-than-life Serbian sculptor Zoran Mojisilov creates work from the most primal of elements: rocks, wood scraps and steel he hauls to his North...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:22
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
Caption: A selection of different types of Bespoke fairing designs., Credit: Angela Johnston
When Deborah Bevilacqua lost her leg in a motorcycle accident ten years ago, she had to get a prosthetic leg. It’s been functional she says, but it...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 11:41
Caption: RAW Talent poets in This is Home, Credit: Julia B. Chan/CIR
Donte Clark stands in the middle of a dimly lit stage. A projected photo of a dilapidated apartment building flickers on the wall behind him. In th...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 12:42
Caption: Eric Curtis reads his story aloud., Credit: Kyung Jin Lee KALW
On a breezy summer day at San Quentin State Prison, inmate Paul Stauffer reads his writing to a live audience...

  • Added: May 18, 2014
  • Length: 06:12
Caption: Lucy Paul and Charles Paul, San Francisco, CA 4/14/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Charlie Paul and Lucy Paul talk managing media, meeting your hero, and getting under the skin of a painting.

  • Added: May 10, 2014
  • Length: 21:43
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
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
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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
Caption: Jessie Deeter & Steve Brown, San Francisco, CA 9/3/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jessie Deeter and Steve Brown talk staying hydrated, defining authenticity, grilled cheese sandwiches at three in the morning.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 16:19
  • Purchases: 1
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The average summer temperature in DC is around 85 degrees. So why would anyone willingly agree to spend hours around a furnace that burns at more t...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Conversations with artists of all kinds doing work in and about the real world. Hour long, magazine format episode of Word of Mouth.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 2
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In the spring of 1972, an event took place in a field west of Austin. It would not only give birth to Willie Nelson's now-famous 4th-of-July picnic...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 54:09
  • Purchases: 2
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Twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Renaissance artist Michelangelo are now on a rare, two-stop tour in America. Kelley Libby attended the first le...

Bought by KENW and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
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Twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Renaissance artist Michelangelo are now on a rare, two-stop tour in America. Producer Kelley Libby attended the...

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Paola Gueli is one of a dwindling number of tailors in Italy, a country renowned for its tailoring tradition. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni
Skilled tailoring is a dying art. Many of the best tailors hail from Italy where the tradition is unraveling due to a lack of training opportuniti...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The CivicCommons.com
The Cleveland International Film Festival's line-up of great documentaries.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: SFWA weaver Aiko Kobayashi Gray at the American Craft Week Celebration. , Credit: Photo courtesy of the SF Women Artists Gallery
If you’ve ever been to Ghirardelli Square, then you’ve probably seen the mermaid fountain that’s right in the middle. Would you have guessed it was...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jonathan Cooper
Jonathan Cooper - Violinmaker and fiddle player (Portland, ME)

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 30, 2011
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Artist's Block- When your career is stopped at the door because of things beyond you. What do you do, when you are blocked at the border, when the ...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 01:48:28
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Whether the music of ancient Greece touches modern Greek Music.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2010
  • Length: 13:38
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People who try to revive the music of ancient Greece.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 07, 2010
  • Length: 10:19
  • Purchases: 1
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The people and urban potery movement

  • Added: Aug 30, 2007
  • Length: 03:52
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Featuring story describing how museums are using sushi and other enticements to get young patrons to visit

Bought by WMFE and WVTF


  • Added: Nov 14, 2006
  • Length: 05:35
  • Purchases: 2